Here we have a script that I hope to ultimately use as a first step for providing an alternate viewing experience to the traditional craigslist search. Typically, you are only able to search for things on craigslist on a city by city basis.
I personally have spent hours in the past searching every city for cars using tools such as Search Tempest, but now I am able to generate the the results for any query countrywide. I sort the result by city and by most recent time posted.
A few years ago craiglook.com accomplished this task but was taken down due to violation of the terms of Craigslist. Since there currently aren't any tools that do exactly what I need, I periodically use this script to get the most recent results for the car that I have been searching for.
TODO:
- Improve performance
- Add caching layer of some sort
- finish flask app or start over with Django.