A library to help search across multiple craigslist locations.
There are two ways to search craigslist using crags. You can search by keyword in a single location scoped to a category. You can also search by keyword across a country scoped by category. Each search type also has a set of configurable options.
Options:
:keyword default: bicycle (because bicycles are awesome) :location default: sfbay.craigslist.com (because that is where it all began) :category default: for sale (because buying another bike is always a good idea)
Locations and Categories are full-on Ruby objects. You can get all of the Categories using:
Category.all
Search a single craigslist location (e.g. sfbay.craigslist.com)
s = Search::Location.new(:keyword => 'shoes') s.keyword # shoes instead of bicycle s.location # the sfbay Location s.category # the 'for sale' Category s.items # a set of Items that match the search criteria
Each Item has a title, url (which is the link to the item on craigslist), and a date, which is the date the item was posted on craigslist.
Options:
:keyword default: bicycle (because bicycles are awesome) :category default: for sale (because buying another bike is always a good idea) :country default: us (because that is where I live) :interval default: 1 (because hammering the cl servers will make em' angry)
Country searches are a combined set of individual location searches. Crags imposes a 1 second delay between each location search in order not to overload the Craigslist servers. You can change this at your own risk, but doing a lot of country wide searches with a 0s interval will probably get your IP banned.
gem install crags
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2009 Justin Marney. See LICENSE for details.