4 ms·

Ok makes sense, so that legitimizes something like PadLister. Does this however enable one to scrape CL for data?

• danso 14y ago
  ...this does not legitimize anything in particular. It says it's OK for users to post ads on multiple sites, not that other sites can scrape CL's user content. This is akin to freelance contract work: if you're a news photographer, there's usually a clause saying that while you can own your photos, you may not sell them to your client's competitors (at least right away). So CL is saying to its users: Go ahead and copy and paste your stuff to other sites. So, not a huge difference by any means in what most users assumed.
  • BadassFractal 14y ago
    PadMapper was doing the cross-posting to PadList to slowly build its user base. I however did not realize that Craigslist frowned upon that until the change in the agreement.
    • iamwil 14y ago
      PadMapper doesn't take CL listings and put it into Padlister. What's listed on Padlister was listed by users. PadMapper puts CL listings and Padlister listings on the same map.