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I have 2 questions for you: 1. What kind of license did you get from CL? 2. CL does not even have an API, how did you scrape the data?

• sunkan 14y ago
  1. There is some upfront fee and they get a percentage cut of the revenue we make. 2. You are right, craigslist doesn't have an API, so whether you are licensed or not, you have the same tools at your disposal. We did typical HTML scraping, but our amazing Dev team did some really smart tweaks to present the data in a beautiful way.
  • signed0 14y ago
    It's too bad that you had to resort to scraping. It's a shame that Craigslist hasn't built their own API for those who pay for a license. Are you doing the scraping server side or client side (inside the app)?
    • sunkan 14y ago
      client
  • chenster 14y ago
    Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing?
  • chenster 14y ago
    Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing? Have you considered that?