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Craigslist Search (CLSearch) is a utility that allows you to search all US cities in Craigslist for items in the sale/wanted listings as well as jobs, services and gigs sections. The Craigslist main page only allows you to search for an item for sale in your local city or any other city of choice, there are times however when it may be necessary to search as many locations as possible in order to locate an item. This is when CLSearch comes in handy. Using one simple, easy to use interface a search of over 200 cities can be made and the results are neatly tabulated.

Clsearch won the editors choice at sixfiles.com

 

!!!Craigslist Search Pro Released!!!

Feb 07 2008: I am pleased to announce the availability of CLSearchPro If you are an existing CLSearch user you will notice a number of improvements and changes including…

1. The ability to quickly select a custom cities file from any number of custom files you may have created.

2. The ability to quickly select from the last 5 cities files used. (Paid version)

3. The ability to see the last 20 searches and quickly open the results file by one click! (Paid version)

4. The ability to set min and max price, or search only sub-sections of categories such as jobs and gigs. (Paid version)

New in version 4.4 (and beyond)

a. Ability to automatically search for a number of items on a periodic basis (WatchDog). Results are emailed to you. (Paid version)

b. Ability to generate cities file based on hometown and cities within a certain radius of it. No more having to manually edit files. (Paid version)

Some of these functions are only available in the registered version, so if you are interested in purchasing CLSearchPro you may quickly and securely order it using Google Checkout.

Please note that a registration key will be sent to you within 24 hours of your purchase.

 

Download:

CLSearchPro can be downloaded from
1. Primary Site (USA, CA) total downloads.

You will also need the .NET 2.0 framework (.NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package) from Microsoft installed in order to use this program.

Installation:

To install decompress the .zip file and place executable in desired location.

Current Build:

5.5 Release Feb 22 2010

Changes:
V 5.5: Several Bug Fixes
Fixed watchdog as it was returning old results along with the newly posted items
Fixed date search

V 5.4: Bug Fixes
Fixed Date Range feature.

V 5.3: Bug Fixes
Fixed crash when using “Date Range” feature

V 5.2: Bug Fixes and Enhancement
*Searching Musical Instruments sub section was returning results from All for Sale section.
*Added additional sub sections under the For Sale section.
*Craigslist modified their search query structure, program updated to reflect these changes.

V 5.1: Enhancement
*Added the ability to include a From email address to the email settings section. Mail servers such as Yahoo require the From address to be a valid email address or email server configuration would fail on test.

V 5.0: Enhancement & Bug Fix
*Added ability to do a wild card search. Entering nothing in the search box will return all the latest posts on CL in the particular section being searched.
* Fixed a bug where Real Estate searches were not returning results. This was due to CL changing their search terms for this section.

V 4.95: Bug Fix
* Bicycles section was not returning any results
* Some states were returning garbled results as Craigslist started returning “Nearby results”.

V 4.9: Enhancements + Bug Fix
* Added the ability to return results within the last X days (0 to 30).
* Fixed the search within For Sale -> Computers. 4.8 would return results within the entire For Sale section.

V 4.8: Enhancements
* Added ability to search only “in Title” and also “has image”
* Added ability to search “by owner”, “by dealer” and “all”

V 4.7: Bug Fixed
* Cars and Trucks + Bicycles section was showing no results due to a Craigslist code change, fixed in this version.

V 4.6: Enhancements
* Added SSL capabilities to the email section.

V 4.5: Bug fixes
* SMTP server port was limited to value between 0-100
* Results from April 1 were not showing up in the WatchDog routine.

V4.4: New features added.
* Ability to search for items on a regular basis. New results are emailed to you.
* Ability to generate a cities file based on your hometown and a given radius.
* Fixed Canadian URL issue. Craigslist changed their server URLs.
* Ability to clear the recent search history list.

V4.3 Fixed a bug which caused the application to crash if services section was used for search.
V4.2 Added ability to search Resumes section.
V4.1 Added Housing/Real Estate section & fixed bug where city file selection in unregistered version was not possible from File menu.
V4.0 New Professional Version Release February 07 2008

V2.4 Fixed issue with returned results having broken links. Craigslist had modified their page layout which caused this issue.
V2.3 Fixed issue with empty results being returned. Craigslist had modified their page layout which caused this issue.
V2.2 User can now add or remove cities from the cities.txt list included with the program in order to search only cities of interest. Next version will allow you to manually select cities you want to run the search in.
V2.1 Fixed a bug where searching “All Jobs” or “All Gigs” or “All Services” ran a search in the sale section instead.
V2.0 Changed program visual look/feel. Added ability to search within subsections. Numerous small bug fixes and enhancements.
V1.5 Fixed empty search results and infinite loop error. Sorry folks!
v1.4 Fixed “connection was closed” error.
v1.3 Fixed divide by zero crash. Added extra cities.
V1.2 Added the ability to search the services section as well.
V1.1 Added the ability to search three Craigslist sections; For Sale, Jobs and Gigs.
v1.0 First Release

Links for programmers

Libcraigscrape is a Ruby solution for “scraping” Craigslist.org.