Comprehensive Craigslist Search tool for 300-series Diesels
 

Hi guys, I stumbled upon the Yahoo Pipes technology a couple days ago and decided to use it to create a tool that searches all 130+ Craigslist sites in the USA for 300-series Diesels for sale, consolidates the listings, and sorts them by listing date (newest to oldest). You can access the results via the URL below, or by subscribing to the RSS feed.

Website access: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=f48dbea0b81ce84233bd0e7fa6874176

RSS feed URL:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=f48dbea0b81ce84233bd0e7fa6874176&_render=rss

I have filters set to exclude vehicles from 1986 or later, since I created this for my own early 80's purchasing wants. You can clone this pipe and edit the filters to your own standards.

In the coming days I will modify even more to include eBay listings as well, so this feed will eventually be a comprehensive search across several properties for 300d/tdt/cd/dt/sd's.

Hopefully this is helpful, if something like this already exists within the forum sorry for duplication :-)

Feel free to make suggestions, this is just my first crack at the utility. . . lots of room to improve filters, etc.
-Joshua

"the internet is a series of tubes" - Ted Stevens



neato

that's pretty cool! thanks

Very impressive, Joshua. Thanks.

Yeah man - I dig it. I've used crazedlist before but that's something new....thanks for sharing.

Have one for casual encounters? :)

Awesome! That will be very useful for buying more cars! :eek:

Yeah, now if somebody can figure out how to make my bank account go UP instead of DOWN all the time, this search capability could be put to good use!

Nice work! I'll have to figure out how to do that so I can find a w120 180D or a w121 190D.

Great work. I also thought it would be nice to be able to search Craigslist wide for miscelaneous things. I looked at the modules and could not figure out a way to easily enter a search term for the feed in a loop. I did find a search that does ebay and craigslist...

Nice, Joshua. Do you have the Memphis Craigslist filtered OUT? I don't see my 300D in your mix.:D

Wanna make one for 240D's also......:o:o

Nice job. I've never seen that posted here before.

Memphis isn't filtered out, but I figured out why your car isn't showing and I will try to fix the app tonight. It's currently searching titles for "mercedes 300", and since yours is listed as "mercedes 300d" it doesn't catch it. It's not a short fix, b/c I basically need to figure out how to either do a boolean search through craigslist and edit all of the URLs or even better, reroute the app to include a LIST of search terms that are user editable.

I will definitely do this, though. . . I want this to be as accurate and useful of an app as possible for all forum members.

Hi Jimmy, I'll be making some edits to the app tonight that should open it up a bit, to allow you more control over what model you search for. I'll post an update on this thread once completed :-)

Cheers,
Joshua

I don`t know how you did it, but thank you. Craigs list always seems like a PITA to look for things, where E-Bay just type in Mercedes diesel or what ever, and the whole world is there.
Now I need a MB shop button, E-Bay Button, Fast lane Button, Buy button on my key board :rolleyes:.

Charlie