RSS feeds for dummies...
 

Help me out here - Craigslist used to have a useful subscription/notification feature that would ping you everytime an item with your defined criteria was posted - it was awesome. The feature was discontinued (because apparently some have abused it).

I've tried turning to RSS feeds as an alternative to monitoring recent CL postings - just not sure how to get this thing setup properly.

I have an RSS reader (FF's add-on - Simple RSS Reader 3.1.x) - but it wants a book mark or something... The www.crazedlist.org provides and XML file that you can export then import into something to (hopefully) get this tool to monitor and filter out the postings I wish to see. Got the XML file with the links but I have no idea what to do with that file - the Simple RSS Reader has no option to import those links - at least I don't see how. Maybe I don't have the right tool...

If anyone is using RSS feeds help me out plz.

Thx,
James

Nobody using RSS feeds... perhaps your experience is same as mine... who knows how to use the d&$n thing... :(

I was hoping someone with more expertise would step up, but since no one has, here's what I do with Firefox:

1. I run a search on Craiglist. In some cases, I use Boolean logic to catch multiple related things in one search (e.g., trumpet or cornet, country or western).

2. On the results page, I click on the "RSS" button on the lower right hand corner of the page.

3. A menu shows up at the top of the page showing "Subscribe to this feed using", along with a drop-down menu.

4. From the drop-down menu, I choose "Live Bookmarks". Then I'm given the choice of naming the bookmark and choosing the folder in which it will be created.

5. In regular use, when I left-click on one of those bookmarks (or hover over it if it's in a drop-down list of bookmarks), then a list appears showing all the results from that feed. If I right-click on a bookmark, one of the options is to "Reload Live Bookmark".

Not bad - thanks for the tips - will give it a shot!

James