App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

Re:App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way by sunkan on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:09PM (#5259397)

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.

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Re:App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way by signed0 on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:59PM (#5259871)

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)?

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Re:App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way by sunkan on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:36PM (#5260184)

client

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Re:App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way by chenster on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:56PM (#5260315)

Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing? Have you considered that?

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Re:App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way by chenster on Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:56PM (#5260313)

Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing?

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