Craigslist ad extract software by keyword

General Real Estate Investing
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Hi Im wondering if anyone has heard about a software that goes to every city on craigslist and lets you put in keywords like handyman or by owner etc etc and it extracts all the ads for that day to a notepad or office file.

Would anyone think it is a good idea to buy this software, I mean it extracts a whole bunch of possible leads but then I have to call them all lol but thank god I have vonage.

The company wants $300 per copy and they let me use the demo first and boy o boy it extracted over 600 ads that I could be calling but no time to call that many people.

Another feature I found is that it lets you store all the keywords on it and that way your not putting in the keywords over and over again every day. Seems to be an awesome tool.

So should I buy it ? What do you all think?

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Craigslist recently blocked a multi-city search tool because they want to keep a “local” focus. I’d be careful with investing $300 in something that may be useless once it gets on Craigslist’s radar. Here’s an article on it:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050628/0225236_F.shtml

I found a free tool, it only does one city at a time though (obviously):

http://cscrape.sourceforge.net/

Now this is down-right cool and I think it does what you want (and its free):

http://www.craig2mail.com/craigs.html

By the way, here’s the source code from the developer that got shut down: http://clsearch.org/

HTH,

Paul