CraigsWatcher (v.60 as of January 28, 2008)
I'm always searching Craigslist for Cushmans and thought it'd be handy to be notified whenever a new posting showed up. I couldn't find anything that did it, so CraigsWatcher was born. Type in a search term and it'll keep searching as long as it's running.
Screenshots and Notes
In this screenshot you can see what it looks like when its searching for "cushman". I can uncheck "cushman" and it'll stop searching for it, and re-checking it will resume. If I add more searches, they'll appear below it.
As you can see it found 4 postings for "cushman" in the San Francisco "All for Sale / Wanted" category and emailed me a status report, which has direct links to each. And in the area at the bottom I can see details about what it's doing. Note the plus sign, I can click that to show the individual postings.
In this screenshot you can see the preferences. "Save active searches between sessions" means, well, that it'll save active searches between sessions. Meaning your searches will still be there if you restart the program. And then there's "beep when new items are found", which is pretty self explanatory, as is "minimize to system tray", which is nice if you're leaving the program running for a long time . And I can clear all the messages in the status area by clicking "clear message area".
And in the message area you can see that I expanded the details for the postings for "cushman", and note that clicking any of those will open the posting in the default web browser. Because we're snazzy like that.
Stuff I've Added Since Writing The Above
- can search multiple cities simultaneously
- can automatically email the poster (thinking about disabling that)
- will email you images from the ads
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