Volunteer to go through CL Report?

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I have a custom report here that gives me, in a single report, CL arcade ads from all 413 CL regions in the U.S. The report gives the time, region, and title of the ad. Clicking on the line takes you to the CL ad. The report shows you the most recent 500 matching arcade listings (no xbox, ps3, etc), which translates to about the last 3/4 of a day.

For a variety of reasons (including not wanting redirects blocked by CL), I can't post the report publicly for everyone, but I can let a few people in. Maybe in the future I'll be able to release an RSS feed a little more widely.

Is there anyone here up to taking a glance once or twice a day and posting the true gems here? Please only let me know if you think you are serious as I have to set up each account individually for access.

I figure 1 to 5 volunteers is probably the right amount...
 
on the redirect point, if you do release it as an rss feed, the redirect source host won't be your feed, it'll be the reader site such as google reader, i believe.
 
Wow very cool!
Wish I had the time like I used to for stuff like this!
Currently picking up 2nd job, and working on moving and getting a divorce/seperation.
 
on the redirect point, if you do release it as an rss feed, the redirect source host won't be your feed, it'll be the reader site such as google reader, i believe.

Which is one reason I mentioned an RSS feed could be coming (for members only). I just have to figure out if its worth the trouble to write (the code to create the feed).
 
depending on how deeply integrated you want the code to be to authentication, i could help write the code necessary to create the feed. what language is your aggregation coded in?
 
CL doesn't provide an API...

Coding was done in PHP...

Ok... I accepted the first 3 people and gave them access to the report. Let's see what comments they have about it now.
 
cool. you've already done the heavy lifting though without a CL api, publishing a feed is easy, it's just an xml text file. you've already got the data, all that's needed is a method to take the data and serialize it into that xml feed file (and remove N old entries in the xml file).

i'll be happy to help if you want some help.
 
Sounds like this little experiment will be short lived.My overall opinion of it so far is very positive.There is a lot of discerning the trash from the treasures with all the info that you are given,but it is not difficult or even that time comsuming.I think that a majority of klov users would like and use a feed like this.The only knock I really have on it is that I wished it updated a little faster.
 
craigslist has an awesome rss search feature where you can pretty easily hack together a url to make a rss search. their terms and conditions mention several times that they reserve the right to cancel any rss search that's taking too much traffic, but still, here's what i think would be a gem of an idea and requires little load on your own server.

make a web app that exposes a decent UI where a user can enter search terms and select states and/or areas within the states, then spit those rss search urls out on the screen. that user can then take those rss urls into google reader or any other rss aggregator.

bonus points if we could figure out some decent bulk API For google reader that would say something along the lines of "your feeds are ready, click here to add all 18 of them to google reader".

for example i have CL rss feeds set up for TX areas near me searching for "nba jam". it was a pain in the ass to copy/paste the url and hack in the locales i want, but it worked.
 
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