grep for craigslist?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

You can obviously 'fly under the radar' if you develop/use your own
personal agent.  My specific plan was to build a Drupal module that you
could use to save your searches and have it fetch results for you.  No
problem since although it would technically violate the TOS, they wouldn't
bother with the expense of tracking down and prosecuting the violation (for
possibly no gain).  All that changes when you setup a commercial operation
designed to profit by using their systems and content as a feed.  That
would require making sustained volumes of requests.  I'm sure they have a
monitor/alert for when a particular IP makes a large volume of CL requests
so they can chase those down.

I'm no expert about CL, so I wonder if they've done any agreements with 3rd
parties to create partnerships?

Greg Rundlett


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:04:04 -0500, "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <
> greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> > I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called
> > Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-)  But, their TOS explicitly
> > limits any such possibility.
>
> Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke
> my account?
>
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