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How do craigslist mashups get data? [closed]

做~自己de王妃 提交于 2019-12-03 00:22:05
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How do craigslist mashups get data? [closed]

懵懂的女人 提交于 2019-12-02 14:01:52
I'm doing some research work into content aggregators, and I'm curious how some of the current craigslist aggregators get data into their mashups. For example, www.housingmaps.com and the now closed www.chicagocrime.org If there is a URL that can be used for reference, that would be perfect! For AdRavage.com I use a combination of Magpie RSS (to extract the data returned from searches) and a custom screen scraping class to properly populate the city/category information used when building searches. For example, to extract the categories you could: //scrape category data $h = new http(); $h-