There's a lot of garbage on Craigslist -- including vowels, apparently. Crgslst cuts to the chase, providing a quick Ajax site that switches between cities and categories on Craigslist with one click. It looks a lot prettier than the real thing, too!
Since there are hundreds of different city pages on Craigslist now, you can save a ton of time by jumping between them within the same search. Crgslst doesn't allow a simultaneous nationwide search, although it could easily do so, because that feature has gotten sites shut down in the past. This is the next-best thing, though, and we hope it lasts.
Crgslst has another leg up on the built-in Craigslist search engine because it lets you quickly save what you're doing. You can pick up to 10 favorite cities, to avoid having to reselect your city from the map or the popular cities list every time, and you can save interesting listings to a compact sidebar. If the folks at Craigslist do want this site shut down, they could do worse than to steal from its design, which a huge improvement on the original.
[via JoshSpear]
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3-05-2008 @ 2:05PM
downloadsquad said...
It's http://crgslst.com/
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3-05-2008 @ 2:06PM
Pichingo said...
is not http://www.crgslist.com/
its http://crgslst.com/
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3-05-2008 @ 2:08PM
Jay Hathaway said...
Thanks guys, it's fixed. Good catch.
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3-05-2008 @ 3:02PM
MA Wedding Videographer said...
Craigslist has a lot of spam and scamms
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3-05-2008 @ 3:58PM
Duarte said...
That's awesome! Lets hope they add ALL the cities on craigslist quickly.
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3-05-2008 @ 4:38PM
Jay Hathaway said...
@duarte: They should all be on there if you click the yellow "add/modify" button underneath your saved cities. Did you try that, and are they still missing some?
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3-06-2008 @ 4:46PM
Sky said...
Great use of AJAX indeed. But yes, the "crap" is always there.
Great use of Criagslist here too (maybe moreso with that "crap":
http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/songs_in_the_key_of_craigslist/index.html
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3-06-2008 @ 7:49PM
solidus said...
Too bad this doesn't let you distinguish between which part of a city.
I live in the SF Bay Area and I live around the south bay. Craigslist lets me look at just the south bay listings instead of ALL of the SF Bay Area.
If they add that feature into this, I'll use this every time.
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5-19-2008 @ 9:37AM
Ajaxpert said...
Here is good tutorial for AJAX and CSS
Tutorial
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