Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:37 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: No, I still don't get the application of the TOS. I wouldn't be signed up as a user or have an account or anything. It's just...out there. Doesn't a TOS have to be a contract between people? Just loading a URL does not

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
You should turn craigsearch into a web service. I have a bunch of 50%-off coupons for new domains-registrations at gandi.net, if you want. Looks like craigsearch.com is already taken, though, so you'll have to pick another name David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: I liked, but didn't LIKE

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread David Rysdam
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:23:46 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: You should turn craigsearch into a web service. In order to replace the monster, I would have to become the monster. (Meaning: How do I pay for that?) ___

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:23:46 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: You should turn craigsearch into a web service. In order to replace the monster, I would have to become the monster. (Meaning: How do I pay for that?) `With your

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
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. 5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES ... Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
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. Heh. Their interface is so easy to scrape (and the sheer volume of stuff available so overwhwelming) that various

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@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. 5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread David Rysdam
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:04:04 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@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

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke my account? No, I agree we've got a bit far afield. The TOS concern is valid if you were to make this a publicly-available service. As far as

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread 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

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread David Rysdam
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:46:29 -0500, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke my account? No, I agree we've got a bit far afield. The TOS concern

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-13 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:41:43 -0500, kenta ke...@guster.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: I used to subscribe to the CL RSS feed. But it's a lot of junk to click read on. It's even more when you realize how poorly the posters are at putting

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:22 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: [1] Except for the diff itself. The man page seems to indicate that you can get the one-sided differences by using some kind of format thing, but my diff won't take any of the options the man page gives for that and it's so

grep for craigslist?

2013-02-12 Thread David Rysdam
I used to subscribe to the CL RSS feed. But it's a lot of junk to click read on. It's even more when you realize how poorly the posters are at putting things in the right category, so you basically have to subscribe to everything. For the last couple weeks, I've been just periodically, manually

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-12 Thread kenta
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: I used to subscribe to the CL RSS feed. But it's a lot of junk to click read on. It's even more when you realize how poorly the posters are at putting things in the right category, so you basically have to subscribe to