craigslist-search

Craigslist Search

This module allows to:

1. list all the listings in specified city for specified category
2. list all the listings in ALL craigslist cities for specified category

Installation

npm install craigslist-search

Usage

Example for command line: get ticket listings in New York

node main.js newyork tia          // gets first 100 ticket listings

get next 100 ticket listings

node main.js newyork tia 100

to get tickets with images

node main.js newyork tia 0 true

Options

options = {
  city: 'newyork',
  category: 'tia', /* tickets */
  hasPic: 1,
  offset: 100      /* next 100 records */
}

Listing Object

Each returned listing will have several properties like in the example below:

  {
    "category": "tickets - by owner",
    "date": "2014-12-08 16:30",
    "hasPic": true,
    "location": "Midtown West",
    "pid": "4796283245",
    "price": "$350",
    "title": "New York Giants vs Washington Redskins - Lower Level",
    "url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tix/4796283245.html",
    "pic": "http://images.craigslist.org/00W0W_a19zyPK9o3U_300x300.jpg"
 }