Re: [syndication] Re: craigslist RSS feeds

[Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:21:35AM -0800, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> dror wrote:
> 
> >Yeah,
> >
> >I noticed that too. Doesn't look like they have a central list of all
> >the feeds, which would be useful. Still, it's very cool.
> >
> >  
> >
> The problem with Craiglist's feeds, or at least the ones I've subscribed 
> to (computers for sale) are that:
> 
> - They're capped at 15 entries. Unless you're fetching the feed every 15 
> minutes, this could cause you to miss some items posted to the website
> - They only contain titles. It'd be nice if they syndicated the entire post.

And it seems that in the case of the real estate feeds, they strip the
price from the entry title, so you have to click on the damned thing
to see how much that dream house is selling for...
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