Archives for October, 2008

25
Oct
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Parsing mal-formed rss feeds with Magpie RSS

Parsing mal-formed rss feeds with Magpie RSS

I recently discovered that Craigslist’s rss feeds leave much to be desired in terms of well formed xml. A large portion of the AdRavage back-end magic works by parsing the rss results of searches, and the bulk of this is achieved through Magpie RSS. Unfortunately, when returned feeds contain invalid encoding or have structural issues they become virtually impossible to parse – at least by [...]

20
Oct
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AdRavage.com – Ad search automation

AdRavage.com - Ad search automation

AdRavage.com is released!
As some of you already know, I’ve been working on a site that lets you automate searching on websites such as Craigslist. I recently needed to purchase a vehicle and was repeatedly beaten to the punch by others who were able to monitor the ads much closer than I. AdRavage lets you create search terms, how often to search those terms, and ultimately [...]