Comments on: How to receive craigslist searches via email

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:30:40 +0000

I found that http://www.craigslistnotify.com/ works great is free and your computer doesn’t need to be on. So if I am looking for a free office chair in Philadelphia it sends me a message to my blackberry every 5 minutes (or you can select frequency) so when I am on the road I still get notified of free stuff.

Hope this helps.

Tim.

By: Notifinder

Notifinder — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:07:21 +0000

http://www.notifinder.com provides this service. It also predicts how often a new posting is posted so you can set up the perfect search for notifications!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:56:58 +0000

http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ seems to work.

http://www.craig2mail.com/craigs.html says that Craigslist has told them to stop.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:07 +0000

Jeremy, It looks like CLGenie has added Canadian Craigslist sites to their list of cities.

By: jkiley

jkiley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:50:30 +0000

you can download craigslist reader from http://www.motiont.com/craigslistreader.aspx which will send you email alerts. You can also search multiple locations of craigslist

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:00:30 +0000

Just a note to Canadian users, ListListener.com will NOT WORK with the Canadian craigslist sites. I just signed up to try it out, tried it in IE, FF and Chrome, all with no luck. Once you get to the ‘Add a new subscription’ section, you are unable to properly choose your state (provice) and city.

By: Dan Moore

Dan Moore — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:35:30 +0000

A friend ran into this post and commented

“I ran into your blog randomly the other day when I was searching for a way to get email alerts when certain items on Craigslist were posted. I ended up doing the Google Alerts, which is definitely not up to the minute, but sort of works.”

If you’re looking for something obscure so that timeliness is not of the essence, google alerts (or similar services like filtrbox) are a good option.

Thanks Trent, for the suggestion!

By: fatlava

fatlava — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:46 +0000

fatlava.com will do this for cars today, and electronics and tickets in the very near future.

By: moore

moore — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:54:57 +0000

Hey Mark,

It looks like this works, at least for searches:

site:craigslist.org elephant beanie baby

This returns back results from more than one craigslist site.

You might want to play around with that search string in combination with google alerts.

Another option might be Filtrbox: http://www.filtrbox.com/

By: mark

mark — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:14:52 +0000

trent… great idea, thanks…how about looking for a hard to find item in ANY city? Without having to enter muliple searches….

Thx
mark