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Rembrant

Searching Craigslist Nationwide

G'day Folks,

Is there a way to search Craigslist nationwide, or are you basically limited to individual cities?

I used to use Searchtempest or Autotempest, but it looks like they don't work with Craigslist anymore.

1994 F150 4x2 Flareside. 5.0 w/MAF, 4R70W, stock.
1984 F150 4X2 Flareside. Mild 302 w/ 5spd. Sold.
1980 F150 4X4 Flareside. 300i6 w/ 5spd. Sold in 2021.
1980 F100 4X2 Flareside. 351w/2bbl w/NP435. Sold in 1995

Gary Lewis

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I've not found a way to search nationwide. The best I've done is to make it a radius of up to 200 miles from my location, and then pick locations that are far enough away to make a bunch of circles on the map.

So I'm interested to hear from the experts.

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Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
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grumpin

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Same here Cory. I used to use a website that searched far and wide but quit working with craigslist.

I search cities now.

Dane
1986 F250HD SC XLT Lariat 4x4 460 C6-Sold
1992 Bronco XLT 4x4 351W E4OD
1998 GMC Sierra SLE K1500 350 4L60E
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DarkSaga

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You may want to give this a shot --> https://kevinkeene98.medium.com/how-to-search-all-of-craigslist-9e7f235b96ec

I just did a quick test and it seems to work using GOOGLE as your means to search Craigslist.
Try it and see if it helps!

Mainly for a basic search you type site:craigslist.org (and follow that with the text of what you're looking for)

Example--> site:craigslist.org 1985 Ford F150
(and it'll search Craigslist nationwide for a "1985 Ford F150")

I'm going to try it out more and see how well it works.
Good luck with it!

Gary Lewis

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That's pretty cool! But it doesn't work the way I expected. It appears to find a Craigslist search page that has all of the search text on it. For instance, I searched for "site:craigslist.org bullnose truck Warn" and set it for verbatim. That got this for the search results.

In other words, there's a "Bullnose" somewhere on that page, and a "truck", and a "Warn". So I'll do some more testing...

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Gary Lewis

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But a search with site:craigslist.org "1985 Ford F150" does get a page of 1985 F150's - all of which I'm pretty sure are Fords. The key is to put what you are looking for in quotes. Then you are taken to the listing itself rather than a page with lots of listings on it, some of which have part of what you are looking for.

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ArdWrknTrk

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I always used crazedlist.org but I have no idea if it is functional anymore.

Jim,
Lil'Red is a '87 F250 HD, 4.10's, 1356 4x4, Zf-5, 3G, PMGR, Saginaw PS, desmogged with a Holley 80508 and Performer intake.
Too much other stuff to mention.

Rembrant

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ArdWrknTrk wrote

I always used crazedlist.org but I have no idea if it is functional anymore.

It seems to work...sort of. I guess I was just spoiled with Autotempest.com

I don't know if Craigslist kicked them all off or what, but what motivation is there in not allowing a nation wide search?

Facebook Marketplace is the same way and I find it really annoying. You have to go city by city all across the country.

Kijiji was always the Canadian version of Craigslist, and it allows a national search, but it doesn't allow you to pick any kind of a range. For example if you wanted to search for a Bullnose, you'd have to search for each individual year. In any case, Facebook Marketplace seems to have made Kijiji almost obsolete now...mostly just older and non-FB people using it. The amount of stuff on it is wayyy down these days.

I'm a Facebook user, but I'd be totally fine if it died off and went extinct.