Rembrant Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpin Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Same here Cory. I used to use a website that searched far and wide but quit working with craigslist. I search cities now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSaga Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 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! 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 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... 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 I always used crazedlist.org but I have no idea if it is functional anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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