How to parse Craigslist content through RSS

Question

Craigslist don't provide any APIs for data access.

I would like to write a small client to parse data from their RSS and reflow it.

I would like to do this without setting up a server. What client side tools/JavaScript are available out there can allows quick and easy parsing of RSS feeds?

Answer 1

You may want to check out Using Javascript to display RSS for some links to JS clients.

Also yahoo pipes has some interesting ways to interact with RSS feeds

Answer 2

I do not know what type of parsing you want but using Yahoo Pipes you can parse RSS and create some useful thing like this pipe : Multicity Bike Search

• Click run to see the results

• Click on View Source to see how he did it.