I came across a most excellent tutorial today How To Actually Search Craigslist via Lifehacker. I am a huge fan of Craigslist for those who didn’t know, and I often find it difficult to manage searches on their poor engine.

Craigslist does offer RSS feeds (which I am also a huge fan of via Google Reader) however you can only have 1 search term per feed. So if you are looking for 20 different items you have to have 20 feeds in your RSS reader which can become quite messy. The tutorial shows you how to use Yahoo Pipes to create customized searches from these multiple RSS feeds and combine them into one search. It may sound a little complicated at first but its really pretty easy and very helpful.

The tutorial provides an example of it in use, and here is one I made to search for snowblowers (with the terms snow, snowblower, and snowthrower). So if you crave more command over your Craigslist addiction then this may help you out tremendously.

How To Actually Search Craigslist

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