I made a pretty heavy update to the Craigslist Search Harvester last night and this morning addressing many minor issues, including the ones listed below… But first of all, I decided to make the tool open source. If you’re interested, you can download the source code here (which compiles under PB/Win 9.02, a wonderfully fast and efficient compiler). Enjoy.
- Slightly changed HTML output, including tagging the day’s downloads with “NEW”.
- When saving CSV files and HTML files, you can output everything, or just today’s new entries.
- Permissions-level bug in “view in browser” shell command should be fixed now [untested fix].
- Collisions in listview no longer happen.
- You can select multiple items from the results listview to output or view just those items.
- Offers to add itself to start menu.
- Added “About” dialog and moved the “visit website” button there.
- Can now specify that search should be of titles only, not body text.
- Can now specify that results should only include ads with pictures
- Clicking on column headers sorts list by that column
- Source code made public… I sure hope it’s not too embarrassing.
- Search name can be specified on the command line — ie. “ZenCLSH2 searchname”
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And, for Jen, I will work on getting Kijiji re-implemented next… It should be much more smoothly integrated than last time. I’m hoping to automatically synchronize the two sites.
…and perhaps re-christen it “Craigslist (Automated/Assisted/etc.) Search Harvester? I have a thing for acronyms.
I’ll get my coat.
Haha. That is much clever-er than my title, isn’t it!
Ok. I’m totally doing that — brilliant idea, thank you.
I think this might be the closest I’ll ever come to contributing to a programming project. Yay ZenCLASH!
Oh, I misunderstood you then — I thought you were saying ZenCASH!
either one would be pretty rad…
Ah, heh! Indeed, either works :) I had the band in mind at the time.
Yes, I’d totally read that as ZenCASH as well!
Says something about the way my mind works, I daresay.
Or, about my failure to appropriately capitalise!
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