Craigslist search API, or some method to scrape for-sale searches for content

Like the title says, is there a way I can request a URL with certain query keywords from Craigslist and have it return JSON data with the listing's info? I'm trying to build an app for personal use where I have it check Craigslist every few hours for new For Sale posts for some items. I found Craigslist does have an API, but it only offers functionality for querying areas and returning their sub-areas, and querying listing categories and returning their sub-categories. Nothing official about collecting post data. So I dug further and found some third party APIs but they seem to be inactive, specifically here and here.

Other solutions posted on SO and elsewhere on the internet suggest tapping into Craigslist's RSS feeds but they seem to be inactive, as all of the links are dead-ends.

So I'm kind of at a loss on what to do. Any suggestions? Thanks

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67041085/craigslist-search-api-or-some-method-to-scrape-for-sale-searches-for-content April 11, 2021 at 11:05AM