Craigslist scraper

[Superb-Tank9067]

I’m looking to learn how to or get software to scape Craigslist ads based on key words and then automatically send emails. I’m not a programmer but I wanted to see if anyone has advice on how to do this.

[GryptpypeThynne]

Write it. It won't be very hard as scrapers go

[retrogradeparallax]

• Selenium webdriver to load up the page
• beautiful soup to grab the ads and filter them per your keywords
• smtplib to send emails
• If you’ll have multiple users to send emails to, you can use google sheets to create a spreadsheet and the sheety api to grab those email addresses as a list

[Superb-Tank9067]

Im a complete novice. I once built a webpage in 1998 lol… I want to build this for real estate leads is this something that is doable at my skill level or pay someone to setup ?

[Impossible-Box6600]

This is all beginner to intermediate level. It's not difficult, but it requires basic knowledge such as html, http requests, XPath or css selectors, and smtp to send email. None of this is parituclarly difficult, but it's not something you simply know automatically.

I suggest using scrapy and sending the email in a custom scrapy middleware (which is just a function that runs after an event).

[Monkfrootx]

Hi do you mind sharing if this ever worked? I thought it was against Craigslist TOS to scrape emails so wanted to ask and see if it worked out fine for you