Phillippe,

I doubt there is a simple tool to accomplish your goal.

Since the sites you mention all have different ways of organizing and
displaying their classified ads, you would need to write specific extraction
rules for each site you wished your agent to monitor.  And once a site
changed the organization of their classifieds, you would need to rewrite the
rules to reflect the changes.

I have something similar to what you require, designed to extract headlines
and first paragraph abstracts from news sites, but it's a full system
written under Linux in perl and using mysql as its datastore, and wasn't
written to be sold.  (In other words, it's downright end-user unfriendly. ;)

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Rob Raisch - lead analyst @ www.raisch.com
Muscular Business Intelligence

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