I used to work for a guy who wanted to do this and market it out to programmers. Why programmers couldn't look themselves and would be willing to pay a monthly fee for this is beyond me.
Anyway, I asked him about how he wanted to do this and he mentioned that instead of scraping the pages directly, the RSS feeds work allot better. Just FYI. Brad Wood wrote: > So I had an idea this morning for a simple CF site, but I wanted > feedback on the practicality, usefulness, or even the legality of it. > > > > > My wife is now CONSTANTLY trolling craigslist.com for stuff, and I will > occasionally hit the free stuff or tools with a couple things in mind. > All the good deals get eaten up quick though and I can't live on the > site 24/7 > > > > What if I wrote a simple spider in CF to scrape their content for my > city once an hour or so into a database and then setup automatic > notifications when certain keywords appear like "chainsaw" in the "free" > category? > > > > Would people use that? > > Would that be a waste of CF code? > > Would I get sued? > > Am I only the 58th person to think of this? > > > > ~Brad > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 beta â Build next generation applications today. Free beta download on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283784 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
