By jng12 on

As a freelance web developer, I've subscribed to RSS feeds from Craigslist.org on certain cities accross USA and Canada - always looking for that next job, that next paycheck.

I created this basic Drupal site just using Feed Aggregator Module.

http://jaysonng.com/jobs

Currently aggregating WEB and Internet Engineering jobs from top tech cities in North America. Future plans to create lists for more specific searches such as "PHP" or "Drupal". it updates itself every hour with the help of CRON.

A basic simple site that I hope will help telecommute freelancers out there.

As a lot of you may know, there are a lot of ugly posts out there. I have no control of that. But once in a while, you get a good lead. and a nice paycheck.

as I continue to develop this site, I would love to hear your suggestions. If you guys know of a module that has some nice features that I don't know about that could help make this site better, would love to hear that as well.

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zbricoleur’s picture

zbricoleur commented

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but your site appears to violate craigslist's Terms of Use:

Additionally, you agree not to:
u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining
tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly
permitted by craigslist;

Just sayin'...

jng12’s picture

jng12 commented

you could be right. I re-read the terms, i thought as long as I wasn't profitting from it, I could use it.

but below the one you quoted, TERMS of USE also says

craigslist offers various parts of the Service in RSS format so that users
can embed individual feeds into a personal website or blog, or view postings
through third party software news aggregators. craigslist permits you to
display, excerpt from, and link to the RSS feeds on your personal website
or personal web blog, provided that (a) your use of the RSS feed is for
personal, non-commercial purposes only, (b) each title is correctly linked
back to the original post on the Service and redirects the user to the
post when the user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS
feed, proper attribution to 'craigslist' as the source, (d) your use or
display does not suggest that craigslist promotes or endorses any third
party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (e) you do not
redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden
craigslist's systems. craigslist reserves all rights in the content of
the RSS feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any time.

specifically mentioning RSS. (the one you quoted "U" does not mention RSS)

Now I'm confused. from what I read here, it may be in violation to Aggregate the FEEDS. if so, i'll just have to split them up as individual feeds then.