After getting banned by craigslist a few times I’ve decided it’s time to hang ‘em up.

Craig’s Little Buddy was a harmless site. My friends wanted to search multiple craigslist classifeds at the same time & I hacked together a site with a decent ui to allow them to do just that. Why? Why not? It was easy & it saved my friends a ton of time.

I assumed the fact that I never tried to monetize would keep me in the clear and CL would leave me alone. But, even so, I got banned a few times. To be fair, CL can enforce their TOS if they think I violated it and I’m sure some automated watchdog banned me and I wasn’t singled out; After all, even tho I employed a 6 hour cache, I probably hit them with a more-than-normal-number of http requests.

Even so, I see nothing wrong with a site that’s not monetizing, still sending CL traffic w/ every result click & is saving people a ton of time. With that said I’ve decided to open source the site. There’s no license or any official agreement; I just ask that you use it for personal use on your home machine. Otherwise he’s free as a bird.

Sorry, could’nt resist… LOL

It was fun and very satisfying to read emails about how much value the users gained by a site that took me barely any time to toss together. So thanks to all the people that took their time to write me.

Also, big thanks to Rose Devlin for the cute little logo/mascot guy.

Enjoy,
Arin

Download all the source for CraigsLittleBuddy.com at GitHub

ps: sorry that the code’s kindof a hacky mess . Maybe I’ll clean it up if I have some time.