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Potty Mouth
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Anyone know how to search on craigslist for everything EXCEPT something? Like, if I am searching in computers and I want to exclude macs or apples I'd like to be able to put in just -mac -macintosh -apple and get all the results without those in it. I'd ultimately like to have this work with the RSS feed.

Any ideas?

Any good GM scripts or similar to add functionality?

8/29/2010 10:16:48 PM

darkone
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Craigslist accepts "-" as an exclusion modifer. For instance, if I want to search for pathfinder but I don't want to see the Nissan Pathfinder I would use the search string: pathfinder -nissan

8/29/2010 10:25:26 PM

Potty Mouth
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Try searching for just -nissan and tell me how many results you get.

8/29/2010 10:36:32 PM

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http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/search

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Excluding Terms (filtering)

To specify one or more words you'd like to exclude, use a minus sign to negate them.

honda black -red

That will look for postings that contain 'honda' and 'black' but not 'red'. Note that a search must contain one non-excluded term.
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[Edited on August 29, 2010 at 10:42 PM. Reason : b]

8/29/2010 10:40:49 PM

kiljadn
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Quote :
"Craigslist accepts "-" as an exclusion modifer. For instance, if I want to search for pathfinder but I don't want to see the Nissan Pathfinder I would use the search string: pathfinder -nissan"



instead, I will search for the honda pathfinder, which does not exist


that means that when I find one, I will be able to negotiate a lower price, because the seller is obviously a moron.

8/29/2010 10:55:52 PM

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