Doing a search on Craigslist?

[Tom Wesenberg]

I thought there was some way to do a search for the entire U.S. or at least the entire state. All I can seem to do is search by the city.

Does anyone know how to search the entire country on Craigslist? Thanks

[zzlegend]

Tom. When you open craigslist, look in the upper left corner where it says CRAIGSLIST in large letters and double click on it. It opens to a complete page of states and cities. Mark.

[harleyjj]

go to www.searchtempest.com it will allow you to enter your zip code and a radius from there that you would like to search. Great tool!!!! and very addictive i might add...

[Benson]

• Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

  I thought there was some way to do a search for the entire U.S. or at least the entire state. All I can seem to do is search by the city. Does anyone know how to search the entire country on Craigslist? Thanks

Searchtempest.com is a great tool too! I did not know about that one!

Tom,

With Google:

1. Search within a specific website.

Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website.

For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com.

NOTE: The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times.

You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.

Might take some experimenting to get correct combination of words.


2. You can use this to search ANY domain i.e. Fordbarn.com as an example.

[bobv]

Try this

http://claz.org/classifieds.html?q=model+a+ford

[wrndln]

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I have tried without success to search for "model A" or "model A Ford", but I get lots of modern cars and parts. Ever since Craigslist decided to not allow searching for common terms like a, the, etc. I have to sift through a lot of search items to find model A stuff. I tried bobv's idea, but I still get all the modern car stuff. Has anyone figured out how to just get "model A" items, without all the other stuff?
Rusty Nelson

[RonC]

try: typing model a in the for sale search window. After you get the results check off "title only" instead of "entire post", run search again and that should narrow it down a lot

[cayager]

[QUOTE=Tom Wesenberg;325479] All I can seem to do is search by the city.

Originally Posted by zzlegend

It opens to a complete page of states and cities. Mark.

its amazing how little people pay attention or read things

[LukeDahlinger]

I use "site:craigslist.org" on Google, Bing etc. then add what you're looking for. IE "site:craigslist.org 1931 Ford Door" or whatever it is you're hunting.

I used craigslook for the longest time until they shut the site down. It was 100X better than searchtempest.

[George]

I use this one:
http://www.allofcraigs.com/

[Herb Concord Ca]

Hi Tom, try allofcraigs.com
Regards,
herb
Concord CA

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by harleyjj

go to www.searchtempest.com it will allow you to enter your zip code and a radius from there that you would like to search. Great tool!!!! and very addictive i might add...

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[Merc Cruzer]

This does a Nation Wide search for Craigslist:

http://craigslist.thingweb.com/

[Leathernek]

Since you can't use a common term, such as the "a" in model a- search for "1929 ford" instead you may have to do multiple searches for whatever year you are looking for but it works for me. Just my $0.02.....

[raceron1120]

Try this one: http://craigzoom.com/ Very user-friendly, can sort by city or region within each state. I've used it a lot.

[Mike V. Florida]

I've used CLAZ.org.

[30ccpickup]

Using Google you can search within any site for anything you want. This is worth learning.

Type this in google:
"model a" site:craigslist.org

The quotes forces google to look for the phrase “model a” and not separate words “model” and “a”. The word “site” forces google to look for your phrase only at the site chosen.

Other examples:

"model a" site:history.com (searches the history channel for Model A information)

"Assembly Plants" site: plucks329s.org (searches Steve’s site for information on assembly plants)

"Taxi Cab" site:fordgarage.com (Searches Vince Falter’s site for Taxi Cabs)

Paul

[jr-41ford]

I've used this one, but seen a couple of more that I will check out later.

http://www.craigs-list-search.com/

[Jim/GA]

I did not know there were so many options to do this.

I will add my favorite Craig's List search site:

www.crazedlist.org

"search craigslist like a mad man"

The results of each individual location search is presented in a frame. You scroll through the list of frames looking for what you want in the results. I open the link to any item it finds that I want to see in a new tab, leaving the search results up on the original tab.

Very handy.

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http://ziink.com/

Here is another link for searching all of Craig's List.