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http://blog.instamotor.com/instaroom

by instamotor • 12 years ago

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suyash• 12 years ago

I haven't looked at the script yet but the post fails to mention what service does it uses for looking available rooms? Is this for airbnb or craigslist or what?

gouggoug3• 12 years ago

It seems to be craigslist in the source code.

ValG• 12 years ago

Correct, the readme [1] states that it was built for CL posts. The OP was tired of having to email all of the rooms on CL that met his criteria so he tried to make it a little easier.

[1] https://github.com/sybohy/san_francisco_shared_room_finder

gouggoug3• 12 years ago

IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/wtf) is great for that kind of grunt tasks.

Create a recipes with a trigger (new Craigslist listings between $800 and $1000 has been posted), link an action (send an email, add the listing to a google doc, etc...) to the trigger, and in a matter of minutes you'll get a google doc filled with rooms to visit!

eni9889• 12 years ago

Hmm ive got to try this id guess that CL would block their ip but if not then this is a great idea

_sy_2• 12 years ago

I'll venture to guess they're running off of AWS. CL blocks ec2 us-east ip's. So it probably wouldn't work.

gouggoug3• 12 years ago

It actually works very well.

Brushfire• 12 years ago

I'm surprised that sending the same message didn't get picked up by CL email-proxy spam filters. Maybe they found a room fast enough.

_sy_2• 12 years ago

I ran it for about 2 weeks. No issues. The frequency is low too.

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