I haven't seen a single shred of news about an upcoming Craigslist API, or any hints from friends. But when I pulled up the Seattle CL site this morning I noticed in the status bar in Firefox that I was redirected back and forth several times between craigslist.api.beta.com and seattle.craigslist.com.
Interesting.
CL has been the most notable API hold-out and data access curmudgeon - they aggressively block anyone who tries to aggregate their information across sites/markets, and even some fairly innocent mashups. If they are trialling an API ... especially in this down market when bartering and used goods sales are probably going way up ... that would be very interesting.
j
Backwards penalty kick
7 months ago
2 comments:
That is not a correct address you posted... unless you are completely oblivious to domain names, you are trying to tell us that Criagslist owns beta.com
Don't be like CNN and report crap without doing a little research... Get a clue!
Here is a little lesson that a 3rd grader could pick-up on:
Domains are technically constructed right to left... visually, the subdomain precedes the primary (ownership) domain.
craigslist.api = subdomain
beta.com = primary domain
so, if that were the case, beta.com would be hosting a subfolder called craigslist.api
Perhaps you meant api.beta.craigslist.com or beta.api.craistlist.com, either way, I can only assume laziness on your part.
You're an idiot. Grow up.
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