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Craigslist to Google Sheet Extractor

Research & analysis

Use this playbook to extract detailed information from any Craigslist search results page and save it to a Google Sheet. It scrapes both the search results page (for title, location, and URLs) and individual listing pages (for posting dates and descriptions). This is useful for tracking listings, analyzing posting patterns, or creating a database of Craigslist items for specific categories.

Customize the inputs

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Fetch the Craigslist search page. using the provided search_url
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Extract all listings from the search page, including title, location, and URL for each listing
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For each listing extracted from the search results:
  1. Fetch the individual listing page using the listing's URL
  2. Extract detailed information including posting date and description from the listing page
  3. Combine the basic listing information with the detailed information
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Create a new Google Sheet with the name sheet_name
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Add column headers to the sheet for Title, Location, URL, Posting Date, and Description
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Format all listing data into rows, with each row containing the title, location, URL, posting date, and description
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Append all formatted rows to the Google Sheet
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