Searching Craigslist Nationwide

[Rembrant]

G'day Folks,

Is there a way to search Craigslist nationwide, or are you basically limited to individual cities?

I used to use Searchtempest or Autotempest, but it looks like they don't work with Craigslist anymore.

[Gary Lewis]

I've not found a way to search nationwide.  The best I've done is to make it a radius of up to 200 miles from my location, and then pick locations that are far enough away to make a bunch of circles on the map.

So I'm interested to hear from the experts.

[grumpin]

Same here Cory. I used to use a website that searched far and wide but quit working with craigslist.

I search cities now.

[DarkSaga]

You may want to give this a shot --> https://kevinkeene98.medium.com/how-to-search-all-of-craigslist-9e7f235b96ec

I just did a quick test and it seems to work using GOOGLE as your means to search Craigslist.
Try it and see if it helps!

Mainly for a basic search you type site:craigslist.org (and follow that with the text of what you're looking for)

Example--> site:craigslist.org 1985 Ford F150
(and it'll search Craigslist nationwide for a "1985 Ford F150")

I'm going to try it out more and see how well it works.
Good luck with it!

[Gary Lewis]

That's pretty cool!  But it doesn't work the way I expected.  It appears to find a Craigslist search page that has all of the search text on it.  For instance, I searched for "site:craigslist.org bullnose truck Warn" and set it for verbatim.  That got this for the search results.

In other words, there's a "Bullnose" somewhere on that page, and a "truck", and a "Warn".  So I'll do some more testing...  

[Gary Lewis]

But a search with site:craigslist.org "1985 Ford F150" does get a page of 1985 F150's - all of which I'm pretty sure are Fords.  The key is to put what you are looking for in quotes.  Then you are taken to the listing itself rather than a page with lots of listings on it, some of which have part of what you are looking for.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I always used crazedlist.org   but I have no idea if it is functional anymore.

[Rembrant]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

I always used crazedlist.org   but I have no idea if it is functional anymore.

It seems to work...sort of. I guess I was just spoiled with Autotempest.com

I don't know if Craigslist kicked them all off or what, but what motivation is there in not allowing a nation wide search?

Facebook Marketplace is the same way and I find it really annoying. You have to go city by city all across the country.

Kijiji was always the Canadian version of Craigslist, and it allows a national search, but it doesn't allow you to pick any kind of a range. For example if you wanted to search for a Bullnose, you'd have to search for each individual year. In any case, Facebook Marketplace seems to have made Kijiji almost obsolete now...mostly just older and non-FB people using it. The amount of stuff on it is wayyy down these days.

I'm a Facebook user, but I'd be totally fine if it died off and went extinct.