Comments on: Find Jobs On Craigslist Using Search & RSS Feeds

By: David J. Hahn

David J. Hahn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:38:52 +0000

Absolutely. Get on the RSS train, Reuben, it’s a great invention!

By: Reuben Avery

Reuben Avery — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:19:52 +0000

Great article! I’ve never used rss feeds before but this is really going to change my life.

By: Esben Schack

Esben Schack — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:47:27 +0000

Thanks for the great tip, you just made browsing Craigslist a lot more fun!

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By: Vashti F

Vashti F — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:31:42 +0000

Thankyou for this artice, you’ve just saved me a great amount of time!

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By: David J. Hahn

David J. Hahn — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:05:26 +0000

Mark – that’s great advice. I didn’t realize you could do that. I’ve moved over to your method now.

The only one I find somehow problematic is the term “keyboard” in the jobs board. That gives me lots of results with people talking about typing on a computer keyboard. I’m not sure how to get around that, so I just took that term out for the Jobs section.

Overall, that works great, though. I added a note in the article to read your comment. Thanks so much!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:27:32 +0000

Hey, great tip, thanks. I find Craigslist is a great source of gigs, even better than more focused sites, but I was getting very fed up with hitting it 10 times a day.

I just wanted to add a couple of things. I only just found this myself, but you can search for multiple terms if you separate them with a vertical bar (hold shift and hit the backslash key). So you can search for piano or pianist with the single search: piano | pianist. Also, the Craigslist search is very picky. I nearly missed a great gig last year because I was searching for ‘keyboard’ and the ad asked for a ‘keyboardist’. So the search string I use now is

Thanks again – I’m really enjoying the blog.

Mark