sunkan
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2. You are right, craigslist doesn't have an API, so whether you are licensed or not, you have the same tools at your disposal. We did typical HTML scraping, but our amazing Dev team did some really smart tweaks to present the data in a beautiful way.
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap...
http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its-craigslist-only-on-a...
http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/20/what-if-craigslist-had-desi...
Happy to answer any questions on how we built the app and thought process behind some of the UI and UX in the app.