Oct 2, 2009
Craigslist BS Filter
I’m moving and have been trudging through craigslist apartment listings daily. I CANNOT stand all the cliché buzzwords, misuse of symbols, and overall bs of realtors.
So, I cooked up a greasemonkey script that gets cuts through the bs and dramatically cleans up the apartment listings.
The post:
$1500/1BR XXXX-LARGE ***** SUPER MINT ***** MUST SEE. WILL NOT LAST 1BR Apt
Becomes:
1500/1Br Large 1Br Apt
ahhhhhhhhh, much better on my eyes.
The actions performed by the script are:
- Replace a whole mess of cliche phrases and buzzwords
- Get rid of all symbols
- Remove repeating spaces
- F I X S P A C E D O U T W O R D S
- Properly Case Every Word
If you missed the link to the script, you can grab it here. It requires firefox and the greasemonkey extension.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
wada
Can you make one that sorts by price, too? Or by distance from a given address or latitude & longitude? How about one that can tell daily from weekly from monthly rentals?
Oct 2nd, 2009
Ferret
Does it work on self-righteous blog posts, too? Because I’d love one that turned your “CANNOT” into “cannot”, and cut down all those cliché H’s to a simple “Ahh.”
That would be much better on my eyes. -.-
Nov 1st, 2009
muckraker
lol pwnt
Nov 2nd, 2009
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