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.
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?
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. -.-
lol pwnt