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2Oct/093

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.

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  1. 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?

  2. 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. -.-

  3. lol pwnt


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