gatorsgonnagait/craigslist_checker

Checks Craiglist for items and emails you the titles and pictures

Craigslist Item Checker

Enter search term in text file, county you want to search, and the email you want items sent to
Scrapes titles, images and links from craigslist, and emails them to you.
Requires one email be used as the sender.
Make sure to grant your email permission to be logged in this way, use your junk email.
Does not send reposts unless the seller changes the item title.
Use a task scheduler on Windows or Mac to run it when you want
If on Windows, the provided VBScript file will make sure the generated batch file runs silently

Prerequisites

Runs locally, needs Beautiful Soup 4, Python
Install bs4 with pip or another package manager

pip install bs4

Also runs on AWS lambda with S3
Needs bs4 to be zipped with the Python file and uploaded to lambda