Craigslist to Developers: Look Elsewhere For Mashup Data

December 2nd, 2009 admin

Thinking of building a mashup using Craigslist data? You might want to look elsewhere for classified listings. Craigslist has a long history of being openly hostile to outside developers, but the site took its walled garden mentality to new levels with a recent decision to block Yahoo’s popular Pipes tool from accessing the site’s data. According to developer Romy Maxwell, Craigslist has blocked Yahoo Pipes primarily to stop his mapping mashup, Flippity . The Flippity mashup was using Yahoo Pipes to gather Craigslist posts from its public RSS feeds and plot them on a map. This apparently rubbed Craiglist the wrong way, but rather than…


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