Filter Craigslist Ad Search Results

The Filter screen is developed for the further narrowing down of your search results, and for making your hits even more specific, thus making the searching process even more efficient and productive.(Note: for creative ideas as to the use of this screen please refer to the “How to Search Craigslist” pages on the main CraigsPal.com menu.)

Once you have completed a particular search and have all the results available, you can press the Filter Settings button to enter the filter criteria window. The Keywords pane further filter all the results from the search settings screen, using a boolean algorithm, where the default is OR , with the AND command also available for you to choose. Underneath the Keyword pane, you’ll see the From last: XX days function, where you can even further filter your results to fit within a specific date range. The default value is 0, which equals “all days”, and you can use either the up and down arrow keys, or just type in a numeric value to limit the search results according to your preferences. From here, just press the Filter button to display the new and improved list of filtered search results.

Here is a practical example. If we’re looking for a vintage car from the 1930’s through the 1940’s within the entire United States, we’ll start a new search on the search settings screen and use the keywords “vintage car”. We then select the corresponding category from the Category drop-down menu (in this case “for sale”) (Note: for the purpose of this example, we’ll leave the Sub Category drop-down menu blank, which produces the default value of “-whole category-“) We then enter the corresponding price we’re looking for, in this example we’ll use the values between $1000 and $6500 (but we could also leave this field blank), check the Search Title Only box, and press Start Search.

After we receive a ton of results , we’ll click the Filter Settings button, and get into the filter results screen. In the Keywords field, we’ll enter “1930 1931 1932 ...(all the way to )... 1939”, use the default boolean OR command, and set the results to be filtered for the last 30 days. Once we’ve narrowed down the search results to exactly what we’re looking for, we press the Filter button, and voila, the new and improved search results screen displays all the relevant posts for what we were looking for.