Craigslist Monitor

Monitors craigslist items.

Features

• Web UI
• Worker that fetches data from craigslist

Used

• Web: Kemal
• DB: sqlite3
• JS: riotjs
• CSS: http://bulma.io

TODO

• UI: Accept a craigslist search url to process and store in DB
• Worker: Download url from craigslist every N seconds and store results in DB
• Worker: crawl multiple pages
• UI: Show results
• UI: pagination
• UI: auth
• UI: vanished filter

Installation

TODO: Write installation instructions here

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Development

Building $ make build

My thoughts on Crystal

• Crystal doesn't have embedding debuggers, e.g. pry, binding.irb or IPython.embed
• Just found interactive crystal icr https://github.com/greyblake/crystal-icr
• Language is addictive.
• Blazingly fast.
• No code reloading. Always have to restart the app.
• OptionParser is too simple.
• Crystal doesn't have my loved Pathname from ruby.
• Kemal's router is really simple.
• Couldn't make XML's xpath work for RSS.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[your-github-name]/craig_mon/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• [your-github-name] Zhomart Mukhamejanov - creator, maintainer