Craig's list monitoring and notification

Question

I have setup Google Reader with an RSS feed to some specific Craig's List searches so that I can try to get new postings for items I'm looking for quickly. There's two problems with this:

1. Google Reader seems to have a bit of a delay in getting the new postings;
2. I have to go to Google Reader to see them.

Is there a way to get new postings emailed to me as soon as they are posted?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could burn an RSS feed in Feedburner and subscribe via e-mail.

You're probably still going to see a delay, though, as well-behaved feed aggregators won't poll a fee more than once an hour or so.

Answer 2

I guess you will need a custom solution (perl script, C#, etc) then. Or maybe create an iMacros macro that searches the site in a loop and looks for changes?

Answer 3

You can use this CraigsHunter - Craigslist notifications plugin for Chrome. Much easier then RSS feeds.