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nostromo on July 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Craigslist Suing Padmapper

Interestingly, Craigslist is being consistent when it comes to not allowing scrapers, including Google.

http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt

edit: oops! they're not actually blocking google from the apartment listings. thanks smackfu.

smackfu on July 24, 2012 [–]

Aren't they only disallowing particular pages there? Like apartments are at *.craigslist.org/apa/number.html which doesn't seem blocked by that robots.txt.

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