How to: Automatically Receive Craigslist Search Updates by E-mail

Who doesn't love Craigslist . . . but it's a bit of a pain to check all the time if you're looking for something specific. Here's how to use a free service to receive the latest postings of whatever search you choose - by e-mail, automatically.

First, go to Craigslist and pull up the page of stuff that you want to be notified about. For instance, a search for "wii" in Mpls/St Paul is: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=wii. This is an RSS feed, so you can just subscribe directly to it in IE7 or Outlook 2007 if that's what you prefer.

If you're old-fashioned like me and want to actually receive e-mail the updates to this search every single day, go to http://www.feedblitz.com/ and sign up for a free account. Once you've got an account, go to Subscriptions, select New and paste the URL you copied from Craigslist.

That's it! (I believe Feedblitz e-mails send every day in the morning sometime.) Of course, you could do this to subscribe to any kind of feed you like, such as Astronomy Picture of the day, popular Diggs page, or whatever you like. Anyone have another cool application for this?