It is against their terms, but they aren't going to come after you for personal use. There have been some high profile takedowns of commercial use cases however.
I doubt they'd stop one person from doing it for a few weeks till they found an apartment. But if they sold the service commercially I'd bet sooner or later they'd be told to stop.
I've been hit with a Cease and Desist from Craigslist. Felt bad man. :)
Me too :(
I wonder how many people have. A quick search on GitHub shows all kinds of cl scrapers.
I was providing a public service and offering free trend analysis graphs on technology stacks listed in job postings over a couple of years for different area. It was nice, but they wanted to say I owed them something like 2k per piece of information, fore every day I stored it.
I wish CL sold API calls. I have an idea for helping people find lost pets. CL is probably the best source of data, but I don't want to expend a bunch of energy and then get a C&D.