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smacktoward
on July 9, 2012
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Bringing Craigslist Back
It appears they use an API provided by a company called 3taps:
http://3taps.com/
So they avoid touching Craigslist's servers by having a middleman do the touching for them.
ericd
on July 9, 2012
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Nah, they don't touch the servers either (I asked very explicitly about that). They get the info from Google's cache.
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So they avoid touching Craigslist's servers by having a middleman do the touching for them.