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by AdleyEskridge 5188 days ago
Awesome! This is ridiculously better than Craigslist.

A quick heads-up: Using the parameters provided in the HN link, a number of the listings are dead, including:

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?listingId=86102429

http://www.web2carz.com/68535832/2008/acura/tl/used-cars/for...

http://www.web2carz.com/68335253/2005/acura/tl/used-cars/for...

Will these be purged periodically?

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Well, our scrapers take about 2-3 days to complete a loop, so it is indeed possible for you to find dead links here and there...It shouldn't be a large percentage though.

Fortunately, we will have API's from two major source sites within the next few weeks, and that should greatly reduce our dependence on scraping.