title: "Craigslist Lost and Found" output: html_document
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Craigslist Lost and Found is a simple app that reads from a Google Sheet that is "published to the web" and can be found here. This Google Sheet uses the built-in function IMPORTXML
to scrape Craigslist's Lost and Found listing. You can view the posts listed for any one day and also see the overall number and type of posts.
//span[@class='pl']
.=IMPORTXML(URL, XPATH_QUERY)
in a cell. Make sure there is a good amount of blank cells to the right or else the data may not fit and an error is thrown. If all goes well, a table of data populates to the right of the formula cell. Resources on getting the XPath expression: It is useful to see the HTML of the page (eg. in Chrome you can right click -> Inspect Element).
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