"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
02/14/2015 at 12:49 • Filed to: None
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"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
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I've run out of cars to look at on Auto Trader, and Pistonheads isn't chucking up much choice around my area. Is there a good auto site with advanced search parameters (ie. Not Gumtree/eBay) that I'm missing?
davedave1111
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 13:19 |
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Not that I'm aware of. Although Ebay's search parameters aren't too bad - no worse than AT, in my book.
Car and Classic is even worse, but at least they do have some cars which don't appear on other sites.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/classic_cars.p…
Gumtree search is f-ing useless, but a while back I wrote a hacky Excel macro to scrape the search results and find whatever string you're actually looking for. Do you want a copy? It needs minor tweaking because they changed their search URL format, but other than that should still work.
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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> davedave1111
02/14/2015 at 13:37 |
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That would be fantastic, thanks. I'm struggling to find what I need!
Filedump it, I didn't realise OneDrive required an MS logon for collaborators.
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davedave1111
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 13:51 |
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How are you with VBA? Would you understand what to do to tweak things as needed, or should I do that first? Looks like they've changed the results page format as well as the URL, so it'd take a little while.
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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> davedave1111
02/14/2015 at 14:17 |
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I'm happy tinkering :)
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davedave1111
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 15:04 |
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OK, try this:
It should work, but since they changed the format of the ad pages as well, that bit's barely working - I'm sure you can tweak it with no trouble.
Other than that, should be fairly obvious what to do - put in the right parameters for your search, and whatever text you want to find, and then you can use Excel autofilter on the results to find the hits. Looking at it now, I have no idea why I didn't just stick the hits in a list by themselves, but I guess I must have had a reason. It would be a simple enough change.
ranwhenparked
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 16:35 |
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Cars.com isn't too bad, actually they're pretty similar to AutoTrader but you get some sellers that only advertise on one rather than both, so there's some different cars. They have a Classiccars.com associate site, too.
JasonStern911
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 17:40 |
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craigslist?
bring a trailer?
cars.com?
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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> JasonStern911
02/14/2015 at 19:30 |
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Sorry I should've said UK. The only thing you find on Craigslist over here is used panties and massage services.
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JasonStern911
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/14/2015 at 20:37 |
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well in that case, if you want to check there just-in-case, I won't tell your wife. :)
duurtlang
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
02/15/2015 at 11:46 |
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For continental Europe, Germany mostly, I use autoscout24.EU and mobile.de Both are in English (optionally) and I believe you can search for cars located in the UK as well, filtering out the rest of Europe.