I have received several requests to ingest bulk classified ad feeds. One in particular is a TAB-delimited feed from a New England area pawn co-op interest. Obviously, it piqued my interest because it’s an excellent opportunity to feed FreeAdLists with “fresh content.” However, I was stuck, again, with the unsavory proposition of creating yet another “stove pipe” parser to accommodate their requirements.

I’m hoping we have a practical solution for the aforementioned…

So in the next few days, we will be rolling out a ubiquitous ingest tool. It should be able to handle TAB, CSV, and XML type feeds. I’m optimistic that it will be a success but reasonable enough to surmise that it will have its fair share of challenges in the beginning.

Stay tuned and consider using FreeAdLists as a legitimate channel for your classified ads needs.