How to Capture Craigslist Listings

Listings are posted on the Craigslist servers for a limited period of time.

Craiglist is the popular online marketplace that provides local listings for nearly every service and product imaginable. If you bookmark a Craigslist post in your browser you'll eventually find that the link is no longer valid, because all Craigslist listings are either removed by the poster or expire and are deleted by Craigslist administrators. You can save a permanent record of a Craigslist post by saving a copy of the post's HTML code to your computer. Then you can open the listing in a browser even after the listing disappears from the server.

Instructions

Capture Listing in Firefox

1. Open your browser and navigate to the Craigslist.org listing that you wish to save.

2. Hold the CTRL key and press S. Doing so will open a new "Save As" dialog box.

3. Navigate the "Save As" browser to the folder to which you want to save the Craigslist listing.

4. Type a name for the Web page file in the "File name" field.

5. Click "Save" to save the Craigslist listing to your hard drive in HMTL format, which you can open with a browser.

Capture Listing in Internet Explorer

1. Open your browser and navigate to the Craigslist.org listing that you wish to capture.

2. Click the "Page" button and click "Save As" in the drop down menu. This opens a "Save Webpage" dialog box.

3. Navigate the "Save Webpage" browser to the folder that you want to save the Craiglist listing to.

4. Type a name for the page in the "File name" field.

5. Click "Save" to save the listing to your hard drive in MHT format, which you can open with your browser.