Craigslist Phone Search
How Do I Search Craigslist? – Private Investigator Blog – PI Buzz
Search Craigslist by phone number or any partial number, even if the number isn’t displayed within the posting. Select “show contact info” to see the hidden number.
Words — including partial names, addresses or numbers — that are in the body of a post or in the caption on a map can be searched.
There may be multiple listings by a person. Check all for additional information and search criteria.
Not all categories are searchable by number. Click the link under the search box to see a list of the categories that were searched. Scroll through listings in each category and find test search terms to see what isn’t being retrieved.
Historical classified ads, only, can be searched at Hamari. It caches some expired ads, with the phone number exposed, that are no longer on Craigslist, but the site doesn’t search partial phone numbers. There are other free tools for searching expired ads but none of them have all expired listings.
Find posts with combinations of words, location and partial numbers.
What tips do you have for searching Craigslist postings?
How Do I Search Craigslist? – Private Investigator Blog – PI Buzz
Search Craigslist by phone number or any partial number, even if the number isn’t displayed within the posting. Select “show contact info” to see the hidden number.
Words — including partial names, addresses or numbers — that are in the body of a post or in the caption on a map can be searched.
There may be multiple listings by a person. Check all for additional information and search criteria.
Not all categories are searchable by number. Click the link under the search box to see a list of the categories that were searched. Scroll through listings in each category and find test search terms to see what isn’t being retrieved.
Historical classified ads, only, can be searched at Hamari. It caches some expired ads, with the phone number exposed, that are no longer on Craigslist, but the site doesn’t search partial phone numbers. There are other free tools for searching expired ads but none of them have all expired listings.
Find posts with combinations of words, location and partial numbers.
What tips do you have for searching Craigslist postings?
Craigslist hides Contact information within ad – Harmari
Recent changes to the Craigslist site have a major impact on how effective investigators can search for fraudulent and suspicious activity on the site.
Firstly, any phone numbers that are displayed in the content of the ad are hidden from view. The reader has to click “show contact info” for the phone number to appear. The good news is that these phone numbers can be reverse looked up through a Craigslist keyword search. The bad news is they will not be searchable via Google or any other aggregate search engine. Here’s a sample ad with the hidden phone number under the bubble.
Here’s the same ad with the bubble removed:
The second change involves the Reply/Contact button. If the button at the top of the ad says “Reply” there is only an email address displayed. But if the button says Contact, then there is a phone number, or email, or a first name displayed.
The phone number behind the Contact button is not searchable within Craigslist:Here are some statistics we recently compiled about the percentage of ads and if/where the ads contain the phone number, based on about 750, 000 ads:
Location
Number of Ads
Within Contact Button and Ad Body
162938
Within Contact Button and not in Ad Body
247160
Within Ad Body and not in Contact Button
98013
So what this means is when you keyword search for phone numbers on Craigslist, you are missing at least 37% of the ads. You might miss even more ads if you do not search all the common types of phone number formats being used, and doesn’t include spelled-out phone numbers.
Phone number search on Harmari covers all places the phone number is found in an ad
Harmari Search is the only comprehensive search tool that can capture all phone numbers everywhere. This includes all formats, including spelled-out format.
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Frequently Asked Questions about craigslist phone search
Can you search Craigslist by phone number?
Search Craigslist by phone number or any partial number, even if the number isn’t displayed within the posting. Select “show contact info” to see the hidden number. Words — including partial names, addresses or numbers — that are in the body of a post or in the caption on a map can be searched.Aug 16, 2014
Why does Craigslist not show phone numbers?
Recent changes to the Craigslist site have a major impact on how effective investigators can search for fraudulent and suspicious activity on the site. Firstly, any phone numbers that are displayed in the content of the ad are hidden from view.May 23, 2014
Is the post ID on Craigslist the phone number?
What’s a post ID on Craigslist? … You can find this number at the bottom of the posting after “PostingID.” If the posting violates one of Craigslist’s terms of use, click “flag this post” in the top right of the screen.Jun 2, 2021
