I had a go "just for fun" using curl, grep, sed, and tr. Probably too much regex?<p><pre><code> #!/bin/sh
#
# tickets.sh - A "no BS" ticket price scraper. Output in CSV format.
# Uses standard issue Unix utilities only.
# No soup for you!
URL="http://philadelphia.craigslist.org"
QUERY="firefly+tickets"
RESULTS=`curl -s -m 10 "$URL/search/sss?sort=date&query=$QUERY" \
| grep '<p class=\"row' \
| sed 's!^[ \t]*!!; \
s!>[ \t]*<!><!g; \
s![,:]! !g; \
s!<p class=\"row[^/]*\"\([^\"]*\)\" class=\"[^#]*\">&#x0024;\([0-9]\{1,\}\)</span>[^.]*>\([A-Z]\{1\}[a-z]\{2\} \{1,\}[0-9]\{1,2\}\)[^.]*<a h[^>]*\.html">\([^<]*\)</a>\([^.]*</p>\)!\1,$\2,\3,\4:!g; \
s! *! !g; \
s!, *!,!g' \
| tr ':' '\n'`
echo "$RESULTS"</code></pre>