JDMarket for Craigslist
Craigslist alerts for all 413 US metros.
JDMarket is a Craigslist alert app. Tell it what you’re hunting — a couch, an iPhone, a work truck — and it watches the searches you choose across all 413 US Craigslist metro sites, with alerts after a scheduled check finds a match on Pro and Premium plans. AI scores each new listing 1–5 against your plain-language rules, and matches arrive as Telegram messages and native push notifications, after detection and filtering. Unlike Craigslist’s own saved-search emails, JDMarket only alerts on ads genuinely posted in the last ~24 hours — renewed and re-bumped old posts are filtered out. Pick your city once and it resolves your nearest Craigslist metro automatically. Craigslist watches are available to US accounts on every app plan, from $30/mo (Basic, with a 3-day free trial — card on file, auto-renews, cancel anytime).
Every metro, one city picker
Craigslist is organized into hundreds of separate metro sites, and a search there is scoped to one site at a time. JDMarket covers all 413 US metros: type your city once and it resolves your nearest Craigslist metro automatically — you can override it if you’d rather watch a different one. Craigslist watches are available to US accounts on every app plan; Basic, Pro, and Premium all include them alongside Facebook Marketplace at no extra charge.
Check intervals and marketplace visibility
Basic schedules 2 watches every 5 minutes and 8 every 10 minutes. Pro schedules 2 every minute and 8 every 5 minutes. Premium schedules all 10 every minute. Marketplace visibility, filtering, processing, retries, daily listing-check caps and notification delivery can add delay; no publication-to-alert time is guaranteed.
Fresh listings only — re-bumped ads don’t ping you
Craigslist sellers renew and repost old ads constantly, and Craigslist’s own saved-search emails include renewed, reposted, and edited posts (per craigslist.org help, verified July 2026). JDMarket takes the opposite stance: a Craigslist alert only fires when the ad’s original post date is within roughly the last 24 hours, so a stale listing bumped back to the top never rings your phone. On top of the freshness rule, AI scores each listing 1–5 against your plain-language description — price, condition words, whatever you care about — and a make/model gate drops look-alikes.
Set up a Craigslist tracker by chatting
You don’t assemble a wall of dropdowns. Tell the JD Assistant what you want — “2015+ Tacoma under $20k near Austin” — and it asks which marketplace to search, suggests your nearest Craigslist metro, and follows up with tappable quick replies for the details (for vehicles: year range, mileage cap, even a different budget per model-year). Alerts go to Telegram, native push, or both, each carrying the photo, price, AI score, and a direct link, and a sent-alerts inbox keeps a searchable history of everything your watches have sent. The iPhone app has been live on the App Store since June 2026, and Android on Google Play.
Craigslist alerts in Telegram
Connect Telegram once and every Craigslist match arrives as a chat message — no separate Craigslist Telegram bot to build or babysit. Each alert carries the photo, the price, a 1–5 AI score with a one-line reason, and a one-tap link to the listing, alongside native push. Because it lands where you already chat, you can message the seller in seconds — and alerts from your other watches (each watch picks its own marketplace, like Facebook Marketplace or OfferUp for US accounts) arrive in the same Telegram thread.
- US Craigslist metro sites covered — nearest metro auto-resolved from your city
- 413
- AI score on every new listing, with a make/model gate
- 1–5
- freshness rule — only genuinely new listings alert; re-bumped ads are filtered out
- ~24h
| JDMarket | Craigslist saved-search emails | |
|---|---|---|
| How new listings reach you | Telegram + native push with the photo, price, and a 1–5 AI score | Email only, up to 20 results per message |
| Check cadence | Every-minute checks on Pro and Premium plans — after a scheduled check finds a match (Pro: 2 watches, Premium: all 10); Basic within minutes | Variable — frequency depends on how many results the last alert had; no fixed interval published |
| Renewed / re-bumped old ads | Filtered out — only listings genuinely posted in the last ~24 hours alert | Included — alerts cover renewed, reposted, and edited posts |
| Deal filtering | AI scores every listing 1–5 against plain-language rules, with a make/model gate | Whatever your saved search’s own filters match — no scoring |
| Metro coverage | All 413 US metros; the nearest one is auto-resolved from your city (override anytime) | Scoped to the metro site you saved the search on |
| Per-model / per-year price caps | Yes — one watch, several models or years, each with its own cap | No — a saved search keeps only its own filters |
| Price | From $30/mo (Basic, 3-day free trial); Pro $45/mo, Premium $80/mo | Free with a Craigslist account |
Craigslist saved-search alert behavior first-party verified at craigslist.org/about/help/account/features/alerts on 2026-07-02: alerts are emails sent when a saved search has new results; “the frequency of searches are based on the number of results in the last alert”; a maximum of 20 results per email; and “search alerts include renewed, reposted, and edited posts.” JDMarket figures are code-verified. Craigslist may change how its alerts work — re-verify before relying on this.
Sources & verification
- Craigslist Help — saved searches & email alerts — Craigslist's own alerts are email-only saved searches on a variable, results-based schedule (max 20 results per email; renewed ads included). (Verified 2026-07-02)
Questions
Does Craigslist have built-in search alerts?
Yes. With a Craigslist account you can save a search and tick its “alert” box to get email alerts — and they’re free, which is a genuine plus. First-party verified at craigslist.org in July 2026: they’re email-only, capped at 20 results per message, sent on a variable schedule (Craigslist says the frequency depends on how many results your last alert had — no fixed interval is published), and they include renewed, reposted, and edited posts. JDMarket is for when that isn’t enough: alerts after a scheduled check finds a match on Pro and Premium plans, Telegram + native push, AI 1–5 scoring, and only genuinely new listings.
How fast are JDMarket’s Craigslist alerts?
Basic schedules 2 watches every 5 minutes and 8 every 10 minutes. Pro schedules 2 every minute and 8 every 5 minutes. Premium schedules all 10 every minute. Marketplace visibility, filtering, processing, retries, daily listing-check caps and notification delivery can add delay; no publication-to-alert time is guaranteed.
Which Craigslist sites does JDMarket cover?
All 413 US Craigslist metro sites. You pick your city once and JDMarket resolves the nearest metro automatically; you can override it manually. Craigslist watches are offered to US accounts, alongside OfferUp — Canadian accounts get Kijiji, UK accounts get Gumtree, and Facebook Marketplace works everywhere JDMarket operates.
How much do Craigslist alerts cost with JDMarket?
Craigslist is included on every app plan at no extra charge. Basic is $30/mo with a 3-day free trial (card on file, auto-renews monthly, cancel anytime); Pro is $45/mo and Premium is $80/mo, both card-upfront with no trial. All three plans carry 10 active watches, and each watch picks its marketplace.
Can I get Craigslist alerts for cars?
Yes — vehicle watches add car-buyer filters: make/model and year range, a price cap per model-year, a mileage cap, clean-title-only, and private seller vs dealer. On Craigslist, owner-vs-dealer is a real category switch; the other filters are enforced by our AI reading each listing’s details against your rules. See the Craigslist car alerts page for the full breakdown.
Is there a Craigslist Telegram bot?
You don’t need to build or maintain one — JDMarket is the bot. Connect Telegram once and matches from your Craigslist watches are pushed to your chat automatically, each with the photo, price, a 1–5 AI score, and a direct link, alongside native push. That’s the difference from DIY routes like IFTTT or RSS-to-Telegram scripts, which are brittle and have no AI scoring, no ~24h freshness rule, and no metro auto-resolve.