Craigslist Listing AI
Type less, list more, boost sales
Generating here gives you the copy and paste version. Nothing connects to your Craigslist account.
Why the Craigslist listing AI writes for a search box that reads every word
Craigslist has no filters worth the name and no ranking to game. What it has is a literal match on the words you typed, so the ones you leave out are the ones nobody finds you by.
Craigslist category
tools
- Make / manufacturer
- DeWalt
- Model name / number
- DWE7485
- Size / dimensions
- 8-1/4 in blade
- Condition
- good
- Suggested price
- $220 to $260
- Posting area
- Yours to set
One example, a used table saw. Every value here is one the Craigslist form accepts, and the one it cannot know is marked as yours.
The category comes first
The item is placed in Craigslist's own for sale list before a word is written, because that list is the first thing a local buyer browses.
The body is the search index
Craigslist matches your text literally, so the specs go in as a plain list, one per line. Every real word in there is another way to be found.
A condition from Craigslist's own six
New, like new, excellent, good, fair or salvage, judged from your close ups. Flaws get named in the body rather than rounded away.
No gimmicks, no personal details
No shouting capitals or padded keywords, and never your name, phone number or address. Those belong to you, not to a draft.
Every field the Craigslist listing AI fills in
A Craigslist posting is a short form and a plain text box. Here is what comes back already filled in, in the order the form asks for it.
- Title
- Up to 70 characters, the tightest cap here, spent on the words a buyer would actually type.
- Description
- Plain text, no markup: what it is, a spec list one per line, flaws named, and a local pickup note.
- Category
- Picked from Craigslist's own for sale list, which is where local buyers start browsing.
- Condition
- One of Craigslist's six values, judged from your close ups rather than rounded up a notch.
- Make and model
- Filled in as two separate values, because the posting form gives them two separate boxes.
- Size and dimensions
- Measurements, capacity or blade size, the detail a local buyer asks before driving over.
- Suggested price
- A starting range in whole dollars, the only kind the posting form's price box takes.
- Posting area
- Left to you on purpose: only you know the city and neighbourhood you are posting from.
- Photos
- Up to 12 at once, read in one pass, so the plate on the back can inform the title.
These are Craigslist's own fields, not a relabeled template. Nothing claims what the photos cannot prove, and no phone number or address goes in.
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The Craigslist listing AI cleans up your photos too
A Craigslist results page is a column of text rows, and your thumbnail is the one thing on yours that is not a sentence.
Background removed
Swap the garage floor for plain white, light grey, or a transparent PNG you can drop onto any backdrop.
Cropped and straightened
Rotate a crooked shot level and crop the clutter out, so the thumbnail is the item and not the room.
Brightness and colour
A gentle touch up for photos shot in a dim garage, so the colour a buyer sees is the colour waiting for them.
Your item is never repainted. The background is cut away, not regenerated, so nothing about the item is invented. A local buyer sees it in person before any money changes hands, and the photo has to survive that.
Craigslist listing AI questions, answered
What sellers ask before they start: how the category and condition get chosen, why the body text matters, and what stays yours to fill in.
No. Craigslist publishes no listing API at all, so any tool that posts for you is driving your account from the outside. Holgo stays out of it entirely: you generate the posting here, then paste it into the Craigslist form yourself. Your account stays yours.
A tool that reads photos of your item and writes the posting for you: title, description, category, condition, make and model, and a price. Holgo's Craigslist listing AI writes the Craigslist shaped version of all of that, so what comes back drops into the posting form rather than needing to be rewritten first.
From Craigslist's own for sale list. The item is matched to a real category on that list rather than a bucket somebody invented, which matters because browsing the category is how a lot of local buyers shop before they ever use the search box.
From Craigslist's own six values: new, like new, excellent, good, fair or salvage. The judgement comes from your close ups, and the body text backs it up by naming flaws one per line, which is what stops an argument in a parking lot later.
Because Craigslist searches the body text literally, word for word. There are almost no filters to fall back on, so a spec you left out is a search you cannot appear in. The body comes back as a plain list of real specs, one per line, for exactly that reason.
Every field, always. Title, description, category, condition, make, model and the price are yours to change before you paste anything. It is a first draft written in seconds, not a decision made on your behalf.
It is kept inside the 70 character limit the posting form enforces, which is the tightest cap of any marketplace Holgo writes for. That budget goes on real searchable words: make, model and the traits a buyer would type, with no price and no padding.
That is most of what moves on Craigslist, and the fields follow: make and model go in their own boxes, dimensions and capacity get read off the photos where they are visible, and wear is described honestly rather than left for the buyer to discover in your driveway.
Both stay yours. The posting area is left blank on purpose, because only you know which city and neighbourhood you are posting from, and your name, phone number and address are never written into a draft at all. You add what you want a stranger to have, when you post.
You start with free credits and no card. Generating a posting spends credits, and you can top up or subscribe once they run out. Nothing ever touches your Craigslist account either way, so the whole thing can be tried before you decide.
Start with the Craigslist listing AI
Photograph one item, watch a finished posting come back, and decide from there. Free credits to start, no account shared and no card.
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