How to Add Craigslist Search to OpenClaw

OpenClaw is a solid local AI agent, but it can’t browse classified listings on its own. If you ask it to find furniture deals or check apartment prices, it has nothing to work with. Adding Craigslist Search through AgentPatch gives your bot direct access to listings.

Why This Matters

People use Craigslist daily to find furniture, apartments, and local deals. If your OpenClaw bot could search Craigslist on command, it becomes a useful shopping assistant — checking prices, finding deals, and pulling up listings without you opening a browser.

AgentPatch handles the scraping and parsing. You connect it once and your agent gets structured Craigslist results — titles, prices, locations, and links — through a single tool call.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "agentpatch": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp",
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Restart OpenClaw and it discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

You message your OpenClaw bot on Telegram:

“Find me a mid-century modern dresser on Craigslist in Los Angeles”

The bot searches Craigslist directly:

Searching Craigslist losangeles for "mid-century modern dresser"...

Found 9 listings:

1. Mid Century Modern Walnut Dresser 6-Drawer - $280 (silver lake)
2. Vintage MCM Teak Dresser - $175 (pasadena)
3. West Elm Mid-Century 3-Drawer Dresser - $200 (santa monica)

Want me to search a different city or filter by price?

Your bot handled the search, parsed the results, and gave you structured listings. Same thing works in Discord or Signal — wherever your OpenClaw instance lives.

Wrapping Up

Once AgentPatch is connected, your OpenClaw bot can search Craigslist whenever you need it — no separate API key required. And Craigslist Search is just one tool on the marketplace; the same connection gives your agent access to Google Search, Amazon Search, email, maps, and more. Check out agentpatch.ai to see what else is available.

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