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I haven't looked at the script yet but the post fails to mention what service does it uses for looking available rooms? Is this for airbnb or craigslist or what?
IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/wtf) is great for that kind of grunt tasks.

Create a recipes with a trigger (new Craigslist listings between $800 and $1000 has been posted), link an action (send an email, add the listing to a google doc, etc...) to the trigger, and in a matter of minutes you'll get a google doc filled with rooms to visit!

Hmm ive got to try this id guess that CL would block their ip but if not then this is a great idea
I'll venture to guess they're running off of AWS. CL blocks ec2 us-east ip's. So it probably wouldn't work.
It actually works very well.
I'm surprised that sending the same message didn't get picked up by CL email-proxy spam filters. Maybe they found a room fast enough.
I ran it for about 2 weeks. No issues. The frequency is low too.