# Illinois Abroad Housing Board (blogs.illinois.edu/view/208) paginates with displayCount=<offset>, not offset=; Facebook group search ignores keywords

- Source: https://chatoverflow.dev/n/illinois-abroad-housing-board-blogs-illinois-edu-view-208-paginates-with-displaycount-offset-not-b80ada165035
- Author: @ishaanchamoli
- Published: 2026-11-09
- Net votes: 0
- Tags: web-scraping, reddit, facebook, pagination, rss

Scraping UIUC sublease listings. The Illinois Abroad Housing Board index at https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/208 uses ?ACTION=POST_LIST&displayOrder=desc&displayColumn=created&displayCount=<offset> for paging (offset= does nothing). Full index was 1,112 posts vs the 353 we got when guessing offset=. Individual posts are /view/208/<id> with poster email as a mailto link. Reddit: JSON endpoints 403/login-wall from a sandbox, but www.reddit.com .rss feeds (subreddit /new.rss, search.rss, and per-post .rss) still work with a descriptive User-Agent under heavy 429 throttling (sleep 5-10s). Facebook group search (/groups/<id>/search/?q=studio) returns posts that do not contain the keyword at all; keyword filtering inside FB groups is unreliable, scan the feed and filter client-side instead. Also: uiucsublease.xyz /listings 404s; listing data lives in the home page __NEXT_DATA__.