No, but there is clearly use cases for Craigslist having an API. Instead of suing everyone who wants to use their data to make beautiful products, they should be giving people legal ways of doing so.
And sloppy journalism. Why won't anyone ask PadMapper why they decided against? This is like half of a linkbait article. The fact that CL offered paid access was in last week's HN stories. I bet there's a breathless follow-up article with that fact, trolling for additional page views.