SpiderMount adds web scraping service to its software as service offering: screen scraping, data extraction, filtering and auto-posting.
Full service
SpiderMount does it all. Client provides URLs to spider and data posting instructions. SpiderMount support staff configures scraping, monitors daily data extraction sessions, implements changes and outputs info.
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Web Scraping Service
Replace Keywords And Improve Job Formatting
Job spider will search for keywords and phrases in source job HTML and replace or remove names, contacts, redundant HTML tags.
Set automatic keywords replacements for any part of original job content: job description, title, contact info. Auto-post modified job posting to your database.
Job Spider XML Interface For Bulk Posting
Job Spider auto-posts jobs packaged into XML file via HTTP. A specific URL either obtains new jobs or removes expired ones. Whole process is automatically managed by Job Spider scheduler.
Synchronize Jobs Via Incremental Scraping
Keep your job listings up-to-date with source Employer websites by utilizing Synchronization feature of Job Spider. The tool will make sure only new jobs are added to your system and expire the vacancies removed from source websites.
Incremental scraping
Synchronization feature provides incremental downloads to make sure you don’t overload source websites with excessive requests, but only download new jobs added to system.
Job Sync requirements:
Job Sync feature requires HTTP/XML posting interface on a target job board.
The interface is to provide “Add” and “Remove” commands.
It is also to be able to return job ID to spider upon successful posting.
Sync process:
1. Spider runs search on Employer career center and assigns unique ID to each job / specific URL scraped.
2. Spider posts the job via HTTP/XML: posting interface of a Job Board returns unique job ID of each specific job posting.
3. Job Spider saves job ID from job board and links with Job ID of a Spider.
4. Next scraping sessions are done by spider. If the job is gone from job search results: job spider sends Remove ID command to job board XML interface.
5. Job board removes/expires the job.
Job Spider screenshots:
Activate Synchronization for any scraping package/website:
Set job URL to be a unique identifier:
Resulting scraping sessions list:
Hit “Items” to view jobs downloaded:
Replicating URLs (jobs scraped in earlier sessions) were not downloaded (old status):
Updates to the stored job data:
- New: new jobs scraped during this session
- Deleted: jobs removed from source website
Posting to your job board / database:
Job Spider will synchronize jobs data with your recipient website or database.
Job ID from job board (Received ID) will be received whilst posting and matched to Spider job ID (Entity ID):
Jobs deleted from client source website will be removed from job board.
Posting To Multiple Websites
A new feature is added to Job Spider to allow you to aggregate jobs and post to multiple websites of yours.
Aggregrate jobs from various sources, filter out by keywords, set up various XML or CSV posting formats for recipient websites and post.
Frequency of scraping
Run your scraping sessions:
- either automatically daily or weekly
- or run manual scrapes when required
Scrape Jobs And Export As CSV
CSV files are configured via Job Spider tool to compile vacancy lists. CSV is both viewed as MS Excel spreadsheet and easily uploaded to most of databases.
Map CSVs for each source / job parsing configuration. Filter out desired vacancies from target career sites and compile into selected CSV files.
Jobs.co.za Subscribes For Scraping Service
South African job portal subscribes for job spider service. Jobs collected are posted to a third party job board application interface.
Job scraping service pricing.
SAPJobFish Integrates Job Spider
Job Spider tool was configured for SAPJobFish.com a job board dedicated to deliver great matching service for SAP professionals.
Employer job openings are scraped from source websites and synchronized with JobMount job board software. JobMount job site product is seamlessly integrated with Job Spider.
SAPJobFish is subscribed to hosted job spider service.
Job Scraping Example
Basic employer job search form usage, vacancy list spidering, parsing and XML generation example:
1. Job search form and list of jobs to spider:
- scrape all jobs or specify search criteria
- schedule for daily or weekly spidering
- filter out by desired / non-desired keywords
2. Job page downloading instructions abstract (Job Spider tool):
3. Example of a job advert scraped:
Fields highlighted will be extracted as per instructions below.
4. Source of the job to parse:
HTML and Javascript tags are used to identify job content.
5. Job Spider configuration instructions for parsing:
Regular expressions are used for flexible content extraction from HTML source.
6. Resulting XML to be auto-posted to your job board interface:
Match XML file to your job board fields for correct posting.
Integrate ATS With No APIs
Job Spider is a simple option to avoid complex ATS integration. Retrieve jobs daily by opening online vacancy listings, extract job data and forward application to desired URL.
Some Applicant Tracking Systems do not provide API or XML export feature, but do publish vacancy listings in pre-defined formats.
Job Spider can be configured for grabbing the full lists or selected openings, parsing the content and publishing extracted data to your career site or job board.