Job spider: automatic vacancies scraping from Employer
websites / ATSes and bulk posting to your job board.
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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

list of jobs

 

2. Job page downloading instructions abstract (Job Spider tool):
Job scrape

 

3. Example of a job advert scraped:
Fields highlighted will be extracted as per instructions below.

Job content

 

4. Source of the job to parse: 
HTML and Javascript tags are used to identify job content.

job html

 

5. Job Spider configuration instructions for parsing:
Regular expressions are used for flexible content extraction from HTML source.

Parsing rules

 

6. Resulting XML to be auto-posted to your job board interface:
Match XML file to your job board fields for correct posting.

Job XML

Jobs HTML Scraping & Preview

Once you have configured your scraping algorithm, run the test task to spider the jobs pages HTML:
 

Once the task is complete: review log and resulting File List

 

File List holds scraping session result: HTML files of the jobs allocated

 

Resulting HTML files are ready for parsing and posting to your job board.

Job Spider Software Purchase (Source Code)

Job Board owners are now offered 2 more purchase options in addition to ASP/hosted Job Spider service:

 

1. Encrypted copy purchase:
One off fee to buy the software, have it installed on your server and serve any amount of your job boards and source websites. Single server license. Free 6 months of upgrades.

2. Open Source

Great option for those wishing to use Job Spider engine and add up features, integrate with other systems.

 

Links:

Job Spider pricing page.


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