Job spider: automatic vacancies scraping from Employer
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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

Job Scraping: Advanced Job Search Form

Some career sites would require you to fill out a job search form to retrieve required vacancies. 

 

Here is a preview of one of the implementations:

 

Job Spider scraping configuration example:

 

Target sector fields to fill out (part of the search form):
 

 

Spider configurations for form elements choices:

Free Job Spider Configuration

SpiderMount will help you configure your first recipient job board and the first source website (employer career center) at  no charge. 


Spider  configuration usually takes:
1-2 hours for recipient job board (based on types and number of the fields in job entity).
2-4 hours for source website (based on complexity of html, search criteria and matching of the parsed content to your job fields).


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