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Salary, technologies if possible, and job age are all useful. How do you get job data? Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping?

• lukehero 8y ago
  >> Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping? That's right. I am trying to normalise the data from all the sources so I can generate some useful filters.
  • CommanderData 8y ago
    Thanks this is fascinating. Do alot of companies (such as indeed) provide APIs for this? I would have thought it goes against their business models. Also is there any legal concerns for website scaping here?
    • lukehero 8y ago
      Indeed do have an API, which I have applied for, but they didn't get back to me yet. Still waiting for a few big job sites to get back to me on using their APIs. Hoping eventually I can get them all! I've made sure not to crawl any sites that do not allow it, such as LinkedIn for example prohibit it, so I left them alone ;)
      • CommanderData 8y ago
        Thank you for getting back. I wanted to build a service to gather and analyse all types of job information and see trends. I would ultimately sell the data, however I don't think it would be possible reading some API T&C's. Just a flaunting idea.