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Great suggestion on targeting all the sites. Just pushed an update that un-checks every site with the "All Sites" checkbox at the top. I'll look into scraping t

• mjhea0 12y ago
  I would create a new category for this since the formate will be much different than the regular HN Jobs. Scraping is easy. Trying to figure out the best way to parse/display is hard.
  • walshemj 12y ago
    well not so much the optimal browse structure for seo for job sites is fairy well understood by now - I worked on total jobs and other sites at my previous job for part of elsiveer
• mjhea0 12y ago
  Just don't worry about normalizing the data. Just grab each post and treat it as a new job. Let me know if you need help. I'm pretty good with cheerio :)
• mdaniel 12y ago
  Just as a friendly FYI, HN now has an official API designed explicitly to stop folks from doing that. For example, the whoishiring user[0] gives convenient access to every post[1] that would interest you. 0 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring 1 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8681040 https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8681040