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by CommanderData 2859 days ago
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?
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lukehero 2859 days 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.

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CommanderData 2859 days 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?

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lukehero 2859 days 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 ;)

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CommanderData 2858 days 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.

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