Search Linked In for job posts

How To
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I want to create a scenario where it Searches Linked In for job posts and then enters the info in a spreadsheet but I can’t work it out.

Can you guide me please?

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You’ll need a webscraper since Linkedin doesn’t have any api endpoints that lets you retrieve job post.

Then once a site is scrapped youll to parse the data you need. There are apps that do both at once like scrapninja and browse.ai.

However keep in mind site have antiscraping measures and these tools are not 100% so you’ll also have to build in error handlers.

After a site is scraped you just simply need to map the right data into your google sheets.

Hope this helps!

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Welcome to the Make community!

So you basically need to “visit” the site yourself to get the content. This is called Web Scraping.

Web Scraping

For web scraping, a service you can use is ScrapeNinja to get content from the page.

ScrapeNinja allows you to use jQuery-like selectors to extract content from elements by using an extractor function. ScrapeNinja also can run the page in a real web-browser, loading all the content and running the page load scripts so it closely simulates what you see, as opposed to just the raw page HTML fetched from the HTTP module.

If you want an example, take a look at Grab data from page and url - #5 by samliew

AI-powered “easier” method

You can also use AI-powered web scraping tools like Dumpling AI.

This is probably the easiest and quickest way to set-up, because all you need to do is to describe the content that you want, instead of inspecting the element to create selectors, or having to come up with regular expression patterns.

The plus-side of this is that such services combine BOTH fetching and extracting of the data in a single module (saving operations), and doing away with the lengthy setup from the other methods.

For more information on the different methods of web scraping, see Overview of Different Web Scraping Techniques in Make 🌐

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

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