Hacking Universal Jobmatch
Tags: Pythonuniversal jobmatch28 Aug 2015 - MawKernewek
The Department of Work and Pensions insists that all jobseekers use their online jobsearch website, 'Universal Jobmatch'.
Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to use, with needing to click through a load of pages filled with mostly agency adverts, which are often duplicates, and sometimes cross-posted to incorrect locations despite the website offering an option to search within a particular radius.
So I thought I'd write a Python script to convert the information to a simple HTML table that one can simply scroll down through without needing to click through 20 or so pages.
I have now tidied it up a bit at put it on Bitbucket: Universal Jobmatch Spam Soup. As I used the Beautiful Soup library and it is written in Python I thought 'Spam Soup' was an appropriate name.
It doesn't really do much to the results, in the way of filtering them beyond what the query returns, but it does make it easier to read I think.
Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to use, with needing to click through a load of pages filled with mostly agency adverts, which are often duplicates, and sometimes cross-posted to incorrect locations despite the website offering an option to search within a particular radius.
So I thought I'd write a Python script to convert the information to a simple HTML table that one can simply scroll down through without needing to click through 20 or so pages.
I have now tidied it up a bit at put it on Bitbucket: Universal Jobmatch Spam Soup. As I used the Beautiful Soup library and it is written in Python I thought 'Spam Soup' was an appropriate name.
It doesn't really do much to the results, in the way of filtering them beyond what the query returns, but it does make it easier to read I think.