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Web Scraping a job listing website

Using web scraping for a real use case application

In this article I will show you how I built a simple web scraping tool to assist my wife's job seeking journey.

My wife's route of action is straight-forward, she knows couple of job postings sites and she checks them out on a daily basis, filtering irrelevant jobs that are showing up too frequently and clotting up the page space, and those that are relevant she's sending her application via email.

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// can enter CAPS, nums, symbols etc..
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