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Job Board Scraping

Build a job board monitoring system that tracks new postings and sends alerts.

Use case

Monitor job boards for new positions matching your criteria, alert candidates or recruiters, and track hiring trends.

What you’ll build

  • Strategy for job listing extraction
  • Regular monitoring (every 30 minutes)
  • New job detection
  • Alert system for matching positions

Prerequisites

  • Meter API key
  • TODO: Alerting system (email, Slack, Discord, etc.)
  • TODO: Target job board URLs

Step 1: Generate strategy

TODO: Replace with your job board

Step 2: Set up frequent monitoring

Step 3: Detect and alert on new jobs

TODO: Implement job tracking and alerts

Step 4: Filter and match criteria

TODO: Implement job filtering

Complete example

TODO: Full implementation

Multi-board monitoring

TODO: Monitor multiple job boards

Deployment

TODO: Deploy your monitor
  • Run as systemd service
  • Use PM2 for Node.js
  • Deploy to cloud (AWS, Heroku, etc.)
  • Set up cron job

Advanced features

TODO: Extend functionality
  • Salary range tracking
  • Company research integration
  • Application tracking
  • Trend analysis (hiring surges, salary trends)

See also

Need help?

Email me at mckinnon@meter.sh