jmdtol / jobsearchbot

Python bot uses selenium driver to search indeed and save job urls to google sheets

Job Search Bot

Pro Tips

1. Stand on the shoulders of giants - this bot was created largely with beginner knowledge of HTML + Python after watching 2 tutorials:

• How to build a twitter bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovFudqFB0Q&t
• How to use Google Sheets with Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPlKLEGR7E

Requirements

1. python
2. pip
3. chromedriver
4. selenium
5. gspread
6. oauth2client

How to run:

1. clone repository

 git clone https://github.com/shubhayu-64/jobsearchbot.git

Chromedriver

2. mkdir chromedriver in root directory
3. download selenium driver for your version of chrome: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
4. copy chromedriver.exe to chromedriver folder

install dependencies

5. pip install gspread oauth2client (also part of step 8)

connect to google sheets

6. create a creds.json in root directory

{
  "type": "",
  "project_id": "",
  "private_key_id": "",
  "private_key": "",
  "client_email": "",
  "client_id": "",
  "auth_uri": "",
  "token_uri": "",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "",
  "client_x509_cert_url": ""
}

7. Follow from beginning to minute 7 this Youtube tutorial for how to populate and install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPlKLEGR7E

   • text version: https://techwithtim.net/tutorials/google-sheets-python-api-tutorial/

8. Replace sheet name with your sheet name on line 17: sheet = client.open("sheetName").sheet1

Run

9. run with python app.py

Review

10. wait for bot to finish
11. check the google sheet for results

Customizing

12. Change the urls used in bot.get('') on line 42
13. Capture additional data from job ad by modifying lines 59-107
14. Save results outside of google sheets e.g. a .txt file or e-mail