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45 changes: 45 additions & 0 deletions remoteok_jobs_scraper/remoteok_jobs.py
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import requests
import xlwt
from xlwt import Workbook

BASE_URL = 'https://remoteok.com/api'
USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
REQUEST_HEADER = {
'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
'Accept-Language': 'en-US, en;q=0.5',
}

def get_job_postings():
"""Fetch job postings from RemoteOK API."""
try:
res = requests.get(BASE_URL, headers=REQUEST_HEADER)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()
return data[1:]
except requests.RequestException as e:
print("Error fetching jobs:", e)
return []

def save_jobs_to_excel(jobs, filename='remoteok_jobs.xls'):
"""Save job postings to an Excel file."""
if not jobs:
print("No job data to save.")
return

wb = Workbook()
sheet = wb.add_sheet('Jobs')

headers = list(jobs[0].keys())
for col, header in enumerate(headers):
sheet.write(0, col, header)

for row, job in enumerate(jobs, start=1):
for col, key in enumerate(headers):
sheet.write(row, col, str(job.get(key, '')))

wb.save(filename)
print(f"Jobs saved to {filename}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
jobs = get_job_postings()
save_jobs_to_excel(jobs)