Job Scraper using BeautifulSoup for Bing

This project is a web application built with Flask that takes a URL from Microsoft Bing's job search page, scrapes job details using BeautifulSoup, and outputs the results as a JSON file.

Features

• Input a URL from Microsoft Bing's job search page.
• Scrape job details such as job titles, companies, and locations.
• Download the scraped job details as a JSON file.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.x
• Flask
• BeautifulSoup4
• Requests

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/job-scraper-flask.git
cd job-scraper-flask

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate

Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the Flask application:

python app.py

Open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Enter a Bing job search URL (e.g., https://www.bing.com/jobs?q=ml+jobs&scp=0&rb=0&rc=20&L2=true&c=1&form=JOBL2S) and click the submit button.

The application will scrape job details and will automatically download a JSON file containing the results.

How to Use?

• Search for any job role, scroll down and navigate to jobs tab:

• Click on 'See more listings` and Copy the URL from the header:

• Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/, and paste the URL in the input area:

• Hit Submit and download will begin automatically: