JobSifter

Overview

JobSifter is a simple CLI tool to help you sift through the thousands of job postings online. I found that most job boards have some terrible sorting and filtering options, so I wanted to make a tool that would allow me to get the job postings in a format that I could easily filter and sort through.

Features

• Supports multiple job boards: Currently supports Indeed and ZipRecruiter, with plans to add more.
• Filtering: Allows you to provide excluded keywords to filter out job titles that you are not interested in.
• Location: Allows you to specify the location of the job postings. The default is "remote".
• Pagination: Allows you to specify the number of pages to search. The default is 2, and the maximum is 10.
• Sorting: Tries to sort by latest postings first, so you can see the most recent job postings. This is not perfect, as some job boards don't have the date of the posting, but it's better than nothing.
• Output: Outputs the job postings in a CSV file, so you can easily filter and sort the postings in Excel or Google Sheets.

Installation

Python 3.12.2

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/nronzel/job-sifter.git
cd job-sifter

Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Use the --help flag to see the available options.

python main.py --help

This will show the following output:

usage: main.py [-h] [-t TITLE] [-e EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]] [-p PAGES] [-l LOCATION]

Grab job data from job boards.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TITLE, --title TITLE
                        Job title to search for.
  -e EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...], --exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]
                        OPTIONAL - Keywords to exclude from job title - space separated.
  -p PAGES, --pages PAGES
                        OPTIONAL - Number of pages to search. Default: 2, Max: 10.
  -l LOCATION, --location LOCATION
                        OPTIONAL - Location to search for jobs. Default: remote.

Example

To search for software engineer jobs, excluding junior and intern positions, and searching the first 5 pages, you would run the following:

python main.py -t "software engineer" -e "jr" "junior" "intern" -p 5

After running this command, it will show some console output and create a CSV file in the project directory called software-engineer.csv.

Potential Improvements

• Add more job boards.
• Add more output options.
• Filter based on keywords in job description.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please open an issue or a pull request. I would love to hear your feedback and ideas for new features.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.