diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 09351b5..96298a5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Two things run on their own once installed: bun fetch # scrape all searches, append new jobs to results/jobs.csv bun daily # fetch, then Telegram the new jobs that match the profile bun recheck # show what the filters are currently dropping + keyword suggestions + +bun run mint-datadome # refresh the basel-jobs.ch cookie (opens a Chrome window) ``` `bun fetch` needs no setup — reruns are safe, already-seen jobs are skipped by ID, and every search/source runs concurrently (a full run is well under 2 minutes). Telegram needs the two-line setup below. @@ -38,9 +40,7 @@ Then `bun daily --dry-run` prints the digest instead of sending it, and `bun dai ``` config.ts # keyword families, search areas, the sweep() generator fetch.ts # LinkedIn scraper, HTML parser, all title/content filters -fetch-other.ts # extra sources: itjobs.ch, job-room.ch, stellen-basel.ch, - # jobbasel.ch, englishjobsearch.ch, Basel intl orgs, - # datacareer.ch (403, currently dead) +fetch-other.ts # the eight non-LinkedIn sources (see Sources below) index.ts # orchestrator: run searches → dedupe → content-check → CSV recheck.ts # raw-mode fetch: lists what the filters dropped daily.ts # digest: fetch, match against the profile, send to Telegram @@ -52,6 +52,36 @@ results/jobs.csv # output, one row per job results/sent.txt # links already pushed — never sent twice ``` +## Sources + +LinkedIn is swept by `config.ts`'s search families. Everything else lives in `fetch-other.ts` and runs concurrently with it — a full `bun fetch` stays under two minutes. + +| source | scope | notes | +|---|---|---| +| **LinkedIn** | 23 searches | keyword families × areas, generated by `sweep()` | +| **job-room.ch** | Switzerland | the federal employment service board (RAV); by far the largest feed | +| **basel-jobs.ch** | Basel region | behind DataDome — needs a cookie, see below | +| **jobbasel.ch** | Basel region | React SPA, but `/job/suche-{slug}` is server-rendered with a `window.__PRELOADED_STATE__` JSON blob | +| **englishjobsearch.ch** | BS + BL cantons | any page accepts `?format=markdown` and returns clean server-rendered markdown | +| **itjobs.ch** | Switzerland | small (~210 jobs); locking it to Basel returned only ~9, so it's swept nationally | +| **datacareer.ch** | Basel | 8 jobs on one page, no pagination | +| **stellen-basel.ch** | Basel region | WordPress REST API | +| **Basel intl orgs** | Basel | BIS (via the UNjobs mirror), Swiss TPH, Basel Institute on Governance | + +Two of these were dead until recently and are worth knowing about: + +**datacareer.ch** spent months returning 403 on every request. The cause was our own User-Agent — its nginx inverts the usual bot rule and blocks browser-like UAs while serving honest ones (no UA, `curl`, Googlebot). It gets `PLAIN_HEADERS` instead of the shared spoofed-Chrome ones. + +**basel-jobs.ch** sits behind DataDome. Plain `fetch` gets 403 on any UA, headless Chrome over CDP gets 403, and Playwright's own `launch()` gets 403 even headful — but a real Chrome launched normally with `--remote-debugging-port` and attached to afterwards gets through. Clearance then lives entirely in a `datadome` cookie that replays fine over plain `fetch`, so a browser is only ever needed to *mint*, never to scrape: + +```bash +bun run mint-datadome # opens a real Chrome window for ~10s, caches the cookie +``` + +The cache is `results/.datadome.json` (gitignored). Because minting needs a visible window, a launchd run can't do it — if the cookie goes stale the source logs `unavailable` and yields nothing while every other source continues, so the digest never fails over it. Set `LINKME_NO_BROWSER=1` to suppress minting entirely. + +It's scraped in three passes, all of which cover different sets: the `informatik-jobs` category is a curated taxonomy rather than the whole board, and the two search modes query different indexes — `?terms=X&websearch=1` finds role words and postings filed outside IT, while the bare `?terms=X` is the only mode that matches stack terms (`react`, `frontend` and `backend` return literally zero under `websearch=1`). + ## How a job gets through Two stages. Cheap title filters first, then one page fetch per survivor. @@ -68,7 +98,11 @@ Two stages. Cheap title filters first, then one page fetch per survivor. **Content check**: `isViableContent`/`isViableUrl` (LinkedIn, one page fetch + 350 ms per job in `index.ts`) and `isViableDescription` (`fetch-other.ts` sources that already carry the description inline, no extra fetch) all run the same two checks — DE/FR indicator words dropped at ≥ 6, then `requiresGerman()` drops English postings demanding German above B1. -That last one is deliberately more than a keyword match. For each mention of German it takes the *nearest* qualifying marker, and ignores a marker when another language name sits between it and the mention — both rules came from real false results, like *"Fluent in English; German and/or French advantageous"*, where "Fluent" sits closer to "German" than "advantageous" does but qualifies English. +That last one is deliberately more than a keyword match, because the optional/required boundary is where every bug in it has been. Rafael is German B1, so *"a plus"* / *"advantageous"* / *"B1"* must survive and *"fluent"* / *"C1"* / *"sehr gutes Deutsch"* must not. + +For each mention of German it takes the *nearest* qualifying marker, and ignores a marker when another language name sits between it and the mention — *"Fluent in English; German and/or French advantageous"* qualifies English, not German. But that rule has an exception: when the other language is **coordinated** with German the marker governs both, so *"Excellent communication skills in both English and German"* is correctly a hard requirement. Coordination means `and`/`und`/`sowie`/`&` — explicitly not `and/or`, since *"Very good English and/or German"* is satisfiable by English alone. + +Two more cases it handles: German-language phrasing (*"Sehr gutes Deutsch in Wort und Schrift"*, which for a long time matched nothing at all), and spec-sheet lines like *"Languages: German & English"* that have no adjective to bind to — there the `Languages:` label itself counts, though still only if no optional marker sits closer. **Profile match** (`profile.ts`, digest only) scores the title against the CV's stack and seniority signals, needing 4+ points to notify. Hard rejects encode standing decisions: Microsoft stack, Java/C++/SAP, life-science domains, non-software functions, and the blocked companies Jobgether (an aggregator, not an employer) and ALLPS (postings require German despite passing the English filter). @@ -76,7 +110,7 @@ Jobs are deduped globally by ID against `results/jobs.csv` on startup, so nothin ## Output -`results/jobs.csv` — `date_found`, `posted_at`, `search`, `title`, `company`, `link`, `source`. Open it in any spreadsheet and delete rows as you apply or dismiss. +`results/jobs.csv` — `date_found`, `posted_at`, `search`, `title`, `company`, `link`, `source`, `location`. `search` is the query or source that found the job; `location` is the posting's own location, which is what the digest groups on (a "Bern" sweep can surface a job actually based in Lausanne). Open it in any spreadsheet and delete rows as you apply or dismiss. ## Configuring searches