Stackflow Crawl

A robot that capture jobs from Stack Overflow!

If you're searching for a job opportunity, this robot can help you. I've just made a spider crawler which putting docs in a ElasticSearch database and makes possible use Kibana and build dashboards like this:

It's awesome because you know which country has more jobs with a determinate technology or where you earn better for certain technology.

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Pip

Environment vars

 GEOCODE_USERNAME=your_user_agent # not required
 BULK_SIZE=how_many_docs_sent_to_elasticsearch # default: 10

Location: If you want to fill geolocation fields, set GEOCODE_USERNAME how to https://github.com/geopy/geopy indicate.

Pre Run

1 - Install dependencies with Pipenv: make install
2 - Run necessary images: make compose

Running

Capture all jobs

scrapy crawl stkflow

Pass city as argument

scrapy crawl stkflow -a city="Nova York"

or kind of job

scrapy crawl stkflow -a job="Software Engineer"

Your robot is running and you can see the result here: http://0.0.0.0:5601/app/kibana in Discover tab