I recently finished a job search for a telecommuting job. In the
course of that, I found that craigslist.org has the best job listings.
However, craigslist doesn't allow you to search the whole country for
jobs, you have to go state-by-state and city-by-city.
I hadn't coded anything in Watir for some time, so I wrote a script
that searches every city in every state on craigslist for
telecommuting jobs. It was really effective. I had very interesting
conversations with companies in Maine and Montana, for instance.
It's in my interest to promote telecommuting in general, so I'm
contributing this script hoping that it adds just that much more
general interest to the subject of telecommuting for software testing
jobs.
#################################
require 'watir'
include Watir
def do_search
jobs_links = []
@ie.text_field(:index, 1).set("qa")
[EMAIL PROTECTED](:index, 1).set("software test")
@ie.select_list(:index,1).set("jobs")
@ie.button(:index,1).click
@ie.checkbox(:value, "telecommuting").set
@ie.button(:index,1).click
unless @ie.html =~ /Nothing found for/
@ie.links.each do |j_link|
if j_link.href =~ /\d+.html$/
@outfile.puts(j_link)
@outfile.puts("")
end #if
end #do
end #unless
@ie.back
@ie.back
end #def
def click_cities
@city_links = []
@ie.links.each do |c_link|
if ((c_link.text != "craigslist") and (c_link.text != "w") and
(c_link.text != "or suggest a new one"))
@city_links << c_link
end #if
end #do
@city_links.each do |cit_link|
cit_link.click
do_search
@ie.back
end #do
end #def
@ie = IE.new
@ie.goto("http://craigslist.org";)
@state_links = []
@small_state_links = []
@city_links = []
@outfile = File.new("jobslinks3.txt", "w+")
@small_states = ["alaska","guam","delaware","dc","montana","n hampshire",
"puerto rico","rhode island",
"south dakota","wyoming","hawaii","maine","vermont"]
@ie.links.each do |link|
if link.href =~ /geo.craigslist.org\/iso\/us/
unless link.text == "us cities"
if @small_states.include?(link.text)
#puts link.text
@small_state_links << link
else
#puts link
@state_links << link
end #if
end #unless
end #if
end #do
@state_links.each do |state_link|
state_link.click
click_cities
@ie.back
end
@small_state_links.each do |small_link|
small_link.click
do_search
@ie.back
end
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