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Python Job Web Scraper

• Class: Survey Of Scripting Languages (CSCI 301)
• Grade: A
• Language(s): Python
• Source Code Repository: mskegro/project1
  (Please email me to request access.)

Project description

This project is a Python web scraper that extracts job listings from a public job website. The program filters results to only display job postings that contain the keyword “Engineer.” For each matching job, it extracts the job title, location, and a link to the full job posting. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate web scraping, HTML parsing, and data extraction using Python libraries such as requests and BeautifulSoup.

How to run the program

To run this project, follow the steps below.

Install required dependencies

Make sure Python is installed on your system. Then install the required libraries:

pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Go to your project folder

cd path/to/your/project

Run the program

python3 pythonJobs1.py

View output

The program will run in the terminal and display:

• Job titles
• Job locations
• Links to job postings

UI Design

This program runs in the terminal and does not include a graphical user interface. The program runs in the terminal and produces a list of filtered job postings. The output generated by the web scraper is shown below (see Fig. 1).

Fig 1. Web scraper output showing Engineer job listings

3. Additional Considerations

This project highlights important programming concepts such as:

• Working with external web data sources
• Parsing HTML documents
• Filtering and extracting specific information
• Handling incomplete or missing data safely

For more details see mskegro.

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