Job extractor is Datacol-based module, which implements jobs information extraction from job websites. After data extraction the information is saved to xlsx file. Datacol can also publish it to database, CMS or other file formats.
1. Install Datacol trial version; 2. Choose ad-parsers/job-crawler.par in the campaign tree and click Start button to launch job extractor campaign.
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Before launching ad-parsers/job-crawler.par you can adjust the Input data. Select the campaign in the campaign tree for this purpose. In this way you can setup links to job website search results you need to extract.
Please contact us if the job extractor will not collect data after you have made changes to the Starting URL list.
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3. Wait for data extraction results to appear. When you see the first results, you can force running campaign to stop (click Stop button).
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4. After campaign is finished/stopped you can find job-crawler.xlsx file in Documents folder.
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If the source website blocks your IP-address (after blocking you will get no more extraction results), use proxy.
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[tab name=”Data processing and Export”] Data processing options for content, harvested by job extractor: