Software Engineering Job Application Bot (2.0) 👩🏾‍💻

5 Python Projects in 5 Days - Day 5: Scripting

A script to automatically search Glassdoor for job listings, aggregate every application URL, and apply to each job using pre-populated data. All with one click!

📸YouTube Tutorial: https://youtu.be/N_7d8vg_TQA

Inspiration

Ever sit at your desk for hours, clicking through endless job listings hoping to strike gold with one response? To solve this, I made a script a few months ago, which would take in a list of job URLs and automatically apply to potentially 100s of jobs with the click of a button. This was great, but there was one problem — the process of aggregating those links is painstaking. So, I wanted to automate that process with this project! ✨

Installation

1. Install ChromeDriver (or an alternatie driver for your browser of choice):
   • Run brew cask install chromedriver
   • Confirm installation: chromedriver --version
   • Check location of ChromeDriver: which chromedriver
   • Wherever the driver is initialized in the code, insert the ChromeDriver location
2. Install Selenium: pip install selenium
3. Install BeautifulSoup: pip install beautifulsoup4

Usage

To test get_links.py

1. Uncomment the last line get_links.py
2. Run $ python get_links.py

To run the entire script:

1. Set a number of pages you'd like to iterate through here
2. Run $ python apply.py
3. The script will open glassdoor.com, at which point you should log-in
4. From there on, everything is automatic!

Thanks

• Selenium - A tool designed for QA testing, but that actually works great for making these types of bots
• Beautiful Soup - A tool to scrape HTML/XML content (that saved be big time with this project)

Learn More

• My Previous Video - For more background on the apply.py code

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.