Every job board operator faces the same decision eventually. Which parts of the data stack to build in-house, which to hand to a vendor, and which to never attempt regardless…
At some point, most job board operators ask their data provider the same question: how often does the feed actually update? The answer, when one comes back at all, is…
Five years ago, a job scraper was a script. It visited a URL, pulled the HTML, and returned whatever text matched a set of rules someone had written. It worked…
Every job board operator assumes the same thing: if a listing is live, it can be found. It is a reasonable assumption. It is also, more often than most operators…
Most job boards do not think seriously about the risks of their data sourcing until something forces them to. A cease and desist from a large employer. An IP block…
