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")
#ie.text_field(: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&quo
t;)
state_links = []
small_state_links = []
city_links = []
outfile = File.new("jobslinks3.txt",
"w+")
small_states =
["alaska","guam","delaware",&q
uot;dc","montana","n hampshire",
"puerto rico","rhode
island",
"south
dakota","wyoming","hawaii","ma
ine","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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