SteveSPI

Topic: Job Feeds

Hello All,

I was brainstorming with a friend last night.. Apart from the odd Jobberbase site, we also host various Property Boards, agency lists etc etc.

Over the years, i have accumlated a number of feeds for jobs (only from the UK) from various different recruitment/job boards etc etc... Getting them into Jobberbase isnt always very easy. But with various testing on it, we have got it down to a pretty fine art.

So im really just looking to see if anyone would be interested in obtaining the feeds in a jobberbase format that you can simply upload (via phpmyadmin) , on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly interval?

All we will be asking is a small admin fee (as the feeds will have to be slightly customised per jobberbase site).

If this interests anyone, then let me know and I will start the ball rolling.

Also anyone got a good suggestion for a Website name for this concept?

Regards,

Steve

SpeedyJob.co.uk
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SteveSPI

Re: Job Feeds

Alternatively, I could also offer this as a download. So you simply download the csv file pre formatted to the Jobberbase format (which will be updated daily), with a login. So if you ever want to simply back fill your site, it can easily be done.

If anyone is interested and want to help me test out, ill provide the feed free of charge to the first few people who want to test it.

SpeedyJob.co.uk
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hobo

Re: Job Feeds

Hi SteveSPI,
You could call your site feedslistings.com since you will have feeds listings on it.
Working on a similar site, but only for job feeds, so I can help you test.

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SteveSPI

Re: Job Feeds

Cool, once I have built the site ill let you know. I have done a majority of the scripting and set up various Cron Jobs. So the feeds update over night and also i have the scripting to allow for various downloads, including the Jobberbase format in a csv file. Im also working on regenerating the feeds as XML feeds and will be able to provide a script which will automatically pull the feeds from my site into a Jobberbase site, without the need for uploading via php myadmin. But this is a few weeks off of completion.

SpeedyJob.co.uk
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SteveSPI

Re: Job Feeds

ok, I have now pretty much finished the back end for uploading jobs via XML. Im testing on SpeedyJob.co.uk which now automatically (once an hour) picks up jobs from 2 xml job feeds and posts them onto the site.

Its currently updating around 300 jobs a day. The initial upload bought in around 28,000 jobs. So the site is pretty full.

The code is a little messy and I could really do with tidying it up... It is not part of jobberbase. Its simply a php script run by a Cron Job and all I have had to add is 3 tables on the database (these are used to update certain parts of the feed) i.e. Category to the ID code and type to the correct ID code.

Its pretty simply.

This will be open to download in the next week or so with full instructions on how to install and setup.

The CSV feed is also avaliable to download in a Jobberbase format. Just incase you have a site and want to quickly add a few jobs. (the file can quickly be imported into the database via phpmyadmin)

email me on steve [at] spi-tc.co.uk for further information.

Regards,

Steve

SpeedyJob.co.uk
SteveSPI's Website

jermon

Re: Job Feeds

I have been waiting/messing around for something exactly like this.  ( mainly the CSV file upload) Appreciate the work you have done smile