Merge pull request #3049 from Aakashdoraisamy/add-remoteok-job-scraper

Add RemoteOK Job Scraper Script

Author: geekcomputers

remoteok_jobs_scraper/remoteok_jobs.py

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+import requests
+import xlwt
+from xlwt import Workbook
+
+BASE_URL = 'https://remoteok.com/api'
+USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+REQUEST_HEADER = {
+    'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
+    'Accept-Language': 'en-US, en;q=0.5',
+}
+
+def get_job_postings():
+    """Fetch job postings from RemoteOK API."""
+    try:
+        res = requests.get(BASE_URL, headers=REQUEST_HEADER)
+        res.raise_for_status()
+        data = res.json()
+        return data[1:]
+    except requests.RequestException as e:
+        print("Error fetching jobs:", e)
+        return []
+
+def save_jobs_to_excel(jobs, filename='remoteok_jobs.xls'):
+    """Save job postings to an Excel file."""
+    if not jobs:
+        print("No job data to save.")
+        return
+    
+    wb = Workbook()
+    sheet = wb.add_sheet('Jobs')
+
+    headers = list(jobs[0].keys())
+    for col, header in enumerate(headers):
+        sheet.write(0, col, header)
+        
+    for row, job in enumerate(jobs, start=1):
+        for col, key in enumerate(headers):
+            sheet.write(row, col, str(job.get(key, '')))
+
+    wb.save(filename)
+    print(f"Jobs saved to {filename}")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    jobs = get_job_postings()
+    save_jobs_to_excel(jobs)