CNE340 Winter2024 - Job Hunter Project

Objectives

• Using python to complete the following tasks:
  • Connect to MySql on WAMP Server
  • Create a database
  • Grab new jobs from a website, parses JSON code and inserts the data into a list of dictionaries do not need to edit
  • Import to database
  • Perform Query commands

Requirements:

• Project Fork
• GitHub Commits
• CREATE table
• Query table for already-existing job entries
• Add new job function
• Notify user of new jobs
• Meets specific design specifications listed below (covered in depth in the lecture recording)
  • Run program once and leave running
  • Upon load grabs configuration
  • Load desired job keywords
  • Connect to DB
  • Check once per 4 hours for job
  • Adds jobs to the DB
  • Avoids duplicates
  • Notify user of matches
  • Extra Credit: if it deletes jobs over 14 days old

Special Thanks

Thank you Ixius Procopios for the initial code and all the guidance for this project.