I am using Indeeds API to scrape job listings. Their API only allows 25 results per call so that's why I have to iterate through the range.
I need to know the number of results returned (for the range), to use as my numresults variable. Right now I am just doing the same search in my browser and manually inputting the result.
I want iterate through multiple countries or search terms so I need to pass in the value "totalResults" to numresults which is found in the JSON.
The problem is I don't understand how to extract this value.
Can I do this right after the call (where would the json be stored) or do I need to create the JSON file first?
Here is my working scraper:
import requests
api_url = 'http://api.indeed.com/ads/apisearch? publisher=XXXXXXXXXXX&v=2&limit=100000&format=json'
Country = 'au'
SearchTerm = 'Insight'
number = -25
numresults = 3925
# must match the actual number of job results to the lower of the 25 increment or the last page will repeat over and over
#so if there are 392 results, then put 375
for number in range(-25, numresults, 25):
url = api_url + '&co=' + Country + '&q=' + SearchTerm + '&start=' + str(number + 25)
response = requests.get(url)
f = open(SearchTerm + '_' + Country +'.json','a')
f.write (response.content)
f.close()
print 'Complete' , url
Here is a sample of the returned JSON:
{
"version" : 2,
"query" : "Pricing",
"location" : "",
"dupefilter" : true,
"highlight" : true,
"start" : 1,
"end" : 25,
"totalResults" : 1712,
"pageNumber" : 0,
"results" : [
{
"jobtitle" : "New Energy Technical Specialist",
"company" : "Rheem",
etc.