Scraping by Example - SelectMinds ATS

In this post I’ll show how to develop a scraper for the SelectMinds Applicant Tracking System (ATS). For my example, I’ll use the jobs site at https://eygbl.referrals.selectminds.com/ Continue reading

Revisiting Taleo with Puppeteer

I’ve demonstrated how to scrape Taleo sites in a couple of my previous posts [1] [2]. In those articles I used the CasperJS and Python/Selenium to scrape the Taleo job site at https://l3com.taleo.net. In this post, I’ll show how to scrape that same site again, this time using Puppeteer. Continue reading

Scraping with Puppeteer

In this post I’ll guide you through web scraping with Puppeteer, a Node library used to control Chrome (or Chromium) via the DevTools Protocol. I’ll also cover how to use Node’s built-in debugger so that you can step through the code to see how it works. Continue reading

Book Review: Web Scraping with Python

I just finished reading Web Scraping with Python by Richard Lawson; Packt Publishing. Continue reading

Iterating through Dynamic Select Options with Selenium

In this post I’ll use Selenium to show how to iterate through dropdown menus in a form that uses SELECT elements whose option values are dynamically generated. I’ll provide a technique that can be used to determine when the option values have loaded. I’ll wrap up the post by refactoring... Continue reading