Devlog · Job Scout

Job listings from alert emails

  • Job boards that offer no feed can still send email. Indeed and LinkedIn have no public job-listing feed, but both email saved-search alerts. The companion mail tool, the only thing that reads the mailbox, now saves each alert email to a local folder. Job Scout reads that folder once a day and turns every job listing in the email into a card: title, employer, location, pay, the short description, how long ago it was posted, and the email's own link to the listing.
  • Nothing new reaches out. Job Scout never opens the job board, never follows a link, and never touches the mailbox: it reads files another tool has already written. The listings then go through the same filters and scoring as every other source.
  • The first read turned ten alert emails into 82 job listings. 62 were distinct after removing repeats; 7 passed the filters. Most of the rest were engineering or sales roles the alerts' broad keywords had caught.
  • A listing whose location names only a city is kept and marked "workplace not stated", so the person reads it rather than having it dropped. Indeed is read so far; LinkedIn's layout will be added once one of its alerts arrives.