This Will Get Me A Job

This code will provide me a summer internship abroad.

It is a chrome extension that saves all the pertinent information from job postings to a google sheet. The google sheet acts as a tracking tool for all the applied jobs:

• Applied
• Got ghosted?
• Got an interview, went well?
• Got an offer, accepted the offer?
• Got a Job!

It also has many filters, statistics and rankings.

TODO list

• Upload the code without api keys
• Rename repository to ThisGotMeAJob

Supported job board platforms

Platform	Job data	Alerts
LinkedIn	✓	✓
Stackoverflow	✓
AngelList	✓
Indeed	✓	✓
Google jobs search	✓

Supported autofill platforms

• MyWorkdayJobs

Design

Job data

These are data points collected for each job:

# company info
company {
    name
    website
    logo
    size
    founded
    industry
}

# platform info
platform
website

# job info
position
type
workspace
location
salary

# timing
posted_date
applied_date

# additional info
description
comment

Web scrapper utility

I had found no great way to do web scrapping from a chrome extension, so I created my own utility:

var result = await WebScrapping.scrape('https://awesome.url/page', 'cool_scrapper_content.js')

Web scrapper utility v2

Instead of relying on iframes which tend to cause many COORS errors and slowlyness. V2 utilises fetch instead.

Content.js

async function request(method, url, other) {
    return await BackgroundTasks.execute('request', { method, url, other })
}

var html = await request('GET', 'https://awesome.url/page', { cache: 'force-cache' })
var doc = HTML.toElement(`<document>${html}</document>`)
// either simulate into an iframe or process the initial source code data...

Background.js

function request(method, url, other) {
    // request logic with fetch...
}

BackgroundTasks.addHandeler('request', async (params) => {
    var { method, url, body, other } = params
    return await request(method, url, other)
})