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Posts about indexing public job postings at scale, salary parsing, and the systems that keep one universal JSON schema feeling small even as the source list keeps growing.
Jobvite API: what you can pull, and the feed most customers never enable
Jobvite has a REST API and a job feed - but the API is per-customer and the feed is off by default, and most customers never turn it on. Why there's no reliable public Jobvite surface, and how to pull Jobvite postings across every career site through one jobs API.
Teamtailor API: clean JSON:API, one key per tenant - and the fix
The Teamtailor API is a pleasant JSON:API REST surface - the friction is one key per tenant, with no aggregator-tier credential and no way to enumerate tenants. How to pull every Teamtailor company's postings through one jobs API instead.
How to build a job board in 2026: stack, data, and go-live
The board itself is a weekend of work. Keeping it full of jobs that are still open is the part that decides whether anyone comes back. The real build order - niche, stack, where the listings come from, and build vs buy - with the data problem front and center.
Best job board software in 2026: 9 platforms compared (build vs buy)
Niceboard, SmartJobBoard, JBoard, Jobiqo, Madgex, WP Job Manager and more - the strongest hosted, white-label, open-source and custom options compared on who they fit, where they run out, and the one thing every one of them leaves to you: the listings.
Open source job board software: 4 real options and what they cost to run
Open source job board software is free to license and never free to run. The maintained options by stack - WP Job Manager, WordPress, and roll-your-own in Django, Rails or Laravel - plus the running costs nobody lists: hosting, maintenance, and the jobs themselves.
Job market datasets: 7 real sources for job postings data (2026)
Kaggle snapshots, the USAJOBS archive, Adzuna aggregates, commercial bulk vendors, and API-built datasets - where to actually get a job postings dataset, what each contains, and when a static file is the wrong tool.
Best job scraping tools in 2026: 8 options honestly compared
JobSpy, Apify, Bright Data, ScrapingDog, Octoparse, PhantomBuster and more - what each job scraper is actually good at, what it costs at real volume, and when the right answer is not a scraper at all.
Labor market data: 9 sources and APIs compared (2026)
BLS, JOLTS, FRED, Indeed Hiring Lab, Lightcast, LinkUp, Revelio, and raw job-postings APIs - what each labor market data source actually measures, how fresh it is, what it costs, and which one fits your use case.
JobSpy review: the Python job scraper tested, and where it breaks
JobSpy scrapes Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and Google with one Python call - until it gets blocked. An honest review, and the no-scraper path: JobsPipe's free tier and keyless sandbox for normalized postings.