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APIs

Posted by David Keys
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David Keys
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Student 297 Points

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Hi there!

I just wondered since I always have been interested in doing a similar app idea but with companies, just like a Linkedin kind of thing. How would one incorporate these ones? Just like a job search engine kind of like...or with glassdoor, is this some kind of API?

I was trying to google this but haven't found anything like this - might wanna take a look at this one? Let's say how Linkedin finds the companies you can "add" to your curicculum, what is the function behind this, finding the companies? If we can add this kind of library thing here...would be amazing to hear your input!

Thanks for an amazing course btw!!

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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,736 Points
Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,736 Points

I'm speculating, but LinkedIn probably built their own job database, so they have their own API. Or they might have built relationships with other companies, and those companies allow LinkedIn to use their API, but it's not publicly available.

One option you have, if you want to use existing data from job postings but that website isn't giving you a nice API, is web scraping. But this can be tricky because they might change the layout of their website and not tell you, which would break your web scraping process. And if they're noticing a lot of requests from you they might block you.