So I built https://php-jobs.net
It's basically a scraper that pulls PHP jobs from multiple sources and tries to filter out the BS. Nothing revolutionary, but it saves me hours of daily searching.
The setup:
- Main site runs on a purchased CMS I'm hacking on (not proud of it but it works)
- Wrote custom parsers as a separate service using Swow - the coroutines make scraping way faster than my first attempt with regular curl / guzzle
- Queue workers running in Docker handle the updates
- Laravel/Beanstalkd keeping everything organized
Right now pulling in around 1k jobs - Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, the usual PHP stuff.
Fair warning: it's rough around the edges. Sometimes parsers break, sometimes duplicates slip through. Working on it between sending out resumes.
Would appreciate any feedback, especially:
- Know any good PHP job sources?
- Notice anything broken?
- Ideas for better filtering?
Building this while unemployed is... interesting. Part therapy, part desperation, part hoping it actually helps land something. If you're in the same boat, hopefully it saves you some time too.
jalapenos•3mo ago
More effective to do whatever you can to jump ahead of the application horde. Literally have to fall back to ordinary sales & marketing techniques almost.
Paleontologist•3mo ago
now i can spend more time on the actual networking instead of clicking through the same sites every morning