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How to import posts from another site

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  • 20-02-2013 12:16pm
    #1
    CallCentresJob
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi all,

    Brand new to boards so excuse me if i'm in the wrong place.

    Myself and a friend of mine recently set up a website, callcentresjobs.ie

    Its a completely free site to employers & job seekers. The whole idea is to allow companies post jobs for free and allow our potential database of job seekers quick and free access to the companies.

    Since the site has launched we have gotten a good response from job seekers but so far we have struggled with companies. The general response so far has been that companies would be happy to use us, but are waiting for others to start first! So we tried to import jobs from indeed.com just to get it started and get some positions on the site. This has only worked to a degree though as the built in import tool isn't the best.

    Does anyone know of a better way of doing this? The site was developed for us using Wordpress and while I know my way around HTML I wouldn't be an expect by any means. It's only a temporary thing as well as I'm hoping that once a few companies see jobs on it that they will start to begin posting.

    Any help would be great guys, thanks


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    #2
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    First off. Have you got permission to be displaying content from indeed.com? If yes maybe they would have some sort of Api you could plug into.


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    #3
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Ya ripping content of another site might land you in some trouble both with the website and the people who posted the job.

    The person posting the job might not want it advertised on any site.


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    amen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    I see you may have a character encoding problem
    [PHP]Norwegian Speaking Technical Support Agent. Dublin, Ireland €24k [/PHP]

    You don't appear to have any terms and conditions.
    Have you got permission to be displaying content from indeed.com
    Have you read the Terms of Service for indeed and the "Use of Indeed" Section
    http://www.indeed.ie/intl/en/tos.html
    built in import tool isn't the best

    Is the import tool on your site or Indeeds?

    If it is your site why not get it fixed?


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    #5
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    indeed.com wrote:
    You may search the Indeed job index using our XML interface. This allows you to submit job searches and receive results via a structured XML feed which can be incorporated into your website or application. Indeed Web Services may be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

    So it seems you can consume indeed.com data. Other job sites may also have an API that you can consume, but I haven't looked. As stated though, if you don't have a terms and conditions with the original publisher you may get into trouble.

    I would hazard a guess and say that employers could be persuaded if you had enough jobseeker traffic, you may need to get creative with your advertising to achieve that.


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