phillipdwright/hackrtrackr

HackrTrackr - The Right Coding Job Is Out There!

HackrTrackr

Hacker News is a social news site focused on computer science and entrepreneurship. Since 2011 there have been monthly “Who's Hiring” threads where hundreds of companies post descriptions of job openings. HackrTrackr allows a user to access the entire history of these job posts and to filter for just the jobs that match their interest. HackrTrackr provides an interactive visualization to see how job trends have changed over time. HackrTrackr also integrates company reviews from Glassdoor to enhance the user’s job search.

Working with HackrTrackr Locally

To work with a local copy of HackrTrackr, you will need to have Python 2.7 installed.

Clone the repo

$ git clone [email protected]:phillipdwright/hackrtrackr.git
$ cd hackrtrackr

Install dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up database

$ python hackrtrackr/initialize_data.py
$ python dbutils/setup_db.py
$ python hackrtrackr/update_db_helpers.py

Contributors

• Phil Wright
• David Granas
• Greg Karpov

hackrtrackr's Issues

Save search parameters in url

After conducting a search, the user should be able to share their parameters with their friends and loved ones by sending the url. To show them the amazing trends they find.

Some things to discuss for implementation:

• Should the search save only the keywords, or also the date? Since the db will constantly be updated with new job postings.

Credit for the idea goes to Martin Zugnoni.

Beginning-of-the-month bug

Getting a KeyError in keyword_counts() at the beginning of each month.

Add python 3 support

Python 3 support is needed. Once this is developed, it should be included in the CI run.