Grab jobs from oDesk

Grab jobs from oDesk

This task use java and jsoup to grab jobs from oDesk

Grab jobs from oDesk

1. Create LinkEntry class as following
2. Create oDesk class as following
3. Call oDesk.grab() method as following

Call oDesk.grab() method

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List<LinkEntry> links = oDesk.grab();
      
for (int i = 0; i < links.size(); i++) {
    logger.info("\r\n(" + (i + 1) + ")\r\n" + links.get(i).toString());
}
    

LinkEntry class

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public class LinkEntry {

    public String url = "";
    public String title = "";
    public String desc = "";
         
    public String toString() {
        String tag = "\r\n";
        tag += "Url: " + url + "\r\n";
        tag += "Title: " + title + "\r\n";
        tag += "Desc: " + desc + "\r\n";
        return tag;
    }

}    
    

oDesk class

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public class oDesk {
     
    public static List<LinkEntry> grab() {
        List<LinkEntry> tag = new ArrayList<LinkEntry>();
        try {
            String link = "https://www.odesk.com/api/profiles/v1/search/jobs.xml?page=0;50&sort=date_posted;D";
            Document doc = Jsoup.parse(new URL(link), 60000);
            Elements elements =  doc.select("job");
            Element element = null;
            for (int i = 0; i < elements.size(); i++) {
                element = elements.get(i);
                LinkEntry job = new LinkEntry();
                if (element.select("ciphertext").first() == null) continue;
                job.url = "https://www.odesk.com/jobs/" + element.select("ciphertext").first().text();
                job.title = element.select("op_title").first().text();
                job.desc = element.select("op_description").first().text();
                tag.add(job);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.error("", e);
        }
        return tag;
    }
     
}
    

Java jsoup