@atharvh01/linkedin-jobs-api/src/services/linkedinService.js

An unofficial LinkedIn Jobs API to fetch job listings with advanced filtering and rate limiting

import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';
import { formatJobData } from '../utils/formatter.js';

export async function fetchJobListings(keywords, location, dateSincePosted = '') {
  try {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
      headless: 'new',
      args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
    });

    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36');

    const searchUrl = constructSearchUrl(keywords, location, dateSincePosted);
    await page.goto(searchUrl, { waitUntil: 'networkidle0' });

    // Wait for job listings to load
    await page.waitForSelector('.jobs-search__results-list', { timeout: 5000 });

    const jobs = await page.evaluate(() => {
      const jobElements = document.querySelectorAll('.jobs-search__results-list li');
      return Array.from(jobElements).map(element => ({
        title: element.querySelector('.base-search-card__title')?.textContent?.trim() || '',
        company: element.querySelector('.base-search-card__subtitle')?.textContent?.trim() || '',
        location: element.querySelector('.job-search-card__location')?.textContent?.trim() || '',
        link: element.querySelector('.base-card__full-link')?.href || '',
        listDate: element.querySelector('time')?.getAttribute('datetime') || '',
        description: element.querySelector('.base-search-card__metadata')?.textContent?.trim() || ''
      }));
    });

    await browser.close();
    return jobs.map(job => formatJobData(job));
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching jobs:', error);
    throw new Error(`Failed to fetch job listings: ${error.message}`);
  }
}

function constructSearchUrl(keywords, location, dateSincePosted) {
  const baseUrl = 'https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search';
  const params = new URLSearchParams({
    keywords: keywords,
    location: location,
    f_TPR: dateSincePosted,
    position: 1,
    pageNum: 0
  });

  return `${baseUrl}?${params.toString()}`;
}