apec

README

What is it?

The APEC is an official French job board for middle management/executive jobs:

http://apec.fr

This project is an experiment on data collection, geocoding, indexing, analysis and visualization, based on APEC job offers. The result is interesting because:

• It provides real data to play with, with all its flaws (typo, mismatched fields, unsanitized inputs, etc.)
• It highlights trends, in recruiting cycles, in popular technologies, etc.
• It has to run on a Raspberry Pi 2 which brings amusing technical constraints.

Live demo:

http://mezard.eu/apec/

Usage

OpenCage geocoder is used to locate the job offers, you can get an API key from http://geocoder.opencagedata.com/. Then put it in $APEC_GEOCODING_KEY so apec command can use it automatically.

# Crawl job offers in Finistère (west of Brittany)
$ apec crawl --location=29

# Index and geocode them
$ APEC_GEOCODING_KEY=YOUR_OPENCAGE_API_KEY apec index

# Start the web server on :8081
$ apec web

All commands can be listed with:

$ apec