How I automated my job search by building a web crawler from scratch by Zhia Hwa Chong

The story of how it began It was midnight on a Friday, my friends were out having a good time, and yet I was nailed to my computer screen typing away. Oddly, I didn’t feel left out. I was working on something that I thought was genuinely interesting and awesome. I was right out of college, and I needed a job. When I left for Seattle, I had a backpack full of college textbooks and some clothes. I could fit everything I owned in the trunk of my 2002 Honda Civic. I didn’t like to socialize much back then, so I decided to tackle this job-finding problem the best way I knew how. I tried to build an app to do it for me, and this article is about how I did it. ???? Getting started with Craigslist I was in my room, furiously building some software that would help me....