/WebScraping

Web scraping tool that retrieves OSU job posts with keywords

Primary LanguageRuby

WebScraping

Group Name: Gem

Authors: Tammy Joseph, Ryan Tomlinson, Crystal Ceballos, and Ziming Gong

This program does scrapes and processes data from OSU's jobsatosu site. The program prompts for keywords from the user and the program will scrape the site and open a html site in Mozilla Firefox that shows a listing of available jobs and links to the job site.

##Requirements##

  • Ruby v2.2.2
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • The 'mechanize' gem
//To install required gem, do:
$ gem install mechanize

NOTE:

  • This has only been tested with the above requirements. Other operating systems and other versions of Ruby may also work.

##Starting the Program## To run the program, do:

$ cd <path/to/WebScraping/directory>
$ ruby jobScrape.rb

After running jobScrape.rb, the program will begin