The Oink blog
Job-search & scraping guides
Practical guides on automating your job hunt, scraping job boards, and getting live listings out of LinkedIn, Greenhouse, Lever and more.
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I applied to 200 jobs and heard nothing — the math of spray-and-pray, and what to do instead
Why high-volume applying produces silence, the funnel math behind it, and how scoring jobs against your resume before applying flips response rates.
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Ghost jobs: how to tell a listing is dead before you spend an hour applying
Why closed and never-real postings stay up for weeks, the signals that give them away, and how to verify a listing is still open before you write the cover letter.
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How to describe the job you want so an AI can actually find it
“Something in tech, ideally remote” gets you noise. One sharp sentence — stack, seniority, location eligibility, salary floor, dealbreakers — gets you a shortlist. How to write it.
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“Remote (anywhere)” — except you: how to filter remote jobs by real location eligibility
Remote listings quietly restrict by country, timezone, and payroll entity. How to spot the restriction before applying, and how to search by where you can actually work.
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Hacker News “Who is hiring?” — how to actually search a 600-comment thread
The monthly HN hiring thread is one of the best job sources on the internet and one of the worst interfaces. Manual search tactics that work, and how to stop doing them by hand.
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Beat the “100+ applicants” wall: a morning-coffee trick for LinkedIn jobs
Why you keep applying to LinkedIn jobs that already have 100+ applicants, and a simple daily automation — one scheduled request, no login — that puts your application in the first wave instead of the pile.
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How to scrape LinkedIn jobs without login or cookies
A practical guide to pulling live LinkedIn job postings from the public guest endpoint — no account, no cookies, no browser — including the ~200-result cap and how to work around it.
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Search ten job boards with one API call: job scraper bundles, explained
Checking LinkedIn, Hacker News, RemoteOK, EURAXESS and six more boards every day is a part-time job in itself. Bundle Actors merge all of them into one endpoint that returns a single deduped JSON dataset — here is how they work and which one fits your search.