This is a Node.js script that scrapes job postings from Indeed.com based on a specified search term. It utilizes the Puppeteer library to automate the process of navigating the Indeed website and extracting job data.

• Node.js (version 12 or above)
• NPM (Node Package Manager)

1. Clone the repository or download the script file.

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the project directory.

3. Run the following command to install the required dependencies:

   npm install
   

To run the script, navigate to the main directory and use the following command:

node . [flags] [searchTerms]

• flags (optional): Flags allow users to tailor they scraper to only scrape certain sites or to override default actions.
• searchTerm (optional): The term to search for job postings on Indeed.com. If not provided, the default value is "front end web developer".

Commands

• --dev-mode: Enables development mode. When this flag is present, all other flags are ignored, and the scraping process will be performed in a development mode scraping all sources.
• --indeed: Enables scraping of job listings from Indeed.
• --monster: (Not implemented) Enables scraping of job listings from Monster.
• --linkedin: (Not implemented) Enables scraping of job listings from LinkedIn.

The script will launch a headless browser using Puppeteer, navigate to Indeed.com, and perform a search using the specified search term. It will scrape the job card container elements on each page of the search results and display the extracted job data in the console.

You can modify the script's behavior by changing the following variables:

• screenshotsFolderPath: The folder path where screenshots will be saved. By default, it is set to "./screenshots".

This project is licensed under the MIT License.