Building a Job Board Aggregator: Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor

Why Build a Job Board Aggregator? Job seekers waste hours checking multiple platforms daily. Recruiters need market intelligence across boards. A job aggregator solves both problems — one API, all listings, structured data. Let's build a Python aggregator that pulls from Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor. Architecture Our aggregator follows a plugin pattern where each job board gets its own scraper class: from abc import ABC , abstractmethod from dataclasses import dataclass , asdict from typing import List , Optional import json @dataclass class JobListing : title : str company : str location : str salary : Optional [ str ] url : str source : str description : Optional [ str ] = None posted_date : Optional [ str ] = None class JobScraper ( ABC ): @abstractmethod def search ( self , query : str , location : str , pages : int = 1 ) -> List [ JobListing ]: pass Indeed Scraper Indeed is the largest job board. Their listings are rendered server-side, making them relatively easy to parse: imp