
How to Build a Job Offer Negotiation Tool with Salary Data
The Salary Data Gap Most job seekers negotiate blind. Lets build a Python tool that scrapes salary data and creates negotiation briefs with percentile ranges. Setup pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas numpy Salary sites have anti-bot measures. ScraperAPI handles JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHAs. Scraping Salary Data import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import pandas as pd SCRAPER_API_KEY = " YOUR_KEY " def scrape_salary_data ( job_title , location ): target = f " https://www.levels.fyi/t/ { job_title . replace ( chr ( 32 ), chr ( 45 )). lower () } " url = f " http://api.scraperapi.com?api_key= { SCRAPER_API_KEY } &url= { target } " response = requests . get ( url ) soup = BeautifulSoup ( response . text , " html.parser " ) salaries = [] for card in soup . select ( " .salary-card " ): total = extract_number ( card . select_one ( " .total-comp " )) base = extract_number ( card . select_one ( " .base-salary " )) if total : salaries . append ({ " total_comp " : total , " b
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