Hello Everyone! Our team is up to heavily rely on theirstack provider to get us the job details. However, we recently noticed that searching by skillset isn’t really accurate, as per my test search i couldn’t any javascript jobs until past 25 days despite it doesn’t really make sense, I created another search without skillset and i could see that one of the jobs contains Javascript as a skill within the description ( I believe you guys are already parsing the skill as well through description) that’s posted today however it wasn’t listed when searching with skillset any of “javascript” and the posted the past day. sample request that doesn’t get any job that contains js/react for example for the past day

curl --request POST \
--url "<https://api.theirstack.com/v1/jobs/search>" \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXX" \
-d '{
  "order_by": [
    {
      "desc": true,
      "field": "num_jobs"
    }
  ],
  "include_total_results": false,
  "posted_at_max_age_days": 1,
  "revealed_company_data": false,
  "job_technology_slug_or": [
    "react",
    "javascript"
  ],
  "page": 0,
  "limit": 10,
  "blur_company_data": false
}'

another sample request

curl --request POST \
--url "<https://api.theirstack.com/v1/jobs/search>" \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer XXXXXX" \
-d '{
  "include_total_results": false,
  "order_by": [
    {
      "desc": true,
      "field": "num_jobs"
    }
  ],
  "posted_at_max_age_days": 1,
  "revealed_company_data": false,
  "job_title_or": [
    "React"
  ],
  "page": 0,
  "limit": 10,
  "blur_company_data": false
}'

Any idea what is the problem here or what could be done to resolve as it’s quite deal-breaker here? PS: Thanks for the awesome platform, it’s really neat and simple.

Hi @Mohammed osama! Thanks for the kind words and for noticing that. I realized the script we have to parse job descriptions and identify technologies in them had been paused for a few weeks, and that’s why the request where you filtered by

until_n_days_ago

returned no results. We activated it again and are reparsing all jobs from the last month. You should now get plenty of results if you make that query again. Cheers!

one more quick question: I noticed that you guys are trimming the emails out of the description if found, any clue why so? (sometimes we need that email for direct applying if not feasible for us to go through the process of following the manual link etc..)

IIRC we don’t do that, maybe the job boards we scrape from did it. Can you share some of the jobs where that happen so that I can check it out?

i found it by a chance earlier, lemme get back to you once i have it again