January 10, 2026
Vacansearch: Crawling Job Boards So I Don't Have To
Job openings are scarce and my application tracker was a mess of spreadsheets — so I built a scraping flow that finds and DMs relevant openings automatically.
ScrapingAutomationNext.js
The problem
Job openings are scarce, and keeping track of them by hand meant a spreadsheet that was permanently out of date by the time I got around to applying.
The build
Vacansearch crawls Google for small-to-mid, remote-friendly tech companies, checks their career pages for open roles, then opens the door with a cold DM before the applicant pool catches on.
Stack
Built with Next.js on the frontend, a crawling/scraping pipeline for discovery, and Docker for running the scrapers on a schedule.