The latest articles on DEV Community by Haider Ali (@haydermuhib). https://dev.to/haydermuhib https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4133178%2Ffe0b127a-b7c2-46a5-8f5d-2874f3266c73.jpg https://dev.to/haydermuhib en Haider Ali Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:40:24 +0000 https://dev.to/haydermuhib/built-an-open-source-tool-to-parse-live-job-postings-for-actual-tech-stack-requirements-and-salary-47n https://dev.to/haydermuhib/built-an-open-source-tool-to-parse-live-job-postings-for-actual-tech-stack-requirements-and-salary-47n <p>Most career advice relies on survey reports or recruiter lists that treat all skill mentions equally. A casual mention of Python in an introductory paragraph gets counted the same as five years of required experience in the qualifications section.</p> <p>To get clearer data for my own job search, I built an open source tool called StackCheck.</p> <p>How it works:</p> <ul> <li>Pulls live postings matching your search criteria directly from HiringCafe.</li> <li>Separates job descriptions into sections and weights hard qualifications higher than general overview text.</li> <li>Normalizes hourly, monthly, and international compensation disclosures into standardized annual USD brackets with 25th, median, and 75th percentiles.</li> <li>Computes co-occurrence matrices showing which technologies companies actually demand together (such as Python with Snowflake versus Python with Django).</li> <li>Runs completely on your own machine. Data is stored in a local SQLite file with zero cloud accounts, telemetry, or mandatory API keys.</li> </ul> <p>It includes both a command line interface and a local browser dashboard for inspecting postings, sorting by salary, and filtering by workplace type (remote, hybrid, onsite).</p> <p>Source code and prebuilt binaries: <a href="https://github.com/haydermuhib/StackCheck" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/haydermuhib/StackCheck</a><br> Web documentation: <a href="https://haydermuhib.github.io/StackCheck/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://haydermuhib.github.io/StackCheck/</a></p> <p>Hope it helps anyone researching market demand for their specific stack.</p> career opensource softwaredevelopment tools