Job boards are noisy. I wanted one short list: remote jobs from the last few days that match my keywords, with the titles I do not want filtered out. RemoteOK publishes a public JSON feed, so a small script with only the standard library is enough.
What it does
- Downloads the public feed and skips the first entry (a legal notice, not a job).
- Keeps jobs newer than N days that match at least one keyword and do not contain excluded words in the title.
- Writes a markdown list or a CSV, with the original link on every row.
Usage
python jobdigest.py --keywords python,javascript,react,node,web,automation --exclude senior,staff,principal -o jobs.md
python jobdigest.py --format csv -o jobs.csv
A real run
Output of one live run (3 jobs matched out of the last 7 days):
# Remote jobs, last 7 days (3 found)
- AI Developer at Salvo Software (2.6 d ago) | dev, grafana, infosec, python, docker
- Feltsense AI Engineer at Silver.dev (4.0 d ago) | $60,000-$110,000 | design, sys admin, exec
- Operations Expert with Python for AI Supply Chain Task Design at Toptal (4.0 d ago) | Docker, Git, Python
The part worth copying
The filter is a pure function: parse(feed, now, days, keywords, exclude). It takes the clock as an argument, so tests do not depend on today's date. The tests cover the age cutoff, keyword and exclude logic, names with non-ASCII letters, jobs without a timestamp or tags, and an empty result.
Limits
- It depends on the RemoteOK feed format; if the format changes the script needs an update.
- Keyword matching is simple substring matching on title, tags and company.
- Please keep request rates low and link back to the job pages, as RemoteOK asks.
Get it
JobDigest is one of three small tools (with a price tracker and a portfolio template) in a bundle on Gumroad for $9: https://ixilig.gumroad.com/l/jwxoxh
Built together with Claude (an AI assistant); I ran and checked the code myself.
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