The Alt-Ac Job Beat Newsletter Post 22

Happy New Year everyone!

One piece of advice is that given many large companies repeatedly post the same job positions, it is ok to repeat apply for those positions. I would not re-apply right away, but if the job is still open say two months later it is in my opinion ok to reapply for that position. (I have gotten interviews this way, on applying a 2nd or 3rd time.)

JOBS

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CODE EXAMPLE

I have written about scraping using requests directly, or using playwright if you need to execute more complicated javascript applications. Another application though is manipulating your screen directly with python. So you can use the pyninput python library to manipulate your screen directly. For example, this code will move the cursor to a specific location on your screen and left click:

from pynput import mouse, keyboard

mo = mouse.Controller()
# can print mo.position to get current position
mo.position = (500,500)
mo.press(mouse.Button.left)
mo.release(mouse.Button.left)

I recently released a set of code I wrote to scrape GSU bookstore data, and you can check out how I used pynput and a Google chrome extension to get around some tricky anti-bot software on that website. This approach will work for controlling various desktop applications though as well.

Best, Andy Wheeler