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| Web Scraper Developer |
Ref: 566743 |
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| Full/Part Time |
Full Time |
| Employment Type |
Permanent |
| Job Description |
My Client, based in Edinburgh, is looking for a Web Scraper Developer to join them at an exciting time in their development, offering you the chance to make significant contributions to the direction and development of the company.
You would be working as part of an energetic and intelligent team of developers to ensure that the web scrapers and data sources used are reliably providing accurate data. You would also be responsible for maintaining deep links to other web sites.
The position offers the right candidate the opportunity to develop their skills across a range of systems in an integral role with the organisation.
The Responsibilities of the role are:
- Ensuring that the prices on their site are accurate and complete
- Creating seamless redirects to partners' sites
- migrating to a new python-based data collection solution
- assisting with the maintenance of existing scrapers and data sources
- Increasing their global coverage
- keeping the business informed when things break and when they are fixed
- understanding and configuring their system in keeping with fast changing operational requirements
You will need to enjoy the challenge of doing this without always having technical cooperation from the target website.
About you:
- You will have excellent organisational skills
- You are flexible and open to working on a wide variety of tasks
- You are able to demonstrate an ability to 'think laterally' to solve problems
- You can communicate effectively with non-technical colleagues
- You can consistently focus on speedy development
- You know when to compromise completeness or elegance for speed
- You know when to compromise speed for completeness or elegance
- You pay attention to detail, but are not slowed by it
- You enjoy creating well-formed and documented code
- You always have your eye open for ways to make the team more efficient
Technical Requirements
Experience with:
- Python
- SQL
- XML
- XSLT
- XPath
- Regular expressions
- Web Scraping
Understanding of how websites work from the perspective of scraping them, including:
- Common HTTP methods, eg GET, POST
- Cookies
- AJAX(aid and mimiking client behaviour)
- JSON (and parsing it)
- Bot detection (and avoiding it)
Understanding of:
- Deep linking
- Affiliate tracking
Recruitment Zone acting as an employment agency in regard to this advert.
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| Start Date |
Negotiable
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| Duration |
Permanent
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| Hours Per Week |
37.5
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| Remuneration |
£20000 - £23000 per annum + bonus + Benefits
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| Location |
Edinburgh, , United Kingdom
United Kingdom,Edinburgh |
| Contact |
Lyndsey Stewart at the Edinburgh office
on tel: 0131 333 1555 or fax:
or by email: lyndsey.stewart@recruitmentzone.co.uk
 Request Callback
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