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Seeking federal job opportunities
From the course: Learning Cloud Service APIs
Seeking federal job opportunities
Getting a job, and at best, the right job, is a driving force in our culture. And anything that makes finding a job easier, has got to be a good thing, right? The US Government maintains a job bank with listings all over the country in all different fields for all levels of government. Federal, state, and local. Best of all for app developers, they provide easy to use API level access to all that information at no cost. Let me show you how you get to it. The primary page with details on the Jobs API, as it's known, can be found here. As with some other public sector APIs, you don't have to register as a developer. And no API access key is required to query the job database. The Jobs API works with a straightforward get request, and returns results in JSON format. Here's the base URL that you'll need. http://api.usa.gov/jobs/search.json. So, I'll copy that. And, head over and create a new URL. Paste that in. Now, there are seven valid parameters, and we'll cover them all in a bit. But…
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