Add a SEEK (AU/NZ) source adapter - #2013
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SEEK is the dominant job board in Australia and New Zealand, two markets no per-employer ATS board covers at scale. Issue #1634 flagged it as the highest value target of its batch but could not confirm it was reachable: a plain fetch of a search page answers 403. The 403 is a Cloudflare interstitial on the human-facing pages only. SEEK's own frontend search API answers 200 JSON to an unauthenticated request with no browser-shaped User-Agent, and its GraphQL endpoint serves the posting body. The blocker the issue raised does not exist on the path we crawl. Board is an ICT subclassification id, region the market, mirroring adzuna's per-country slices: the whole classification is ~6.5k postings against a ~550 result window, so it is unreachable as one query while its parts are not. The adapter is an aggregator (not boardless) and a HydratingSource, so a detail request is spent only on a posting the catalogue lacks. Two platform traps drive the design and are recorded at the code and in AGENTS.md: totalCount varies with pageSize (36 at pageSize=1, 688 at 20 for one query), so the walk trusts only "this page added nothing new"; and the ~550 window leaves five of Australia's 22 slices with a tail no crawl reaches, which the declared 14-day sweep grace absorbs. SEEK job pages sit behind the same interstitial, so liveness cannot be probed instead. Verified live against both markets: every posting came back with an employer, a structured country, a work mode, a listing date and a hydrated description.
CodeRabbit flagged that a posting whose detail request failed is ingested body-less and never retried, because the next crawl reports it as seen. The finding is correct and not fixable in this adapter: seen is a bare membership predicate over ExistingExternalIDs, which reports row existence and is_tech, never whether the row carries a description. Every HydratingSource in the repository shares the behaviour, and the alternative available at adapter level trades a permanent body-less row for a temporarily absent one, against the documented rule that a posting is never lost over a missing detail. Recorded as a known limitation instead.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesSEEK source adapter
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Mergeable with explicit owner follow-up: postings with whitespace-only employer names may be dropped instead of using the available advertiser description. Possibly related issues
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Ingest
participant Seek
participant SearchAPI
participant GraphQL
Ingest->>Seek: FetchNew board
Seek->>SearchAPI: Fetch paginated listings
SearchAPI-->>Seek: Return postings
Seek->>GraphQL: Hydrate unseen posting descriptions
GraphQL-->>Seek: Return sanitized detail content
Seek-->>Ingest: Return mapped jobs and seen refreshes
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In `@internal/sources/seek.go`:
- Around line 206-212: Update seekPosting.employer so each candidate value is
trimmed before firstNonEmpty selects between CompanyName and
Advertiser.Description. Preserve the existing private-advertiser filtering and
final employer return behavior.
In `@openspec/changes/add-seek-source-adapter/tasks.md`:
- Around line 3-7: Update the adapter skeleton task description to remove the
locale requirement from the market-table mapping, retaining only the host, site
key, and search scope fields supported by seekMarket.
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| func (p seekPosting) employer() string { | ||
| name := strings.TrimSpace(firstNonEmpty(p.CompanyName, p.Advertiser.Description)) | ||
| if strings.EqualFold(name, seekPrivateAdvertiser) { | ||
| return "" | ||
| } | ||
| return name | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Trim each candidate before the fallback choice.
firstNonEmpty receives the raw values. If CompanyName is whitespace-only, firstNonEmpty returns that whitespace string, so Advertiser.Description is never used. The final TrimSpace then yields "" and toJob drops a posting that carries a usable advertiser name.
🐛 Proposed fix
func (p seekPosting) employer() string {
- name := strings.TrimSpace(firstNonEmpty(p.CompanyName, p.Advertiser.Description))
+ name := firstNonEmpty(strings.TrimSpace(p.CompanyName), strings.TrimSpace(p.Advertiser.Description))
if strings.EqualFold(name, seekPrivateAdvertiser) {
return ""
}
return name
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| func (p seekPosting) employer() string { | |
| name := strings.TrimSpace(firstNonEmpty(p.CompanyName, p.Advertiser.Description)) | |
| if strings.EqualFold(name, seekPrivateAdvertiser) { | |
| return "" | |
| } | |
| return name | |
| } | |
| func (p seekPosting) employer() string { | |
| name := firstNonEmpty(strings.TrimSpace(p.CompanyName), strings.TrimSpace(p.Advertiser.Description)) | |
| if strings.EqualFold(name, seekPrivateAdvertiser) { | |
| return "" | |
| } | |
| return name | |
| } |
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In `@internal/sources/seek.go` around lines 206 - 212, Update seekPosting.employer
so each candidate value is trimmed before firstNonEmpty selects between
CompanyName and Advertiser.Description. Preserve the existing private-advertiser
filtering and final employer return behavior.
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| - [x] 1.1 Adapter skeleton: `seek` type over a `JSONGetter`+`JSONPoster` transport role, `Provider()` | ||
| returning `"seek"`, `NewSeek` constructor, and the market table mapping region `au`/`nz` to its | ||
| host, site key, search scope and locale. Test: an entry with an unknown region fails the board | ||
| with an error naming it; a known region builds a search URL carrying host, site key, scope, | ||
| subclassification, page, page size and newest-first sort. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove "locale" from the market-table description.
seekMarket in internal/sources/seek.go carries host, siteKey and where only. No locale field exists.
📝 Proposed fix
- returning `"seek"`, `NewSeek` constructor, and the market table mapping region `au`/`nz` to its
- host, site key, search scope and locale. Test: an entry with an unknown region fails the board
+ returning `"seek"`, `NewSeek` constructor, and the market table mapping region `au`/`nz` to its
+ host, site key and search scope. Test: an entry with an unknown region fails the board📝 Committable suggestion
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| - [x] 1.1 Adapter skeleton: `seek` type over a `JSONGetter`+`JSONPoster` transport role, `Provider()` | |
| returning `"seek"`, `NewSeek` constructor, and the market table mapping region `au`/`nz` to its | |
| host, site key, search scope and locale. Test: an entry with an unknown region fails the board | |
| with an error naming it; a known region builds a search URL carrying host, site key, scope, | |
| subclassification, page, page size and newest-first sort. | |
| - [x] 1.1 Adapter skeleton: `seek` type over a `JSONGetter`+`JSONPoster` transport role, `Provider()` | |
| returning `"seek"`, `NewSeek` constructor, and the market table mapping region `au`/`nz` to its | |
| host, site key and search scope. Test: an entry with an unknown region fails the board | |
| with an error naming it; a known region builds a search URL carrying host, site key, scope, | |
| subclassification, page, page size and newest-first sort. |
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In `@openspec/changes/add-seek-source-adapter/tasks.md` around lines 3 - 7, Update
the adapter skeleton task description to remove the locale requirement from the
market-table mapping, retaining only the host, site key, and search scope fields
supported by seekMarket.
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Both landed and were verified in production: the adapter (#2013) and the pacing fix (#2018). seek-source becomes a main spec, carrying the corrected detail-hydration requirement — paced, and deferring a posting it could not hydrate rather than storing it body-less. The archiver compares MODIFIED scenarios by header and reads a rename as a dropped scenario, so 'Failed detail never drops a posting' keeps its original header and states the reversed behaviour in its body.
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What and why
SEEK is the dominant job board in Australia and New Zealand — two markets no per-employer ATS board covers at scale. Issue #1634 flagged it as the highest-value target of its batch but explicitly deferred it pending a spike: a plain fetch of a SEEK search page answers 403, which reads as bot protection.
The spike settled it: the 403 is a Cloudflare interstitial on the human-facing pages only. SEEK's own frontend search API is not gated —
GET /api/jobsearch/v5/searchanswers 200 JSON with no cookie, no credential and no browser-shaped User-Agent (confirmed with no UA at all,curl/8.7.1,Go-http-client/2.0, and the project's ownfreehire/0.1). Descriptions come fromPOST /graphql, operationjobDetails, on the same terms. The blocker the issue raised does not exist on the path we crawl.Closes #1634
Shape
boardis an ICT subclassification id,regionis the market (au/nz) — the same board-is-a-slice, region-is-a-market splitsources/adzuna.ymluses, and region is already part of both the board dedupe key and theboard_healthkey, so the same slice id in two markets is two independently-healthy crawl targets for free. The adapter is anaggregator(notboardless) and aHydratingSource, so a detail request is spent only on a posting the catalogue lacks.43 boards: 22 Australian slices (~6,471 postings) and 21 New Zealand (~1,323).
Two platform traps drive the design
Both verified live and recorded at the code and in
internal/sources/AGENTS.md:totalCountis a function ofpageSize. The same query answered 36 atpageSize=1, 688 atpageSize=20, 680 at 50 and 666 at 100. It can drive neither pagination nor a truncation check, so the response struct does not even declare the field and the walk stops only on the repo's usual "this page added nothing new".pageSize=100serves pages 1–5 and answers page 6 empty. Five of Australia's 22 slices hold more than that, so they have a tail no crawl reaches. Ordered newest-first, the reachable window covers roughly the first 24 days of a SEEK ad's 30-day run; the declared 14-daysweepGraceabsorbs the drift that would otherwise close-and-reopen those postings each cycle. The marker is sound here specifically because liveness cannot be probed instead — SEEK's own job pages sit behind the same interstitial.Also handled:
whereis load-bearing (omitting it collapsed a 688-posting slice to 36);companyNameis empty on ~1 posting in 30, whereadvertiser.descriptioncarries the typed name — including the"Private Advertiser"placeholder, which is dropped rather than filed as a company.Verification
Live run against both markets: 31 postings, every one with an employer, a structured country, a work mode, a listing date and a hydrated description.
go run ./cmd/validate-sources→ OK, 205 files. 19 unit tests for the adapter.Known limitation, deliberately not fixed here: a posting whose detail request fails is ingested body-less and never retried, because the next crawl reports it as seen.
seenis a bare membership predicate overExistingExternalIDs, which reports row existence andis_tech— never whether the row carries a description — so no adapter can tell the two apart. EveryHydratingSourcein the repo shares this. Closing it properly means changing the hydration contract and its SQL for all of them, not forking the behaviour inside SEEK. Rare in practice: 31/31 details succeeded on the verification run. Written up in the change'sdesign.md.Checklist
go build ./...,go vet ./..., andgofmt -l .(prints nothing) pass.go test ./...passes (andgo vet -tags=integration ./...— no DB/handler code touched).design-system/changes: n/a.web/changes: n/a.Source/HydratingSourcecontracts.Summary by CodeRabbit
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