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career_chooser.py:
import urllib
import re
import sys
import cgi
API_KEY="USE YOUR OWN"
def get_result(query):
url = "http://api.indeed.com/apisearch?q=\"%s\"&l=&start=0&limit=1&sort=&filter=on&latlong=off&key=%s&format=xml" % (query, API_KEY)
result_count_re = re.compile(r"<totalresults>(\d+)</totalresults>")
content = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
match = result_count_re.search(content)
if match:
return int(match.groups()[0])
def display(label, count):
count_str = "%10d" % (count)
spaces = 78 - (len(label) + len(count_str))
return "%s:%s%s" % (label, " " * spaces, count_str)
result_list = []
assert len(sys.argv) > 1, "Usage %s [Query] [Query] ..." % (sys.argv[0],)
for query in sys.argv[1:]:
result_list.append((query, get_result(query)))
result_list.sort(lambda x,y: x[1] - y[1], reverse=True)
print "\n".join(map(lambda x: display(*x),result_list))
Try it out:
C: 136105 Java: 89132 HTML: 87963 Assembly: 63423 XML: 62938 C%2B%2B: 60774 Javascript: 42368 ASP: 42067 Perl: 35742 J2EE: 31609 Visual+Basic: 28924 PHP: 17972 ADA: 11821 Struts: 11425 Python: 10416 COBOL: 6964 Ruby: 5439 Ruby+on+Rails: 2515 FORTRAN: 2008 Zend: 270 Django: 228 CakePHP: 109 CodeIgniter: 31 JRuby: 30
