Jobs API

https://api.wedatatools.com/v2/get-jobs

Basic Usage

Request

The get-jobs API accepts an application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request. Authentication is provided by passing your provided API key as the “key” parameter. Additional parameters are specified in the Parameters section below.

Response

The get-jobs API responds with a JSON representation of the requested data. The content of the response may vary according to the request, but a basic request will populate the “hits” key with an array of documents returned. The content of the documents can be specified according to the “includes” and “excludes” parameters specified in the Parameters section below.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Permitted Values
`key`	String	Your provided API Access Key
`search`	String	Plaintext search. Results with a title, or additional metadata, matching the search string will be returned.
`per_page`	Numeric	Results per page. A value of `-1` returns all matching results.	`0-10000`, `-1` Default: `20`
`page`	Numeric	Page number.	Default: `1`
`track_total_hits`	Boolean	Total hits for a given query shows up in the `meta` object under `total`, but for performance reasons this typically caps at 10000. To remove the cap, pass `true` to `track_total_hits`.	`true`, `false` Default: `false`
`orderby`	String	Order in which to return results.	`date_desc`, `date_asc`, `wage_desc`, `wage_asc`, `relevance` Default: `relevance`
`start_date`	DateTime	The earliest post date from which to include postings in the result set.	String formatted `YYYY-MM-DD.`
`end_date`	DateTime	The latest post date from which to include postings in the result set.	String formatted `YYYY-MM-DD.`
`range_type`	String	Governs the type of date range to use when considering `start_date` and `end_date`.	`active`: (default) includes postings that were actively recruiting during the specified date range. `new`: includes postings that were newly posted during the specified date range.
`[field]`	String/Array	Search the value of a document field. See “Term Query” section.
`[field]__like`	String/Array	Wildcard search the value of a document field. See “Term Query” section.
`[field]__not`	String/Array	Value to not match for a given field. See “Term Query” section.
`must_exist`	String/Array	Field(s) that must have a value on the target document to be included in the result set.	See “permitted fields”.
`must_not_exist`	String/Array	Field(s) that must not have a value on the target document to be included in the result set.	See “permitted fields”.
`aggregate`	String/Array	Provides the “term frequency” count of a given field in the dataset. See “Aggregations” section.	See “permitted fields”.
`wage_insights`	Boolean	Whether to provide a wage insights breakdown in the response. See “Aggregations” section.	`true`, `false`
`aggregate_count`	Numeric	The top N terms to return in any aggregation function. See “Aggregations” section.	Default: `100`
`includes`	String/Array	Fields to include on the return document.	See “permitted fields”.
`excludes`	String/Array	Fields to exclude on the return document – overrides “includes” in the event of overlap.	See “permitted fields”.

Permitted Fields

The following fields are available on the job documents to search/aggregate/include:

Basic Data

Field	Description
`job_title`	The title of the job post.
`employer`	The title of the employer associated with this job post.
`content`	Plaintext content associated with this job post.
`excerpt`	As `content`, but limited to first 200 words.
`post_date`	The date the postings was first listed.
`expiry_date`	The date the posting was expired, if applicable.
`type`	The type, whether `FT` (full-time) or `PT` (part-time) of the posting.
`duration`	The duration, whether `permanent`, `temporary`, or `contract` of the posting.

NOC and NAICS

Field	Description
`nocs_2021`	The five-digit 2021 Unit-Level NOC code(s) associated with this job post. See Hierarchy and Structure [of 2021 National Occupation Codes]
`nocs_hierarchical_2021`	As `nocs_2021`, but includes all applicable 1-digit, 2-digit, 3-digit, 4-digit, and 5-digit representations.
`occupational_category_2021`	As `nocs_2021`, but using the 1-digit representation.
`major_group_2021`	As `nocs_2021`, but using the 2-digit representation.
`submajor_group_2021`	As `nocs_2021`, but using the 3-digit representation.
`minor_group_2021`	As `nocs_2021`, but using the 4-digit representation.
`teer_category_2021`	The Training, Education, Experience, and Responsibilities category for the job post, derived from its NOC categorization. See TEER categories and examples of jobs
`nocs`	The four-digit 2016 Unit-Level NOC code(s) associated with this job post. See Hierarchy and Structure [of 2016 National Occupation Codes]
`nocs_hierarchical`	As `nocs`, but includes all applicable 1-digit, 2-digit, 3-digit, and 4-digit representations.
`occupational_category`	As `nocs`, but using the 1-digit representation.
`skill_level`	As `nocs`, but using the 2-digit representation.
`minor_group`	As `nocs`, but using the 3-digit representation.
`naics`	The six-digit 2017 Canadian Industry Level NAICS code(s) associated with the employer for this job post. See North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0.
`naics_hierarchical`	As `naics`, but includes all applicable 2-digit, 3-digit, 4-digit, 5-digit, and 6-digit representations.
`sector`	As `naics`, but using the 2-digit representation.
`skill_type`	The applicable Skill Type of the job post, depending on its NOC association. See NOC Skill Type.

Location Data

Field	Description
`location`	The geolocation (lat + long) associated with the posting’s employer.
`derived_location`	The geolocation (lat + long) associated with the posting’s employer, OR the derived location based on the job posting’s `region` if the previous does not exist.
`region`	The city/town the job post was listed for.
`regions`	The city/town the job post was listed for, plus all related municipalities, regions, etc.
`stateprov`	The state/province the job post was listed for.

Wage/Salary Data

Field	Description
`wage_value`	The extracted wage value for this posting.
`wage_value_normalized`	As `wage_value`, but only included if the harmonized wage falls between 10k and 400k CAD.
`wage_unit`	The unit, be it “hourly”, “weekly”, “yearly”, etc. corresponding with `wage_value`.
`wage_unit_normalized`	As `wage_unit`, but only included if the harmonized wage falls between 10k and 400k CAD.
`harmonized_wage`	The `wage_value` harmonized (converted) into a consistent yearly value.
`harmonized_wage_normalized`	As `harmonized_wage`, but only included if the harmonized wage falls between 10k and 400k CAD.

Additional Taxonomies

Field	Description
`skill_names`	KST skills associated with the job post.
`skills`	As `skill_names`, but a hashed representation.
`job_tag_names`	Additional taxonomic information such as benefits, education level, etc.
`job_tags`	As `job_tag_names`, but a hashed representation.
`language_names`	Language data associated with the job post.
`languages`	As `language_names`, but a hashed representation.
`benefits`	Organized buckets describing the benefits level of the job post, based on applicable `job_tags` information.

Term Query

Any permitted field can be individually searched. The most basic way of achieving this is to pass a permitted field as a request parameter, and the value for this parameter is the string value (or array of string values) you wish to search. An example of this would be "nocs": ["1221", "1222"]. There are other related parameters such as [field]__like or [field]__not that perform different types of field queries. For example, "nocs__not": ["1221", "1222"] will return ensure that postings in the result set do not match either NOC 1221 or NOC 1222.

Aggregations

Aggregation queries help summarize data as metrics, percentiles, statistics, etc. There are a number of available aggregations available:

Terms

“Terms” aggregation is a bucket aggregation that will summarize the top N terms (N configurable by passing the aggregate_count parameter) for a given field in the dataset. A terms aggregation can be done on a permitted field by passing the permitted field in the aggregate parameter.

Wage Insights

A “Wage Insights” aggregation is a percentile aggregation that will summarize the 0th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th percentile wage values in a given result set. This can be done for the entire dataset by passing true as the value for the wage_insights parameter. Wage insights can also be summarized by field by passing a permitted field value for wage_insights_by. For example, "wage_insights_by": "nocs" will provide individual wage insights for each of the top N NOC values in the result set.

Cardinality

A “cardinality” aggregation counts the total unique values in the result set for a given permitted field. For example, "cardinality": "employer" will provide a count of all unique employers in the result set.

Aggregation By Month/Week

Term aggregations can be sorted by week or month using the aggregate_by_month and aggregate_by_week parameters. This is structured the same way as the aggregate parameter. For example, passing "aggregate_by_month": "naics" will summarize the top N NAICS codes for each month in the result set.

Examples

For additional examples provided in additional programming languages, view the Postman Collection.

Get Page Of Job Postings

Request

curl --location 'https://api.wedatatools.com/v2/get-jobs/' \
--data-urlencode 'key=[Your API Key]' \
--data-urlencode 'page=1' \
--data-urlencode 'per_page=5' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=job_title' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=employer' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=excerpt' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=url' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=post_date' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=region' \
--data-urlencode 'includes%5B%5D=stateprov' \
--data-urlencode 'orderby=date_desc'

Response

{
    "meta": {
        "page": 1,
        "max_pages": 167,
        "returned": 5,
        "total": 3321
    },
    "hits": [
        {
            "_index": "jobs2023may25",
            "_id": "staging-2e058d570c3ca4078d8f271890b95405",
            "_score": null,
            "_ignored": [
                "content.keyword"
            ],
            "_source": {
                "post_date": "2023-08-23",
                "job_title": "Long Haul Truck Driver",
                "excerpt": "Overview Languages English Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate Experience Experience an asset Responsibilities Tasks Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport&hellip;",
                "url": "https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/38966510",
                "employer": "J7 Group Ltd",
                "region": "Winnipeg",
                "stateprov": "MB"
            },
            "sort": [
                1692752976000
            ]
        },
        {
            "_index": "jobs2023may25",
            "_id": "staging-e40363b478a050f331552753ff658a0d",
            "_score": null,
            "_ignored": [
                "content.keyword"
            ],
            "_source": {
                "post_date": "2023-08-23",
                "job_title": "Kitchen Helper",
                "excerpt": "Overview Languages English Education No degree, certificate or diploma Experience 1 to less than 7 months Responsibilities Tasks Carrying and replace linen Clean and&hellip;",
                "url": "https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/38966514",
                "employer": "Pregame Sports Bar &amp; Lounge",
                "region": "Winnipeg",
                "stateprov": "MB"
            },
            "sort": [
                1692752965000
            ]
        },
        {
            "_index": "jobs2023may25",
            "_id": "staging-a0ea2360ad54916a27489d9414955cf9",
            "_score": null,
            "_ignored": [
                "content.keyword"
            ],
            "_source": {
                "post_date": "2023-08-23",
                "job_title": "Administrative Assistant",
                "excerpt": "Overview Languages English Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate Experience Experience an asset Responsibilities Tasks Record and prepare minutes of meetings, seminars and conferences&hellip;",
                "url": "https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/38966526",
                "employer": "J7 Group Ltd",
                "region": "Winnipeg",
                "stateprov": "MB"
            },
            "sort": [
                1692752955000
            ]
        },
        {
            "_index": "jobs2023may25",
            "_id": "staging-e2c1672ef005bac03b99a42a23b73b93",
            "_score": null,
            "_ignored": [
                "content.keyword"
            ],
            "_source": {
                "post_date": "2023-08-23",
                "job_title": "Cook",
                "excerpt": "Overview Languages English Education No degree, certificate or diploma Experience Will train Cook categories Cook (general) Responsibilities Tasks Prepare and cook complete meals or&hellip;",
                "url": "https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/38966528",
                "employer": "Fionn&#039;s Grant Park",
                "region": "Winnipeg",
                "stateprov": "MB"
            },
            "sort": [
                1692752945000
            ]
        },
        {
            "_index": "jobs2023may25",
            "_id": "staging-418d8c46af56aba387b4835d30e818b2",
            "_score": null,
            "_ignored": [
                "content.keyword"
            ],
            "_source": {
                "post_date": "2023-08-23",
                "job_title": "Cook",
                "excerpt": "Overview Languages English Education No degree, certificate or diploma Experience Will train Cook categories Cook (general) Responsibilities Tasks Prepare and cook complete meals or&hellip;",
                "url": "https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/38966532",
                "employer": "Fionn MacCool&#039;s Crossroads",
                "region": "Winnipeg",
                "stateprov": "MB"
            },
            "sort": [
                1692752934000
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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Basic Usage

Request

Response

Parameters

Permitted Fields

Basic Data

NOC and NAICS

Location Data

Wage/Salary Data

Additional Taxonomies

Term Query

Aggregations

Terms

Wage Insights

Cardinality

Aggregation By Month/Week

Examples

Get Page Of Job Postings

Request

Response