Yc Jobs Scraper

Description

Scrape daily job listings from YCombinator's Workatastartup platform without duplicates. Use this skill when asked to scrape YC jobs, update the YC companies list, or retrieve the latest startup jobs. It handles authentication, extracts company slugs via Inertia.js JSON payloads, falls back to public YC job pages when necessary, and maintains a local SQLite database to track historical jobs and...

What this skill does

1. 1Authenticates to Workatastartup.com once via Playwright and saves the session for subsequent headless runs.
2. 2Extracts company slugs from hidden Inertia.js JSON payloads on YC query pages, bypassing standard scraping blocks.
3. 3Falls back to parsing public HTML job cards from ycombinator.com company pages if JSON extraction fails.
4. 4Tracks every company slug and job ID in a local SQLite database, returning only net-new jobs on each run.
5. 5Supports direct database queries to count companies, view recent jobs, or export the full dataset for analysis.

When to use

• You want a daily feed of new YC startup job postings as a hiring signal for outbound prospecting.
• You are building a YC company list and want structured job data without manually scraping each company page.
• You need deduplication built in so repeated runs only surface jobs that appeared since the last check.

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