Josef Assad

The UN Jobs site is useful as a compendium of what postings are being opened where, but as an information system it is nigh on useless. There is no way to track what you have seen and what you haven't seen, and no way to tell precisely what is new between now and the last time you visited (the new postings page notwithstanding).

I've written a small screenscraper which pulls down all the postings and converts them to an rss file. I don't know about other feed readers, but liferea can read from a local file. There's a ton of dependencies like BeautifulSoup and PyRSS2Gen, but anyone with a little motivation should be able to get this working.

I'll probably have to rig this up to a sqlite database at some point and have it e-mail updates since Chiara could also use it (as well as a few other people I know).

Download the file here.

Don't run it more than once every couple of days please. As you can imagine, it is a bit bandwidth intensive.