Thats right, this post is about "parsing craigslist to extract e-mail addresses, and writing script to automatically send my resume to job postings".
Being a computer science student and in senior year, I have had my rod out for awhile and only shawdy recruiters are nibbling - giving me false hope for senior developer roles I won't get.
So why spend hours clicking through craigslist job postings when I can probably just have an automated system of applying to EVERY job posting on craigslist in my area. I have spent too many hours going through online job application processes. I am probably not alone.
RSS, python regex, SQL database, yahoo pipes. What are some ideas some of you out there might have in regards to this idea?
For scraping Craigslist, use the pyquery Python package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery
For a regex for email addresses, see the first example on this page: http://www.regular-expressions.info/
I don't think you need a relational database for storing the email addresses. Just output to csv: https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html
For sending your resume to these email addresses, try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/
For second thoughts, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality