| name | japandev-collect |
| description | Collect recent public job postings from Japan Dev (japan-dev.com) — IT jobs in Japan for English speakers. Use when the user wants to gather, scan, or monitor Japan Dev listings by role, stack, or company. Read-only — no login, save, or apply. Prints a normalized JSON array of postings. |
Japan Dev Collect
Collect recent public postings from Japan Dev's server-rendered /jobs listing
and return normalized JSON (docs/SCHEMA.md). Self-contained: this skill's
collect.py carries its own fetch + parse and depends only on curl_cffi,
beautifulsoup4, lxml.
Boundaries
- Read-only. GET of the public
/jobs listing only. Never log in, save a
job, message, or apply. Do not submit any form.
- No fabrication. Fields the source does not expose are
null; titles,
companies, locations, and salaries are copied verbatim.
- A collected posting reflects the public page at run time; it is not proof the
role is still open.
Run
If collect.py fails with ModuleNotFoundError, install the deps yourself
(pip install curl_cffi beautifulsoup4 lxml) and retry — do not ask the user
to install anything.
pip install curl_cffi beautifulsoup4 lxml
python3 skills/japandev-collect/collect.py --query "backend" --limit 20
python3 skills/japandev-collect/collect.py --limit 20
--query, -q — filter the listing by title/company substring (client-side).--limit, -n — max postings (default 20).--pretty — indent the JSON.
Output: a JSON array on stdout; a one-line count on stderr. Japan Dev exposes
company, location, salary band (¥…), and a remote/onsite arrangement cleanly;
residency/visa badges and technology tags land in snippet.
Notes
- Source:
SRC-JOB-JAPANDEV — https://japan-dev.com/ (collectible_open,
verified 2026-07-07). The /jobs page is server-rendered and returns ~60 job
cards in a single fetch.
- Cards are
li.job-item; the title/link is a.job-item__title with an href of
/jobs/<company-slug>/<job-slug>. external_id is the trailing <job-slug>
(stable for dedup); company is read from the logo alt.
--query filters the single fetched listing client-side (no server search
param), so it narrows within the ~60 currently listed roles rather than
querying the whole site.- If the layout changes and 0 postings return, re-derive the
li.job-item
child selectors against a live fetch (do not hardcode a specific company).
