My Weekly Routine

My Weekly Routine

Inspiration

I wanted to create something to make my life easier and figured it might make someone else's life easier as well.

What it does

This program first asks the user what job they are in search for, this is the only input that the user will put in throughout the whole program, Everything after the user input is automated. The program then goes the web application google chrome, then into linkedIn.com, and searches for the job stored in search.txt. The benefit to this part of the program is that the program filters to only show results in the past week. After the program retrieves all the data that is needed for the program, it then goes to google jobs and does the same task.

How I built it

I used UiPath to create everything, I first created a note file that the program could read and store whatever is read into a variable. The variable can then be used several times across several job searching websites(#reusability). I used "Data Extraction" while on the specified website to extract from the search results. I used "Append to CSV" and "Write CSV" to export the data into a readable format. Then I opened the google calendar and used the variables I stored from the search to create a reminder that would let the user know of the top two searches that the user can apply for.

Challenges I ran into

Since this is my first hackathon I quite frankly did not know what to do at all plus I did not have a team so the proved very difficult. This is my first time using UiPath so I don't know if there is a more efficient way to store variables, that was a major hiccup. I didn't want the user to enter the same search several times. Extracting the URL was by far the most challenging task for me because there were not many ways to do it. There was one way to do this task and it would just not work sometimes. I managed to get it to work after messing with the anchors for it.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am just proud that I finished a project for my first hackathon. I didn't think I would be able to do that and I am just so grateful that I participated. I look forward to participating in more and hope to make some friends in the next one.

What I learned

I learned the basics of UiPath. In the process of learning UiPath, I wanted to create a website to showcase the data from the excel sheet into a pretty Ui so I learned some HTML and CSS but I didn't learn enough to make the Ui. Wish I could learn everything about web development and create one in a few hours.