The Jobcentre's online search has been closed and integrated into Directgov, which has broken this service. While we decide what to do, we suggest searching on Directgov
Royal mail's legal action broke our website, so we've gone back to scraping Google.
You can access this data in several formats: ATOM, JSON and Serialised PHP.
To do so, just add .atom, .json, or .sphp to the URI that has returned the information that you want.
For example, these URIs:
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/view/CRY/63960.atom
Will return this job in the appropriate format.
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/view/CRY/63960.sphp
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/view/CRY/63960.json
To query jobs, access the search URI, specifying the format that you want:
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/search.atom/
And add a query string to specify your search terms, for example:
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/search.sphp/
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/search.json/
http://www.jobcentreproplus.com/search.atom/?keywords=Chef&distance=10&postcode=n7+0at
Which will return these jobs.
The only parameters that work at the moment are keywords, which searches the text
of the job's title and description; postcode, which specifies the area you're interested
in; and distance, which specifies the maximum distance from that postcode that you're willing
to travel. These are the same fields as are used by the site, so you can construct your queries there
and then adjust the URL if you wish.
If you're requesting JSON, you can provide a callback parameter which will be returned in your results.