The Reluctant Blogger

No. There is no formal API. JobVent.com is really the only site utilizing the data in JobVent’s database. However, I did receive a request today from the founder of a site that is very similar to JobVent.com. He’d like to forward viewers of his site over to JobVent when they’re looking for a specific company that is not in his own database.

While I’m not prepared to publish a web service to access all of the data in JobVent’s database programmatically, I don’t mind if developers use some of our pre-existing functionality.

JobVent companies can be queried by using a URL formatted as follows:
http://www.jobvent.com/browse.php?searchText=COMPANYNAME&search=true&searchType=company

the above URL, when you replace COMPANYNAME with a urlencoded query string will perform a company name query and direct the user to the results on jobvent.

Alternatively, you can use our XML generator that we use for one or two AJAX calls.
http://www.jobvent.com/include/autocomplete.php?field=CompanyName&input=Verizon

The above url will generate XML which contains an id and a company name for all companies that match the urlencoded input string. It is important to leave the field=CompanyName string in the URL (do not modify this string). In this case, verizon will return two results, verizon, and verizon wireless. The id can be used to redirect to the company specific page… http://www.jobvent.com/companyBrowse.php?CompanyID=900

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