Job Feed Documentation on Jobs UK

Job Feed Documentation Overview

We currently accept job data files based upon the Google Base, Indeed.com, Workhound and our own data formats. If you would like to submit your data file in another format, please contact us.

You can manually submit a data file for processing or alternatively submit a data file URL and we will collect and process your data file from your specified location.
Your data file will be processed daily at approximately 6:30am. If you are submitting a URL for us to collect your data file please make sure it is correct and process by this time.
Please always add all of your current jobs to your data file. Any previously uploaded job will be removed from JobsUK if it is not included in a subsequent data file.
Any vacanies older than 4 weeks will be automatically deleted from JobsUK.

Please remember that all of the jobs you are providing in the XML feed must be unique to your website. If your site contains reposted jobs from existing job boards you must NOT include them in your XML feed. If our system detects such duplicated reposts your feed will be disabled and your jobs will be removed from our search results without notice.

In such an event you will need to make the appropriate modifications to your feed and contact us to reactivate it.

If you have an existing file format you already use, it is likely we can accommodate that. We can accept almost all existing job file formats. If not, here two popular XML format examples populated with some sample data to serve as a guide.

JobsUK Feed


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jobs>
	<publisher>Website Name</publisher>
	<publisherurl>http://www.website.co.uk/</publisherurl>
	<job>
		<id>156</id>
		<date>2008-04-06 10:33:11</date>
		<title>Web Developer</title>
		<company>Top Agency Jobs</company>
		<companytype>Agency</companytype>
		<site>Website.co.uk</site>
		<url>http://www.website.co.uk/jobsdetails.asp?id=156</url>
		<salary>Up to £23k depending on experience</salary>
		<jobtype>Permanent</jobtype>
		<location>Guildford, Surrey</location>
		<description>Great opportunity to develop your skills in a innovative environment.</description>
		<category>Web Developer Surrey</category>
	</job>
</jobs>

The fields in bold are required. Job entries omitting any of these highlighted fields will not make it into our database. The other info is optional but strongly encouraged. The more data you can provide about a job the better.

HTML is permitted in the description; however it is preferred that you remove any HTML tags, JavaScript, HTML comments and CSS when generating the feed.

If the resulting XML feed turns out to be large you are encouraged to zip or gzip the file.

The URL must be a direct and permanent link. Direct means that the URL will bring up the job description for the job that is being described without the need to log in. (It is OK if you require a user to log in to apply for a job though).

Google Base

We currently support all of the Google Base data formats:

Tab-delimited .txt or .xls (Spreadsheet)
Google Base RSS 1.0
GoogleBase RSS 2.0
Google Base Atom 0.3
Google Base Atom 1.0

You can read more information on the structure of the above-mentioned formats on Google.

Indeed.com


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<source>
	<publisher>Super X Job Site</publisher>
	<publisherurl>http://www.superxjobsite.com</publisherurl>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 GMT</lastBuildDate>
	<job>
	     <title>Sales Manager</title>
	     <date>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT</date>
	     <referencenumber>unique123</referencenumber>
	     <url>http://www.123jobsite.com/viewjob.aspx?jobref=unique123</url>
	     <company>123 Corporation</company>
	     <city>Reading</city>
	     <state>Berkshire</state>
	     <country>UK</country>
	     <postalcode>RG1 5TG</postalcode>
	     <description>Communication skills, blah, blah, blah.</description>
	     <salary><![CDATA[£50K per year]]></salary>
	     <education><![CDATA[Degree]]></education>
	     <jobtype><![CDATA[Permanent]]></jobtype>
	     <category><![CDATA[Category1, Category2, CategoryN]]></category>
	     <experience><![CDATA[5+ years]]></experience>
	</job>
</source>

Workhound


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jobs>
	<publisher-name>Your Job Site</publisher-name>
	<publisher-url>http://www.yourjobsite.com</publisher-url>
	<job>
		<id>unique12345</id>
		<date>2004-06-22 10:33:11</date>
		<title>Customer Service Representative</title>
		<company>Big ABC Corporation</company>
		<url>http://www.yourjobsite.com/viewjob.php?jobid=unique12345</url>
		<salary>50K per year</salary>
		<jobtype>full-time, part-time, permanent</jobtype>
		<education>Degree</education>
		<experience>2+ years</experience>
		<location>London</location>
		<postcode>W1 3GR</postcode>
		<description>Strong Applicant. Communication skills. </description>
		<category>IT, Internet</category>
	</job>
</jobs>

Manual Feeds

If you have a small number of jobs and would like to manually populate and upload a data file then please download the example XML template. Once the file is complete you can either manually upload the data file or upload it to your website where we can access and process it. This is configured within the Active Feeds page.

Contact Us

If you have any queries regarding data formats or submitting a feed please contact us.