Support for "remote" as a location

[thinkspill]

Entering "remote" for location results in message:

The location should be formatted "City, ST". Currently only works for US locations.

Is there a Jobs API limitation preventing a search for remote jobs?

If it helps, here's an "awesome" resource for remote-centric jobs/job boards: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

Any thoughts on or plans for adding remote support?

[karllhughes]

@thinkspill thanks for the interest and linking me to the remote jobs resource!

I've toyed with the idea of allowing filtering by "remote" as well as "freelance/contract" roles, but the technical problem is that not all job board APIs support these filters. The reason that the current version of JobsToMail only includes keyword and location is that those are the only two fields that all 8 of the job boards we currently support use.

Some of the job boards do support a "remote" filter, so a workaround for this might be to allow users to select "remote only" and then only include results from the job boards that allow such a filter? It would limit the number of results these users see, but it would probably be the easiest, most accurate workaround.

On a side note in case you're interested, here's my backlog of new job boards I'd like to support someday: https://trello.com/b/h3PdoRdX/job-vendors-development Some of those focus specifically on remote jobs, so maybe once I have more of them supported we can make better remote filtering.

I'll add this to my backlog of things to think about, and welcome further discussion on it in the meantime.

[thinkspill]

Some of the sites on that list are remote-only and either the direct source (like https://remotecoder.io/ though with expired SSL cert warning) or an aggregator (https://jobmote.com/). These guys provide a JSON feed: https://remoteok.io/index.json ..and most of the others provide an RSS feed.

Also, I've noticed that some job boards will return remote jobs with just "remote" or something similar as the location.

Thanks for considering this feature. If I can find the time to pitch in on it I certainly will.