feat(providers): add headless browser scraping via Playwright for SPA job sites
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ejobs.ro migrated to a Nuxt SPA - plain HTTP GET returns only the JS
bundle. This change equips cv-search-job with a headless Chromium
(Playwright 1.60) so it can fully render SPA pages before extracting
job links.

- Add UseHeadlessBrowser flag to JobProviderEntity, JobProviderConfig,
  and CvSearchDbContext; map it in JobTokenService.ToConfig so the flag
  is included in the session provider-config snapshot
- Migration: add UseHeadlessBrowser column; fix ejobs.ro search URL
  (remove /user/ prefix that caused 404) and set UseHeadlessBrowser=true
- HtmlJobSearcher: detect flag and dispatch to FetchWithPlaywrightAsync;
  plain-HTTP path is unchanged; NetworkIdle timeout falls back to partial
  content rather than failing outright
- Dockerfile: download Playwright Chromium in the SDK build stage via
  npx; copy browser binaries to the final image; install Chromium system
  libs (Ubuntu noble t64 variants)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-05-29 13:42:52 +03:00
parent 209325ace5
commit e38f40732f
11 changed files with 391 additions and 22 deletions
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@@ -29,9 +29,28 @@ COPY Helpers/startup-helpers/ Helpers/startup-helpers/
RUN dotnet publish Jobs/cv-search-job/cv-search-job.csproj -c $BUILD_CONFIGURATION -o /app/publish /p:UseAppHost=false
# Download Playwright Chromium browser in the build stage.
# Node.js is only needed here to run npx — it is not copied to the final image.
ENV PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/ms-playwright
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs npm \
&& npx --yes playwright@1.60.0 install chromium \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:10.0 AS final
WORKDIR /app
# System libraries required by Chromium on Debian bookworm
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
libnss3 libnspr4 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libcups2 libdrm2 \
libxkbcommon0 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxrandr2 \
libgbm1 libasound2t64 libpango-1.0-0 libcairo2 libatspi2.0-0 \
libwayland-client0 libx11-xcb1 libx11-6 libxcb1 libxext6 \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Copy the Playwright Chromium browser from the build stage
ENV PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/ms-playwright
COPY --from=build /ms-playwright /ms-playwright
COPY --from=build /app/publish .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "cv-search-job.dll"]
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Web;
using CvMatcher.Models.Settings;
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
namespace CvSearchJob.Services;
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ namespace CvSearchJob.Services;
/// Config-driven HTML scraper that fetches a provider's job listing page and extracts matching job URLs.
/// Uses a two-stage anchor filter: href must contain the provider's link pattern, and anchor text must
/// contain at least one CV keyword.
/// Supports both plain HTTP GET (default) and headless Chromium rendering for JS-heavy SPAs.
/// </summary>
public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
{
@@ -28,10 +30,6 @@ public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
/// tags, applies the two-stage filter, and returns up to <see cref="JobProviderConfig.MaxResults"/> absolute URLs.
/// Returns an empty list when the HTTP request fails rather than throwing.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="provider">Provider configuration including search URL template, link filter, and result cap.</param>
/// <param name="cvKeywords">Keywords extracted from the user's CV to inject into the search query.</param>
/// <param name="ct">Cancellation token.</param>
/// <returns>Deduplicated list of absolute job page URLs (query string stripped).</returns>
public async Task<IReadOnlyList<string>> SearchJobUrlsAsync(
JobProviderConfig provider,
IReadOnlyList<string> cvKeywords,
@@ -53,26 +51,25 @@ public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
var searchUrl = provider.SearchUrlTemplate.Replace("{keywords}", keywordsEncoded);
_logger.LogInformation(
"Provider {Provider}: fetching {Url} | CV keywords: [{Keywords}]",
provider.Name, searchUrl, string.Join(", ", cvKeywords));
"Provider {Provider}: fetching {Url} [{Mode}] | CV keywords: [{Keywords}]",
provider.Name, searchUrl,
provider.UseHeadlessBrowser ? "headless" : "http",
string.Join(", ", cvKeywords));
string html;
try
{
html = await _http.GetStringAsync(searchUrl, ct);
_logger.LogInformation("Provider {Provider}: received {Length} chars of HTML", provider.Name, html.Length);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_logger.LogWarning(ex, "Provider {Provider}: HTTP fetch failed for {Url}", provider.Name, searchUrl);
return [];
}
string? html;
if (provider.UseHeadlessBrowser)
html = await FetchWithPlaywrightAsync(provider.Name, searchUrl, ct);
else
html = await FetchWithHttpAsync(provider.Name, searchUrl, ct);
if (html is null) return [];
_logger.LogInformation("Provider {Provider}: received {Length} chars of HTML", provider.Name, html.Length);
var baseUri = new Uri(searchUrl);
var results = new List<string>();
var seen = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
// Match all anchor tags capturing href and inner text
var anchorPattern = new Regex(@"<a[^>]+href=[""']([^""']+)[""'][^>]*>(.*?)</a>",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
@@ -92,7 +89,6 @@ public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
stage1Pass++;
// Stage 2: anchor text must contain at least one CV keyword
if (!cvKeywords.Any(k => anchorText.Contains(k, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)))
{
_logger.LogDebug(
@@ -103,14 +99,12 @@ public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
stage2Pass++;
// Make absolute URL
if (!Uri.TryCreate(href, UriKind.Absolute, out var absoluteUri))
{
if (!Uri.TryCreate(baseUri, href, out absoluteUri))
continue;
}
// Strip query string and fragment so different tracking variants of the same URL collapse to one.
var url = absoluteUri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path);
if (seen.Add(url))
results.Add(url);
@@ -122,4 +116,61 @@ public sealed class HtmlJobSearcher
return results;
}
private async Task<string?> FetchWithHttpAsync(string providerName, string url, CancellationToken ct)
{
try
{
return await _http.GetStringAsync(url, ct);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_logger.LogWarning(ex, "Provider {Provider}: HTTP fetch failed for {Url}", providerName, url);
return null;
}
}
private async Task<string?> FetchWithPlaywrightAsync(string providerName, string url, CancellationToken ct)
{
try
{
using var playwright = await Playwright.CreateAsync();
await using var browser = await playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync(new BrowserTypeLaunchOptions
{
Headless = true,
Args = ["--no-sandbox", "--disable-setuid-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]
});
var page = await browser.NewPageAsync();
IResponse? response;
try
{
response = await page.GotoAsync(url, new PageGotoOptions
{
WaitUntil = WaitUntilState.NetworkIdle,
Timeout = 30_000
});
}
catch (TimeoutException)
{
// NetworkIdle timed out — use whatever content rendered so far
_logger.LogWarning("Provider {Provider}: Playwright NetworkIdle timeout for {Url}, using partial content", providerName, url);
return await page.ContentAsync();
}
if (response is null || response.Status >= 400)
{
_logger.LogWarning("Provider {Provider}: Playwright got HTTP {Status} for {Url}", providerName, response?.Status, url);
return null;
}
return await page.ContentAsync();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_logger.LogWarning(ex, "Provider {Provider}: Playwright fetch failed for {Url}", providerName, url);
return null;
}
}
}
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" />
<PackageReference Include="Refit.HttpClientFactory" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Playwright" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>