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Exclude rate-limited platforms from job selection

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When LinkedIn is rate-limited, its jobs were filling the maxApps quota
but then getting skipped, leaving 0 applied. Now excludes easy_apply
jobs from selection during cooldown so Wellfound jobs get picked up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Matthew Jackson
2026-03-06 18:15:29 -08:00
parent 69eb6b124f
commit bbe68942e1
1 changed files with 17 additions and 4 deletions
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job_applier.mjs
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ async function main() {
const formFiller = new FormFiller(profile, answers, { apiKey, answersPath });
const startedAt = Date.now();
const RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MS = 6 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 6 hours
const rateLimitPath = resolve(__dir, 'data/linkedin_rate_limited_at.json');
const results = {
submitted: 0, failed: 0, needs_answer: 0, total: 0,
skipped_recruiter: 0, skipped_external: 0, skipped_no_apply: 0, skipped_other: 0,
@@ -83,9 +85,22 @@ async function main() {
return;
}
// Get + sort jobs — only enabled apply types
// Pre-check: which platforms are rate-limited? Exclude their jobs from selection
const excludedTypes = new Set();
if (existsSync(rateLimitPath)) {
try {
const { at } = JSON.parse(readFileSync(rateLimitPath, 'utf8'));
if (Date.now() - at < RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MS) {
excludedTypes.add('easy_apply'); // LinkedIn Easy Apply is rate-limited
const hoursLeft = ((RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MS - (Date.now() - at)) / 3600000).toFixed(1);
console.log(`⏸️ LinkedIn rate-limited (${hoursLeft}h remaining) — selecting from other platforms\n`);
}
} catch {}
}
// Get + sort jobs — only enabled apply types, excluding rate-limited platforms
const allJobs = getJobsByStatus(['new', 'needs_answer'])
.filter(j => enabledTypes.includes(j.apply_type))
.filter(j => enabledTypes.includes(j.apply_type) && !excludedTypes.has(j.apply_type))
.sort((a, b) => {
// Primary: filter_score descending
const scoreDiff = (b.filter_score ?? 0) - (a.filter_score ?? 0);
@@ -127,8 +142,6 @@ async function main() {
const sortedPlatforms = Object.entries(byPlatform)
.sort((a, b) => (platformOrder.indexOf(a[0]) ?? 99) - (platformOrder.indexOf(b[0]) ?? 99));
let timedOut = false;
const RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MS = 6 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 6 hours
const rateLimitPath = resolve(__dir, 'data/linkedin_rate_limited_at.json');
for (const [platform, platformJobs] of sortedPlatforms) {
if (timedOut) break;