Best-effort form filler for any career page with standard HTML forms.
Handles single-page and multi-step flows, resume upload, login wall
and CAPTCHA detection. All ATS stub handlers now delegate to generic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LinkedIn shows different text on direct /apply/ URL vs button click:
- Button: "Easy Apply limit"
- Direct URL: "limit daily submissions" / "apply tomorrow"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When LinkedIn shows "Easy Apply limit" message, detect it in the
modal-open check, return rate_limited status, put job back in queue,
send Telegram alert, and stop the entire run. Prevents burning retries
and wasting browser sessions when rate limited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Start date fields now return mm/dd/yyyy format instead of "Immediately"
- Cancel any open sub-forms or date pickers before filling (handles
stacked popups with double-cancel check)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LinkedIn sometimes opens an Add Education/Experience sub-form with
Save/Cancel buttons that blocks the main Next button. Detect and
cancel these before attempting to fill the step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- getModalDebugInfo: one evaluate() for heading, buttons, errors (was N+2 calls)
- selectOptionFuzzy: batch-read option texts in one evaluate (was N calls)
- Tag elements with data-claw-idx during snapshot, query by attribute in fill()
(fixes fragile positional index matching for checkboxes/inputs)
- Log field counts per fill step for debugging
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Distinguishes closed listings from missing apply buttons. Shows in summary
as a separate line item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LinkedIn's apply URL pattern is {jobUrl}/apply/?openSDUIApplyFlow=true
which opens the modal directly. This eliminates:
- Button finding with waitForSelector (flaky on slow loads)
- Click retry logic
- "Continue" link fallback for draft applications
- Shadow DOM piercing for button detection
Tested: modal opens reliably, meta readable from background page,
form + progress bar present, 3.4s total navigation time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
domcontentloaded fires before JS renders the Easy Apply button,
causing flaky "No Easy Apply button found" failures on valid listings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- All entry points with log tee now call logStream.end() + process.exit()
(log stream kept event loop alive, blocking next cron run)
- easy_apply: detect "no longer accepting applications" and similar closed
listing text before reporting as unsupported
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- Remove unused APPLY_PRIORITY array (replaced by score-based sort)
- Fix run timeout only breaking inner loop — now breaks outer platform loop too
- Remove dead lastProgress variable in easy_apply step loop
- Add stdout/stderr log tee to job_searcher, job_filter, telegram_poller
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Log lines now explicitly say STOPPING with reason when the modal is
dismissed due to unknown questions or honeypots. handleResult logs
the full flow: paused → generating AI answer → sent to Telegram →
will retry after reply. Prevents claw from misreading as a hang/timeout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Easy Apply click: click found element directly, retry with force if modal doesn't open
- Resume: select first radio if none checked, fall back to file upload
- AI answers: inject stored answers into formFiller on needs_answer retry
- Answers persistence: reload answers.json before each job for Telegram replies
- Browser recovery: detect dead page, create fresh browser session
- Multiple dialogs: findApplyModal() tags the right dialog among cookie banners etc.
- Select matching: case-insensitive fuzzy match with substring fallback
- dismissModal: scope Discard scan to dialog elements only
- Label dedup: normalize whitespace, fix odd-length edge case
- no_modal status: explicit handleResult case
- Per-job timeout: 10 minutes (was 3)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace fixed 2.5s sleep + single check with event-driven waitForSelector
(state: 'detached', timeout: 8s). If modal persists, check for success
indicators (success text, Submit button gone) before marking incomplete.
Fixes false 'incomplete' status when LinkedIn shows post-submit dialog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Heading is always "Apply to <Company>" on every step — comparing it
caused false stuck detection on step 2. Now:
- Progress bar selector finds <progress> elements (no explicit role)
- Stuck detection re-reads progress AFTER clicking Next to see if it changed
- Threshold raised to 3 same-progress clicks before exiting
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
page.$() and frame.$() can't find the <a> in LinkedIn's shadow DOM,
but frame.evaluateHandle with document.querySelectorAll can.
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- Stuck detection after clicking Next: if heading+progress unchanged 2x,
exit with 'stuck' status instead of looping forever
- Select dropdowns: treat "Select an option" as unfilled (LinkedIn's
placeholder has a truthy value that was skipping the fill logic)
- Continue button fallback: detect draft "Continue" span via apply URL
pattern when Easy Apply button not found
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- dismissModal now always waits for Discard confirmation after closing
(previously returned early after Dismiss click, leaving draft saved)
- LINKEDIN_APPLY_BUTTON_SELECTOR matches both "Easy Apply" and
"Continue applying" (shown when a previous draft exists)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LinkedIn renders Easy Apply modal inside shadow DOM. document.querySelector()
in evaluate() cannot pierce shadow DOM, but Playwright's page.$() can.
easy_apply.mjs:
- Replaced all frame.evaluate(document.querySelector) with ElementHandle ops
- findModalButton uses modal.$$() + btn.evaluate() instead of evaluateHandle
- getModalDebugInfo uses modal.$eval and modal.$$() for all queries
- dismissModal scans buttons via page.$$() instead of evaluateHandle
- Removed findModalFrame (no longer needed)
form_filler.mjs:
- getLabel() walks up ancestor DOM to find labels (LinkedIn doesn't use label[for])
- Deduplicates repeated label text ("Phone country codePhone country code")
- isRequired() walks ancestors to find labels with * or required indicators
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LinkedIn renders the Easy Apply modal inside a /preload/ iframe, not the
main document. page.$() searches cross-frame but evaluate() only runs in
the main frame context, causing blank headings/buttons and broken navigation.
- Added findModalFrame() to locate the frame owning the modal dialog
- All evaluate/evaluateHandle calls now use modalFrame instead of page
- findModalButton() and dismissModal() updated to accept frame parameter
- formFiller.fill() receives modalFrame so container scoping works correctly
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Logs iframe count, child element tags, and first 500 chars of modal innerHTML
on step 0 to diagnose why buttons/heading aren't being found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Text inputs matched to cover letter now report as unknown if required,
instead of silently leaving the field empty
- Submit click now verifies modal closed before reporting success;
returns 'incomplete' with actionable log if modal stays open
- selectAutocomplete scoped to container (modal) to avoid clicking
wrong dropdowns from the underlying page
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
easy_apply.mjs:
- findModalButton() uses 3-strategy detection: aria-label exact/substring,
then exact button text match — survives LinkedIn aria-label changes
- Check order fixed: Next → Review → Submit (submit only when no forward nav)
- All queries scoped to modal + :not([disabled])
- dismissModal() with fallback chain: Dismiss → Close/X → Escape → Discard
- Uses innerText for button text (ignores hidden children)
form_filler.mjs:
- All queries scoped to container (modal when present, page otherwise)
- Radio labels use $$('label') + textContent instead of broken :has-text()
- Autocomplete uses waitForSelector instead of blind 800ms sleep
- EEO selects iterate options directly (selectOption doesn't accept regex)
- Country code check ordered before country to prevent fragile match order
constants.mjs:
- Add AUTOCOMPLETE_WAIT, AUTOCOMPLETE_TIMEOUT
- Remove unused button selectors (now handled inline by findModalButton)
ai_answer.mjs + keywords.mjs:
- Use ANTHROPIC_API_URL constant, claude-sonnet-4-6 model
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- lib/apply/index.mjs: add STATUS_MAP to normalize platform-specific statuses
to generic ones (no_button/no_submit/no_modal → skipped_no_apply).
Documented all generic statuses for AI/developer reference.
- job_applier.mjs: handleResult now handles skipped_no_apply, default case
logs + saves instead of silently dropping
- lib/linkedin.mjs: remove dead applyLinkedIn() and detectAts(), clean imports
(~110 lines removed). Search-only module now.
- lib/wellfound.mjs: remove dead applyWellfound(), clean imports.
Search-only module now.
- lib/lock.mjs: fix async signal handler — shutdown handlers now actually
complete before process.exit()
- test_linkedin_login.mjs: add try/catch/finally with proper browser cleanup
- README: update status table with all current statuses
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
