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ai-job-search/.agents/skills/freehire-search/cli
447fec0302 fix(freehire-search): reject detail URLs on other hosts instead of asking the API for their last segment (#622) (#623)
* fix(freehire-search): reject detail URLs on other hosts instead of asking the API for their last segment

normalizeSlug took the segment after "/jobs/" from ANY string, so a
Greenhouse apply link - which is what a freehire search result's own url
field carries - was reduced to its last path segment and detail
requested /api/v1/jobs/1, then reported NOT_FOUND for a URL that was
never a freehire posting. Every other portal CLI rejects an off-host
detail URL with BAD_ID (#447, #430, #499); freehire was the last one
trusting the path.

Parse URLs for real: freehire.me (apex or any subdomain, scheme optional)
or the host of FREEHIRE_API_URL for a self-hosted instance, plus a
/jobs/<slug> path, yields the slug; other hosts, look-alike and userinfo
hosts, and non-job freehire pages exit 1 with BAD_ID before any request.
Bare slugs are unchanged.

Five new normalizeSlug cases and a handler-level test that pastes the
search fixture's own apply URL into detail with fetch stubbed; the
off-host cases fail on master.

* changelog: place the #623 entry under [Unreleased]

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Mads Lorentzen <madslorentzen_17@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 19:20:06 +02:00
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freehire-cli

CLI for searching the freehire.me job aggregator across many markets (tech-focused), via its public JSON API.

Data source: freehire.me REST API (/api/v1/agent/jobs/search, /api/v1/jobs/search for --no-description, /api/v1/jobs/facets, /api/v1/jobs/{slug}). Authentication: None required — reads are public (only tracking mutations need a key, and those are out of scope here). Dependencies: None (plain bun + fetch). bun install is optional and only pulls dev type defs.

Hosted-service dependency. This skill talks to freehire.me, a personal project maintained on a best-effort basis with no formal SLA. If the API is unreachable the CLI exits non-zero with a clear error rather than hanging, so an outage degrades gracefully instead of breaking the caller. Point FREEHIRE_API_URL at a self-hosted freehire backend to swap the source.

Installation

cd .agents/skills/freehire-search/cli
bun install   # optional — only installs TypeScript dev types

The CLI runs without any install because it has zero runtime dependencies.

Self-hosting / base URL

The base URL defaults to https://freehire.me and is overridable with an env var:

FREEHIRE_API_URL=http://localhost:8080 bun run src/cli.ts search -q "go"

The freehire backend is MIT-licensed and stands up with one command via Docker Compose (make up → API on :8080, same /api/v1/... paths).

Commands

Command Description
search Search jobs by keyword and facet filters
detail Fetch full detail for a single job by its slug

search accepts --format json|table|plain (default json); detail accepts --format json|plain. All errors are written to stderr as { "error": "...", "code": "..." } with exit code 1.

search hits the API's agent endpoint, so every JSON result already carries the posting's full description (Markdown by default, --description-format text|html to change it). detail remains for looking a single posting up by slug — including a closed one, which search does not return.

Quick examples

# Senior backend roles, table view
bun run src/cli.ts search -q "backend engineer" --seniority senior --limit 10 --format table

# Remote React roles in the EU
bun run src/cli.ts search -q "react" --remote remote --region eu --format table

# DevOps roles in Germany posted in the last 14 days
bun run src/cli.ts search --category devops --country DE --jobage 14 --format table

# Full detail for one job (slug from a search result's id)
bun run src/cli.ts detail golang-zensar-2bxu6dxm --format plain

See ../SKILL.md for the full flag reference and the hosted-dependency note.

Search flags

Flag Alias Description
--query -q Keywords (title / skill / role). Full-text; optional.
--jobage Posted within N days (posted_within_days).
--page 1-indexed page. Default 1.
--limit -n Results per page (API limit). Default 25.
--region Macro-region(s), comma = OR (e.g. eu,us).
--country ISO-3166 alpha-2 code(s).
--city City name(s).
--seniority Seniority level(s).
--category Role category(ies).
--skill Canonical skill(s).
--company Company slug.
--remote remote | hybrid | onsite (work_mode).
--facet Any other facet as key=value (repeatable).
--format json | table | plain.
--description-format markdown (default) | text | html — how each result's full description is rendered (json output only).

Facet values come from freehire's controlled vocabularies. Discover the live values (with counts) for a market at /api/v1/jobs/facets, or narrow it, e.g. https://freehire.me/api/v1/jobs/facets?q=react.