PhD Position Tracker

A Python automation app that monitors Netherlands-focused PhD vacancies and sends matching positions to interface every preferred days.

What It Does

• Scrapes AcademicTransfer across paginated results.
• Scrapes EURAXESS filtered to job offers in the Netherlands.
• Applies your keyword list plus excluded-keyword filtering.
• Sends matching vacancies to Telegram.
• Deduplicates overlaps between the two sources before sending.
• Persists sent job IDs in Redis so repeated vacancies are skipped on later runs.

Current Sources

• Academic Transfer – provides listings of PhD/Research positions (filtered in the code for relevant vacancies).
• EURAXESS – European PhD/research jobs (filtered in the code for Netherlands-based positions).

Setup

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Configure Telegram

Set these environment variables before running:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_bot_token
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=your_chat_id
REDIS_URL=your_redis_connection_string
SEEN_JOB_TTL_SECONDS=2592000

3. Adjust filters

Edit config.py to change:

• KEYWORDS
• EXCLUDED_KEYWORDS
• CHECK_INTERVAL_HOURS

Run

Run once:

python main.py --once

Run continuously with the scheduler:

python main.py

Project Structure

• main.py: scheduler and notification flow
• scraper.py: source-specific scraping logic
• notifier.py: Telegram sending logic
• storage.py: Redis-based seen-job persistence
• config.py: filters, source URLs, and timing