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# Oil & gas job portal adapter: EnergyJobline

**Date:** 2026-10-07
**Status:** design approved, scope narrowed after a Rigzone feasibility spike

## The problem

The user supplied ~40 oil & gas domains (agencies, job portals, majors, EPC/service
companies) to evaluate as new ingest sources. Recon across all of them, plus a pass over
the live `boards` table, narrowed things down fast:

- 18 majors/EPC/service companies sit on a known ATS. 13 were already boarded
(Shell, BP, Baker Hughes, Eni, ExxonMobil, Fluor, Halliburton, KBR, McDermott, SLB,
TechnipFMC, Wood, Worley). 5 were added via `cmd/add-board` on 2026-10-06 (Subsea7,
Bechtel, ADNOC, QatarEnergy, TotalEnergies). Aramco is excluded — its site TCP-blocks
automated requests and the platform could not be confirmed.
- Of the 7 general/niche job portals (Rigzone, Oilcareers, EnergyJobline,
OilAndGasJobSearch, Bayt, GulfTalent, NaukriGulf, Laimoon — 8 names, 7 distinct
backends since Oilcareers shares Rigzone's infrastructure):
- **Bayt and GulfTalent already have adapters**, already registered, and already have
live `boards` rows. Nothing to build.
- **Laimoon's jobs backend is dead** — confirmed stub/kill-switch across the whole
`jobs.laimoon.com` subdomain, no link from the live homepage. Out of scope.
- **NaukriGulf and OilAndGasJobSearch are unreachable at the network level** from both
this environment and the prod host (tar-pit / connection refused). Out of scope.
- **Rigzone** looked buildable on first recon (AWS WAF challenge, same shape as
Bayt/GulfTalent's Cloudflare challenge) but a feasibility spike invalidated that — see
below. Moved to the deferred group.
- **EnergyJobline** is the one portal this design covers.

## Rigzone feasibility spike (2026-10-07) — INVALIDATED for now

Before committing to build Rigzone alongside EnergyJobline, its one open risk (would the
project's existing Chrome-fingerprint transport, `fingerprinthttp.go`, clear Rigzone's bot
defense the way it clears Bayt's and GulfTalent's?) was spiked directly against the live
site, using the actual transport code rather than a guess:

- **Plain fingerprint transport (`newFingerprintHTTP`, the same one `bayt.go`/
`gulftalent.go` use):** both `https://www.rigzone.com/` and `/sitemap.xml` returned a
flat `HTTP 403 Forbidden` (nginx-style, "a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly
error page" body) with no `x-amzn-waf-action` header at all — i.e. not the solvable
"challenge" response seen from a plain `curl`, but a harder block that offers nothing to
pass. This matches the pattern this repo's own `firecrawltier.go` documents for
Bayt/GulfTalent/Wellfound: "the refusal comes before any challenge is offered" — a
datacenter-IP-level block, not a fingerprint check.
- **Proxied fingerprint transport (`newProxiedFingerprintHTTP`, over this repo's existing
`SOURCES_PROXY_URL`):** untestable — the proxy account returned `402 Payment Required`.
Determining whether a non-datacenter egress clears Rigzone's block would require
topping up that account first, a real spend decision.
- The further escalation this repo already has for exactly this shape of wall — the hosted
Firecrawl tier (`firecrawltier.go`) — also costs money per page and was not attempted.

**Verdict: INVALIDATED within the current budget.** The free tier (fingerprint spoofing
alone) flatly fails, and the next tier that might work costs money to even test. Asked
directly, the user chose not to spend to find out — so Rigzone joins NaukriGulf and
OilAndGasJobSearch in the deferred group rather than being forced through. It can be
revisited later specifically because it is a 100%-on-topic oil & gas board (unlike Bayt/
GulfTalent, whose broad general listings make the hosted tier's cost/relevance trade-off
much worse) — if the user later wants to fund a proxy top-up or a Firecrawl trial, this
spike's numbers are the starting point, not a dead end.

## EnergyJobline

Confirmed with a plain `curl` (Googlebot UA, no cookies, no JS) — no bot defense observed:

- `https://www.energyjobline.com/sitemap.xml` is an open sitemap **index** of 4
sub-sitemaps.
- A live posting, `https://www.energyjobline.com/job/controls-engineer-atlanta-31835232`,
server-renders three `<script type="application/ld+json">` blocks (`WebSite`,
`Organization`, `JobPosting`). `ldJobPosting` already walks past the non-JobPosting
blocks (`jobPostingNode` + `isJobPosting` filter by `@type`), so no new ld+json plumbing
is needed.
- The `JobPosting` block carries `title`, `description`, `jobLocation`/`address`,
`hiringOrganization`, `datePosted`, `employmentType`, `baseSalary`.

This is the same enumeration shape as `dataart.go` — sitemap to enumerate, `fetchDetails`
with `defaultDetailWorkers` to fetch each page, `ldJobPosting` to decode — combined with the
same **company resolution** `bayt.go`/`gulftalent.go` already use for exactly this
situation, rather than a new mechanism:

- `boardless()` — EnergyJobline has one sitemap, no per-tenant board id.
- `aggregator()` — the existing marker interface (`internal/ingest/sources/source.go`)
that documents "one crawl aggregates postings from many companies" and keeps the source
included in the source facet. No `CompanyEntry.Hub`/`Tenants` involvement at all — that
mechanism belongs to a different family of adapters (huntflow/cleverstaff/loxo/
successfactors) whose platform does NOT hand back a clean per-posting employer name,
so they resolve it from a URL/API field/title/curated map instead. EnergyJobline's
`JobPosting` ld+json already carries a clean `hiringOrganization.name` per posting — the
same situation Bayt and GulfTalent are in — so it follows their pattern exactly:

```go
company := strings.TrimSpace(p.HiringOrg.Name)
if company == "" {
return unreadableDetail(id, link, e.Company), true // proves the posting existed; no good employer name to show
}
```

This reuses the existing `unreadableDetail` helper (`helpers.go`) rather than inventing a
fallback — the same one `bayt.go`'s `detail` uses for an empty `hiringOrganization` and for
an unparseable fetch.

## Boards

Added via `cmd/add-board` after the code ships and a first manual run looks sane:

- `energyjobline` / board `www.energyjobline.com` / company `EnergyJobline`

## Testing

A unit test over a fixture sitemap-index + 2-3 fixture job pages under different
`hiringOrganization` values, asserting: the resolved employer per posting, the
`unreadableDetail` fallback when `hiringOrganization` is absent/empty, and the dedup
`ExternalID` — the same shape as `bayt_test.go`'s existing coverage of the same pattern.

## Risks

- **Job volume is unknown.** Recon confirmed the markup shape on one posting, not a count.
Sanity-check the first run's job count/duration before trusting the board long-term —
the same caution the SuccessFactors hub design raised for a large, uncounted hub.
- **`hiringOrganization` has no curation step.** A scraped `hiringOrganization.name` can be
messy — the platform's own brand, a recruiter's name instead of the real employer,
inconsistent casing — and the fallback only catches *empty* values, not wrong-but-present
ones. Bayt and GulfTalent accept the same risk for the same reason: it is the only
per-posting signal the site offers. Watch the catalogue after launch for obviously wrong
employer names on this source specifically.

## Out of scope

- **Rigzone (and Oilcareers)** — spiked and invalidated within the current budget (see
above). Revisit if the user wants to fund a `SOURCES_PROXY_URL` top-up or a Firecrawl
trial specifically for it.
- Laimoon — jobs backend is confirmed dead, not resurrectable by an adapter.
- NaukriGulf, OilAndGasJobSearch — unreachable at the network level from this environment
and from the prod host; the same paid-capability question as Rigzone would apply, not
attempted.
- Any change to `bayt.go`/`gulftalent.go` or the `aggregator`/`boardless` marker
interfaces — EnergyJobline only consumes them, exactly as they already exist.
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package sources

import (
"context"
"fmt"
"regexp"
"strings"

"golang.org/x/net/html"
)

// energyjobline adapts EnergyJobline (www.energyjobline.com), an energy-sector job-portal
// aggregator (oil & gas is one of its categories). It is boardless — one sitemap index
// covers the whole site, no per-tenant board id — and an aggregator: each posting's
// employer comes from its own schema.org JobPosting hiringOrganization, the same
// resolution bayt.go/gulftalent.go use. For agency/recruiter-submitted postings that
// value is the agency's own brand (e.g. "Energy Jobline ZR") rather than a confidential
// end client — verified against the live site's own human-visible company link, not just
// its ld+json, so it is stored as-is rather than filtered or guessed around.
type energyjobline struct {
http energyjoblineHTTP
}

// energyjoblineHTTP is the transport energyjobline needs: the XML sitemap (index and
// per-page urlset) plus HTML detail pages.
type energyjoblineHTTP interface {
XMLGetter
HTMLGetter
}

const energyjoblineSitemapIndexURL = "https://www.energyjobline.com/sitemap.xml"

// NewEnergyJobline builds the EnergyJobline adapter over the given HTTP client.
func NewEnergyJobline(c energyjoblineHTTP) Source { return energyjobline{http: c} }

func (energyjobline) Provider() string { return "energyjobline" }

// energyjobline is single-sitemap, so its config entry carries no board.
func (energyjobline) boardless() {}

// aggregator documents that one crawl aggregates postings from many companies (the
// employer comes from each posting, not the configured entry).
func (energyjobline) aggregator() {}

func (e energyjobline) Fetch(ctx context.Context, ce CompanyEntry) ([]Job, error) {
urls, err := e.jobURLs(ctx)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("energyjobline: sitemap: %w", err)
}
return fetchDetails(urls, defaultDetailWorkers, func(u string) (Job, bool) {
return e.detail(ctx, ce, u)
}), nil
}

// jobURLs resolves the top-level sitemap index to its paginated sub-sitemaps (each a flat
// urlset mixing job postings with the site's other pages, e.g. news articles) and returns
// every job-detail URL found across all of them.
func (e energyjobline) jobURLs(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
idx, err := getSitemap(ctx, e.http, energyjoblineSitemapIndexURL)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var urls []string
for _, sm := range idx.Sitemaps {
locs, err := sitemapJobLocs(ctx, e.http, sm.Loc, energyjoblineJobID)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
urls = append(urls, locs...)
}
return urls, nil
}

// detail fetches one job-detail page and maps its JobPosting ld+json to a Job. A URL with
// no extractable id, an unreadable fetch, a missing JobPosting block, or an empty
// hiringOrganization all return an unreadableDetail stub rather than a dropped posting or
// a guessed employer — the posting's existence is still proven, just with no usable
// catalogue entry.
func (e energyjobline) detail(ctx context.Context, ce CompanyEntry, link string) (Job, bool) {
id := energyjoblineJobID(link)
if id == "" {
return Job{}, false
}
root, err := e.http.GetHTML(ctx, link)
if err != nil {
if detailUnreadable(err) {
return unreadableDetail(id, link, ce.Company), true
}
return Job{}, false
}
var p energyjoblinePosting
if !ldJobPosting(root, &p) {
return unreadableDetail(id, link, ce.Company), true
}
company := strings.TrimSpace(p.HiringOrg.Name)
if company == "" {
return unreadableDetail(id, link, ce.Company), true
}
location := joinNonEmpty(
strings.TrimSpace(p.jobLocationAddress().Locality),
strings.TrimSpace(p.jobLocationAddress().Country),
)
return Job{
ExternalID: id,
URL: link,
Title: strings.TrimSpace(p.Title),

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Mark postings without a title as unreadable.

If a JobPosting has hiringOrganization.name but omits title, this branch returns a normal Job with an empty Title. The missing posting content is neither mapped nor counted as unreadable. Require a nonempty title before returning a normal Job; otherwise return unreadableDetail.

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Review comment at @internal/ingest/sources/energyjobline.go at line 106:
In the EnergyJobline posting-mapping branch, require the trimmed `p.Title` to be
nonempty before returning a normal `Job`; when it is missing or blank, return
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Company: company,
Location: location,
// EnergyJobline's description carries HTML-entity-encoded markup (e.g. literal
// "&amp;" inside the JSON string, confirmed on a live posting), so it needs
// unescaping before sanitizeHTML — unlike bayt.go/gulftalent.go, whose descriptions
// arrive already decoded.
Description: sanitizeHTML(html.UnescapeString(p.Description)),
Remote: isRemote(location),
PostedAt: parseDate(p.DatePosted),
}, true
}

// energyjoblineJobURLPattern captures the trailing numeric id from a canonical job-detail
// URL (https://www.energyjobline.com/job/<slug>-<id>), excluding the listing root
// (/jobs), the site root, and unrelated pages (e.g. /news-article/..., /company/...).
var energyjoblineJobURLPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`^https?://(?:www\.)?energyjobline\.com/job/[a-z0-9-]+-(\d+)/?$`)

// energyjoblineJobID extracts the job id from a canonical job-detail URL, returning "" for
// any other page shape on the site.
func energyjoblineJobID(u string) string {
return firstSubmatch(energyjoblineJobURLPattern, u)
}

// energyjoblinePosting is the schema.org JobPosting decoded from an EnergyJobline
// job-detail page's ld+json.
type energyjoblinePosting struct {
Title string `json:"title"`
Description string `json:"description"`
DatePosted string `json:"datePosted"`
HiringOrg energyjoblineOrg `json:"hiringOrganization"`
JobLocation []energyjoblinePlace `json:"jobLocation"`
}

type energyjoblineOrg struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
}

type energyjoblinePlace struct {
Address energyjoblineAddress `json:"address"`
}

type energyjoblineAddress struct {
Locality string `json:"addressLocality"`
Country string `json:"addressCountry"`
}

// jobLocationAddress returns the first jobLocation's address, or a zero value when the
// posting carries none — EnergyJobline's postings each carry exactly one, but the field is
// an array in the markup, so this guards the empty case rather than indexing directly.
func (p energyjoblinePosting) jobLocationAddress() energyjoblineAddress {
if len(p.JobLocation) == 0 {
return energyjoblineAddress{}
}
return p.JobLocation[0].Address
}
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