| --- |
| license: cc0-1.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| - feature-extraction |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - usajobs |
| - federal-hiring |
| - government |
| pretty_name: USAJOBS Announcements 2026 |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: data/*.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # USAJOBS announcements, 2026 |
|
|
| The full text of every federal job announcement opened in 2026, scraped from |
| usajobs.gov. 162,030 announcements, updated daily. |
|
|
| ## Why this exists |
|
|
| The USAJOBS API is a poor source for announcement text, in two ways. |
|
|
| The Search API only lists jobs that are open right now, so anything that opens |
| and closes between two collection runs is never captured. Measured against the |
| Historical API, which does report closed postings, that's about 3% of 2026 — |
| 5,274 announcements — and it isn't spread evenly. OPM had text for 159 of its |
| 724 postings. SSA for 200 of 422. |
|
|
| For postings the API *does* return, `MatchedObjectDescriptor` drops content the |
| announcement page shows. Confirmed cases exist where the page says "Rule of |
| Many" and the API record does not. |
|
|
| Neither gap can be backfilled from the API afterward: the Historical API returns |
| metadata only, and Search only returns open jobs. So this scrapes the page, |
| which usajobs.gov serves indefinitely after an announcement closes. |
|
|
| ## What's in it |
|
|
| One parquet file per month under `data/`, one row per announcement. Self |
| contained — you don't need any other source to use it. |
|
|
| The scraped column: |
|
|
| | column | | |
| |---|---| |
| | `text` | the announcement page as plain text, tags stripped and whitespace collapsed | |
|
|
| Everything else comes from the USAJOBS Historical API: `usajobsControlNumber`, |
| `announcementNumber`, `hiringAgencyCode`, `hiringAgencyName`, |
| `hiringDepartmentCode`, `hiringDepartmentName`, `agencyLevel`, `agencyLevelSort`, |
| `appointmentType`, `workSchedule`, `serviceType`, `whoMayApply`, `payScale`, |
| `salaryType`, `minimumSalary`, `maximumSalary`, `minimumGrade`, `maximumGrade`, |
| `promotionPotential`, `supervisoryStatus`, `totalOpenings`, |
| `positionOpeningStatus`, `announcementClosingTypeCode`, |
| `announcementClosingTypeDescription`, `positionOpenDate`, `positionCloseDate`, |
| `positionExpireDate`, `travelRequirement`, `teleworkEligible`, |
| `relocationExpensesReimbursed`, `securityClearanceRequired`, |
| `securityClearance`, `drugTestRequired`, `disableApplyOnline`, `vendor`, |
| `hiringPaths`, `jobCategories`, `positionLocations`, and `occupationalSeries` |
| (the four-digit series pulled out of `jobCategories`). |
|
|
| `hiringPaths`, `jobCategories`, and `positionLocations` are JSON strings, since |
| one posting can carry several of each. |
|
|
| ## How it's built |
|
|
| The posting list comes from the USAJOBS Historical API, mirrored by |
| [usajobs_historical](https://github.com/abigailhaddad/usajobs_historical), which |
| reports closed announcements and is therefore the complete universe. Each |
| `usajobs.gov/job/{controlNumber}` page is fetched, `script`/`style` stripped, |
| and the remaining text collapsed to single spaces. The structured fields are |
| joined on `usajobsControlNumber` from the same Historical API. |
|
|
| A daily job scrapes whatever is in the Historical mirror and not yet here, and |
| re-joins metadata for the months it touches. Close dates and opening status |
| change after a posting first appears, so a monthly job refreshes every month's |
| metadata. |
|
|
| ## Caveats |
|
|
| The text is the rendered page, so it includes site chrome — the nav bar, the |
| footer, the cookie language. Anchor your searches accordingly. |
|
|
| A handful of announcements are agency test postings with placeholder content |
| ("There will be duties to perform for this position"). |
|
|
| Announcements can be amended after posting. Each page is fetched once, so the |
| text is whatever it said when scraped, not necessarily the final version. The |
| structured fields are refreshed on a schedule, the text isn't. |
|
|
| This is not an official USAJOBS project. |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| Work of the U.S. federal government, not subject to copyright. |
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|
