Checking Elasticsearch for a listing before scraping

Now lets leverage Elasticsearch as a cache by checking to see if we already have stored a job listing and hence do not need to hit StackOverflow again. We extend the API for performing a scrape of a job listing to first search Elasticsearch, and if the result is found there we return that data. Hence, we optimize the process by making Elasticsearch a job listings cache.

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

The code for this recipe is within 09/05/api.py. The JobListing class now has the following implementation:

class JobListing(Resource):
    def get(self, job_listing_id):
        print("Request for job listing with id: " + job_listing_id)

     ...