Commands

Every command, argument and option of jobsuche 0.6.1, read from the CLI itself.

Global options

These options work with every command.

OptionDescriptionDefault
-V, --version output the version number
--base-url <url> API base URL https://rest.arbeitsagentur.de
--api-key <key> X-API-Key header value. Prefer JOBSUCHE_API_KEY or `jobsuche config set api-key`: an --api-key argument is visible to other local users via the process table and shell history.
--timeout <ms> per-request timeout in milliseconds
--user-agent <ua> User-Agent header value
--max-retries <n> retries for transient 429/503 responses (0-10)
--max-response-bytes <n> cap response body size in bytes (0 = unlimited; default 100 MiB)
--log-format <format> how errors, warnings and notes are written to stderr: text (log4j style: time, level, [topic], message) or jsonl (one JSON object per line: ts, level, topic, msg); default text
--compact print JSON on a single line instead of pretty-printed

jobsuche obtain-key

Obtain the public X-API-Key this API requires and print it. The key is published by the Bundesagentur für Arbeit and is not a secret; none is bundled with this package, so it is read from the source at run time.

jobsuche obtain-key [options]

Options

OptionDescriptionDefault
--export print "export JOBSUCHE_API_KEY=<key>" for use with eval

jobsuche config

the API key, kept in a credentials file of its own: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/jobsuche/credentials, else ~/.config/jobsuche/credentials (api-key)

jobsuche config set

store a credential: typed at a prompt without echo, or piped in (jobsuche obtain-key | jobsuche config set api-key) — never given as an argument

jobsuche config set [options] <name>

Arguments

<name> required
api-key

jobsuche config get

show a stored credential, masked (abcd…wxyz, or **** below 20 characters) unless --reveal

jobsuche config get [options] <name>

Arguments

<name> required
api-key

Options

OptionDescriptionDefault
--reveal print the whole value, for a script that passes it on — it then is on your screen or in its log

jobsuche config unset

remove a stored credential

jobsuche config unset [options] <name>

Arguments

<name> required
api-key

jobsuche config list

every stored credential, masked, and where the file is

jobsuche config list [options]

jobsuche details

Full job details by reference number (refnr) or encoded code

jobsuche details [options] <refnrOrCode>

Arguments

<refnrOrCode> required
reference number (referenznummer) or encoded code