INTERACTIVE DEMO — SYNTHETIC DATA

Extraction Without a Schema

An employer portal whose GraphQL API has introspection disabled and is reshaped without notice. Nothing here addresses a field by path — records are recognised by shape. Break the response and watch the answer hold.

Every record on this page is fabricated. No production system, customer, employee or credential is involved.

NOW BREAK IT

Apply one, two or all three. The response changes underneath the extractor; the records it returns do not.

THE RESPONSE AS RECEIVED · 2,015 CHARS

{
  "data": {
    "jobAd": {
      "__typename": "JobAd",
      "id": "job-4410",
      "title": "Warehouse Supervisor",
      "reference": "SN-WH-4410",
      "location": {
        "label": "Bandung, West Java"
      },
      "postedAt": "2026-02-02",
      "expiryDate": "2026-03-04",
      "applicationCount": 3,
      "applications": {
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "__typename": "Candidate",
              "id": "cand-8871",
              "fullName": "Marisol Adeyemi-Okonkwo",
              "email": "m.adeyemi@example.invalid",
              "phone": "+62 811 5550 148",
              "appliedDateTime": "2026-02-11T09:12:00+07:00",
              "statusInfo": {
                "label": "Shortlisted"
              },
              "attachments": [
                {
                  "__typename": "CandidateAttachment",
                  "url": "https://files.example.invalid/a/9f2c.pdf",
                  "fileName": "Marisol_Adeyemi_CV.pdf",
                  "type": "RESUME"
                },
                {
                  "__typename": "CandidateAttachment",
                  "url": "https://files.example.invalid/a/9f2d.docx",
                  "fileName": "cover letter.docx",
                  "type": "COVER_LETTER"
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "node": {
              "__typename": "Candidate",
              "id": "cand-8872",
              "fullName": "Ignatius Broome",
              "email": "i.broome@example.invalid",
              "phone": "+62 811 5550 151",
              "appliedDateTime": "2026-02-12T14:40:00+07:00",
              "applicationStatus": "Interviewing",
              "attachments": [
                {
                  "__typename": "CandidateAttachment",
                  "url": "https://files.example.invalid/a/1a04.pdf",
                  "fileName": "broome-cv-2026.pdf"
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

EXTRACT.TS · WALKS THE SHAPE

1JOBS

2CANDIDATES

3DOCUMENTS

Recognised by shape, not by path: a name, an id, and a signal that this is a person who applied for something.

NAIVEEXTRACT · HARD-CODES THE PATH

2CANDIDATES

3DOCUMENTS

root.data.jobAd.applications.edges

The path resolved. This is the version almost everyone writes first, and it is correct until the morning the vendor renames a key.

Marisol Adeyemi-Okonkwo
Ignatius Broome

WHAT CAME BACK

Warehouse Supervisor
job-4410 · SN-WH-4410 · Bandung, West Java · CLOSES 2026-03-04 · 3 APPLICATIONS · JobAd

CANDIDATES
NAME	ID	CONTACT	APPLIED	STATUS	JOB
Marisol Adeyemi-Okonkwo	cand-8871	m.adeyemi@example.invalid+62 811 5550 148	2026-02-11	Shortlisted	job-4410
Ignatius Broome	cand-8872	i.broome@example.invalid+62 811 5550 151	2026-02-12	Interviewing	job-4410

DOCUMENTS
FILE	KIND	READS AS	ATTRIBUTED TO
Marisol_Adeyemi_CV.pdfhttps://files.example.invalid/a/9f2c.pdf	CandidateAttachment RESUME	CV	cand-8871job-4410
cover letter.docxhttps://files.example.invalid/a/9f2d.docx	CandidateAttachment COVER_LETTER	COVER LETTER	cand-8871job-4410
broome-cv-2026.pdfhttps://files.example.invalid/a/1a04.pdf	CandidateAttachment	CV	cand-8872job-4410

P1 · THE ORDINARY CASE

The shape the portal returns most days. Candidates are nested inside the job and their documents are nested inside them, so every record comes out fully attributed: each CV knows which person it belongs to and which job they applied for. Nothing in the extractor knows this path exists — it is inferred from the nesting.

WHY THE TOOL EXISTS, AND ITS LIMITS

The portal deletes applicant attachments 180 days after an ad closes and has no bulk download. That constraint is the first thing the README states.
The password is typed by the human into a real browser. The script never sees or stores a credential; only the resulting session file, which is deleted after.
This is real people's personal data. Store it access-controlled, keep it only as long as hiring needs it.
If you need this supported rather than automated, the vendor sells an official partner application-export API. Use that instead.