Invalid country string

[ImDevinC]

Two countries, jamaica and barbados. Would be great to just have a fallback of "unknown" or something instead of having to fix every country.
Or an alternative that catches this error doesn't break the entire scan process

ValueError: Invalid country string: 'jamaica'. Valid countries are: argentina, australia, austria, bahrain, bangladesh, belgium, bulgaria, brazil, canada, chile, china, colombia, costa rica, croatia, cyprus, czech republic,czechia, denmark, ecuador, egypt, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, hong kong, hungary, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, japan, kuwait, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malaysia, malta, mexico, morocco, netherlands, new zealand, nigeria, norway, oman, pakistan, panama, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, romania, saudi arabia, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, south africa, south korea, spain, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, thailand, türkiye,turkey, ukraine, united arab emirates, uk,united kingdom, usa,us,united states, uruguay, venezuela, vietnam, usa/ca, worldwide

ValueError: Invalid country string: 'barbados'. Valid countries are: argentina, australia, austria, bahrain, bangladesh, belgium, bulgaria, brazil, canada, chile, china, colombia, costa rica, croatia, cyprus, czech republic,czechia, denmark, ecuador, egypt, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, hong kong, hungary, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, japan, kuwait, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malaysia, malta, mexico, morocco, netherlands, new zealand, nigeria, norway, oman, pakistan, panama, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, romania, saudi arabia, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, south africa, south korea, spain, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, thailand, türkiye,turkey, ukraine, united arab emirates, uk,united kingdom, usa,us,united states, uruguay, venezuela, vietnam, usa/ca, worldwide

ValueError: Invalid country string: 'armenia'. Valid countries are: argentina, australia, austria, bahrain, bangladesh, belgium, bulgaria, brazil, canada, chile, china, colombia, costa rica, croatia, cyprus, czech republic,czechia, denmark, ecuador, egypt, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, hong kong, hungary, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, japan, kuwait, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malaysia, malta, mexico, morocco, netherlands, new zealand, nigeria, norway, oman, pakistan, panama, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, romania, saudi arabia, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, south africa, south korea, spain, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, thailand, türkiye,turkey, ukraine, united arab emirates, uk,united kingdom, usa,us,united states, uruguay, venezuela, vietnam, usa/ca, worldwide

[varunpan]

I'm getting similar issue as well

[alx]

Hitting this too with nicaragua (v1.1.82). The crash propagates through the entire scrape_jobs() call, so all three sites (indeed, linkedin, zip_recruiter) fail together for that query — not just the one bad listing.

Minimal patch for jobspy/linkedin/__init__.py, _get_location method:

elif len(parts) == 3:
    city, state, country = parts
    try:
        country = Country.from_string(country)
    except ValueError:
        country = Country.from_string(self.country)  # fallback to scraper default ("worldwide")
    location = Location(city=city, state=state, country=country)

Wrapping the unsupported-country branch in try/except lets the job be stored with the scraper's default country instead of crashing the entire query. The upstream code is identical to the installed version — no fix has landed yet as of v1.1.82.

[eliJawa]

Same root cause, different trigger

Also hitting this with:

• country_indeed='sweden'
• is_remote=True
• search_term='embedded software engineer'

LinkedIn returns a job card with "kenya" as the location, which crashes the entire scrape with the same ValueError.

Notably, the same setup with search_term='C++ developer' works fine — so this appears to be caused by a specific LinkedIn job card containing an unsupported country string that kills the whole request.

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Environment

• Version: 1.1.82
• OS: Windows UCRT64
• Python: 3.11.8

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Reproduction

from jobspy import scrape_jobs

df = scrape_jobs(
    site_name=['indeed', 'linkedin'],
    search_term='embedded software engineer',
    location='Remote',
    results_wanted=50,
    hours_old=72,
    country_indeed='sweden',
    is_remote=True,
)

[james-andrews-coulter]

me too monaco