A lightweight, open-source Chrome extension that eliminates spam, consultancy reposts, and irrelevant listings on Naukri.com.

Anyone searching for jobs on Naukri.com in India knows the frustration:

• Duplicate & High-Volume Spam: High-volume consultancies, third-party staffing agencies, and mass-recruiters often flood search results by reposting identical listings dozens of times across multiple locations.
• No Company Blocking: Naukri provides no built-in way to block or exclude specific companies.
• Irrelevant Roles: Searching for Frontend Developer frequently shows PHP, QA Automation, Wordpress, Technical Support, or Intern positions.
• Location Mismatch: Blacklisting 50 different cities is exhausting when you only want to see jobs in Bangalore or Remote.

Better Naukri solves all of that with a clean, 1-click interface directly inside Naukri.

• Block any company with 1-click using the "Block" button injected next to company names on Naukri search cards.
• Manage your blocklist anytime via the extension popup.
• Instantly hides all postings from blocked companies across all search pages.

• Target / Keep (Whitelist): Specify target locations (e.g., Bangalore, Remote, Hybrid). Only postings matching these locations will stay visible.
• Smart Multi-City Support: Listings tagged with multiple cities (e.g. Hyderabad / Bangalore) automatically stay visible if your target city is included.
• Excluded Locations (Blacklist): Or blacklist specific cities you don't want to relocate to (e.g., Noida, Gurgaon).

• Target Titles: Set keywords like Frontend, React, or Software Engineer to only keep matching jobs. Everything else is hidden automatically.
• Excluded Title Keywords: Block specific words (e.g. Intern, QA, Tester, Support) so roles like QA Engineer are filtered even if Engineer is targeted.
• In-Page Title Popover: Click "Exclude Title" on any card to exclude keywords or click + Target to whitelist keywords on the fly.

• A sleek floating pill in the bottom-right of Naukri search pages shows how many jobs have been filtered on the current page.
• Expand to see a live breakdown of filtered companies, locations, and titles.
• Includes a Show Blocked toggle (to inspect hidden jobs with visual reason badges) and a Pause filter toggle.

• Unmasks Exact Applicants & Views: Reveals the real applicant count (e.g. 11,932 applicants) and unmasked view count instead of Naukri's capped 100+ or 500+ labels.
• Precise Posting Date & Freshness: Displays the exact timestamp (e.g. 21 Sep 2026, 5:05 PM (1 day ago)) with color indicators for stale vs. fresh postings.
• Employer Type & KYC Badges: Injects real-time badges indicating whether the posting is from a 🏢 Direct Employer or a consultancy/staffing agency, along with ✅ KYC Verified status.
• Zero extra network requests — extracts data directly from responses Naukri's servers already sent to your browser.

• Zero analytics, zero trackers, zero external servers.
• All data is stored locally in your browser via chrome.storage.local.

Cloning via Git makes getting future updates seamless — just run git pull whenever a new version is released!

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/mrvishal2k2/better-naukri.git

2. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions
3. Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top-right corner).
4. Click Load unpacked (button in top-left) and select the cloned better-naukri folder.

💡 To update in the future: Run git pull inside the folder and click the 🔄 reload icon on the Better Naukri card in chrome://extensions.

1. 📥 Download Latest Release (ZIP) and extract it to a folder.
2. Open chrome://extensions ➔ enable Developer mode ➔ click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder.

That's it! Open Naukri.com and enjoy clean, spam-free search results.

This project was 100% vibe coded using Gemini 3.8 Flash to solve a genuine daily frustration while job hunting on Naukri.

I've been using this extension daily for over a month now, and it drastically improved my job search experience by cutting out the noise. Seeing how much time it saved me, I decided to open-source it so other job seekers can benefit from it too.

I'm not a dedicated JavaScript developer myself, but AI made it possible to turn an annoying problem into a working tool. If you're a JS / frontend dev and spot areas to refactor, optimize, or improve, PRs and code reviews from the community are warmly welcomed! 🙌

• Manifest V3 compliant Chrome Extension
• Pure JavaScript & CSS (zero heavy dependencies or frameworks)
• Native MutationObserver for real-time DOM filtering on infinite scroll and pagination

Contributions, bug reports, and feature suggestions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.