How do you deal with IT recruiters?

Long story short, I’m getting bombarded by recruiters and I feel overwhelmed. For a couple weeks during the summer I said yes to all recruitment messages because I’m open to a new position but once I drill down for some additional information they’re all trying to feed me jobs either in Brussels or Antwerp which is way out of my search area.

How do you deal with them? Is there a way to extract information without having to spend hours telling the same story over and over? And where do you find qualitative job opportunities as a medior/early senior developer?