RemoteOK Jobs Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

RemoteOK (remoteok.com) publishes its entire current remote-jobs feed as a single public JSON array. This Actor fetches that feed, drops the feed metadata, filters the postings client-side by tags, keywords, company name, and/or minimum salary, cleans each HTML job description down to plain text, and lands one typed dataset row per matching job — no pagination, no login, no per-job page visits required.

🔥 Features

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation replays real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes on every request, so the target sees a browser, not a script.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts, honouring Retry-After whenever the target sends it.
• 🧱 We fail loud, not silent — a broken upstream feed surfaces as a failed run with a clear status message, never a quiet empty dataset.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean — Pydantic-validated typed rows, HTML stripped to plain text, salary/logo fields null-normalized instead of guessed.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land — Pay-Per-Event pricing. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Recruiter tooling — pull today's remote-friendly openings for a given tech stack.
• Job-board aggregators — mirror RemoteOK's feed into your own listings without hand-rolling the parser.
• SDR / lead-gen — find companies actively hiring for roles that signal budget or growth.
• Market research — track which tags/skills are trending in remote job postings over time.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Optionally set tags, keywords, company, or minSalary to narrow the feed — leave everything blank to pull the whole current feed (capped by maxItems).
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

Call it from Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("DevilScrapes/remoteok-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "tags": ["python", "remote"],
        "keywords": [],
        "company": "",
        "minSalary": 60000,
        "maxItems": 100,
        "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": False},
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["position"], item["company"])

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
tags	array	no	[]	Keep jobs whose tags include ANY of these (case-insensitive).
keywords	array	no	[]	Keep jobs whose position/description/company contains ANY keyword (case-insensitive substring).
company	string	no	""	Case-insensitive substring match on company name.
minSalary	integer	no	—	Keep jobs where the listed maximum salary is at least this amount.
maxItems	integer	no	100	Cap on rows emitted, applied after filtering (1-1000).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Standard Apify Proxy config — optional for this public feed.

Example input

{
  "tags": ["python", "remote"],
  "keywords": [],
  "company": "",
  "minSalary": 60000,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
job_id	string	RemoteOK job ID (falls back to slug if missing).
slug	string	RemoteOK URL slug.
position	string	Job title.
company	string	Hiring company name.
company_url	string | null	Not published by the live API today — always null, kept for forward-compat.
location	string | null	Free-text location, null when empty.
tags	array	Tags/skills on the posting.
salary_min	integer | null	null when RemoteOK reports no data.
salary_max	integer | null	null when RemoteOK reports no data.
description	string	HTML stripped to clean plain text.
apply_url	string	Direct application URL.
url	string	RemoteOK job page URL.
date_posted	string	ISO-8601 timestamp.
epoch_posted	integer	Unix epoch seconds.
logo	string | null	Company logo URL when available.

Example output

{
  "job_id": "1135478",
  "slug": "remote-entry-level-junior-trader-atom-partners-1135478",
  "position": "Entry Level Junior Trader",
  "company": "Atom Partners",
  "company_url": null,
  "location": null,
  "tags": ["other", "finance"],
  "salary_min": 50000,
  "salary_max": 60000,
  "description": "ATOM Partners is an international company focused on digital asset markets...",
  "apply_url": "https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-entry-level-junior-trader-atom-partners-1135478",
  "url": "https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-entry-level-junior-trader-atom-partners-1135478",
  "date_posted": "2026-07-27T12:50:24+00:00",
  "epoch_posted": 1785156624,
  "logo": null
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.02	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.0015	Per dataset item (→ $1.50 / 1 000 results)

Example: 1,000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.50. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

RemoteOK's public feed only exposes its current live listings — there's no historical archive and no pagination cursor, so this Actor returns a single snapshot per run. Salary and logo data are sparse in practice (most postings ship without them); we surface that as null rather than guessing.

❓ FAQ

Is this legal?

We only fetch content the source makes publicly available via its own documented feed. Respect RemoteOK's terms of service before using output commercially.

How do I export to Sheets?

After the run, click Storage → Dataset → Export and pick CSV. Google Sheets imports it directly.

Why don't I see salary or logo data on most rows?

RemoteOK's feed itself only populates those fields on a minority of postings — we pass through exactly what the source reports, as null when it's missing.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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