Remotive Remote Jobs Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Remotive (remotive.com) publishes its entire current remote-jobs feed as a single public JSON object at https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs. This Actor fetches that feed once per run and filters it client-side by category, search keywords, company name, and/or job type, cleans every 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.

Remotive's own documented category/search/company_name/limit query parameters are supposed to filter server-side, but a live probe on 2026-09-10 showed they currently don't: eight different parameter combinations against the live endpoint all returned the identical payload. This Actor never depends on that working — every filter runs in Python against the full fetched feed, so your results are correct today and stay correct if Remotive ever fixes the bug.

🔥 Features

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation replays real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes, with an explicit identifying User-Agent on top, on every request.
• 🔁 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. A narrow filter that legitimately matches nothing still succeeds, with a status message naming exactly what was searched.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean — Pydantic-validated typed rows, HTML descriptions stripped to plain text, salary/logo/location fields null-normalized instead of guessed. One malformed record in the feed is skipped with a warning, never crashes the run.
• 🔍 We don't trust the server's own filters — category, search, company, and job-type filtering all run client-side against the full feed, so results are correct even on days the upstream filter is a no-op.
• 💰 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 category or tech stack.
• Job-board aggregators — mirror Remotive's feed into your own listings alongside the rest of the Devil Scrapes job-board fleet.
• SDR / lead-gen — find companies actively hiring for roles that signal budget or growth.
• Market research — track which categories and job types are trending in remote postings over time.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Optionally set categories, search, company_name, or job_types 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/remotive-remote-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "categories": ["Information Technology", "Customer Service"],
        "search": [],
        "company_name": "",
        "job_types": [],
        "maxItems": 100,
        "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": False},
    }
)

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

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
categories	array	no	[]	Keep jobs whose category matches ANY of these (case-insensitive, name-or-slug — e.g. "Software Development" or "software-development" both work).
search	array	no	[]	Keep jobs whose title or description contains ANY keyword (case-insensitive substring).
company_name	string	no	""	Case-insensitive substring match on company name.
job_types	array	no	[]	One or more of full_time / part_time / contract / freelance / internship.
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

{
  "categories": ["Information Technology", "Customer Service"],
  "search": [],
  "company_name": "",
  "job_types": [],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
job_id	string	Remotive job ID, stringified.
title	string	Job title.
company_name	string	Hiring company name.
company_logo	string | null	Logo URL; null when Remotive reports an empty value.
category	string	Remotive category (human-readable name).
tags	array	Tags/skills attached to the posting.
job_type	string | null	Employment type; null when empty/missing.
candidate_required_location	string | null	Free-text location requirement; null when empty.
salary	string | null	Free-text salary, unparsed; null when empty.
description	string	HTML stripped to clean plain text.
publication_date	string	Naive ISO-8601 timestamp, passed through from the API.
url	string	Remotive job page URL.

Example output

{
  "job_id": "2091045",
  "title": "Tier III Service Desk Engineer",
  "company_name": "Unio Digital",
  "company_logo": "https://remotive.com/job/2091045/logo",
  "category": "Information Technology",
  "tags": ["azure", "cisco", "security", "helpdesk", "MSP", "ticketing"],
  "job_type": "full_time",
  "candidate_required_location": "Worldwide",
  "salary": null,
  "description": "Unio Digital is an Arizona-based managed service provider...",
  "publication_date": "2026-09-07T01:10:43",
  "url": "https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/information-technology/tier-iii-service-desk-engineer-2091045"
}

💰 Pricing

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

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	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

Remotive's public feed exposes its current live listings only — there's no historical archive and no working pagination cursor, so this Actor returns a single snapshot per run. All filtering happens client-side against that one snapshot; the Actor never depends on the server's own category/search/company_name parameters actually filtering anything, since a live probe on 2026-09-10 found they currently don't. Salary is Remotive's own free-text field (e.g. "$50-$75 /hour", "$20k -$35k") — we pass it through as a string rather than parsing it into a number.

❓ FAQ

Is this legal?

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

Why do categories filters accept both a name and a slug?

Remotive's own category taxonomy uses both forms interchangeably ("Software Development" in the feed, "software-development" in the docs). This Actor normalizes both sides before comparing, so either form works.

Why is salary null on most rows?

Remotive's feed itself only populates that field on a minority of postings — we pass through exactly what the source reports, as null when it's missing, rather than inventing a number.

What happens if my filters match nothing?

The run still succeeds, with zero rows and a status message naming the filters that were applied — a narrow filter combination is a legitimate outcome, not an error.

💬 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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