Remote Jobs Scraper

Remote job listings from six boards in one run, one schema, no duplicates: Himalayas, Jobicy, Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads and the monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (Remotive as an opt-in seventh). Each listing comes back as the same row: title, company, the regions the job is open to, employment type, seniority, a normalized category, salary where the posting states one (annualized for filtering), the description, dates and the link back to the board. Filter by keyword, category, region, type, level, salary floor and posting date before anything is charged; the same job on several boards is delivered once with the other listings recorded next to it; the since-last-run checkpoint turns a daily schedule into a job alert. $0.60 per 1,000 jobs. A free board record per board reports how many listings it had and what they were, and the first 50 jobs each month are free for every account.

Why this one

	This actor
Six sources, one schema	Himalayas, Jobicy, Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads and Hacker News "Who is hiring?", each read through the feed or API the board publishes for developers, normalized to the same fields. Remotive is available as an opt-in board (it delays listings by 24 hours and asks for a few requests a day).
Regions you can filter on	Every board words locations differently ("Anywhere in the World", "US only", "EMEA", "REMOTE (US/EU timezones)"); the actor turns them into regions such as Worldwide, USA, Europe, UK, LATAM, APAC and country names, plus a worldwide flag.
Salary you can compare	Structured salary from Himalayas, Jobicy and Remote OK; parsed from titles and descriptions elsewhere ($120k–$150k, €60k-80k, $20/hr); annualized into salaryAnnualMin and salaryAnnualMax so a salary floor works across periods.
No duplicates	The same company and title on several boards is delivered once; the other listings sit in alsoOn with their URLs, so you can still credit every board.
Filters at the source	Keywords, excluded keywords, categories, regions, worldwide only, employment type, seniority, minimum salary, stated salary only and postedAfter are applied before anything is charged.
Alerts	onlyNewSinceLastRun remembers the job IDs delivered and returns only new listings next time.
Price	$0.0006 per job, Apify's default $0.00005 start fee. No platform usage charged on top; board and error records are free.

What people use it for

• Job alerts: your keywords, regions, level and salary floor, once a day, into Slack, Telegram or e-mail through an Apify integration, with nothing repeated.
• Job boards and newsletters: a deduplicated feed of remote listings across six sources, with apply links, categories and salaries, ready to publish with the attribution each board asks for.
• Recruiting and sourcing: which companies are hiring remotely for a skill this week, and what the postings that state a salary pay.
• Market research: roles, levels, regions and stated pay across the remote market, snapshot by snapshot.
• AI agents: "find remote senior Python jobs open to Europe that pay at least 100k" as one tool call through the Apify MCP server.

Example tasks

Ready-made configurations you can open, copy and run as they are:

• Daily remote job alert: new jobs for your profile, six boards: one profile (keywords, categories, regions) watched daily across six boards with the checkpoint on.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
boards	array	the six	Any of himalayas, jobicy, remoteok, weworkremotely, workingnomads, hackernews, remotive (opt-in).
keywords	array	[]	Keep jobs whose title or tags contain any of these (python, product manager).
excludeKeywords	array	[]	Drop jobs whose title contains any of these.
categories	array	[]	engineering, devops, data, security, design, product, customer-support, marketing, sales, finance, hr, legal, writing, education, healthcare, operations, management, other.
locations	array	[]	Keep jobs whose location or regions contain any of these (Worldwide, USA, Europe, UK, Germany, LATAM, APAC).
worldwideOnly	boolean	false	Only jobs open to candidates anywhere.
employmentTypes	array	[]	full-time, part-time, contract, freelance, internship.
seniority	array	[]	entry, mid, senior, lead, executive.
minSalary	integer	–	Drop jobs whose annualized stated salary is below this (posting's currency; jobs without a salary pass).
requireSalary	boolean	false	Only jobs that state a salary.
postedAfter	string	–	2026-10-01, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12w.
maxJobs	integer	300	Newest first across all boards, after filters and deduplication.
maxJobsPerBoard	integer	200	How far back each board is read; at least 1,000 when filters or the checkpoint are on.
includeDescription	boolean	true	Description as text and HTML.
dedupeAcrossBoards	boolean	true	Same company and title on several boards → one row with alsoOn.
hackerNewsThreads	integer	1	How many monthly threads to read, newest first.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Alert mode: only listings not delivered in earlier runs.
checkpointStoreName	string	remote-jobs-state	Key-value store for the alert state.

{
    "keywords": ["python", "typescript", "backend"],
    "categories": ["engineering", "devops", "data"],
    "locations": ["Worldwide", "Europe"],
    "seniority": ["mid", "senior", "lead"],
    "minSalary": 60000,
    "postedAfter": "7d",
    "maxJobs": 200,
    "includeDescription": false
}

Output

Three record types share one dataset: job rows (no type field), one free board record per board read, and free error records.

Job ($0.0006). A real row from Himalayas, description shortened:

{
  "jobId": "himalayas:microsourcing/jobs/junior-team-lead",
  "board": "himalayas",
  "boardName": "Himalayas",
  "source": "Himalayas",
  "sourceUrl": "https://himalayas.app",
  "title": "Junior Team Lead",
  "company": "MicroSourcing",
  "companyLogo": "https://cdn-images.himalayas.app/ljb1cfz67e0mktgbg8fiz42jr9hk",
  "location": "Philippines",
  "regions": [
    "Philippines"
  ],
  "worldwide": false,
  "timezones": [
    8
  ],
  "employmentType": "full-time",
  "employmentTypeRaw": "Full Time",
  "seniority": "entry",
  "seniorityRaw": "Entry-level",
  "category": "customer-support",
  "categoriesRaw": [
    "Customer Service",
    "Customer-Support-Team-Lead",
    "Customer-Service-Lead",
    "Support-Team-Lead",
    "Customer-Support-Specialist",
    "QA-Specialist"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "Customer-Support-Team-Lead",
    "Customer-Service-Lead",
    "Support-Team-Lead",
    "Customer-Support-Specialist",
    "QA-Specialist"
  ],
  "salaryMin": 40000,
  "salaryMax": 50000,
  "salaryCurrency": "PHP",
  "salaryPeriod": "month",
  "salaryText": "PHP 40,000 – 50,000 per month",
  "salaryAnnualMin": 480000,
  "salaryAnnualMax": 600000,
  "descriptionText": "Discover your 100% YOU with MicroSourcing !\nPosition: Junior Team Lead\nLocation: Metro Manila\nWork setup & shift: Work From Home | Shifting\nWhy join MicroSourci…",
  "descriptionHtml": "<h3>Discover your 100% YOU with <a href=\"https://himalayas.app/companies/microsourcing\">MicroSourcing</a>!</h3><p><strong>Position: </strong>Junior Team Lead<st…",
  "postedAt": "2026-11-03T14:33:52.000Z",
  "expiresAt": "2027-01-02T14:33:51.000Z",
  "url": "https://himalayas.app/companies/microsourcing/jobs/junior-team-lead",
  "applyUrl": "https://himalayas.app/companies/microsourcing/jobs/junior-team-lead?utm_source=api",
  "alsoOn": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T15:40:12.000Z"
}

A Hacker News row, parsed from the Company | Role | Location | Type | Salary | link line of the post (the full post is in the description fields):

{
  "jobId": "hackernews:50350981",
  "board": "hackernews",
  "title": "Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend-Leaning)",
  "company": "Marker Learning",
  "location": "Remote, US only",
  "regions": [
    "USA"
  ],
  "worldwide": false,
  "employmentType": "full-time",
  "seniority": "senior",
  "category": "engineering",
  "salaryText": "$180k–$200k",
  "salaryAnnualMin": 180000,
  "salaryAnnualMax": 200000,
  "postedAt": "2026-11-03T12:07:36.000Z",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50350981",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.markerlearning.com",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)",
  "hnAuthor": "john-the-marker"
}

Field	Type	Notes
jobId	string	board:id, stable; what the alert checkpoint remembers.
board, boardName, source, sourceUrl	string	Which board the row comes from, and the name the board asks to be credited with.
title, company, companyLogo	string or null	As the board publishes them. On Hacker News, parsed from the post's first line; a post with no recognisable role gets Open roles at <company> (see the post).
location, regions, worldwide, timezones	misc	The board's wording, its normalized regions (Worldwide, USA, Europe, UK, LATAM, APAC, country and city names), whether it is open anywhere (null when the board states nothing), and Himalayas' UTC offsets.
employmentType, employmentTypeRaw	string or null	full-time, part-time, contract, freelance, internship, from the board's field or the title; the raw wording next to it.
seniority, seniorityRaw	string or null	entry, mid, senior, lead, executive from the board's level or the title (Senior, Staff, Head of, Director, Junior).
category, categoriesRaw, tags	misc	One of 18 categories mapped from the board's categories and the title; the board's own categories and tags as given.
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, salaryText	misc	Structured from Himalayas, Jobicy and Remote OK (annual USD there); parsed from the text elsewhere. Null when the posting states no salary.
salaryAnnualMin, salaryAnnualMax	number or null	The stated range annualized in its own currency (monthly × 12, weekly × 52, daily × 260, hourly × 2,080).
descriptionText, descriptionHtml	string or null	The full posting; null when includeDescription is off.
postedAt, expiresAt	string or null	ISO 8601 UTC; expiresAt from Himalayas only.
url, applyUrl	string	The listing on the board (the link the boards ask you to keep) and the application link when the board publishes one.
alsoOn	array	Other boards that list the same company and title: {board, boardName, url}.
thread, hnAuthor	string	Hacker News rows only: the thread title and the posting account.

board (free, one per board): status is COMPLETE, PARTIAL (your spending limit or maxJobs cut it), EMPTY or ERROR; stoppedBy is endOfBoard, maxJobs, checkpoint, chargeLimit or error:

{
  "type": "board",
  "board": "himalayas",
  "boardName": "Himalayas",
  "boardUrl": "https://himalayas.app",
  "jobsFetched": 150,
  "jobsMatched": 150,
  "newSinceLastRun": null,
  "duplicatesRemoved": 2,
  "jobsDelivered": 148,
  "pagesRead": 8,
  "jobsOnBoard": 116257,
  "newestPostedAt": "2026-11-03T14:33:52.000Z",
  "oldestFetchedAt": "2026-11-03T08:55:18.000Z",
  "topCategories": [
    {
      "name": "engineering",
      "count": 32
    },
    {
      "name": "data",
      "count": 18
    },
    {
      "name": "marketing",
      "count": 15
    },
    {
      "name": "sales",
      "count": 13
    },
    {
      "name": "operations",
      "count": 12
    }
  ],
  "topRegions": [
    {
      "name": "USA",
      "count": 64
    },
    {
      "name": "Philippines",
      "count": 26
    },
    {
      "name": "Canada",
      "count": 13
    },
    {
      "name": "UK",
      "count": 11
    },
    {
      "name": "Germany",
      "count": 6
    }
  ],
  "status": "COMPLETE",
  "stoppedBy": "endOfBoard",
  "note": null
}

error (free): {"type": "error", "board": "jobicy", "boardName": "Jobicy", "error": "Jobicy rate-limited this run (HTTP 429). Jobicy asks for at most one pass an hour; run again later."}. A board that fails never fails the run: the other boards are delivered.

Pricing and cost examples

Try it free. The first 50 jobs each calendar month are free for every Apify account, with nothing to enter: the actor keeps count in a small key-value store in your account (free-slice-remote-jobs-scraper) and charges only from the 51th on. The free results are real results you keep; the counter resets on the first of each month.

Job	Jobs	Cost
A daily alert for one profile: keywords, region and salary floor, about 20 new matches a day	600 a month	$0.36 a month
Everything new on the six boards today (no filters, postedAfter: 24h)	≈ 300	$0.18
A snapshot of the newest 150 listings per board, deduplicated	≈ 650	$0.39
A month of remote engineering postings for research	5,000	$3.00

Platform compute is included, descriptions too. Filtered-out listings, board records and errors cost nothing; the start fee is $0.00005 per run.

Discounts for paid Apify plans, applied automatically to the buyer's plan: Bronze 10% off, Silver 25% off, Gold and enterprise tiers 40% off the prices above. Free-plan users pay the listed price.

Alerts: new jobs every morning

1. Create a task from this actor with your profile (keywords, categories, locations, seniority, minSalary) and onlyNewSinceLastRun: true.
2. Add an Apify schedule (daily is plenty; hourly at most, which is what the boards ask for).
3. Add an integration on the task: Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook. Each run delivers only listings you have not seen; the board records tell you per board how much was read.

The checkpoint lives in the key-value store named in checkpointStoreName. To start over, change the name or delete the store.

Run it from your code

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('agentsgearbox/remote-jobs-scraper').call({
    keywords: ['python'], locations: ['Worldwide', 'Europe'], seniority: ['senior', 'lead'], postedAfter: '7d', maxJobs: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((i) => i.jobId).map((i) => [i.title, i.company, i.regions.join('/'), i.salaryText, i.boardName, i.url]));

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("agentsgearbox/remote-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "categories": ["design", "product"], "worldwideOnly": True, "requireSalary": True, "postedAfter": "30d", "maxJobs": 200})
jobs = [i for i in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items() if "jobId" in i]

cURL (synchronous, returns the dataset):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/agentsgearbox~remote-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["react"], "locations": ["Worldwide"], "maxJobs": 50, "includeDescription": false}'

For AI agents

Give your agent hands. Six job boards are six websites to read; this actor returns their listings as one JSON schema with regions, levels and annualized salaries already normalized, priced per job and known in advance. "Find me remote senior Python jobs open to Europe that pay at least 100k, posted this week" becomes one tool call.

• MCP, this actor only: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/remote-jobs-scraper to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client (with your Apify token), then ask for "remote data engineering jobs open worldwide posted in the last 7 days with a stated salary".

• MCP, all agentsgearbox actors: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/telegram-channel-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper,agentsgearbox/substack-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-news-scraper,agentsgearbox/brand-name-generator,agentsgearbox/ai-readiness-audit,agentsgearbox/company-lookup,agentsgearbox/app-intelligence,agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper,agentsgearbox/company-jobs-scraper,agentsgearbox/apple-podcasts-scraper,agentsgearbox/remote-jobs-scraper

• No Apify account? This actor is eligible for Apify's agentic payments: an agent can buy a spend-capped token through agi.apify.com (x402, MPP or Skyfire) and call the API directly.
• Prices are per job and known in advance, so the agent can set a spending limit; a board that cannot be read comes back as a free error record, not as a failed run.

Limitations, stated plainly

• The actor reads what the boards publish: Remote OK and Working Nomads expose their newest listings only (about 100 and a few dozen), Himalayas and Jobicy page back as far as you ask, We Work Remotely gives the newest 100 per feed (category feeds are read when you filter by category or ask for more than 100), and the Hacker News thread is one month of posts.
• Hacker News posts are free text. The row is parsed from the first line's Company | Role | Location | … convention; posts that do not follow it get the company and Open roles at … (see the post) as the title, and candidates' own adverts are skipped. Read descriptionText for the details.
• Regions, categories, seniority and employment type are normalized from each board's fields and the title with rules, not guessed by a model; a job whose level the title does not reveal has seniority: null, and the raw values are kept next to the normalized ones.
• Salaries are copied or parsed, never estimated, and currencies are not converted: minSalary compares each posting in its own currency. Remote OK's ranges are what the employer entered on Remote OK, sometimes a wide placeholder.
• A listing's worldwide is null when the board states no restriction either way (Remote OK leaves most locations empty).
• Remotive is opt-in: Remotive delays its listings by 24 hours and asks for a few requests a day, so add it to hourly or daily schedules only. Arbeitnow is not read because its site licence is non-commercial.
• Postings are written by employers and belong to them, and each board asks to be credited: keep boardName and url next to any listing you republish, send applicants to the original posting, and do not resubmit listings to other job sites.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause and fix
jobsMatched: 0 with jobsFetched > 0	The filters removed everything; the board record's topCategories and topRegions show what the board holds. Widen locations (a job open to Europe does not match Germany) or drop seniority (many titles state no level).
0 jobs with the checkpoint on	Nothing new since the last run; stoppedBy is checkpoint.
status: "PARTIAL"	Your spending limit or maxJobs cut the run short; the note says which. Raise it or narrow the filters.
error from Jobicy with HTTP 429	Jobicy allows one pass an hour; the other boards were delivered. Schedule the actor hourly at most.
A job you saw on a board is missing	It was delivered under another board that listed it first; look for it in alsoOn, or set dedupeAcrossBoards: false.
Hacker News rows with odd titles	The post did not follow the `Company

Track record

• Published 3 November 2026 and tested every day since by an automated run on the Apify platform. The Store's run statistics on this page reflect those runs with a delay of up to a day.
• No browser, so a run cannot fail on Chrome crashes or memory limits; the six boards answer in a few seconds.
• Every actor from this account is monitored daily, so a change on a board's side is normally fixed the same day.

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Legal and fair use

This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with Himalayas, Jobicy, Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Remotive, Hacker News or Y Combinator; their names are used only to say which boards it reads. It uses the public feeds and APIs those boards publish for developers, without keys, logins or workarounds, and follows each board's stated conditions: it names the source board on every row and links back to the listing, makes at most one pass per board per run, and reads Remotive only when you opt in. Keep those conditions downstream: credit the board next to any listing you display, link to url, send applicants to the original posting, and do not resubmit listings to other job sites or use the boards' logos. Postings belong to the employers who wrote them; store and index them for your own use and do not republish descriptions as your own content.