ZipRecruiter Scraper — Job Listings, Salary & Hiring Data

Scrape ZipRecruiter job listings without an API: job titles, companies, locations, salary ranges, remote and hybrid flags, employment type, apply URLs, and full job descriptions — for salary benchmarking, hiring trend monitoring, recruitment lead generation, and job board aggregation.

Main Use Cases

• Salary benchmarking data — min/max/period salary fields parsed from typed Schema.org baseSalary, ready for compensation analysis
• Hiring trends monitoring — track job posting volume by company, location, and role over time
• Remote jobs data — filter remote-eligible and hybrid positions with structured isRemote / isHybrid flags
• Recruitment lead generation — identify hiring companies and their open roles for staffing agencies and sales teams
• Job market analysis — analyze employment types (full time, contract, temp, internship), industries, and posting dates
• Job board aggregator data — keep a fresh ZipRecruiter feed for HR-tech platforms without maintaining brittle scrapers

What Data Does the ZipRecruiter Scraper Extract?

One structured row per job, from the page's embedded JSON-LD and Next.js hydrate blobs — not fragile CSS scraping. Fields include title, company, companyUrl, companyLogo, location, city, state, salary, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, isRemote, isHybrid, employmentType, applyUrl, url, jid, description, descriptionHtml, datePosted, validThrough, industry, searchQuery, searchLocation, scrapedAt.

The data lives in server-rendered JSON (JobPosting JSON-LD + hydrateJobCardsResponse), which is why the actor reads it with a fast HTTP-only crawler — no headless browser, no JavaScript rendering.

How It Works — Fast HTTP Crawling With Browser-Grade Anti-Bot

ZipRecruiter guards its JSON with Cloudflare bot management. Datacenter IPs and default TLS stacks (Node's native TLS, got-scraping) get a cf-mitigated: challenge block. The actor solves this at the network layer, not the rendering layer:

1. A custom wreq-js HTTP client whose Rust/BoringSSL stack impersonates a real desktop Safari on macOS at the TLS/HTTP-2 fingerprint level (JA3/JA4) — the only fingerprint matrix that clears the Cloudflare challenge.
2. Search and job pages are fetched through the Apify proxy on US residential IPs — ZipRecruiter blocks datacenter egress.
3. Search pages are parsed for the ItemList of JobPosting nodes plus the richer hydrateJobCardsResponse JSON blob; job detail pages add getJobDetailsResponse with the full description.
4. A 403 Just a moment... challenge body is detected and retried with session rotation.

Because every extraction step is structured JSON parsing with DOM fallbacks, runs are 5–10× cheaper and faster than a Playwright scraper — no browser compute units, and 512 MB concurrency is plenty.

Benchmark Salaries By Role, Location, And Pay Period

Salary fields come from typed Schema.org baseSalary when published — with display-string fallback. Each row carries salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, and salaryPeriod (year/hour/etc.) so you can normalize hourly to annual and compute median vs average across jobs. ZipRecruiter postings list employer-published salary ranges more often than most boards — keep Fetch full descriptions ON to capture the detail-page baseSalary ranges for benchmarking.

Monitor Hiring Trends And Remote Job Market Data

Set Keywords + Location (or paste a search URL from ziprecruiter.com to preserve exact filters) and run on a schedule. Use daysPosted to window recent postings, remoteOnly for remote-eligible positions, and jobType for employment-type filters. Track isRemote / isHybrid over time to measure the remote share by role and city.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
search	string	No	software engineer	Job keywords. Ignored when startUrls are set.
location	string	No	Austin, TX	City/state/ZIP, Remote, or USA. Ignored when startUrls are set.
startUrls	string[]	No	[]	Direct ZipRecruiter search or job URLs; URL filters preserved.
jobType	string	No	any	any, full_time, part_time, contract, temporary, internship
daysPosted	integer	No	0	Only jobs posted within N days (0 = any, max 30)
radiusMiles	integer	No	0	Search radius (0 = default, max 100)
remoteOnly	boolean	No	false	Restrict to remote-eligible positions
maxItems	integer	No	200	Max jobs (1–500). Free users capped at 10.
pagesPerSearch	integer	No	10	Search-result pages per query (~20 jobs each)
includeJobDetails	boolean	No	true	Fetch each detail page for full description, salary, logo, apply URL
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	No	1000	Hard request cap (loop safety)
maxConcurrency	integer	No	5	Parallel requests (Cheerio is lightweight)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	US residential ON	Keep on US residential — datacenter IPs are Cloudflare-blocked.

Output

One row per job. Key fields:

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Job title
company / companyUrl / companyLogo	string	Hiring org name, URL, logo
location / city / state	string	Display location + parsed city/state
salary / salaryMin / salaryMax / salaryCurrency / salaryPeriod	string/number	Display string + parsed range
isRemote / isHybrid	boolean	Remote/hybrid flags from jobLocationType/location text
employmentType	string	Normalized (Full Time, Contract, ...)
industry	string	Company industry (detail pages)
url / applyUrl / jid	string	Job page, apply link, ZipRecruiter job id
description / descriptionHtml	string	Full plain-text + raw HTML
datePosted / validThrough	string	Posting and expiry dates from JSON-LD
searchQuery / searchLocation / scrapedAt	string	Provenance

Example Input

{
  "search": "nurse",
  "location": "Chicago, IL",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "jobType": "full_time",
  "daysPosted": 7,
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

Example Output

{
  "url": "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Acme/Job/Software-Engineer/-in-Austin,TX?jid=abc123",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "company": "Acme",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Acme",
  "companyLogo": "https://logo.example/acme.png",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "salary": "$80,000 - $120,000/year",
  "salaryMin": 80000,
  "salaryMax": 120000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "isRemote": false,
  "isHybrid": false,
  "employmentType": "Full Time",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Acme/Job/Software-Engineer/-in-Austin,TX?jid=abc123",
  "description": "Build things. $80K - $120K a year, full-time...",
  "datePosted": "2026-09-01",
  "jid": "abc123",
  "searchQuery": "software engineer",
  "searchLocation": "Austin, TX",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-05T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost of Scraping ZipRecruiter

Pay-per-event: $0.005 per actor start + $0.00095 per result row (≈ $0.95 per 1 000 jobs). Because the actor is HTTP-only, a 10-job smoke run finishes in seconds and a 500-job run is well under a minute; the main variable cost is residential proxy traffic (billed per GB, and job pages are light HTML). Turn off Fetch full descriptions for large search-card-only sweeps, and keep Pages per search tight while testing.

Integrations & Automation

Every run writes to an Apify dataset:

• Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML
• Push to Google Sheets, Airtable, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or BigQuery via Apify integrations
• Trigger via Zapier, Make, or Apify webhooks
• Call from the Apify REST API (any language) or Python/JS SDKs

Because job listings change constantly, schedule daily runs for hiring-trend monitoring and salary-benchmark refreshes — recurring usage also improves the actor's Apify Store ranking.

Related Actors

• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — the highest-traffic job scraper on Apify (⭐ 4.59, 16k+/mo)
• Indeed Jobs Scraper — ZipRecruiter's #1 US competitor (⭐ 4.73)
• Multi Job Board Scraper — LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Google Jobs & ZipRecruiter in one (⭐ 5.00)
• Indeed Scraper by Apify — sponsored/saved jobs, location filters (30k+ users)
• Glassdoor Reviews & Jobs — company culture + salary intel to complement job listings (⭐ 4.57)

Together these cover the job-board data cluster: ZipRecruiter, Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and multi-source aggregators.

FAQ

Does ZipRecruiter have a public API, or how do I get ZipRecruiter job data?

No public API. ZipRecruiter's api.ziprecruiter.com/partner/v0 is a closed partner program requiring an API key and contract. This actor is the practical alternative: it reads the structured data embedded in publicly visible pages, no key required.

What job listings data can I extract from ZipRecruiter?

Title, company (name, URL, logo), city/state, salary min/max/period/currency, remote and hybrid flags, employment type, industry, apply URL, job ID, full description (plain + HTML), post and expiry dates, and provenance fields.

How do I scrape ZipRecruiter job listings by keyword and location?

Set Keywords and Location (e.g. nurse + Chicago, IL), choose filters (job type, days posted, radius, remote-only), and set Max jobs. Or paste a ZipRecruiter search URL into Start URLs — filters in the URL are preserved and paginated with &page=N.

Is scraping ZipRecruiter, or job boards generally, legal?

The actor reads publicly listed job postings and their embedded structured data at polite concurrency, with request caps. Users are responsible for complying with ZipRecruiter's Terms of Service and robots.txt and applicable law — job postings are publicly displayed, and only public (non-login) data is accessed. No private applications or candidate data are collected.

Why is ZipRecruiter hard to scrape, and how do I avoid getting blocked?

Cloudflare bot management blocks datacenter IPs (HTTP 403) and non-browser TLS fingerprints. The actor impersonates a real desktop Safari fingerprint via a custom HTTP client and routes through the US residential proxy — with challenge detection and session rotation for retries.

How do I benchmark salaries by location and role from job data?

Use the parsed salaryMin/salaryMax/salaryPeriod fields (keep Fetch full descriptions ON for detail-page baseSalary ranges). Normalize hourly to annual, group by location/city and title, and compute medians. Pay-transparency states (CA, NY, CO, WA) publish salary ranges on most postings.

Do ZipRecruiter salary figures represent real employer pay, or estimates?

The actor extracts the employer-published baseSalary when present; some listings show AI-estimated ranges (marked by ZipRecruiter) or omit salary entirely — those fields are simply absent from the row. ZipRecruiter postings carry employer-published ranges more often than most boards.

How do I track job posting trends and hiring trends by company over time?

Run the actor on a schedule (daily/weekly) with the same queries, and merge snapshots on jid to measure posting velocity, re-posts, and company growth by location and role.

What can remote job market data tell me about remote vs hybrid trends?

isRemote / isHybrid flags let you measure the remote share by role, city, and date — useful for remote-job market intelligence and employer strategy research.

ZipRecruiter vs Indeed — which is better for job data?

ZipRecruiter has higher salary fill-rate (~65% vs ~40% on Indeed) and strong hourly/retail/SMB coverage; Indeed has larger raw volume and better tech-sector coverage — with 25–40% listing overlap. Use this actor for ZipRecruiter and an Indeed scraper for the other source.

What's the best way to build a job board aggregator from multiple sources?

Normalize each source into one schema (title, company, location, salary, type, remote flag, apply URL, posted date), dedupe on a canonical job key (e.g. company+title+location+date), and merge daily snapshots. The Multi Job Board Scraper covers LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Google Jobs & ZipRecruiter.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: Returns structured US job listings from ZipRecruiter (title, company, salary range, remote/hybrid flags, full description) as JSON rows — search by keyword + location or from direct URLs.

Minimal input:

{ "search": "software engineer", "location": "Austin, TX", "maxItems": 50 }

Variant inputs:

{ "search": "nurse", "location": "Remote", "remoteOnly": true, "daysPosted": 7, "includeJobDetails": true }

{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=data+analyst&location=New+York%2C+NY" } ], "maxItems": 100 }

Output fields (subset notable): title, company, companyUrl, companyLogo, location, city, state, salary, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, isRemote, isHybrid, employmentType, industry, applyUrl, url, jid, description, descriptionHtml, datePosted, validThrough, searchQuery, searchLocation, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• search/location are ignored when startUrls are provided — URL filters take precedence.
• includeJobDetails: true visits each detail page (slower, adds description, salaryMin/Max, companyLogo, industry); false returns faster search-card rows without salary ranges from detail JSON-LD.
• Free users are capped at 10 items regardless of maxItems; paying users get up to 500.
• Salary fields (salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, salaryCurrency) are absent when the employer didn't publish a range — don't assume they're always present.
• Proxy must stay on US residential (proxyConfiguration.apifyProxyGroups: ["RESIDENTIAL"], apifyProxyCountry: "US") — datacenter egress gets Cloudflare-blocked.
• Billing: $0.005 per start + $0.00095 per result row ≈ $0.05 for a 50-item run (plus residential proxy GB traffic).

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ZipRecruiter, Inc. It accesses only publicly visible job postings and their embedded structured data on ziprecruiter.com — no login bypass, no CAPTCHA solving, no private or candidate data. Users are responsible for complying with ZipRecruiter's Terms of Service, robots.txt, and applicable law.

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