🚀 Wellfound (AngelList) Jobs Scraper

Scrape public startup job listings from Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) at scale. Paste role/location search URLs in bulk, apply rich filters, and export clean, structured job data — job title, company, compensation, locations, remote status, posting date, company logo, and direct links.

This actor drives a stealth Firefox (Camoufox) that naturally clears Wellfound's Cloudflare + DataDome anti-bot stack — no captcha solver required — and reads the page's embedded Apollo (Next.js) cache for accurate, stable data.

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✨ Why Choose Us?

• 🦊 Real anti-bot bypass — stealth Firefox passes DataDome's TLS, canvas, and WebGL checks naturally.
• 🛡️ Smart proxy ladder — starts direct, auto-escalates to datacenter → residential only when needed, then sticks.
• 🧠 Apollo-first extraction — reads structured JSON, not fragile CSS classes, with a DOM fallback.
• 💾 Live saving — every job lands in your dataset the instant it's parsed; a crash never loses progress.
• 🔍 Powerful filters — title, keyword, location, remote, experience, salary band, company include/exclude.
• 📊 Tidy output — three ready-made table views: Jobs, Companies, Metadata.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Details
Bulk URLs	Paste many role/location or job pages at once
Auto-pagination	Crawls pages until maxItems or the last page
Filters	title, keyword, location, remote-only, job type, experience, salary, companies
Sorting	Newest / oldest first
Proxy fallback	none → datacenter → residential (sticky)
Company logos	Cloudflare image-proxy wrappers stripped to the clean URL

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📥 Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://wellfound.com/role/l/software-engineer/new-york" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "jobTitle": "",
  "keyword": "",
  "location": "",
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "jobType": "any",
  "experience": "any",
  "minSalary": 0,
  "maxSalary": 0,
  "includeNoSalary": true,
  "sort": "none",
  "includeCompanies": [],
  "excludeCompanies": [],
  "companyCategories": [],
  "countryName": "United States",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Required. Wellfound role/location pages or single job pages.
maxItems	integer	Stop after this many jobs (default 50).
jobTitle	string	Keep jobs whose title contains this text.
keyword	string	Matched against title, company, and locations.
location	string	Keep jobs whose locations contain this text.
remoteOnly	boolean	Keep only remote jobs.
jobType	enum	Any / Full-time / Part-time / Contract / Internship.
experience	enum	Any / Junior / Mid / Senior / Executive.
minSalary / maxSalary	integer	Salary band in USD/year (0 = unbounded).
includeNoSalary	boolean	Keep jobs without a published salary.
sort	enum	As found / Newest / Oldest.
includeCompanies / excludeCompanies	array	Company allow / block list.
companyCategories	array	Keep companies matching these keywords.
countryName	enum	Residential proxy geo-target.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (default: no proxy).

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📤 Output

Each dataset item:

{
  "type": "wellfound_job",
  "jobId": "4117786",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "slug": "software-engineer",
  "companyName": "Octozi",
  "companySlug": "octozi",
  "companyUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/octozi",
  "companyLogo": "https://photos.wellfound.com/startups/i/10793349-...-medium_jpg.jpg",
  "companyId": null,
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4117786-software-engineer",
  "compensation": "$125k – $175k • 0.1% – 0.35% In office",
  "remote": false,
  "locations": ["New York City"],
  "postedAt": "1780392293",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-08T09:24:53Z"
}

Field	Description
type	Always wellfound_job.
jobId / slug	Wellfound identifiers.
title	Job title.
companyName / companySlug / companyId	Company identity.
companyUrl / companyLogo	Company page and logo.
jobUrl	Direct link to the job.
compensation	Raw pay/equity string as shown on Wellfound.
remote	Remote flag.
locations	Array of location strings.
postedAt	Unix timestamp (seconds) of posting.
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 scrape time (UTC).

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open Wellfound (AngelList) Jobs Scraper.
3. Paste one or more Wellfound URLs into 🔗 Start URLs.
4. (Optional) Set filters and 🎯 Max Items.
5. Click Start and watch the live log fill with jobs.
6. Open the Output tab — switch between Jobs, Companies, and Metadata views.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://wellfound.com/role/l/software-engineer/new-york"}],"maxItems":50}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• 📈 Track startup hiring trends by role, city, or compensation band.
• 🧑‍💼 Build talent pipelines and sourcing lists.
• 🏢 Monitor competitor hiring.
• 🔬 Labor-market and salary research.

🛡️ Proxy Behavior

The actor starts with a direct connection. If Wellfound's anti-bot blocks a request it automatically escalates to a datacenter proxy, then to a residential proxy (with up to 3 retries), and then stays on residential for the rest of the run. All escalations are logged.

⚖️ Cautions / Legal

• Data is collected only from publicly available Wellfound pages.
• No login or private content is accessed.
• You are responsible for compliance with GDPR, CCPA, anti-spam laws, and Wellfound's Terms of Service.

💬 Support & Feedback

Found a bug or need a custom field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — we read every one.