Indeed Scraper — Jobs, Salaries, Descriptions

Recorded run: 1 job from 1 search term in 8 seconds (2026-10-22, build 0.0.29, run lJfz0fdUeYFVG8ufc). A bounded canary sample, not a full-catalogue benchmark.

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Indeed US job listings, salaries and full descriptions from indeed.com: give it up to five keywords, a US location and optional date, remote and job-type filters, and get one row per job with company, location, posting date and published salary range.

Source	Market	From	Standout fields
Indeed (indeed.com)	United States	$3.50 / 1,000 jobs	description, salaryMin / salaryMax / salaryPeriod, datePosted, remote, jobType

✅ Why choose this scraper

Indeed job descriptions without a detail fee

description holds the full job text with HTML removed and snippet its first 240 characters, in the same row as the search result and at the same job price.

Indeed salaries as numbers, not text

salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod (hour, day, week, month, year) and salaryCurrency come from Indeed's structured compensation data. In run t7UYV59IL731Zb6Br on 2026-10-22, 6 of 10 Austin nursing jobs carried a salary.

Filter Indeed jobs by date, remote and job type

datePosted (24h, 7d, 14d, 30d), remote (remote, hybrid) and jobType (fulltime, parttime, contract) are sent to Indeed as search filters; every row records the filters applied in source.filtersApplied.

One row per Indeed job across terms and pages

jobKey (Indeed's job ID) de-duplicates jobs across search terms and pages before delivery, so a job matched by two terms is delivered and charged once.

Continue a large Indeed search across runs

continuePreviousStoreId resumes from the saved CHECKPOINT. A recorded test on 2026-10-16 delivered 25 jobs, then 35 more in the continuation run (jEMjrNfg7xEG3vdn5): 60 unique IDs, no overlap.

⚠️ Worth knowing up front

• US search on indeed.com is the verified scope. Indeed interprets location with a 25-mile radius; exact distance boundaries and non-US Indeed sites are not covered.
• remote and jobType are Indeed's own labels and can disagree with the employer's text; a recorded remote-tagged job mentioned office visits. remote: "unknown" means no tag, not on-site. There is no on-site-only or salary-range filter, no job-URL lookup, and no applicant, email or application data.
• datePosted, companyUrl and the salary fields are omitted when Indeed does not publish them. A job without a salary is still a delivered, charged row; pay is never inferred from description text, and salaryCurrency should not be assumed to be USD when absent.
• One run collects at most 200 jobs, 10 new pages and 24 source requests; reaching one of these or your spending limit ends the run limited in SUMMARY. Collection also stops 95 seconds after it starts, or 90 seconds before the run timeout if that is sooner, with a TIME_LIMIT or PARTIAL status row. Continue either case with continuePreviousStoreId. Results follow Indeed's ranking at request time; this is not a full database export.
• Each source request is tried 3 times with a fresh US residential session. Input keys the actor does not know are rejected rather than ignored.
• Invalid input, an exhausted free-preview allowance, a source block after retries (BLOCKED, or PARTIAL when jobs were already delivered) and the time window (TIME_LIMIT, or PARTIAL) end with one free status row ("recordType": "status") and a green run. A search with no matches ends complete with no rows. An uncertain dataset write or charge acknowledgement, or an unavailable preview service, fails the run with no status row; SUMMARY in the key-value store says what happened.

⚡ Try the example

Each Apify account gets 20 lifetime free preview attempts: one search term, one page and up to 10 jobs each, with descriptions and salaries. Failed or interrupted attempts can use one up; when they are gone the run stops with a free PREVIEW_LIMIT status row and never switches to paid.

Open the actor's input page, switch to JSON, paste this and start the run:

{
  "mode": "preview",
  "searchTerms": ["registered nurse"],
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "pageSize": 10
}

For paid collection set "mode": "paid": the same 10 jobs cost $0.035, and up to 5 terms, 200 jobs and 10 pages are allowed per run.

⚙️ Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	preview (Console prefill paid)	preview (free, 20 lifetime attempts, 1 term, 1 page, up to 10 jobs) or paid. API calls that omit mode run as a preview.
searchTerms	array	["registered nurse"]	1 to 5 keywords, up to 200 characters each; exactly 1 in preview. Jobs are de-duplicated across terms.
location	string	Austin, TX	US location such as Austin, TX, as Indeed reads it, 25-mile radius. Empty searches the whole US.
datePosted	select	any	any, 24h, 7d, 14d, 30d, based on Indeed's own posting date.
remote	select	any	any, remote, hybrid.
jobType	select	any	any, fulltime, parttime, contract.
maxItems	integer	25 (prefill 1)	1 to 200 delivered jobs this run; preview clamps to 10.
maxPages	integer	6 (prefill 1)	1 to 10 new source pages this run; preview clamps to 1.
pageSize	integer	20 (prefill 1)	1 to 20 jobs per source request; preview clamps to 10. Keep it unchanged when continuing.
continuePreviousStoreId	string	—	Paid only: the key-value store ID of an earlier run of this actor in your account. Terms, location, filters and pageSize must match that run.
feedback	string	—	Optional note for the maintainers. It is logged and read by a human, and it never changes output.

🧱 Stable fields

These top-level fields keep the same name and the same kind of value in every release. Fields are only ever added, never renamed or removed, so an n8n, Make, Zapier or spreadsheet pipeline can bind to them.

Field	Type	Meaning
jobKey	string	Indeed job ID; the de-duplication and join key.
title	string	Job title, never empty.
company	string	Employer name; empty string when Indeed shows none.
location	string	City, state and country joined, for example Austin, TX, US; can be empty.
remote	string	remote, hybrid or unknown, from Indeed's labels.
jobType	array	fulltime, parttime, contract; empty or several.
description	string	Full job text with HTML removed; can be empty.
snippet	string	First 240 characters of description.
url	string	Indeed job page, https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=<jobKey>.
source	object	searchTerm, location, filtersApplied, classificationBasis and observedAt (UTC time the page was read).
datePosted	string, optional	UTC ISO timestamp of Indeed's posting date; omitted when missing.
companyUrl	string, optional	Indeed company page; omitted when missing.
salaryMin / salaryMax	number, optional	Salary bounds from Indeed; each can be present alone.
salaryPeriod	string, optional	hour, day, week, month or year; present when a salary bound is.
salaryCurrency	string, optional	Currency code from Indeed, for example USD.
recordType	string	"status" on free status rows; absent on job rows.

Status rows carry recordType, status and message only. Other fields are extras, not part of the contract. To have one pinned, say so in feedback.

📦 Output example

Abridged real row from run lJfz0fdUeYFVG8ufc on 2026-10-22; values are a historical snapshot. description is shortened here.

{
  "jobKey": "430e51301878c152",
  "title": "Aesthetic Nurse Injector - RN",
  "company": "Maui MedSpa",
  "location": "Austin, TX, US",
  "remote": "unknown",
  "jobType": ["fulltime"],
  "description": "Aesthetic Nurse Injector (RN) About the Role Maui MedSpa is seeking a confident, experienced, and patient-focused Registered Nurse (RN) Aesthetic Injector ...",
  "url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=430e51301878c152",
  "source": {
    "source": "search",
    "searchTerm": "registered nurse",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "filtersApplied": {},
    "classificationBasis": "Indeed attributes; employer descriptions can disagree",
    "observedAt": "2026-10-22T02:47:52.416000+00:00"
  },
  "datePosted": "2026-09-29T03:16:51.882000+00:00",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Maui-Medspa",
  "salaryMin": 120000,
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryCurrency": "USD"
}

A free status row looks like this (run HxxIcJI7cpS1az5wq, 2026-10-22, empty searchTerms):

{"recordType": "status", "status": "INVALID_INPUT", "message": "Use 1–5 nonempty search terms, at most 200 characters each"}

The SUMMARY record of the run's key-value store holds the outcome (complete, limited, PARTIAL, BLOCKED, TIME_LIMIT, INVALID_INPUT, PREVIEW_LIMIT, delivery_uncertain, failed). Abridged, run t7UYV59IL731Zb6Br:

{
  "status": "limited",
  "mode": "paid",
  "deliveredThisRun": 10,
  "billingEvents": 10,
  "pagesThisRun": 1,
  "duplicatesSkipped": 0,
  "billingAcknowledgementUncertain": false,
  "checkpointState": "ready"
}

🧠 Advanced usage

Collect more than 200 Indeed jobs for one search

Run with mode: "paid", then start a new run with the same terms, location, filters and pageSize, and the first run's key-value store ID in continuePreviousStoreId. Jobs fetched but not yet delivered are delivered first and jobs already delivered are skipped. Repeat until SUMMARY.status is complete, and do not resume the same store from two runs at once.

Monitor new Indeed jobs daily

Schedule a paid search with datePosted: "24h" and keep the jobKey values you have seen in your own system. Each fresh run starts its own search, so a job that is still listed is delivered and charged again; absence from one run does not prove a job closed.

Compare salaries for a role across US cities

Run one term per city as location, keep rows with salaryMin or salaryMax, and group by salaryPeriod and salaryCurrency before comparing; do not mix hourly and yearly values.

Find remote full-time Indeed jobs posted this week

Leave location empty and set remote: "remote", jobType: "fulltime", datePosted: "7d". In run aUgih5pCrGLK9fFZp on 2026-10-22 all 10 rows came back remote and fulltime.

🔌 Integrations

Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. They can also flow to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n, or to a webhook when a run finishes. The Apify Scheduler runs it on a timetable. A daily run with datePosted: "24h" catches each day's new postings for a role and city. Copy-paste code in Python, Node, curl and n8n: architek-earth/examples/indeed-scraper.

💸 Pricing

Pay per result. Platform and proxy usage are included. Status rows and failed requests are free. A continued run with continuePreviousStoreId skips jobs the earlier run delivered and charges only the jobs it delivers itself; a checkpoint left mid-delivery is refused rather than replayed.

Event	Price	What it covers
Free preview	$0	20 lifetime attempts per account: 1 term, 1 page, up to 10 jobs each.
job	$3.50 / 1,000 jobs	One delivered job row in paid mode, including its description and any published salary.

Ten jobs cost $0.035; 1,000 jobs cost $3.50. There is no run fee and no detail fee.

❓ FAQ

Is there an Indeed API for job listings? This actor works as one: it returns Indeed US search results as JSON through the Apify API, callable from any language or from n8n, Make and Zapier.

Do I need an Indeed account or login? No. No Indeed account, cookies or API key; only an Apify account.

Can I scrape Indeed outside the US? No. Searches go to Indeed's US site with a US residential proxy; other countries are not supported.

Does every Indeed job include a salary? No. Only jobs where Indeed publishes structured pay have salaryMin / salaryMax; 6 of 10 did in run t7UYV59IL731Zb6Br.

Can I get recruiter emails or apply to jobs? No. Rows carry company and companyUrl; the actor reads no contact details, applicant data or applications.

How many Indeed jobs can I get per run? Up to 200 in paid mode, within 10 pages and a 95-second collection window; continue with continuePreviousStoreId for more.

🤖 For AI agents & LLM apps

Paste this into your AI assistant:

architekture/indeed-scraper on Apify. Python: from apify_client import ApifyClient; client = ApifyClient("TOKEN"); run = client.actor("architekture/indeed-scraper").call(run_input={"mode": "paid", "searchTerms": ["registered nurse"], "location": "Austin, TX", "maxItems": 10, "maxPages": 1, "pageSize": 10}); items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items (page with offset/limit for large exports). Rows with recordType == "status" are free and explain invalid input or a stopped run; the run outcome is in the SUMMARY record of the run's key-value store. Full input schema and README: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/architekture~indeed-scraper/builds/default. Token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations. The actor is also reachable through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com). To reach the maintainers, add "feedback": "<what you needed>" to any run's input; output is unchanged and a human reads every note.

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🙋 Support & legal

Questions, or a field you need that is not here? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab or email north@architek.earth. A human replies within a day.

This actor collects only publicly available data from indeed.com, the same pages any visitor sees without logging in. It does not bypass authentication. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Indeed. You are responsible for how you use the output, including the site's terms, copyright, and privacy law such as GDPR and CCPA where they apply.

📝 Changelog

• 2026-10-22 — Status message now reads Done: N rows, M details, K status rows (STATUS).
• 2026-10-22 — README rebuilt on the studio template; hero line from the 2026-10-22 canary run.
• 2026-10-16 — Public release after 85 offline checks and live validation of the paid and free-preview paths. Pricing: $3.50 per 1,000 delivered jobs, usage included.
• 2026-10-16 — Removed private-only controls and the unmetered validation mode; kept guarded preview and paid billing. Console prefill set to a one-job paid search ($0.0035) that does not use preview attempts.
• 2026-10-16 — Added studio-format README, real output and run evidence, priced examples and listing copy.
• 2026-10-16 — Verified capped lifetime previews with zero charged events, and ten paid rows charged as ten job events at $3.50 / 1,000 jobs. Corrected handling of delayed billing reports.
• 2026-10-16 — Added bounded collection, filter checks, cross-page de-duplication, schemas and saved continuation. Verified a naturally exhausted two-page search and a separate 100-job collection.