Remote Jobs API: Remote OK, We Work Remotely & Jobicy

Remote Jobs API: Remote OK, We Work Remotely & Jobicy returns fresh remote jobs from three public remote-job boards as clean rows in one schema: title, company, remote region, category, salary, tags, posted date, apply link, and the board's attribution and link-back URL on every row. It is built for remote-job newsletters, job boards, recruiters, labour-market researchers and AI agents that want remote openings without writing three parsers. To try it, keep the sample input and press Start: it reads 10 jobs from each board in a few seconds.

What does the Remote Jobs API do?

• Returns one dataset row per remote job from Remote OK, We Work Remotely and Jobicy, in one normalised schema. The columns match our ATS Jobs APIs (ats becomes source), so the tables merge.
• Credits every board in the row: attribution names the board and source_url is the job's page on it. Each board asks for a link back and a credit wherever its jobs are shown; the data is ready for that, and you must keep it.
• Optional keyword filter (query: every word must appear in the title or tags) and date filter (postedSinceDays).
• Removes duplicates: within a run by dedup_key (source:job_id), and across boards when the same company posts the same title on two of them (kept from the board listed first). Duplicates are never charged.
• Adds salary where the board publishes it (Remote OK and Jobicy), tags (Remote OK tags, We Work Remotely skills) and the remote region (e.g. USA Only, Europe, Worldwide).
• Calls only the boards' public feeds (remoteok.com, weworkremotely.com, jobicy.com). It sends an honest User-Agent that names this Actor, reads and obeys each host's robots.txt (wildcards and Crawl-delay included), sends at most 2 requests per second per host, never follows a redirect and retries a failed request once.
• No login, no cookies, no proxies, no personal data. It reads job postings the boards publish for anyone to reuse.
• Remotive, Himalayas and Arbeitnow are not included, on their own terms (see the FAQ).

How to use the Remote Jobs API

1. Pick the Job boards (all three by default).
2. Optionally type a Keyword, set Posted in the last N days, tick Include the job description text, and set Max jobs per board (default 500).
3. Press Start. Open the Output tab for the jobs table, or read the dataset through the API in JSON, CSV or Excel. The RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store says, per board, how many jobs were read, filtered out, skipped as duplicates and delivered.

Calling it from an AI agent:

{"sources": ["weworkremotely", "jobicy"], "query": "python", "postedSinceDays": 7}

Schedule it no more often than once an hour (Jobicy asks for that; the boards change a few times a day) and compare dedup_key values between runs to see which jobs are new.

Pricing

Each run also has a start fee of $0.001. A board that did not answer, that robots.txt told us not to read, or that returned something we could not read gives one error row that is never charged. Duplicates are never charged. Set Max cost per run to cap a run; the Actor stops cleanly at the cap and says so in its status message. Platform usage is included (no "+usage" charges).

Input

{
  "sources": ["remoteok", "weworkremotely", "jobicy"],
  "maxJobsPerSource": 10,
  "includeDescription": false
}

Output

One row per job:

{
  "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
  "company": "Example Corp",
  "location": "USA",
  "remote": true,
  "remote_region": "USA",
  "department": "Software Engineering",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-30T16:00:00Z",
  "apply_url": "https://jobicy.com/jobs/100001-senior-backend-engineer",
  "source": "jobicy",
  "job_id": "100001",
  "dedup_key": "jobicy:100001",
  "source_url": "https://jobicy.com/jobs/100001-senior-backend-engineer",
  "attribution": "Jobicy",
  "salary_min": 120000,
  "salary_max": 160000,
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_period": "yearly",
  "tags": []
}

apply_url is the job's page on the board, unchanged: the boards ask that apply buttons lead there. remote is always true. salary_* are null when the board gives no salary; Remote OK gives figures without a currency field, so salary_currency is null there. A board that failed gives one row with error, message, tried and charged: false instead. Run storage is kept for your plan's data-retention period, then deleted by Apify.

Other Actors by Atarivo

Every Atarivo Actor follows the same rules: limited permissions, no "+usage" pricing, charges only after results are saved, and at least one result row per run.

• ATS Jobs API: Greenhouse, Lever & Ashby: every open job on the Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards you list, in the same row schema, at the same price.
• Workable, Recruitee, Personio & Teamtailor Jobs API: the same rows from Workable, Recruitee, Personio and Teamtailor career sites. With the two ATS APIs you can read jobs straight from employers' career sites.
• PDF, Image & Word to Text and Markdown (OCR): returns the text, Markdown, tables and page facts of a PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF or Word .docx file, one dataset row per page, plus RAG chunks with page spans. OCR runs only on scanned or unreadable pages. First page free.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Is it legal? It reads only the public feeds each board publishes for reuse, honours each host's robots.txt and rate limits, and carries each board's attribution in every row. What each board says (all read on 2026-10-31):

• Remote OK (GET https://remoteok.com/api). The API's own legal notice: "Please link back (with follow, and without nofollow!) to the URL on Remote OK and mention Remote OK as a source, so we get traffic back from your site. If you do not we'll have to suspend API access." Its terms: "You agree to link back with a web hyperlink or in-app hyperlink to our site on the page or app screen where you use the data from our APIs or site." robots.txt: Allow: /, Crawl-delay: 1 (honoured), content signal ai-train=no.
• We Work Remotely (GET https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs.rss and the category feeds it lists). Its RSS page: "Anyone can use the feed, all we ask is that you attribute the links back to We Work Remotely." robots.txt: Allow: /.
• Jobicy (GET https://jobicy.com/api/jobs). Its API docs: "Clearly credit Jobicy as the original source when displaying listings", "Apply links provided by our free API must continue to direct users to the original job pages on Jobicy", "Our free Jobs API can be used in commercial projects ... No separate commercial agreement or approval is required", "You can store, cache, process, and redistribute job data as needed", and "Start a new automated pass no more than once per hour". robots.txt does not disallow /api/.

Your part: wherever you show these jobs, link each one to its source_url with a normal (followed) link and name the board from attribution; keep apply_url unchanged; do not use the boards' logos; do not present the jobs as your own postings; do not train AI models on Remote OK rows (ai-train=no). You are responsible for how you use the data.

Why no Remotive, Himalayas or Arbeitnow? Remotive's robots.txt disallows /api/* for every crawler, and its API terms say "Please do not submit Remotive jobs to third Party websites". Himalayas' API terms say "Show the jobs only on sites and apps you operate. Do not pass them on to third parties, such as other job boards, aggregators". Arbeitnow's terms grant its materials "for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only" and it sells commercial access as a private API. An Actor passes jobs on to you, so we follow all three.

Why do I get fewer jobs than I asked for? Each board publishes a limited window: Remote OK about 100 latest jobs, We Work Remotely the latest jobs per category feed, Jobicy the last 7 days (with a 3-hour delay). maxJobsPerSource is a ceiling, not a promise.

Is it affiliated with Remote OK, We Work Remotely or Jobicy? No. The names describe the data source only.

Something is wrong. Open an issue on the Issues tab with the run ID. Issues are answered within 14 days.

This Actor is provided as is, under Apify's Standard Actor Contract. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Remote OK, We Work Remotely or Jobicy.