| 🧑💼 Job title & normalized title | 🏢 Company profile, size & revenue |
| 📃 Full job description (HTML + text) | ⭐️ Employee reviews & category ratings |
| 💵 Parsed salary range & period | 💰 Salary tables by role and employer |
| 📍 City, state, postcode & remote status | ❓ Community questions & top answers |
| 🎁 Benefits, requirements & shift tags | 👔 CEO, HQ, founding year & website |
| 🕐 Posting date & expiry | 📧 Employer contact address (optional) |
### Why use this scraper?
- **Both sides of Indeed in one run.** Jobs *and* the employers behind them — profiles,
reviews, salary tables, Q\&A — joined on Indeed's own employer id, not on company name.
- **Every filter is verified, not assumed.** Indeed silently ignores URL parameters it does
not recognise, so each filter here was measured against a deliberate control before being
shipped. Controls that turned out to do nothing were **removed rather than left in place**
looking like they worked.
- **Published coverage numbers.** On a search Indeed reported as 2,676 postings: **737
unique jobs in 41 requests** paging alone, **1,388 in 369 requests** with widening on.
Every run logs what it actually collected against what Indeed claimed.
- **Full descriptions at the base rate.** Job text is fetched in batches of 40, so it is
included rather than sold as a per-job add-on.
- **Widening that respects your query.** A broad search is re-run as narrower slices — by
location, date, job type, pay and education — and slices that are still too large are
split again. A search you already scoped to a city is never silently widened.
- **Scheduled monitoring.** Remember what previous runs returned and receive only new
postings. Skipped jobs cost no requests and no charge.
- **Strict matching.** Indeed pads every result page with loosely-related and sponsored
postings. Drop them — judged against the full description, not the snippet.
- **62 country domains**, with currency, locale, and miles or kilometres handled for you.
- **Clean output.** `source.canonicalUrl` is always the public page a person would open.
The endpoints the actor fetches internally, and Indeed's tracking fields, never reach
your data.
### Use cases
- **Recruitment & talent intelligence** — see who is hiring for which roles, at what pay,
in which markets, and what their employees say about working there.
- **Salary benchmarking** — parsed pay per posting, plus company-level and national salary
tables by job title and location.
- **Market & competitor research** — an employer's open headcount, ratings, size, revenue
and hiring velocity, refreshed on a schedule you control.
- **Job boards & aggregators** — a clean feed filtered to what actually matches, delivering
only what is new since your last run.
- **Lead generation** — every posting is a company spending money to hire, with optional
business contact details from the employer's own website.
- **Candidate matching** — score every posting 0-100 against a skill list and see which
skills are missing.
### How do I use Indeed Scraper?
1. Create a free [Apify](https://apify.com/) account.
2. Open the actor and enter a job title under **Positions / keywords** and a **Location**.
3. Optionally narrow with date posted, job type, remote, pay or education — or switch on
**Include company details** to get the employers as well.
4. Click **Start** and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull it from the API.
Leave the location empty to search a whole country. Residential proxies are strongly
recommended — Indeed challenges most datacenter traffic.
### Input
Everything is optional except giving the actor something to search — `keywords`,
`startUrls`, `jobKeys`, `companyUrls` or `salaryJobTitles`.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `scrapeMode` | String | What this run does: `jobs` (keyword search, the default), `company` (employer pages from `companyUrls`), or `careerSalary` (national pay tables). Fields belonging to the other modes are ignored, and the log says what it skipped. |
| `keywords` | Array | Job titles, skills or company names. Each is searched separately. |
| `location` | String | City, state, ZIP or region. Leave empty to search a whole country. |
| `country` | String | Which Indeed country site to search (default `US`). 62 supported. |
| `startUrls` | Array | Any Indeed URL: a `/jobs` search with filters, a `/viewjob` posting, a `/cmp/…` company page or tab, or a `/career/…` salary page. |
| `jobKeys` | Array | Look jobs up directly by Indeed job key (the `jk` value in a job URL). |
| `datePosted` | String | `1`, `3`, `7` or `14` days. |
| `jobType` | Array | `fulltime`, `parttime`, `contract`, `temporary`, `internship`, `permanent`, `new_grad`, `commission`. Indeed takes one type per search, so picking several runs one search per type and widens the result set. |
| `remoteWork` | String | `remote` or `hybrid`. Indeed filters remote itself; it has no working hybrid filter, so hybrid is applied to the results and reads more pages for the same number of rows. |
| `education` | String | `high_school_degree` … `doctoral_degree`. |
| `salaryMin` | Integer | Annual pay threshold, in the country's currency. |
| `onlyWithSalary` | Boolean | Keep only postings that state or estimate pay. |
| `radius` / `radiusUnit` | Integer / String | Search radius, in `miles` or `km`. |
| `sort` | String | `relevance` or `date`. |
| `maxItems` | Integer | Total jobs to return (default `100`). |
| `fanOut` | Boolean | Re-run broad searches as narrower slices (default `true`). |
| `maxFanOutRequests` | Integer | Budget for that widening. |
| `deepSearch` | Boolean | Expand each keyword into related phrasings. |
| `strictMatch` | Boolean | Drop postings that do not contain your keywords. |
| `uniqueCompanies` | Boolean | At most one posting per employer. |
| `resumeKeywords` | Array | Score every posting 0-100 against a skill list. Not a filter. |
| `storeName` | String | Remember what this search returned, for scheduled runs. |
| `onlyNewJobs` | Boolean | Return only postings no earlier run returned. Needs `storeName`. |
| `includeDescription` | Boolean | Full job text, batched (default `true`). |
| `includeJobDetail` | Boolean | Extra per-job fetch for benefits and qualifications. |
| `includeCompanyDetails` | Boolean | Add the employer's Indeed profile. |
| `companyDataTypes` | Array | `profile`, `reviews`, `salaries`, `qna`. |
| `enrichEmails` | Boolean | Read each employer's own site for a business contact address. |
| `companyUrls` | Array | Scrape employers directly, without a job search. |
| `salaryJobTitles` | Array | National salary tables by role. |
| `salaryLocations` | Array | Restrict those salary tables to given locations. |
| `maxReviews` / `maxQuestions` | Integer | Cap review and Q\&A rows per employer. |
| `sessionCookies` | String | Cookies from a browser already signed in to Indeed. Never asks for a password. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | **Residential proxies are strongly recommended.** |
#### Input examples
| Use case | Input JSON |
| :--- | :--- |
| Jobs by keyword and location | `{ "keywords": ["registered nurse"], "location": "Texas", "maxItems": 200 }` |
| Search a different country | `{ "keywords": ["software engineer"], "location": "London", "country": "GB" }` |
| Only recent, full-time, remote | `{ "keywords": ["data analyst"], "datePosted": "3", "jobType": ["fulltime"], "remoteWork": "remote" }` |
| Several employment types at once | `{ "keywords": ["welder"], "location": "Houston, TX", "jobType": ["fulltime", "contract", "temporary"] }` |
| Roles above a salary | `{ "keywords": ["product manager"], "location": "Seattle, WA", "salaryMin": 150000 }` |
| Only postings that state pay | `{ "keywords": ["warehouse associate"], "location": "Dallas, TX", "onlyWithSalary": true }` |
| Clean, relevant results only | `{ "keywords": ["registered nurse"], "location": "Texas", "strictMatch": true, "uniqueCompanies": true }` |
| Score jobs against a CV | `{ "keywords": ["backend engineer"], "resumeKeywords": ["Python", "Kubernetes", "PostgreSQL"] }` |
| Go wide on a national search | `{ "keywords": ["nurse"], "location": "", "fanOut": true, "maxFanOutRequests": 40, "maxItems": 2000 }` |
| Widen a narrow keyword | `{ "keywords": ["software engineer"], "location": "Austin, TX", "deepSearch": true, "maxItems": 500 }` |
| Daily monitor — only new jobs | `{ "keywords": ["python developer"], "location": "Denver, CO", "storeName": "python-denver", "onlyNewJobs": true }` |
| Jobs plus employer profiles | `{ "keywords": ["data engineer"], "location": "Chicago, IL", "includeCompanyDetails": true }` |
| Everything about employers | `{ "keywords": ["dentist"], "location": "Phoenix, AZ", "includeCompanyDetails": true, "companyDataTypes": ["profile", "reviews", "salaries", "qna"] }` |
| Employers only, no job search | `{ "scrapeMode": "company", "companyUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Google" }], "companyDataTypes": ["profile", "reviews"], "maxReviews": 200 }` |
| Employers *alongside* a job search | `{ "keywords": ["data engineer"], "location": "Chicago, IL", "includeCompanyDetails": true }` |
| National salary tables | `{ "scrapeMode": "careerSalary", "salaryJobTitles": ["software engineer", "registered nurse"], "salaryLocations": ["New York, NY"] }` |
| Sales leads with contacts | `{ "keywords": ["hvac technician"], "location": "Tampa, FL", "includeCompanyDetails": true, "enrichEmails": true }` |
| Paste an Indeed URL | `{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=nurse&l=Austin%2C+TX&fromage=3" }] }` |
### Output
Data is stored in the default dataset. Five record types share it, told apart by
`recordType`, each with its own view in the Console: **Jobs**, **Companies**, **Reviews**,
**Salaries** and **Q\&A**.
`source.canonicalUrl` is always the public Indeed page a person would open. The endpoints
the actor fetches internally, and Indeed's tracking fields, never appear in your data.
Jobs join to companies on `company.fccId` = the company record's `source.encryptedFccId`.