Shine Jobs Scraper

Export public job listings from Shine.com into clean datasets for recruiting research, market mapping, sales intelligence, and hiring analytics.

What does Shine Jobs Scraper do?

Shine Jobs Scraper collects public job search results from Shine.com, one of India’s large recruitment websites.

It turns Shine search pages into structured rows that are ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, CRMs, enrichment workflows, and downstream automation.

You can scrape by keyword and location, or paste one or more Shine search URLs directly.

The actor reads the public server-rendered data available on Shine search pages and saves each job listing as one dataset item.

Who is it for?

This actor is useful for several teams:

• 🧑‍💼 Recruiters tracking active hiring demand in India
• 📈 Talent intelligence teams mapping companies by role, skill, and location
• 🧲 Lead-generation teams finding companies currently hiring
• 🏢 Staffing agencies monitoring new openings across industries
• 🧪 Data analysts building job-market trend dashboards
• 🤖 Automation builders feeding Shine job data into workflows

Why use this actor?

Shine search pages are designed for browsing, not bulk analysis.

This actor helps you avoid manual copying by extracting job data into a repeatable Apify dataset.

You can schedule it, call it from the API, export to CSV, or connect it to integrations.

Data you can extract

The actor saves public fields when Shine includes them in the search result JSON.

Field	Description
jobId	Shine job identifier
title	Job title
companyName	Employer or recruiter name
companyId	Shine company account ID when present
industry	Industry/category label
location	Original Shine location text
locations	Parsed location list
salary	Salary label shown by Shine
experience	Experience range
jobType	Job/employment type when present
openings	Number of vacancies when present
postedAt	Posted date string
expiresAt	Expiry date string
skills	Parsed skill keywords
descriptionText	Clean text job description
descriptionHtml	Optional raw HTML description
recruiterPhone	Public recruiter phone when present
recruiterEmail	Public recruiter email when present
applyUrl	External apply URL when present
jobUrl	Shine job detail URL
searchUrl	Search page used to find the job
page	Search result page number
position	Position in the collected result set
totalResults	Shine total count for the search
source	Always shine.com
scrapedAt	Collection timestamp

How much does it cost to scrape Shine jobs?

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing.

You pay a small start fee for each run and a per-result fee for each job listing saved.

For most searches, a small test run with 20 jobs is inexpensive and is a good way to confirm the output before running larger monitoring jobs.

Current pricing is a $0.005 run-start event plus tiered per-job pricing. The BRONZE per-job price is $0.0001 (about $0.10 per 1,000 saved jobs). Final Store pricing is shown on the Apify actor page before you start a run.

How to use Shine Jobs Scraper

1. Open the actor on Apify.
2. Enter a job keyword such as software engineer.
3. Optionally enter a location such as Bangalore.
4. Set Maximum jobs to the number of listings you need.
5. Click Start.
6. Download results from the Dataset tab.

Search by keyword and location

Use the keyword and location fields when you want the actor to build Shine search URLs for you.

Example:

{
  "keyword": "data analyst",
  "location": "Mumbai",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPages": 3
}

This searches Shine pages like:

https://www.shine.com/job-search/data-analyst-jobs-in-mumbai

Search by Shine URLs

Use searchUrls when you already have the exact Shine search pages you want to monitor.

Example:

{
  "searchUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.shine.com/job-search/software-engineer-jobs-in-bangalore" },
    { "url": "https://www.shine.com/job-search/sales-manager-jobs-in-delhi" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

When searchUrls is provided, it overrides keyword and location.

Input reference

Input	Type	Default	Notes
keyword	string	software engineer	Used when searchUrls is empty
location	string	Bangalore	Optional Shine location filter
searchUrls	array	example Shine URL	Direct URLs to scrape
maxItems	integer	20	Maximum saved jobs
maxPages	integer	2	Maximum pages per search URL
includeDescriptionHtml	boolean	false	Adds raw HTML description

Output example

{
  "jobId": "18878393",
  "title": "Senior Software Developer (.NET)",
  "companyName": "Cynosure Corporate Solutions",
  "industry": "IT Services & Consulting",
  "location": "Chennai",
  "salary": "[Salary Hidden]",
  "experience": "6 to 8 Yrs",
  "skills": [".NET", "C#", "SQL"],
  "jobUrl": "https://www.shine.com/jobs/senior-software-developer-net/cynosure-corporate-solutions/18878393",
  "source": "shine.com"
}

Actual fields depend on what Shine exposes publicly for each listing.

Tips for better results

• 🎯 Use specific keywords such as java developer, business analyst, or digital marketing.
• 📍 Add a location when you need city-level coverage.
• 🧪 Start with 25 jobs before running larger exports.
• 🔁 Schedule repeated runs to monitor newly posted jobs.
• 🧹 Keep includeDescriptionHtml disabled unless you need HTML formatting.

Integrations

You can connect the dataset to many workflows:

• Send new jobs to Google Sheets for recruiting operations.
• Push hiring companies into a CRM for sales outreach.
• Feed job descriptions into an LLM classifier for skill extraction.
• Build dashboards in BigQuery, Snowflake, or Power BI.
• Trigger Slack alerts when target companies post new roles.

API usage

Call the actor from Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/shine-jobs-scraper').call({
  keyword: 'software engineer',
  location: 'Bangalore',
  maxItems: 25
});

console.log(run.defaultDatasetId);

Python API usage

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('automation-lab/shine-jobs-scraper').call(run_input={
    'keyword': 'data analyst',
    'location': 'Mumbai',
    'maxItems': 25,
})

print(run['defaultDatasetId'])

cURL API usage

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~shine-jobs-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"keyword":"software engineer","location":"Bangalore","maxItems":25}'

MCP usage

Use this actor with Apify MCP tools in Claude Desktop or Claude Code.

MCP URL:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/shine-jobs-scraper

Claude Code setup:

$claude mcp add apify-shine-jobs "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/shine-jobs-scraper"

Claude Desktop JSON config example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-shine-jobs": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/shine-jobs-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• “Run Shine Jobs Scraper for data analyst jobs in Mumbai and summarize top hiring companies.”
• “Find 50 Java developer openings in Bangalore and group them by required experience.”
• “Monitor Shine for sales manager jobs in Delhi and alert me when new companies appear.”

Scheduling

You can schedule the actor daily or weekly from Apify.

A common setup is:

• Daily run for one keyword and one city
• maxItems set to 100 or 200
• Export dataset to Google Sheets or webhook
• Compare job IDs against previous runs to detect new listings

Legality and responsible use

This actor extracts publicly available job listing data from Shine.com search pages.

You are responsible for using the data in a lawful way and respecting applicable terms, privacy rules, and employment-market regulations.

Do not use scraped contact data for spam or unlawful outreach.

Troubleshooting

If a run returns fewer jobs than requested, the search may have fewer public listings than the requested limit, or Shine may have changed pagination for that query.

If you see no results, try a broader keyword such as software engineer or paste a Shine search URL that works in your browser.

If you need the original formatted description, enable includeDescriptionHtml.

FAQ

Does this actor scrape private candidate profiles?

No. It scrapes public job listings only.

Does it require a Shine account?

No account is required for the public listing fields extracted by this actor.

Can I scrape multiple cities?

Yes. Add multiple Shine search URLs in searchUrls, one per city or query.

Why are some salaries hidden?

Shine sometimes displays [Salary Hidden]. The actor saves the value exactly as shown in the public data.

Are recruiter emails and phones always available?

No. They are saved only when Shine exposes them publicly for that listing.

Related scrapers

Other automation-lab actors that may fit job-market workflows:

• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper
• Indeed Scraper
• Company Website Scraper
• Google Search Results Scraper

Changelog

0.1

Initial version with HTTP extraction from Shine search result pages, keyword/location search, direct URL mode, pagination, and structured job listing output.