Y Combinator Jobs Scraper

Export open jobs at Y Combinator startups as clean, structured JSON — each role with salary range, equity range, visa sponsorship, required skills, minimum experience, role and location, plus the hiring company's batch, industry, size and website. Filter by role, location, batch, industry or specific companies.

Jobs are read from each company's live postings on Y Combinator's own pages (an official, unauthenticated path with no anti-bot), so the feed is current and reliable — not a stale sitemap dump.

Who uses this

• Recruiters & staffing — live startup roles with compensation and visa data to source candidates and benchmark offers.
• Job boards & aggregators — a clean, deduplicated feed of YC startup jobs.
• Candidates & career tools — salary, equity and visa-sponsorship intelligence across the YC ecosystem.
• Talent-market researchers — hiring trends by role, batch and geography.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
title, url, applyUrl	string	Job title, YC job URL, application URL
role, prettyRole, roleSpecificType	string	Role group and sub-type
type	string	Employment type (e.g. Full-time)
location	string	Job location
remote	boolean	Whether the role is remote
salaryRange	string	Salary range as published
equityRange	string	Equity range as published
minExperience	string	Minimum experience required
minSchoolYear	string	Minimum school year (for new-grad roles)
visa	string	Visa sponsorship policy
skills	array	Required skills
hiringManager	object	{name, title, avatarUrl} where published
createdAt, lastActive	string	Posting age and last-active signal
description	string	Full job description (when enabled)
interviewProcess	string	Interview process (when enabled)
companySlug, companyName	string	Hiring company identity
companyBatch, companyIndustry	string	YC batch and industry
companyTeamSize	number	Company team size
companyWebsite, companyUrl	string	Company website and YC profile
companyOneLiner, companyLogoUrl	string	Company tagline and logo
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp

description and interviewProcess are populated when Include full description is enabled (the default).

High-value use cases

1. Sourcing pipelines — pull every open Engineering role across a batch or industry, with salary and visa data, straight into your ATS.
2. Salary & equity benchmarking — build a compensation dataset across YC startups by role and stage.
3. Niche job boards — power a "startup jobs" board with a fresh, structured feed filtered by role or location.
4. Company-specific tracking — watch named companies (companySlugs) for new roles and react fast.
5. Remote-only search — filter remoteOnly to surface distributed roles.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
companyQuery	string	""	Only companies matching this search; empty = all hiring companies
companySlugs	array	[]	Only these companies (YC slugs); overrides the search
batches	array	[]	Filter companies by YC batch
industries	array	[]	Filter companies by industry
regions	array	[]	Filter companies by region
roles	array	[]	Keep only these roles (e.g. Engineering, Sales, Design)
location	string	""	Keep only jobs whose location contains this text
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Keep only remote roles
includeDescription	boolean	true	Add full description + interview process
maxItems	integer	100	Cap the number of jobs
proxyConfiguration	object	direct	Optional Apify proxy

Example input

{
    "companyQuery": "fintech",
    "roles": ["Engineering"],
    "remoteOnly": true,
    "includeDescription": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example output (one row, truncated)

{
    "jobId": 249,
    "title": "Software Engineer, Android",
    "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/doordash/jobs/BV8AJW4Tt-software-engineer-android",
    "prettyRole": "Engineering",
    "type": "Full-time",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "remote": false,
    "salaryRange": "$150K - $200K",
    "equityRange": "0.10% - 0.25%",
    "minExperience": "3+ years",
    "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
    "skills": ["Android", "Kotlin"],
    "companyName": "DoorDash",
    "companyBatch": "Summer 2013",
    "companyIndustry": "Consumer",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-17T12:00:00Z"
}

Scheduling & integrations

• Schedule daily/weekly runs from the Apify Console to keep a live jobs feed.
• Webhooks on run completion can push new roles into your ATS or Slack.
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, pull via the Apify API, or connect to Make, Zapier and n8n.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

This Actor works with the Apify MCP server, so assistants like Claude or ChatGPT can call it as a tool and receive the structured jobs data directly — handy for job-search and recruiting agents.

FAQ

Where do the jobs come from? From each YC company's live postings on ycombinator.com — the current, on-site source (not a stale jobs sitemap), so results reflect what's actually open.

How many jobs can I get? Thousands of roles are open across YC companies at any time. Use maxItems to cap a run, or filters to target a subset.

Is salary/equity/visa always present? These are included whenever the company publishes them on the posting; some fields may be blank when the company omits them.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads live pages, so postings reflect YC's current data at run time.

Is it reliable? It uses YC's own page data (no HTML scraping tricks and no anti-bot to fight), so it is stable and fast.

Is this legal? The Actor collects only publicly available job postings. You are responsible for using the data in line with YC's terms and applicable laws.

Support? Issues and feature requests are welcome on the Actor's Issues tab.