YC Jobs Scraper - Startup Hiring Data

Scrape job listings from Y Combinator Jobs / Work at a Startup in one run. Get startup job titles, YC company names, batch, one-liner, salary range, equity range, role, skills, visa signal, location, company URL, logo URL and apply URL. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, run it on a schedule, call it from an API, or connect the results to Make, Zapier, n8n, Airtable, Google Sheets or your own recruiting database.

What is the YC Jobs Scraper?

Y Combinator is one of the strongest startup hiring signals on the web. Its jobs marketplace lists roles from YC-backed companies across engineering, product, design, growth, operations, sales, data and leadership. These companies are often early-stage or scaling quickly, which makes the data useful for recruiters, candidates, sales teams, investors, market researchers and job-board operators.

This actor turns YC Jobs search results into clean structured records. You can paste a search URL from ycombinator.com/jobs, or provide a keyword such as python, founding engineer, sales, product manager, ai, data, devops or designer. The scraper fetches the public search page over plain HTTP and reads the structured job payload rendered by YC. It does not require a YC account, browser automation, proxies or an API key, so runs are fast, inexpensive and reliable for scheduled monitoring.

What data does it extract?

• Job title
• YC company name
• YC batch such as S21 or W24
• Company one-liner
• Company profile URL
• Company logo URL
• Direct job URL
• Apply URL
• Location
• Employment type
• Role category and role-specific type
• Skills
• Salary min, max, currency and raw range
• Equity min, max and raw range
• Minimum experience
• Visa signal
• Created / last active text
• Hiring manager object when present
• Search URL used

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchUrls	array	YC Jobs search URLs to scrape exactly.
query	string	Keyword or role search when no URL is supplied.
role	string	Optional YC role filter slug.
location	string	Optional location filter.
maxResults	integer	Maximum jobs returned per search.

Example input

{
  "query": "python",
  "maxResults": 50
}

You can also paste a filtered YC Jobs URL:

{
  "searchUrls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs?query=founding%20engineer"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output

Each dataset item is one YC job listing:

{
  "job_id": "93172",
  "title": "Staff Software Engineer",
  "company": "Confido (S21)",
  "company_name": "Confido",
  "company_batch": "S21",
  "company_one_liner": "AI-enabled financial automation and intelligence for CPG Brands",
  "company_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/confido",
  "company_logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/example.png",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/confido/jobs/S9erJ9O-staff-software-engineer",
  "apply_url": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=...",
  "location": "NYC Office",
  "employment_type": "Full-time",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "role_specific_type": "Full stack",
  "skills": ["Ruby on Rails"],
  "salary_min": 300000,
  "salary_max": 330000,
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_range": "$300K - $330K",
  "equity_min_percent": 0.1,
  "equity_max_percent": 0.25,
  "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%",
  "min_experience": "11+ years",
  "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
  "created_at": "3 months",
  "last_active": "about 1 hour",
  "search": "https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs?query=python"
}

Use cases

• Startup recruiting - find YC companies hiring for a specific role, skill or seniority.
• Founder and sales lead generation - hiring is a strong growth signal for tools, recruiting services, infrastructure, AI products and B2B software.
• Salary and equity research - collect compensation bands from startup roles where YC publishes salary or equity ranges.
• Job-board aggregation - add YC-backed startup jobs to a niche job board, newsletter or internal career portal.
• Market intelligence - monitor which YC companies are hiring in AI, fintech, healthcare, developer tools, climate, robotics and other sectors.
• Candidate sourcing - identify fast-growing startups with current openings and link directly to the role.
• Investor research - track hiring momentum and role mix across YC cohorts.

Why use this actor?

The actor is designed for reliable Apify Store usage. It reads the structured server-rendered page data instead of relying on fragile visual selectors, browser automation or a private API. That makes it faster and cheaper than a browser scraper and more suitable for daily auto-tests, scheduled runs and API workflows. It returns normalized fields that are ready for spreadsheets, enrichment systems and lead lists.

The output includes both hiring details and company context. For each role, you can see the YC batch, company one-liner, profile URL, salary range, equity range, role category, skills and visa note. That makes it useful beyond basic job aggregation: it can power sales prospecting, funding-market analysis, recruiting dashboards and startup hiring alerts.

Tips

• Use query for simple searches such as python, ai engineer, sales, designer or founding engineer.
• Paste a YC Jobs URL when you want to preserve filters exactly as selected on the website.
• Keep maxResults small for frequent scheduled monitoring and raise it for larger one-off exports.
• Use Apify schedules to monitor a role every day and send new rows to a webhook or automation workflow.
• Combine the dataset with company enrichment tools when you need domains, founders, emails or funding metadata.

FAQ

Does this require a YC account? No. It scrapes public YC Jobs search results and does not log in.

Does it use a browser or proxy? No. The actor uses plain HTTP and parses the structured page payload, so it is fast and low-cost.

Can I search by keyword? Yes. Use the query input, or paste a full YC Jobs search URL into searchUrls.

Does it include salary and equity? Yes, when YC includes those ranges on the listing. The actor returns both parsed numeric min/max fields and the original raw range.

Does it include company data? Yes. It returns company name, YC batch, one-liner, company profile URL and logo URL.

Can I export the results? Yes. Apify supports JSON, CSV, Excel, API access, webhooks and integrations with common automation tools.

Is it useful for lead generation? Yes. YC companies with active hiring are strong buying-signal leads for recruiting, developer tools, AI tooling, cloud infrastructure, sales software, compliance services and startup services.

Will it work on a schedule? Yes. The actor is designed to run without manual browser sessions, cookies or accounts.

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