# BuiltIn Scraper: US Tech Job Postings (`bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Extract tech job postings from BuiltIn.com (US): title, company, salary range, location, remote status, industry and full description.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vivien MORVAN](https://apify.com/bibian) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.48 / 1,000 job postings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## BuiltIn Scraper: US Tech Job Postings

Scrape BuiltIn.com tech job postings and get clean structured data: title, company, salary range, location, remote status, industry and full description. No login, no proxy needed — this actor reads BuiltIn's own public job board, the US-wide site that covers every region (New York, LA, Boston, Austin, Colorado, Chicago, Seattle, SF Bay Area and the rest of the country) from a single feed.

### At a glance

| | |
|---|---|
| **What you get** | US tech job postings from BuiltIn: title, company, location, remote, employment type, salary when disclosed, date, description. |
| **Price** | $0.60 per 1,000 postings: a 50-posting test run costs about $0.04, start fee included. |
| **Speed** | 50 postings in about 30 seconds. No login, no proxy, no browser to configure. |
| **Try it** | Click **Try for free**, fill the short form and run: the first 50 postings arrive in under a minute. |
| **Keep it fresh** | Schedule it daily and keep only the new postings: see "Monitor new postings daily" below. |

### What you can do with it

- **Monitor the US tech job market**: new postings across every tech company on BuiltIn, refreshed on your own schedule.
- **Feed a job alert or an aggregator**: run it daily and keep only the postings with a `datePosted` you have not seen yet.
- **Find companies that are hiring**: which employers are posting tech roles right now, and in which city or industry.
- **Benchmark tech salaries**: published salary ranges by role, company and location, including fully remote roles.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Maximum number of postings | The run stops once this many postings are saved. Default 50. |
| Include full description | Adds the full job description as plain text. Default on. |

The actor reads BuiltIn's default job listing (no keyword or location filter): `robots.txt` disallows the site's own `?search=` and per-city/per-category query filters, so this actor never targets them.

### Output

One record per posting:

```json
[
  {
    "id": "11853960",
    "url": "https://builtin.com/job/senior-software-engineer-developer-experience/11853960",
    "title": "Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience",
    "companyName": "Block",
    "isRemote": true,
    "city": null,
    "region": null,
    "country": null,
    "industries": ["Blockchain", "eCommerce", "Fintech", "Payments", "Software"],
    "salaryMin": null,
    "salaryMax": null,
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "datePosted": "2026-10-24"
  },
  {
    "id": "11852908",
    "url": "https://builtin.com/job/principal-digital-program-manager/11852908",
    "title": "Principal Digital Program Manager",
    "companyName": "Caterpillar",
    "isRemote": false,
    "city": "Irving",
    "region": "Texas",
    "country": "USA",
    "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Cloud", "Industrial"],
    "salaryMin": 147760,
    "salaryMax": 221640,
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "datePosted": "2026-10-23"
  },
  {
    "id": "11395783",
    "url": "https://builtin.com/job/account-executive-new-business/11395783",
    "title": "Account Executive, New Business",
    "companyName": "The Tara Group",
    "isRemote": true,
    "city": null,
    "region": null,
    "country": "USA",
    "industries": ["AdTech", "Digital Media", "Marketing Tech", "Analytics"],
    "salaryMin": 75000,
    "salaryMax": 100000,
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "datePosted": "2026-10-24"
  }
]
```

Each full record also carries `companyUrl`, `salaryCurrency`, `salaryPeriod`, `validThrough` and `description`. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

### Good to know

- One site covers the whole country: BuiltIn consolidated its old per-city network (BuiltIn NYC, LA, Boston, Austin, Colorado, Chicago, Seattle...) into builtin.com, which has no pagination limit in its own `robots.txt`.
- `city`/`region` are empty for fully remote postings; `isRemote` tells you which postings are remote regardless of the address fields.
- Salary fields are empty when the employer does not publish a range (about 1 in 5 postings on BuiltIn).
- No browser and no proxy needed: BuiltIn serves its listing and job pages as plain HTML, so runs are fast and cheap.
- The dataset contains job postings only. No candidate or recruiter personal data is collected: any e-mail address or phone number that shows up in a description (recruiting mailbox, accommodation contact) is stripped before the record is saved.

### Why this one

- **One feed, the whole country.** No need to run one actor per city: builtin.com itself now aggregates every US region BuiltIn used to split across separate sites.
- **Remote made explicit.** `isRemote` is read from the posting's own `jobLocationType`, not guessed from the city text.
- **Pay only for what you get.** Priced per result, with no monthly rental and platform usage included.

### Who uses it

- **Recruiting agencies and HR teams** watch which companies hire, for which roles and at which salary, in their market.
- **Job boards and aggregators** feed their own site with fresh postings in a stable schema, without maintaining a parser.
- **B2B sales and lead generation**: a company that is hiring is a company that is buying. Filter postings by role to spot prospects early.
- **Labour-market research**: salaries, skills in demand, remote share and hiring volume over time.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$0.60 per 1,000 postings**, plus $0.01 per run start with the default 4 GB of memory. For example, 100 postings cost about $0.07. You only pay for the postings you receive, and platform usage is included in that price. Store discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans: up to 20% off every event on the higher tiers.

### Run it from your code

JavaScript:

```js
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper').call({
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

Python:

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "maxItems": 50
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
```

### Monitor new postings daily and connect your tools

1. **Schedule it.** Save a task, set its publication date filter to the shortest window, and schedule it daily with Apify Schedules. Deduplicate on the `id` field if you keep your own copy. Tick **Only new results** in the input and each run returns, and charges, only the postings that earlier runs of the same search did not deliver.
2. **Push the results where you work.** Add an Apify integration or a webhook to the task: Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n or your own endpoint, triggered at the end of every run.
3. **Call it from your stack.** The API and the JavaScript and Python clients return the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. **Let an AI agent use it.** Through the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp), assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT can search the Store, read this page and run the actor as a tool.

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need an account, cookies or a proxy for BuiltIn?** No. The actor reads publicly visible pages only.

**Which formats can I export?** JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS, from the dataset page or through the API.

**Is it legal to scrape?** The actor collects publicly visible postings and respects the robots.txt rules of the site. How you use the data is your responsibility: check the site's terms and the laws that apply to you, for example the GDPR.

**Something does not work?** Open an issue in the Issues tab. Every public actor is test-run daily and the broken ones are repaired.

**Did this save you time?** A short review on the Store page helps other people find the actor, and tells me what to improve next.

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# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

The run stops once this many postings are saved.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs. Skip the results that an earlier run of this same search already delivered, so each run returns, and charges, only what is new. The memory is kept in the key-value store "only-new-memory-bibian" of your account.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Add the full job description as plain text.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `postings` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/builtin-jobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ARRvVEyY57PZy8eqa/builds/A3KFei6bSdbAtdJ6d/openapi.json