# Wellfound Scraper: Startup Jobs No Login (`bibian/wellfound-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Extract startup job postings from Wellfound (ex-AngelList Talent) worldwide: title, company, compensation, remote status and full description, with no login needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/wellfound-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 $0.72 / 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

## Wellfound Scraper: Startup Jobs No Login

Extract Wellfound (ex-AngelList) startup job postings worldwide: title, company, compensation, remote status and full description. No login required — Wellfound's own public role search pages already embed the complete listing, so there is nothing to sign in for.

### At a glance

| | |
|---|---|
| **What you get** | Startup jobs from Wellfound: title, company, company size, role, job type, remote, locations, compensation, experience, date, description. |
| **Price** | $0.90 per 1,000 postings: a 50-posting test run costs about $0.06, start fee included. |
| **Speed** | 50 postings in about 30 seconds. No login, no proxy, no browser to configure. |
| **Try it** | Click **Try for free**: the form is already filled with roles `software-engineer, product-manager, data-analyst, sales-manager`. |
| **Keep it fresh** | Schedule it daily and keep only the new postings: see "Monitor new postings daily" below. |

### What you can do with it

- **Track startup hiring by role, worldwide.** Read every live posting for a role slug such as `software-engineer`, `product-manager`, `data-analyst` or `sales-manager`, across every country Wellfound lists.
- **Benchmark startup compensation and equity.** `compensation` carries the salary range and, when the company discloses it, the equity band, side by side with `yearsExperienceMin`/`yearsExperienceMax`.
- **Build a remote-startup job board.** Set `remoteOnly` to keep only postings the company itself marked remote, with the accepted remote locations listed separately.
- **Narrow to one city or country.** Add a `location` slug (`l/<role>/<location>` on Wellfound's own URLs, for example `san-francisco`) to read only that market's openings.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `roles` | Role slugs exactly as used in a Wellfound role page URL, for example `"software-engineer"` or `"product-manager"`. Empty means a default mix of engineering, product, data and sales roles. |
| `location` | Optional location slug exactly as used in a Wellfound URL, for example `"san-francisco"` or `"new-york"`. Empty means every location. |
| `remoteOnly` | Keep only postings the company marked remote (default `false`). |
| `includeDescription` | Add the full job description as text (default `true`). |
| `maxItems` | The run stops once this many postings are saved (default 50). |

Example input:

```json
{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "location": "san-francisco",
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

### Output

One record per posting:

```json
{
  "id": "4844846",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "companyName": "Check",
  "companySize": "SIZE_51_200",
  "companyUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/checkhq",
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4844846-software-engineer",
  "role": "software-engineer",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "remote": false,
  "locations": ["New York"],
  "remoteLocations": [],
  "compensation": "$142k – $187k",
  "yearsExperienceMin": null,
  "yearsExperienceMax": null,
  "postedAt": "2026-10-15T00:02:06.000Z",
  "description": "## About Check\n\nPayroll is broken. It's still running on decades-old infrastructure..."
}
```

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

Three real results from the same run, side by side:

| Title | Company | Location | Remote | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | Check | New York | No | $142k – $187k |
| Software Engineer | Remilia | Irvine | No | $80k – $220k • 0.05% – 1.0% |
| Software Engineer | Virta Health | United States | Yes | $114k – $148k |

### Why this one

- **No login, no browser, no proxy.** Wellfound requires an account to open most job detail pages, but its own public role search page (`wellfound.com/role/<role>`) server-renders the full listing — title, company, pay, remote status and description — for every job shown on it, read with a plain HTTPS request.
- **Full description on the list itself.** There is no separate detail page to fetch: the search page's own `__NEXT_DATA__` payload already carries everything, which keeps a 50-posting run under 10 seconds.
- **Worldwide by design**, not one country's slice: any role or location slug Wellfound itself links to works as input.

### Good to know

- Wellfound's `robots.txt` disallows `/search`, the `?jobId=`/`?jobSlug=` detail overlay and the account-only paths (`/auth/`, `/onboarding`, `/profile/...`). This Actor never touches any of them: it reads only the public `/role/<role>` and `/role/l/<role>/<location>` pages, which `robots.txt` leaves open.
- Descriptions are free text written by the hiring company. As a safety net, any e-mail address or phone-like number found in one is replaced before the record is saved, so the dataset never carries a reachable contact for a named person. Company names and profile pages are not affected: a startup can be named.
- `compensation`, `yearsExperienceMin` and `yearsExperienceMax` are only as complete as the company chose to disclose on Wellfound; expect some postings to leave them empty.
- This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with Wellfound. Check the site's own terms and the data protection rules that apply to your use.

### FAQ

**Does it need a browser, a proxy or an account?**
No. The Actor reads Wellfound's own public role search pages directly over plain HTTPS, logged out.

**Does it work without any filter?**
Yes, for a productive default run across engineering, product, data and sales roles worldwide.

**Can I get only remote jobs?**
Yes, set `remoteOnly` to `true`.

**Can I get the data in Excel or Google Sheets?**
Yes. Export the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON from the Apify console, or connect the Apify Google Sheets integration.

### Try it

**[Open wellfound-jobs-scraper on the Apify Store](https://apify.com/bibian/wellfound-jobs-scraper)**

### Why this one

- **No login, no browser, no proxy.** Wellfound requires an account to open most job detail pages, but its own public role search page (`wellfound.com/role/<role>`) server-renders the full listing — title, company, pay, remote status and description — for every job shown on it, read with a plain HTTPS request.
- **Full description on the list itself.** There is no separate detail page to fetch: the search page's own `__NEXT_DATA__` payload already carries everything, which keeps a 50-posting run under 10 seconds.
- **Worldwide by design**, not one country's slice: any role or location slug Wellfound itself links to works as input.

### 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: **$0.90 per 1,000 postings**, plus $0.01 per run start with the default 4 GB of memory. For example, 100 postings cost about $0.10. 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/wellfound-jobs-scraper').call({
  roles: ['software-engineer', 'product-manager', 'data-analyst', 'sales-manager'],
  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/wellfound-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "roles": [
        "software-engineer",
        "product-manager",
        "data-analyst",
        "sales-manager"
    ],
    "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 Wellfound?** 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

## `roles` (type: `array`):

Role slugs exactly as used in a Wellfound role page URL (wellfound.com/role/<slug>), for example "software-engineer" or "product-manager". Leave empty for a default mix of engineering, product, data and sales roles.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Optional location slug exactly as used in a Wellfound URL (wellfound.com/role/l/<role>/<location>), for example "san-francisco" or "new-york". Leave empty for every location.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only postings marked remote by the company.

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

Include the full job description text. Turn off for a lighter, faster dataset.

## `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.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "roles": [
    "software-engineer",
    "product-manager",
    "data-analyst",
    "sales-manager"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "includeDescription": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# 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 = {
    "roles": [
        "software-engineer",
        "product-manager",
        "data-analyst",
        "sales-manager"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/wellfound-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 = { "roles": [
        "software-engineer",
        "product-manager",
        "data-analyst",
        "sales-manager",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/wellfound-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 '{
  "roles": [
    "software-engineer",
    "product-manager",
    "data-analyst",
    "sales-manager"
  ]
}' |
apify call bibian/wellfound-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/wellfound-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/kAPul46nzkwtXCyqw/builds/1CniRFrdrrVjjXtzM/openapi.json