Indeed Employer Intelligence — Reviews, Interviews & Company Dossier

Scrape Indeed's employer profiles at scale. One actor returns employee reviews with 5 sub-ratings, interview Q&A and process stories, and a rich company dossier — all from Indeed's /cmp/ pages via a geo-hardened, residential-proxy backed, Cloudflare-resilient fetch pipeline.

What you get

Reviews ($4.90 / 1,000 records)

• Full review body (text)
• Overall star rating (1–5)
• 5 category sub-ratings: Compensation & Benefits, Culture & Values, Job Security & Advancement, Management, Work/Life Balance
• currentEmployee flag (active vs. former employee)
• Reviewer job title, location, submission date
• helpful / unhelpful vote counts
• Encrypted review ID + review UID for deduplication
• Country code

Interviews ($5.90 / 1,000 records)

• Interview questions and answers (Q&A items)
• Process story: difficulty (Easy/Average/Difficult), experience (Positive/Negative/Neutral), hiring duration
• Overview experience summary text

Dossier (~$0.05 / company, flat)

• Company description, website, headquarters, employee size, founded year, industry
• Happiness score (Indeed's aggregate)
• Overall star rating + total review count
• Salary aggregate: ~100 job-title median salary benchmarks (dossier_salary_titles field, JSON)
• Similar companies list

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Why this actor?

Reliability as the product

The /cmp/ endpoint sits behind Cloudflare's managed-challenge JS. Competitors produce 1–3★ listings full of "returns empty dataset" complaints. This actor uses dual-extract: JSON island (comp-initialData) primary + structural data-testid fallback, combined with 403-retry with impersonation rotation (Chrome/Safari/Chrome124 — chrome116 is intentionally excluded, it hard-403s). Verified 30/30 at 3 req/s on residential (2026-06-04).

Geo-hardening

Six country presets built in: US, IN, JP, GB, DE, BR. Each drives the correct Apify residential proxy country, ensuring non-US buyers (Japan, India, Brazil employer markets) get localized reviews rather than US-biased results. Other Indeed scrapers don't advertise country-level proxy selection.

Name-to-slug resolver

Paste any company name ("JPMorgan Chase", "Bank of America") and the actor resolves it to the correct Indeed /cmp/ slug automatically. Strategy: deterministic dashed-slug guess (works for most well-known companies) → /companies/search fallback parse for ambiguous names. The #1 UX gap with every competing actor.

Honest pagination ceiling

Indeed hard-limits accessible review history to ~3,000–3,960 reviews per category (start ≥ 3,980 wraps back to page 0). This actor detects the wrap via encryptedReviewId comparison and stops cleanly. The ceiling is disclosed upfront in the listing description rather than silently truncating — a credibility win vs. rivals that claim "complete export" for companies with tens of thousands of reviews.

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Input

Field	Required	Default	Description
companies	Yes	—	List of company names, Indeed slugs, or /cmp/ URLs
modes	No	all three	reviews, interviews, dossier
maxReviews	No	500	Max reviews per company (0 = all, up to ~3,960 ceiling)
countryCode	No	US	Country preset: US, IN, JP, GB, DE, BR
proxyConfiguration	No	RESIDENTIAL	Apify proxy config — residential strongly recommended

Output schema

One flat dataset with record_type field: "review", "interview", or "dossier". Type-specific fields are null for other record types. Every record includes parse_confidence (0.0–1.0) and a warnings list for data-quality monitoring.

Proxy

Indeed's /cmp/ pages require residential proxy for reliable access. The default configuration uses Apify's RESIDENTIAL proxy group (available on free plan, paid by the buyer's account — zero extra cost to you). Bare datacenter IPs produce intermittent 403 errors.

Pricing

• Reviews: $4.90 / 1,000 records
• Interviews: $5.90 / 1,000 records
• Dossier: billed as one record per company at the dossier rate

A typical full pull of a large employer (500 reviews + interviews + dossier) costs approximately $1.50–$2.50 in actor charges.

Integrations

Built for HR and employer-brand teams benchmarking company reputation, culture ratings, and interview-process data from Indeed — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.

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FAQ

Does this work for non-US companies? Yes. Use the countryCode input to pick the locale (US, IN, JP, GB, DE, BR). The proxy country is matched automatically so you get localized reviews.

How many reviews can I get per company? Indeed hard-limits public review access to approximately 3,000–3,960 reviews per category (start ≥ 3,980 wraps back to page 0 — this is an Indeed platform limit, not an actor limit). The actor detects the wrap and stops cleanly. For very large employers (Google, Amazon) this is the honest ceiling; the actor discloses it.

Why are some sub-ratings 0? Indeed reviewers can submit an overall rating without filling in the 5 sub-category ratings. A value of 0 in comp_benefits_rating etc. means the reviewer chose not to rate that category — it is not a data quality issue.

What happens if a company name doesn't resolve? The actor tries a deterministic dashed-slug guess first (works for most well-known companies), then falls back to Indeed's /companies/search endpoint. If neither succeeds the company is logged and skipped — the run continues for the remaining companies in the list.

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Legal & Terms of Service

This actor collects publicly available data from Indeed's employer profile pages (/cmp/ path). Reviews, interview Q&A, and company information displayed on these pages are user-submitted public content accessible to any visitor without login.

Responsible use guidelines:

• Do not use this data to personally identify individual reviewers.
• Do not republish raw review text at scale in a way that replicates Indeed's content commercially.
• Respect Indeed's robots.txt and rate limits — the actor includes polite delays between requests.
• Review Indeed's Terms of Service and your local data-protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA) before using review data in HR decisions.

This actor is built for legitimate use cases: employer-brand benchmarking, talent acquisition research, competitive culture analysis, and HR analytics.