Remote Jobs Scraper - Remote OK, We Work Remotely & 5 More

Collect remote job postings from seven remote-job boards in one run and get them back as one clean, deduplicated dataset: Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Remotive, Jobicy, 4dayweek.io, Remote First Jobs and Arbeitnow. Every board is read through its official public API or RSS feed, and every board is normalised to one schema: title, company, category, employment type, where you can work from (parsed into countries and regions), salary where published (with a USD-per-year estimate), description as text, HTML or Markdown, dates and links.

The same job is often posted on several boards. The Actor merges those copies into one row and lists the other boards in alsoOn. Turn on change tracking and schedule it daily: each row then says whether the job is new, updated, unchanged or removed since the last run, and "Output only changes" returns just the new and removed postings.

No browser, no proxies, no login. A run over every board takes about five minutes (4dayweek.io alone is ~100 polite requests; leave it out or set maxJobsPerSource for a run under a minute); a run over two boards takes a few seconds.

Who it is for

• Job-board and newsletter builders: a daily feed of new remote jobs with categories, location restrictions and salaries already parsed, and the attribution each board asks for on every row.
• Recruiters and sourcers: who is hiring remotely for which roles, and which roles closed.
• Job seekers automating alerts: "new remote data jobs open to Europe, at least $80k" every morning.
• Analysts: remote salary ranges, category mix and regional openness across boards.
• AI agents and pipelines: one stable JSON shape for seven boards, callable through the Apify API.

Sources

Board	What it provides	Coverage per run	Requests per run	Attribution and reuse terms (read 2026-11-11)	Polling limit
Remote OK	Title, company, logo, tags, location text, USD salary range, HTML description	the ~100 most recent jobs	1	Link back to the job on Remote OK with a followed link (no rel="nofollow") and mention Remote OK as the source. Do not use the Remote OK logo.	none published
We Work Remotely	Title, company, company URL, logo, category, type, region and allowed-country list, skills, HTML description, expiry	every listed job (all 11 category feeds)	11	Anyone can use the public RSS feeds; attribute the job links back to We Work Remotely.	none published (feed TTL 60 min)
Remotive	Title, company, logo, category, tags, job type, location text, salary text, HTML description	all public jobs, published with a 24-hour delay	1	Link back to the job on Remotive and mention Remotive as the source. Do not submit Remotive jobs to third-party job sites (Google Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs, Jooble, Neuvoo). Do not use the listings to collect sign-ups or e-mail addresses.	about 4 a day; enforced: 1 call per account per 6 hours
Jobicy	Title, company, logo, industry, job type, seniority, location, salary with currency and period, HTML description	jobs from the last 7 days (3-hour delay)	1 per 100 jobs	Commercial use and redistribution allowed. Credit Jobicy as the source, keep apply links on the Jobicy job page, do not present listings as your own.	no more than once an hour; enforced: 1 pass per account per hour
4dayweek.io	Title, company, website, logo, category, seniority, contract type, countries, salary, schedule (4-day week, async hours...), skills and stack, plain-text description, expiry	every live remote job (new listings can take 48 hours)	1 per 100 jobs (about 100)	Free API designed for scripts, dashboards and aggregators; link back to 4dayweek.io and credit it in public products.	60 requests a minute; enforced: 1 request per 1.1 s
Remote First Jobs	Title, company, logo, category, seniority, countries, salary amounts, HTML description	the newest 500 jobs (24-hour delay)	5	Credit Remote First Jobs and link to each job. Do not submit the jobs to LinkedIn Jobs, Google Jobs, Jooble or similar platforms.	5 pages of 100
Arbeitnow	Title, company, tags, job types, location, HTML description (only jobs Arbeitnow flags as remote)	remote-flagged jobs among the 2,400 newest postings (Europe, mostly Germany)	8	Free public API, do not abuse; provide a link back to Arbeitnow.com.	none published

Every row carries its board's terms in one sentence (sourceAttribution), and the run summary keeps the notice each board returned live in that run (sourceNotice). If you republish the jobs, follow the terms of the board each job came from: link to jobUrl, name the board, and do not forward Remotive or Remote First Jobs listings to Google Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs or Jooble.

Polling limits are enforced per Apify account: if you run the Actor again within a board's window, that board's answer from your previous run is reused (dataOrigin: "cache", noted in the summary) instead of calling the board again. All other boards are read live.

Not included, on purpose: Himalayas (its API terms forbid passing the jobs to third parties), Working Nomads (its terms forbid reselling or commercially exploiting the service, and the feed publishes no reuse terms), The Muse (the public API answers 404), Real Work From Anywhere and NoDesk (RSS feeds offered for personal reading, no reuse terms), and boards without a public unauthenticated feed or behind bot protection (Jobspresso answered 403, JustRemote and Remote.co offer no usable feed, LinkedIn and Indeed).

Input

Everything is optional. With no input you get every listed remote job from all seven boards, deduplicated, newest first, with a plain-text description.

Example: a daily "new remote jobs" feed (changes only)

{
    "trackChanges": true,
    "changesOnly": true,
    "changeTypes": ["new"],
    "descriptionFormat": "markdown"
}

Example: engineering jobs open to people in Europe, paying at least $90k

{
    "categories": ["engineering", "devops", "data"],
    "locationsAllowed": ["europe"],
    "minSalaryUsd": 90000,
    "postedAfter": "14 days",
    "includeDescription": false
}

Example: two boards, keyword search in titles and descriptions

{
    "sources": ["weworkremotely", "remotive"],
    "titleKeywords": ["react", "typescript"],
    "searchDescription": true,
    "excludeTitleKeywords": ["intern"],
    "maxJobs": 100
}

All options

Field	Default	What it does
sources	all seven	Boards to read: remoteok, weworkremotely, remotive, jobicy, fourdayweek, remotefirstjobs, arbeitnow.
maxJobs	0 (all)	Stop after this many delivered jobs (newest first, after filters and dedupe).
maxJobsPerSource	0 (all)	Stop reading a board after this many matching jobs (saves requests; such a board reports no removals in that run).
titleKeywords	none	Keep titles containing any (or all) of these words. Alias: keywords.
titleKeywordsMode	any	any or all.
excludeTitleKeywords	none	Drop titles containing any of these words. Alias: excludeKeywords.
searchDescription	false	Apply both keyword lists to the description too.
categories	none	engineering, design, product, marketing, sales, support, data, devops, finance, hr, writing, other.
locationsAllowed	none	Where you can work from: worldwide, a region, or a country (see below).
includeUnknownLocations	false	With a location filter, also keep jobs whose restriction could not be read.
employmentTypes	none	full_time, part_time, contract, temporary, internship, apprenticeship, volunteer, other.
minSalaryUsd	0 (off)	Minimum estimated USD per year (top of the published range).
includeJobsWithoutSalary	false	With a minimum salary, also keep jobs that publish no pay.
postedAfter	none	ISO date (2026-11-01) or relative (24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks).
dedupe	true	Merge cross-posted copies into one row (alsoOn).
includeDescription	true	Include the description.
descriptionFormat	text	text, html, markdown or all.
trackChanges	false	Label rows new / updated / unchanged / removed against the previous run with the same boards and filters.
changesOnly	false	With tracking on, deliver only the change types in changeTypes.
changeTypes	new, updated, removed	Which changes changesOnly delivers.
snapshotStoreName	remote-jobs-scraper-snapshots	Named key-value store for snapshots; use different names for independent feeds.
requestTimeoutSecs	60	Timeout per request.
maxRetries	4	Retries for 429, 5xx and network errors (jittered backoff, Retry-After honoured).

Keywords are case- and accent-insensitive and match whole words: engineer matches "Senior Engineer" but not "Engineering"; engineer* matches both; phrases such as data scientist work.

Output

One row per job in the default dataset, newest first. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read it through the API. Views: Jobs, Changes, Job details, Boards that could not be read.

Sample row (shortened):

{
    "recordType": "job",
    "source": "jobicy",
    "sourceJobId": "161259",
    "jobId": "jobicy:161259",
    "alsoOn": [
        {
            "source": "remotefirstjobs",
            "sourceJobId": "associate-general-counsel-880884",
            "jobUrl": "https://remotefirstjobs.com/companies/pair-team/jobs/associate-general-counsel-880884",
            "postedAt": "2026-11-08T18:33:31.000Z",
            "sourceAttribution": "Job from Remote First Jobs (https://remotefirstjobs.com). Remote First Jobs API terms: credit Remote First Jobs and link to this jobUrl; do not submit the job to third-party sites such as LinkedIn Jobs, Google Jobs or Jooble."
        }
    ],
    "title": "Associate General Counsel",
    "companyName": "Pair Team",
    "companyUrl": null,
    "companyLogo": "https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/105c0d0c-221.png",
    "category": "finance",
    "categoryRaw": "Legal & Compliance",
    "tags": [],
    "seniority": "Director",
    "employmentType": "full_time",
    "employmentTypeRaw": "Full-Time",
    "isRemote": true,
    "workplaceType": "remote",
    "location": "USA",
    "locations": [
        "USA"
    ],
    "regions": [
        "north_america",
        "americas"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "US"
    ],
    "country": "US",
    "isWorldwide": false,
    "compensation": {
        "min": 215000,
        "max": 240000,
        "currency": "USD",
        "interval": "year",
        "text": null
    },
    "salaryUsdAnnualMin": 215000,
    "salaryUsdAnnualMax": 240000,
    "descriptionText": "About Pair Team\n\nPair Team is a public benefit company reimagining care for the safety net. As an AI-enabled medical group for Medicaid and Medicare, we deliver...",
    "descriptionHtml": null,
    "descriptionMarkdown": null,
    "postedAt": "2026-11-11T10:53:05.000Z",
    "expiresAt": null,
    "jobUrl": "https://jobicy.com/jobs/161259-associate-general-counsel-3",
    "applyUrl": "https://jobicy.com/jobs/161259-associate-general-counsel-3",
    "sourceAttribution": "Job from Jobicy (https://jobicy.com). Jobicy API terms: credit Jobicy as the source, keep apply links pointing to the Jobicy job page (this jobUrl), do not present the listing as your own.",
    "changeType": null,
    "changedFields": null,
    "previous": null,
    "firstSeenAt": null,
    "removedAt": null,
    "removedReason": null,
    "dataOrigin": "api",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-11T21:36:19.003Z"
}

Fields

Field	Meaning
source, sourceJobId, jobId	Board, the board's id, and "<source>:<sourceJobId>".
alsoOn	Other boards listing the same job: source, sourceJobId, jobUrl, postedAt, sourceAttribution.
title, companyName, companyUrl, companyLogo	As published (company URL from We Work Remotely and 4dayweek.io).
category, categoryRaw	Shared category, and the board's own label.
tags, seniority	Board tags or skills; seniority label where published.
employmentType, employmentTypeRaw	Normalised type and the board's label(s).
isRemote, workplaceType	Always true / "remote" (every source is a remote board or is filtered to remote jobs).
location, locations	The restriction text as published.
regions, countries, country, isWorldwide	Parsed restriction (see below).
compensation	{ min, max, currency, interval, text } as published.
salaryUsdAnnualMin, salaryUsdAnnualMax	Estimated USD per year.
descriptionText, descriptionHtml, descriptionMarkdown	Per descriptionFormat; the others are null.
postedAt, expiresAt	ISO 8601.
jobUrl, applyUrl	The job page on the board (all seven boards route applications through their own job page).
sourceAttribution	The board's attribution and reuse terms.
changeType, changedFields, previous, firstSeenAt, removedAt, removedReason	Change tracking.
dataOrigin	api (read in this run), cache (reused to respect a polling limit), snapshot (removed row).
scrapedAt	When the row was produced.

Field names are the same as in the ATS Jobs Scraper (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby...) wherever the meaning is the same (companyName, title, location, locations, country, isRemote, workplaceType, employmentType, employmentTypeRaw, compensation, descriptionText, descriptionHtml, postedAt, jobUrl, applyUrl, jobId and the change fields), so the two datasets can be stacked.

The run summary (OUTPUT in the default key-value store) lists for every board: status (ok, partial, no_jobs, blocked, rate_limited, not_found, unreachable, error), jobs listed, matching the filters, left after dedupe, delivered, removed, requests, seconds, whether the cached answer was used, and the board's live terms notice.

How location restrictions are read

Boards write "where you may work from" as free text: "Worldwide", "USA Only", "Europe, USA, Canada", "EMEA", a flag-prefixed list of countries, "Remote - US". The Actor parses it like this:

• countries: ISO codes of every country named, including common aliases (USA, UK, UAE, "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "Korea (Republic of)", "Türkiye"). US state and Canadian province names count as US / CA. Bare two-letter codes other than US, UK and EU are not read, because "IN", "CA" and "DE" are also US state codes.
• regions: regions named in the text (north_america, latin_america, americas, europe, eu, middle_east, africa, emea, asia, apac, oceania) plus the regions of the named countries.
• isWorldwide: true for Worldwide / Anywhere / Global; false when a country or region was recognised; null when nothing was (empty, "Remote", or only a city such as "Berlin").
• We Work Remotely: the allowed-country list wins over the region label when both are given; the state field is ignored (it appears next to "Anywhere in the World").
• Remote OK and Arbeitnow often give an office city or nothing; those jobs have isWorldwide: null.

locationsAllowed keeps a job when it is open worldwide, or when its countries or regions overlap the places you list (a German resident matches "EMEA" and "Europe" jobs; a "Germany, Europe" job matches a French resident). Jobs with an unknown restriction are dropped unless includeUnknownLocations is on. ["worldwide"] alone keeps only jobs open worldwide.

Categories

Each board's category is mapped to one shared list: engineering, design, product (product and project management), marketing, sales, support (customer support and success), data (data, analytics, ML/AI), devops (DevOps, SRE, sysadmin, IT), finance (finance, accounting, legal), hr, writing, other. Vague board labels ("All others", "Sales and Marketing") and boards without categories (Remote OK, Arbeitnow) are classified from the job title. The board's label stays in categoryRaw.

Salary

Salary is only filled when the board publishes one: structured ranges (Remote OK in USD per year, Jobicy with currency and period, 4dayweek.io, Remote First Jobs) or free text (Remotive: "$50-$75 /hour", "OTE $25k - $35k", "$3.5k–$5k/month"). When no period is written, "year" is assumed only for amounts of 10,000 or more. salaryUsdAnnualMin/Max convert with fixed ECB reference rates of 2026-11-11 and hour x 2080, day x 260, week x 52, month x 12; they stay null when the currency or period is unknown (Remote First Jobs publishes amounts without a currency, so only US-only jobs get USD). Placeholder values (0, 110, 114,000,000) are dropped.

Deduplication

Two records are merged only when all of these hold: the same company (ignoring case, punctuation and legal suffixes such as Inc, LLC, GmbH), the same title (ignoring punctuation, "(m/f/d)"-style markers and "(Remote)" markers, but not seniority words or region suffixes such as "- UK"), different boards, no board listing two jobs under that company and title, location restrictions that do not contradict, posting dates within 30 days, and matching external apply hosts when both have one. The richest copy is kept (description, salary, logo, company URL, parsed location, employment type), and the others are listed in alsoOn. On the boards' live data on 2026-11-11, a full run read 13,192 postings and merged 174 cross-posted copies (1.3%) into 13,018 jobs; most merges paired 4dayweek.io or Jobicy with We Work Remotely or Remote First Jobs. Keys that one board uses for several openings (for example one posting per country) were left unmerged.

Change tracking and the daily feed recipe

1. Run once with trackChanges: true and the boards and filters you want. Every row is new; a snapshot is saved in a named key-value store in your account.
2. Schedule the same input daily (Apify Console, Schedules) with changesOnly: true. Each run returns only new, updated and removed jobs. Use changeTypes: ["new"] for a pure "new jobs" feed.
3. Connect the dataset to your newsletter, Slack, Google Sheets or webhook through Apify integrations.

What the change types mean:

• new: not seen before in this scope (same boards and filters).
• updated: title, company, board category, employment type, location text, salary or description changed; changedFields and previous say what changed.
• removed: no longer listed. Boards drop jobs when they are filled or expire, and some feeds only expose a recent window: removedReason is no_longer_listed (We Work Remotely, Remotive, 4dayweek.io read in full) or left_feed_window (Remote OK's latest ~100, Jobicy's last 7 days, Remote First Jobs' newest 500 - the job may still be open elsewhere).
• A job is only reported removed when every board that listed it was read completely in this run without errors. A failed, capped or partial read never claims a job disappeared; it is reported on the next complete run. Arbeitnow is always read partially, so it never reports removals.
• A cross-posted job keeps its history when one board drops it and another still lists it.

Use from an AI agent or via the API

Call the Actor synchronously and get the jobs back in one HTTP request:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<username>~remote-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sources":["remoteok","weworkremotely","remotive"],"categories":["data"],"locationsAllowed":["US"],"maxJobs":50,"includeDescription":false}'

The Actor is also available to MCP-capable assistants through the Apify MCP server. Small, filtered inputs (maxJobs, includeDescription: false) keep agent context short; jobUrl is the link to show users.

Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged for each job row delivered (removed-job rows included). Board status rows are free. The run stops cleanly when it reaches the maximum total charge you set; everything delivered so far stays in the dataset. With "Output only changes", a daily run is charged only for the new, updated and removed jobs.

Limits and honest caveats

• These are the boards' public feeds, not their full websites: Remote OK exposes its latest ~100 jobs, Jobicy the last 7 days, Remote First Jobs the newest 500, Arbeitnow is read up to 8 pages; Remotive and Remote First Jobs publish with a 24-hour delay, Jobicy with 3 hours, 4dayweek.io up to 48 hours.
• Remotive's public feed is small (13 jobs on 2026-11-11).
• Location text is free text; anything the parser cannot read stays in location with isWorldwide: null.
• Categories for Remote OK and Arbeitnow, and for vague board labels, come from the title; a few will be wrong.
• Salary USD estimates use fixed exchange rates and full-time hours; treat them as filters, not offers.
• Arbeitnow is a Europe-focused board, many of its postings are in German, and its location is often a city.
• If a board blocks or rate-limits requests, it is reported in the summary and as a free status row, and the other boards are still delivered. The run fails only when every selected board failed (with each board's reason).
• The Actor reads job postings only. It does not collect anything about applicants or other people.

FAQ

Why not LinkedIn, Indeed or Himalayas? LinkedIn and Indeed have no public job feed and sit behind bot protection, which this Actor does not bypass. Himalayas has a public API, but its terms forbid passing its jobs to third parties.

Why do some jobs show dataOrigin: "cache"? Remotive asks API users to call at most about 4 times a day and Jobicy at most once an hour. Runs in your account within those windows reuse your previous answer for those two boards.

Can I get the board's apply link to the employer? All seven boards route applications through their own job page in their public feeds (Jobicy requires it). applyUrl is that page.

How do I keep two independent daily feeds? Use a different snapshotStoreName for each, or different boards/filters (each combination has its own snapshot).

Does it work with the ATS Jobs Scraper? Yes. Shared fields have the same names and shapes, so you can stack both datasets: company career pages from the ATS scraper, remote boards from this one.

What does a failed board look like? A free row with recordType: "source_status", the board, its status (for example blocked) and a plain explanation, plus the same in OUTPUT.

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