The Muse Jobs Scraper

Scrape job listings from The Muse — a curated job board with 500,000+ positions from thousands of companies. Extract job titles, company details, categories, experience levels, locations, descriptions, and application URLs.

What does it do?

This actor fetches job data from The Muse's public REST API. You can:

• Search jobs with filters for category, experience level, location, and company
• Get specific jobs by their numeric job ID

No authentication or API key required.

Output

Each record contains:

Field	Description
id	Numeric job ID on The Muse
name	Job title
contents	Full job description (HTML)
publicationDate	ISO 8601 date when the job was published
landingPage	URL to apply on The Muse
sourceUrl	Same as landingPage
category	Job category (e.g. "Software Engineering")
level	Experience level (e.g. "Mid Level")
locations	Array of location strings
tags	Array of skill or topic tags
company.id	Numeric company ID
company.name	Company name
company.slug	Company URL slug
companyName	Denormalized company name
shortName	Job URL slug
publicationDate	When the job was posted
recordType	Always "job"
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp when this record was scraped

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	search (browse with filters) or getJob (fetch by ID)
category	select	—	Job category filter
level	select	—	Experience level filter
location	text	—	City/region filter (e.g. "New York City, NY")
company	text	—	Company slug filter (e.g. "google")
jobIds	array	—	Numeric job IDs for getJob mode
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum records to emit

Available categories

• Software Engineering
• Data and Analytics
• Healthcare
• Sales
• Retail
• Management
• Science and Engineering
• Accounting and Finance
• Customer Service
• Product Management
• Real Estate
• Social Services
• Marketing
• Design

Available experience levels

• Internship
• Entry Level
• Mid Level
• Senior Level

Example runs

Search for software engineering jobs in New York:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "Software Engineering",
  "location": "New York City, NY",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Search for entry-level data jobs:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "Data and Analytics",
  "level": "Entry Level",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Get specific jobs by ID:

{
  "mode": "getJob",
  "jobIds": [21764983, 21764984],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Use cases

• Job market research — track hiring trends by category, level, or location
• Company intelligence — monitor which companies are actively hiring on The Muse
• Recruitment pipelines — aggregate listings for specific job functions or seniority levels
• Data enrichment — combine with other data sources to analyze hiring velocity

FAQ

Does this require an API key? No. The Muse's public job API requires no authentication.

How many jobs can I scrape? The Muse has 500,000+ active listings. The maxItems parameter lets you cap the output. Maximum is 10,000 per run.

Why don't keyword searches filter results? The Muse public API filters by structured fields (category, level, location, company) rather than free-text keyword search. Use the category and level selectors to narrow results.

What's the difference between location and the company's office location? The location field reflects where The Muse lists the job geographically. Remote roles may appear under multiple city entries.

How fresh is the data? The actor fetches live data from The Muse API on each run. Job listings are typically updated in real time.