# ZipRecruiter Jobs Scraper (`crawlerbros/ziprecruiter-scraper`) Actor

Extract job postings from ZipRecruiter.com including title, company, location, salary range, city, state, and apply URL. Walks paginated search results without proxy or login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/ziprecruiter-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 6 total users, 1 monthly users, 40.0% runs succeeded, 14 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## ZipRecruiter Jobs Scraper

Extract job postings from **ZipRecruiter.com** — titles, companies, locations, salary ranges, remote/hybrid flags, and apply URLs. Walks search results page by page, no login, no proxy, no cookies required.

### Features

- **17 output fields** per job — complete listing data in a flat schema
- **Search by keyword and location** — or pass any ZipRecruiter search URL with filters preserved
- **Pagination** — walks `&page=N` up to `maxItems`
- **Parsed salary ranges** — `$80K - $180K/yr` → `salaryMin=80000`, `salaryMax=180000`, `salaryPeriod=year`
- **City + state extracted** from location text
- **Remote/hybrid detection** — booleans set when location text mentions these
- **No authentication, no proxy** — ZipRecruiter's public search pages accept Chrome 131 TLS impersonation from datacenter IPs
- **Deduplicated** — each card ID is output only once (ZipRecruiter renders each job twice across left/right panes)
- **No nulls** — every field has a typed default

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | Array | ZipRecruiter search-result URLs. Any filters applied in the URL (location, radius, salary, employment type) are preserved. |
| `search` | String | Keyword shortcut — combined with `location` to build a default search URL. |
| `location` | String | City / state for the keyword shortcut. |
| `maxItems` | Integer | Maximum jobs to return (default 50, max 500). |

#### Example Input

```json
{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}
````

or keyword + location:

```json
{
    "search": "data scientist",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "maxItems": 50
}
```

### Output

Each job has **17 fields**. All fields are always present — empty strings, zero, or `false` for missing data, never `null`.

#### Identity

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | String | ZipRecruiter job-card ID token |
| `jid` | String | Short job ID parsed from URL `jid` param |
| `url` | String | Full job posting URL |
| `title` | String | Job title |

#### Company

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `company` | String | Hiring company name |
| `companyUrl` | String | Company profile URL |
| `companyLogo` | String | Company logo image URL |

#### Location

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `location` | String | Full location text (incl. Remote/Hybrid suffix) |
| `city` | String | City (parsed) |
| `state` | String | State abbreviation (parsed) |
| `isRemote` | Boolean | `true` if location contains "remote" |
| `isHybrid` | Boolean | `true` if location contains "hybrid" |

#### Salary

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `salary` | String | Formatted salary text (e.g., `"$80K - $180K/yr"`) |
| `salaryMin` | Number | Minimum salary (USD, absolute, not K) |
| `salaryMax` | Number | Maximum salary (USD, absolute, not K) |
| `salaryPeriod` | String | `year` / `hour` / `month` / `week` |

#### Metadata

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO 8601 scrape timestamp |

### FAQ

**Q: Do I need a proxy?**
No for search pages — ZipRecruiter's public search endpoint accepts Chrome 131 TLS impersonation from datacenter IPs directly. Detail pages (individual job posts) are more aggressively protected by Cloudflare, so this scraper only uses search-page data.

**Q: How do I construct a search URL?**
Run a search on ziprecruiter.com with your filters applied, then copy the URL. The `search` and `location` params are the minimum. Other filters (e.g. `radius`, `days`, `refine_by_salary`, `refine_by_employment`) pass through verbatim.

**Q: Does it include the full job description?**
No. The full description lives on the detail page (`/c/.../Job/...?jid=...`), which requires residential proxy access. This scraper stays on search pages only for reliable, zero-cost scraping. You can use the `url` field to fetch descriptions with a separate tool.

**Q: Why is each job returned only once if the page has 40 cards?**
ZipRecruiter renders each job twice — once in the search list pane and once in the detail pane. The scraper deduplicates by the internal card ID so you get 20 unique jobs per page (not 40).

**Q: How are salary values normalized?**
Salary text like `$80K - $180K/yr` is parsed so `salaryMin=80000.0`, `salaryMax=180000.0` (full dollar amounts, not K), `salaryPeriod=year`. If only one value is given (e.g. `$25/hr`), both min and max are set to that value.

**Q: What happens if a job has no salary?**
`salary` is an empty string and `salaryMin`/`salaryMax` are `0.0` — typed defaults, not nulls.

### Use Cases

- **Talent intelligence** — monitor hiring velocity for competitor companies
- **Compensation research** — aggregate salary ranges by role, location, or experience level
- **Remote-work trends** — filter by `isRemote=true` to track remote listings by industry
- **Market entry analysis** — see how many companies are hiring in a specific region
- **Labor-market dashboards** — feed directly into BI tools without post-processing nulls

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

ZipRecruiter search URLs (e.g., https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer\&location=New+York%2C+NY). Any filters applied in the URL are preserved.

## `search` (type: `string`):

Alternative shortcut — keyword (e.g., 'nurse') combined with 'location' to build a default ZipRecruiter URL.

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

City/state to combine with 'search'. Ignored if startUrls is provided.

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

Maximum number of job postings to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY"
  ],
  "maxItems": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY"
    ],
    "maxItems": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/ziprecruiter-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 = {
    "startUrls": ["https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY"],
    "maxItems": 3,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY"
  ],
  "maxItems": 3
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/ziprecruiter-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/ziprecruiter-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "ZipRecruiter Jobs Scraper",
        "description": "Extract job postings from ZipRecruiter.com including title, company, location, salary range, city, state, and apply URL. Walks paginated search results without proxy or login.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "kaCfNcNTOJtlxfcdO"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/crawlerbros~ziprecruiter-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-crawlerbros-ziprecruiter-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/crawlerbros~ziprecruiter-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-crawlerbros-ziprecruiter-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/crawlerbros~ziprecruiter-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-crawlerbros-ziprecruiter-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Start URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "ZipRecruiter search URLs (e.g., https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=software+engineer&location=New+York%2C+NY). Any filters applied in the URL are preserved.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "search": {
                        "title": "Search Keyword (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Alternative shortcut — keyword (e.g., 'nurse') combined with 'location' to build a default ZipRecruiter URL."
                    },
                    "location": {
                        "title": "Location (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "City/state to combine with 'search'. Ignored if startUrls is provided."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of job postings to return.",
                        "default": 50
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```