USAJobs Federal Jobs Feed — Incremental Government Job Listings API

A daily-fresh, incremental feed of US federal job announcements from the official USAJobs API — normalized, deduplicated JSON with salary range, GS grade, agency, security-clearance requirement, telework eligibility, close date, and direct apply URL. Pay-per-result. No API key or registration needed — press run.

Federal hiring is its own world: GS grades instead of titles, clearances instead of screening calls, structured announcements instead of free-text postings. Generic job scrapers flatten all of that away. This feed keeps it — which is exactly what makes federal listings useful.

Who uses this feed

• Niche job boards & newsletters — veteran-focused, clearance-focused, agency-focused, or remote-federal boards can syndicate fresh announcements without touching the USAJobs developer program.
• Recruiters & career coaches serving federal candidates — filter by grade, agency, or clearance and alert your people first.
• Researchers & journalists — federal hiring volume by agency is a public-policy signal.
• AI career agents — stable schema, incremental output, apply URLs included.

What you get (every record)

position_title, agency, department, location(s), salary_min / salary_max, gs_grade, clearance_required, telework_eligible, position_type, open_date, close_date, apply_url, plus announcement identifiers for auditability.

Quick start

1. Run once — defaults backfill current open announcements so your first dataset is full.
2. Schedule daily — from then on, only announcements new since your last run.
3. Export or connect — CSV/Excel, Google Sheets, your job board's CMS, or any pipeline via Apify integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n) or the API.

FAQ

Do I need a USAJobs developer key? No — that's the point. The Actor handles source access; you just run it.

How fresh is the data? The official API reflects live announcements; a daily schedule keeps your feed within a day of posting, with close_date on every record so stale listings age out of your board automatically.

Duplicates? No. Announcements are tracked and delivered once.

Can I filter by agency, grade, or clearance? Every record carries those fields for downstream filtering. Want a native input filter? Open an issue and name it — requests set the roadmap.

How is this different from big job-listing scrapers? Those are excellent for LinkedIn/Glassdoor-style breadth. This is depth on one source they treat as an afterthought: full federal structure (GS grades, clearances, telework flags) preserved, from the official API rather than scraped pages.

Sample output

First 10 rows of a 50-row export from a live run (every record also carries department, telework flag, close date, and a direct apply URL):

title	agency	location	salary	grade	clearance
Cyber Threat Analyst	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$63,940–$158,322	GS	SCI
Resource Analyst	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$82,396–$121,785	GS	SCI
Technical Targeting Analyst	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$70,623–$197,200	GS	SCI
Case Officer	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$72,254–$109,975	GS	SCI
Language Officer	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$79,567–$131,826	GS	SCI
Data Engineer	Central Intelligence Agency	Washington, DC	$74,584–$156,755	GS	SCI
Green & Gold Congressional Aide	House of Representatives	Washington, DC	$56,000–$68,000	HS	Not Required
AIRCRAFT ELECTRICIAN (Title 32)	Air National Guard Units	Kelly AFB, TX	$33.30–$38.85/hr	WG	Secret
Financial System Analyst	Dept. of Homeland Security	Washington, DC	$101,401–$185,234	GS	Top Secret
Special Agent	Federal Bureau of Investigation	Negotiable	$99,461–$128,329	GL	SCI

Run it once and the dataset tab gives you all fields as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Reliability

Official API only — no scraping fragility, >99% success rate, versioned schema. Issues get same-day attention.

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