Foundit Jobs Scraper | foundit.in (Monster India) Jobs API with Full Descriptions

Turn foundit.in (formerly Monster India) into a clean, scheduled job feed. foundit is one of India's largest job boards, about 223,000 open listings across IT, sales, finance, healthcare, engineering and BPO roles, from freshers to senior management, with 2,900 new postings a day (counted 18 Oct 2026). This Actor searches foundit by keyword, city, experience band, salary, job type and posting date and returns one JSON row per job with the full job description (HTML + plain text), salary band in INR and LPA when the recruiter discloses it, experience range, skills, industries, functions, applicant and view counts, company profile with coordinates, the foundit job URL and the direct apply URL (the employer's own career site for syndicated jobs).

$0.80 per 1,000 jobs, full description included, plus $0.001 per run. No login, cookies, proxy or browser: the Actor reads the JSON API behind the foundit website. Apify's free plan ($5 credit every month) covers about 6,000 jobs with full descriptions. Built for schedules: switch on Only new jobs since the last run and a daily run returns, and charges for, only the jobs you have not received before. Jobs you already have can also be passed in skipJobIds.

Live check, 18 Oct 2026: data analyst matched 1,192 open foundit listings (354 in Bangalore, 183 in Delhi NCR, 174 in Hyderabad); 83 of them were posted in the last 7 days. The default run (50 newest data analyst jobs with descriptions) finished in 30 seconds on the Apify platform and cost $0.04 plus the $0.001 start fee.

Who buys foundit data, and what for

You are	What this Actor gives you
Staffing agencies and recruiters	A daily list of new openings by role, city and experience band, with applicant counts, so you see which mandates are crowded and which companies are hiring right now.
Job aggregators and HR-tech products	foundit as a source with stable job IDs (dedupKey), full JD text, de-duplication across keywords and runs, a syndicated flag to avoid re-importing postings that originate elsewhere, and an API you can call on a schedule.
Compensation and salary-benchmark teams	INR salary bands by role, experience and city on every posting that discloses pay, with salaryHidden on the ones that don't.
B2B sales and lead generation	Companies hiring 20 Java developers or a finance controller are buying tooling and services. Each row carries the company name, profile, industry and foundit company page.
Workforce and market analysts	Demand by skill, city and experience band over time; fresher vs experienced hiring; share of remote and contract roles.
AI agents (MCP)	Ask Claude or ChatGPT "fresher data analyst jobs in Pune posted this week" and let it call this Actor through Apify's MCP server.

Quick start (about a minute)

1. Click Try for free. The form is pre-filled with data analyst.
2. Optionally add keywords (java developer, sales manager, chartered accountant), cities (Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Remote), an experience band and Posted within (days) = 7.
3. Click Start. 50 jobs with full descriptions take well under a minute and cost $0.04.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or save the input as a task, tick Only new jobs since the last run and schedule it daily to get a fresh feed in Google Sheets, a webhook, Make, Zapier or n8n.

From code (returns the jobs in one call):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data_daemon~foundit-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["java developer"], "locations": ["Bangalore"], "postedWithinDays": 7, "maxJobs": 100}'

From an AI assistant: add the MCP connector https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=data_daemon/foundit-jobs-scraper in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code.

Need management or IT-specialist boards too? IIMJobs Jobs Scraper and Hirist.tech Jobs Scraper by the same publisher use the same onlyNewSinceLastRun / skipJobIds / RUN-SUMMARY conventions, so one pipeline handles all three India boards.

Input

{
    "queries": ["data analyst", "business analyst"],
    "locations": ["Bangalore", "Hyderabad"],
    "minExperience": 2,
    "maxExperience": 6,
    "postedWithinDays": 7,
    "includeDescription": true,
    "maxJobsPerQuery": 50
}

Field	Type	Description
queries	array	Search keywords, one foundit search per item (role or skill words; put cities in locations). A job found by two keywords is saved and charged once. Required; query, keywords and search are accepted as aliases.
locations	array	Optional cities as foundit lists them: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi (covers Delhi NCR: Gurugram, Noida), Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Remote. Several cities = any of them. Applied by the site; the Actor also drops the remote-only rows foundit returns for a city it does not know and tells you in the status message. Common alternative spellings (Bengaluru, Gurugram, Bombay, Delhi NCR) are mapped.
minExperience / maxExperience	integer	Experience band in years (0-30), overlap semantics: a 3-6 year job matches minExperience: 5. A minExperience of 1 or more also excludes jobs that do not state a range; 0 keeps them.
postedWithinDays	integer	Only jobs posted or refreshed in the last N days (1-365). Use 1 with a daily schedule, 7 for a weekly report. Applied by the site and checked again on each job's postedAt.
jobTypes	array	Any of Permanent Job, Contract Job, Work From Home, Internship, Temporary.
minSalaryLpa / maxSalaryLpa	integer	Disclosed annual salary band in lakh INR (10 = 10 LPA = 1,000,000 INR). Most foundit jobs do not disclose pay and are excluded when a salary filter is set.
includeDescription	boolean	Fetch the full description (HTML + text), company profile, skills, views and exact city/state/coordinates for each job (default true, one extra request per job, same price). Off = listing fields only, about twice as fast.
sort	string	newest (default) or relevance (the site's own ranking, useful when you take only the first few dozen jobs of a broad keyword).
maxJobsPerQuery	integer	Stop a keyword after this many new jobs (default 50). The site serves 100 jobs per page, so 1,000 jobs are 10 search requests.
maxJobs	integer	Hard cap on saved jobs for the whole run (0 = no cap).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	Deliver only jobs that an earlier run with the same stateKey has not delivered; skipped jobs are not charged (default false). Sets postedWithinDays to 3 when it is empty.
stateKey	string	Name of this saved search's memory for onlyNewSinceLastRun. Derived from the keywords, cities and filters when empty. Use a new key to start over.
skipJobIds	array	Job ids you already have, as an array of strings or numbers. Skipped before any detail fetch and never charged. Large arrays are fine.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional (Advanced). foundit's JSON API answers Apify's datacenter IPs directly, so none is needed.

Bad input never fails the run: unknown fields are ignored with a warning, a reversed experience range is swapped, a keyword with no matches or an unknown city ends with Saved 0 jobs and an explanation in the status message, and an empty keyword list with a city still searches that city.

Output

One record per job. Example from a real run on 18 Oct 2026 (description shortened):

{
    "id": 69497289,
    "dedupKey": "foundit:69497289",
    "url": "https://www.foundit.in/job/senior-data-analyst-microchip-technology-bengaluru-bangalore-india-69497289",
    "applyUrl": "https://wd5.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/microchiphr/External/job/India---Bangalore/Senior-Data-Analyst_R4051-26",
    "title": "Senior Data Analyst",
    "company": {
        "id": 488097,
        "name": "Microchip Technology",
        "confidential": false,
        "logo": null,
        "url": "https://www.foundit.in/search/microchip-technology-488097-jobs-career",
        "employerType": "company",
        "about": "Microchip Technology Inc. is a publicly-listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP integrated circuits.",
        "greatPlaceToWork": false
    },
    "locations": ["Bengaluru / Bangalore"],
    "locationDetails": [{ "city": "Bengaluru / Bangalore", "state": "Karnataka", "country": "India", "lat": 12.971599, "lon": 77.594563 }],
    "remote": false,
    "experienceMinYears": null,
    "experienceMaxYears": null,
    "salaryMinInr": null,
    "salaryMaxInr": null,
    "salaryMinLpa": null,
    "salaryMaxLpa": null,
    "salaryCurrency": "INR",
    "salaryHidden": false,
    "jobTypes": ["Permanent Job"],
    "employmentTypes": ["Full time"],
    "industries": ["Electronic Components/Semiconductors"],
    "functions": ["Marketing Analytics"],
    "designations": ["Data Analyst"],
    "skills": ["Tableau", "Adobe Analytics", "Python", "Sql"],
    "applicants": 7,
    "views": 10,
    "postedAt": "2026-10-17T10:46:38.000Z",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-17T10:46:38.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T10:46:38.000Z",
    "closesAt": "2026-11-30T18:30:00.000Z",
    "isActive": true,
    "syndicated": true,
    "urgentlyHiring": false,
    "descriptionHtml": "<div><p>Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great…",
    "description": "Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great…",
    "query": "data analyst",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T03:24:22.175Z"
}

Field	Notes
id, dedupKey, url	foundit job id, a stable foundit:<id> key for your own de-duplication, and the public job page.
applyUrl	Where "Apply" leads: the employer's own career site for syndicated jobs, otherwise the foundit page.
title, designations, skills	As tagged by the recruiter; skills merges the free-text skills and foundit's normalised IT-skill tags.
company.*	name (null with confidential: true when the recruiter hides it), logo, foundit company page url, employerType (company = direct employer, consultant = staffing agency), about and greatPlaceToWork.
locations, locationDetails, remote	City names as foundit spells them (Bengaluru / Bangalore, Gurgaon / Gurugram), the detail's city/state/country/coordinates, and a remote flag.
experienceMinYears, experienceMaxYears	Experience band in years; null when the recruiter did not state one (about 60% of syndicated postings).
salaryMinInr, salaryMaxInr, salaryMinLpa, salaryMaxLpa, salaryCurrency, salaryHidden	Annual salary band when disclosed. salaryHidden: true means the recruiter hides it on the site; the Actor respects that and does not output the numbers.
jobTypes, employmentTypes, industries, functions	foundit's taxonomy (Permanent Job, Contract Job, Work From Home; Full time; industry and function names).
applicants, views	Applicant and view counts from the listing and the detail page.
postedAt, createdAt, updatedAt, closesAt	ISO timestamps. postedAt is what the site shows as "Posted X ago" (reposts refresh it); createdAt is the original posting date.
isActive, syndicated, urgentlyHiring	Site flags. syndicated postings are aggregated from the employer's career site; false means the recruiter posted directly on foundit.
descriptionHtml, description	Full JD as HTML and plain text (includeDescription: true); null when the site has none.
query, scrapedAt	The keyword that found the job and the collection time.

Recruiter names and phone numbers that the API carries are not output. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, webhooks and other Apify integrations. Field names are stable; new fields are only added, so your Sheets, Zapier or Make mappings keep working.

Scheduling & automation

The heavy users of this Actor run it on a schedule with a short keyword list, a city list and a short posting window, and let the Actor remember what it has already delivered.

Recipe: keywords × cities × last 3 days, only new jobs, every morning

{
    "queries": ["data analyst", "business analyst", "power bi"],
    "locations": ["Bangalore", "Hyderabad", "Pune"],
    "postedWithinDays": 3,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "stateKey": "analysts-south-daily",
    "maxJobsPerQuery": 200
}

1. Paste the input, click Save as task, then Schedules → Create schedule → Daily (for example 0 8 * * *, 08:00 IST) and add the task.
2. The first run delivers every matching job from the last 3 days. Every later run delivers only the jobs that were not delivered before, and skipped jobs are not charged. The memory lives in a key-value store named foundit-jobs-state in your own Apify account, one record per stateKey, and forgets ids after 120 days.
3. Give each saved search its own stateKey (or leave it empty and the Actor derives one from the keywords, cities and filters). Change the key to start over.
4. Already de-duplicating on your side? Pass the ids you have in skipJobIds instead; they are skipped before any detail fetch and never charged.

Where the results go

• Integrations tab of the task: Google Sheets (append rows), Slack or email (a message per run), or a webhook to your backend when the run finishes.
• Make, Zapier, n8n: use the Apify module/node with the task id, or poll the dataset with the API call below.
• Every run writes a RUN-SUMMARY record to its key-value store: keywords, jobs found, new, filtered, skipped (already delivered / skipJobIds) and charged counts, so a webhook consumer can decide what to do without opening the dataset.

Synchronous API call (waits for the run and returns the new jobs):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data_daemon~foundit-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["data analyst"], "postedWithinDays": 1, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "stateKey": "analyst-daily"}'

Pricing and what a month costs

Pay per event. Platform compute is included; the Actor runs in 512 MB, so the start fee is always a single event.

Event	Price	When it is charged
Job	$0.0008	Each job saved to your dataset, full description included
Actor start	$0.001	Once per run

That is $0.80 per 1,000 jobs with full descriptions. Jobs skipped by Only new jobs since the last run, skipJobIds, de-duplication across keywords or your filters are never charged.

Plan discounts: prices above are for the Free and Starter plans; Scale plans pay 15% less ($0.68 per 1,000) and Business plans 30% less ($0.56 per 1,000).

How teams use it	Volume (measured 18 Oct 2026)	Cost
Quick look: the 50 newest data analyst jobs with descriptions	50 jobs, 1 run	$0.041
One-off export: every open data analyst job in Bangalore	354 jobs, 1 run	$0.28
Full export of one keyword: all open data analyst jobs in India	1,192 jobs, 1 run	$0.95
Daily feed, only new jobs: data analyst, all of India	about 4-6 new jobs a day, 30 runs	about $0.15 a month
Daily feed, only new jobs: 10 keywords × 5 cities, about 60 new jobs a day	1,800 jobs, 30 runs	about $1.50 a month

Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month: about 6,000 jobs with descriptions, enough for a trial and several small daily feeds.

Tips

• Use several specific keywords instead of one broad one; the Actor de-duplicates across keywords and a job found twice is charged once.
• postedWithinDays is applied by the site before anything is fetched, so a 1-day or 3-day window makes scheduled runs fast and cheap.
• Set includeDescription: false when you only need titles, companies, salary bands and skills; it halves the run time.
• minExperience: 0, maxExperience: 1 is a good fresher filter; jobTypes: ["Work From Home"] or locations: ["Remote"] gives remote roles.
• Set a maximum cost per run on the task; the Actor stops cleanly at the limit and says so in the status message.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape foundit?

$0.0008 per job with its full description plus $0.001 per run, so 100 jobs cost about $0.08 and a 50-jobs-a-day feed about $1.25 a month.

Is there an official foundit API?

No public one. This Actor reads the JSON that the foundit.in website itself loads and exposes it as a REST API with schedules, webhooks and only-new-jobs runs.

Does it return the full job description?

Yes, as HTML and plain text, plus skills, industries, functions, applicant and view counts, salary band when disclosed, the company profile and the direct apply URL.

Why are so many salaries and experience ranges null?

Most postings on foundit are syndicated from employers' career sites without a salary or stated experience band. When the recruiter hides a salary the site does too, and the Actor keeps it hidden (salaryHidden: true). Filter on salaryHidden: false and non-null salaryMinLpa for benchmarking.

Is foundit the same as Monster India?

Yes. Monster India was renamed foundit in 2022; the site is foundit.in and the data is the same board.

Does it cover foundit Gulf, Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia?

Not yet; this Actor covers foundit.in (India, including remote and the occasional overseas posting listed there). Open an issue if you need another region.

Why does a city return remote jobs only?

foundit answers an unknown city name with its remote jobs. The Actor drops those rows, charges nothing and tells you in the status message; use the spelling foundit uses (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Remote).

Do I need a proxy or login?

No.

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Support

Found a bug or need another field, filter or foundit region? Open an issue on the Issues tab; issues are usually answered within a day. Custom variants of this Actor are available on request.

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Disclaimer

This Actor collects publicly available job listings for informational purposes and deliberately leaves out recruiters' personal contact details. Respect the source website's terms of use and applicable data-protection laws when using the data.