Remote Jobs Scraper: RemoteOK, Remotive +4 (dedup, alerts)

Scrape remote jobs from six public boards in a single run — RemoteOK, Remotive, Jobicy, Himalayas, Arbeitnow and We Work Remotely — into one flat schema instead of six feed formats. No login, no browser, no proxy.

What you get

Real rows from the example dataset (source: remoteok, keyword engineer/data):

title	company	tags	salary
MRO Buyer	U.P.PRO	["customer support", "dev", "engineer", …]	—
Irrigation Technician	MSC Cruises	["education", "sys admin", "engineer"]	—
Data Entry Clerk	Astrek Careers	["non tech", "data entry", "admin", "ops"]	50,000–70,000 USD/yr

Salary is filled only where the board publishes it — most rows leave it empty, which is the honest shape, not a missing field. Full row: source, jobId, title, company, companyLogo, url, location, remote, category, tags[], jobType, seniority, salaryText, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, publishedAt, description, applyUrl, dupKey, keyword, scrapedAt.

Use cases

• Job-alert products and newsletters — one scheduled monitor run returns only the remote jobs that appeared since the last run, ready to send.
• Niche remote job boards — build a category feed (keywords) from six sources without maintaining six parsers.
• Remote hiring research — compare which companies, categories and salary ranges appear across boards, using dupKey to collapse cross-posts.

Try it in 10 seconds

Hit Start/Try it — the input already works: sources: [all six], remoteOnly: true, dedupeAcrossBoards: true, maxItems: 40, nothing required. Add keywords to narrow to your niche.

To get a daily digest instead of a one-off pull: save the task, set Mode to monitor, and put it on a schedule (Apify → Schedules → cron 0 8 * * * for daily). Each run then returns only jobs that are new since last time, and can post the list to a webhook or Telegram.

Related actors

• Career Site Jobs Monitor: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday — track a specific employer's own career site instead of the public remote-job boards.
• Wellfound Startup Jobs Scraper (role, location, remote, salary) — remote and on-site roles at funded startups specifically, with company profile fields.
• HiringCafe Jobs Scraper (ATS-sourced jobs, filters, alerts) — a daily feed of brand-new ATS-sourced postings across hundreds of companies.
• Workable & SmartRecruiters Jobs Scraper (API, no login, alerts) — employers who publish through Workable or SmartRecruiters rather than the six remote boards here.

How it works

1. Each selected board is read through its own public feed — no login, no proxy, no browser.
2. Rows are normalised into one schema, including salary parsed into salaryMin / salaryMax / salaryCurrency / salaryPeriod where the board publishes numbers.
3. keywords, excludeKeywords, postedWithinDays and remoteOnly filter the rows; maxPerSource caps each board.
4. With dedupeAcrossBoards, a job whose company + title (dupKey) already appeared from an earlier board in the same run is skipped and never charged.
5. In monitor mode the run compares against the previous run of the same task and returns only new or changed jobs, optionally posting a summary to a webhook or Telegram chat.

Input

Field	Meaning	Default
sources	Boards to read: remoteok, remotive, jobicy, himalayas, arbeitnow, weworkremotely	all six
keywords	Keep jobs whose title, tags, category or company contain any of these	empty (keep all)
excludeKeywords	Drop jobs containing any of these	empty
postedWithinDays	Keep only jobs published in the last N days (1–365)	empty (any age)
remoteOnly	Keep only remote jobs (matters for Arbeitnow)	true
dedupeAcrossBoards	Skip a company + title already returned from another board in this run	true
maxPerSource	Cap per board after filtering	500
maxItems	Stop after this many jobs in total	40
mode	scrape or monitor (only new/changed since the previous run)	scrape
monitorStateId	State key for monitor mode outside a saved task	empty
webhookUrl	HTTPS endpoint for the monitor-mode change summary	empty
telegramBotToken / telegramChatId	Send the monitor-mode summary to Telegram	empty

Pricing

Event	Price
result	$0.0005 per job ($0.50 per 1,000)
monitor-check	$0.005 per monitor run
change	$0.0005 per new/changed job

Charged only for jobs actually pushed. No proxy needed.

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Why this actor

• Six boards behind one input and one output schema.
• Cross-board de-duplication on company + title, so a cross-posted job is returned — and charged — once.
• Public feeds only: no login, no proxy, no browser, so runs are cheap and fast.
• You pay per pushed row; an empty run costs nothing beyond platform usage, and RUN_SUMMARY says why it was empty (no_matches, blocked, rate_limited, invalid_input, upstream_error).
• Monitor mode with webhook and Telegram alerts for newly posted jobs.

Limits

• Each board exposes its recent listings (roughly 100–500 per feed); this is a live/recent aggregator, not an archive.
• Salary is present only where the board publishes it; several boards leave salaryMin/salaryMax empty and some only give salaryText.
• category, jobType and seniority are null on boards that do not publish them (for example RemoteOK).
• De-duplication is per run, matching company + title; the same job re-posted with a different title is not detected.

FAQ

Which remote job boards are covered? RemoteOK, Remotive, Jobicy, Himalayas, Arbeitnow and We Work Remotely. Pick any subset in sources.

How do I get a daily digest of new remote jobs? Save the actor as a task with your keywords, set mode: monitor, schedule it daily, and add webhookUrl or the Telegram fields. Each run returns only jobs that appeared since the previous run.

Do I get the same job twice if it is posted on two boards? No, as long as dedupeAcrossBoards stays true: the second copy is skipped by its dupKey (company + title) and is not charged.

Changelog

• 0.1: initial release.

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