Indeed Scraper — Full Descriptions

Extract job listings from Indeed at scale: job title, full description (text and HTML), salary, location, employment type, verified apply link, and company profile. Search by keyword + location, paste Indeed search URLs, or scrape a specific company's jobs — then download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or feed it straight into your own tools via the API.

Built around one thing most Indeed scrapers get wrong: empty job descriptions. Indeed's bulk API returns a blank description for a large share of sponsored and partner-ATS listings. This actor detects those and re-fetches the real description from the job page, so your dataset comes back with the descriptions actually filled in — and ships a descriptionEmpty flag so you can verify it.

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What you can extract

• 🧑‍💼 Job — title, full description (plain text + HTML), employment type, remote flag, expired flag, posting date
• 💵 Salary — min, max, currency, and interval when Indeed publishes them
• 🔗 Links — the Indeed job URL and the resolved employer apply URL (the real link behind Indeed's redirect)
• 🏢 Company — website, description, industry, address, size, revenue, logo, and CEO name
• 📧 Emails — any contact emails found in the job description

Company fields depend on Indeed publishing a company profile for that employer. See Field coverage — an honest breakdown below for real numbers. Every job always includes title, description, location, posting date, and apply link.

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How this scraper compares

	This actor	Typical Indeed scraper
Job descriptions	Backfilled — empties re-fetched from the job page	Often left blank for ~half of sponsored/ATS listings
Description format	Plain text and HTML	Sometimes one or neither
Verified apply link	✅ resolves the real employer URL behind Indeed's redirect	Sometimes
Company profile	website, description, industry, size, revenue, logo, CEO	Only behind an extra step, if at all
Search by URL	✅ search URLs and company-jobs URLs	Sometimes
Filter out staffing agencies	✅ flag or drop agency-posted jobs (no LLM)	✗
Multiple keywords per run	✅ one per line, run in parallel	Sometimes
Drop-in migration	✅ optional field names matching other Indeed scrapers	—
Dedup	✅ unique listings	Sometimes
Pricing	Pay per result — billed only for jobs returned	Varies

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How to use it

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open this actor.
3. Enter one or more job titles/keywords and a location — or paste Indeed Start URLs.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML, or pull it via the Apify API.

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Input

You can drive the scraper three ways — by keyword, by Indeed search URL, or by company. Mix and match in a single run; each search is capped independently by Max job listings and the results are merged and de-duplicated.

Field	Type	Default	Description
position	string	accountant	Job title or keywords. Put one keyword per line to run several searches at once. Optional if you provide startUrls.
startUrls	array	—	Indeed URLs to scrape: search-result URLs (e.g. https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=nurse&l=Austin) and/or company-jobs URLs (e.g. https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Google/jobs).
location	string	—	City, state, or region to narrow keyword searches.
country	enum	USA	Indeed country domain (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, India, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil).
maxItems	integer	100	Max listings per search / per URL (hard cap 5000).
maxAgeDays	integer	7	Only return jobs posted within this many days.
scrapeCompanyDetails	boolean	true	Add the company profile block (website, description, industry, address, size, revenue, logo, employer key, CEO).
detectStaffingAgencies	boolean	false	Add isStaffingAgency + staffingAgencyReason to each job — flags staffing/recruiting firms vs direct employers.
excludeStaffingAgencies	boolean	false	Drop agency-posted jobs entirely (direct employers only). You aren't billed for excluded rows.
uniqueOnly	boolean	true	Collapse duplicate listings (same job across searches).
followApplyRedirect	boolean	true	Resolve the real employer apply URL behind Indeed's redirect and return it as applyUrl.
compatibleFieldNames	boolean	false	Also emit alternate output keys that match the field names other Indeed scrapers commonly use, so you can switch to this actor without changing your code. See Migrating.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy (datacenter)	Proxy used for scraping. Required — see Proxy.

Example — keyword search

{
  "position": "accountant",
  "location": "New York",
  "country": "USA",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxAgeDays": 7
}

Example — multiple keywords + a company's jobs

{
  "position": "accountant\nbookkeeper\ncontroller",
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=financial+analyst&l=Chicago" },
    { "url": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Deloitte/jobs" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 150,
  "maxAgeDays": 14
}

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Output

One record per job. Here is a real, unedited record (description truncated for space):

{
  "title": "Budget Chief",
  "company": "State of Florida",
  "location": "Tallahassee, FL, US",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=42ba7f5dfd73a7a0",
  "applyUrl": "https://jobs.myflorida.com/job/TALLAHASSEE-Budget-Chief-FL-32399/1415668100/",
  "datePosted": "2026-08-04",
  "jobType": null,
  "isRemote": false,
  "isExpired": false,
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "currency": null,
  "interval": null,
  "description": "The Florida Legislature — Budget Committee … (full text)",
  "descriptionHTML": "<div> … full HTML … </div>",
  "descriptionEmpty": false,
  "emails": ["HouseAPD@FLHouse.gov"],
  "companyUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/State-of-Florida",
  "companyWebsite": "https://www.myflorida.com/",
  "companyIndustry": "Government",
  "companyDescription": "Seeking an opportunity to start a new career or enhance your professional development? …",
  "companyAddress": "Tallahassee, FL",
  "companyNumEmployees": "201 to 500",
  "companyRevenue": null,
  "companyLogo": "https://d2q79iu7y748jz.cloudfront.net/s/_squarelogo/256x256/15b41c73ae9b10833a18b747a07f3faf",
  "employerKey": "c8ebc9c7f7d88fc0",
  "ceoName": "Ron DeSantis"
}

Field reference

Job fields — present on every job:

Field	Type	Notes
title	string	Job title
company	string	Employer name
location	string	Formatted location
jobUrl	string	Indeed job page
applyUrl	string	Resolved employer apply URL when followApplyRedirect is on; otherwise the Indeed URL
datePosted	string	YYYY-MM-DD
isRemote	boolean	Remote-work flag
isExpired	boolean	Whether Indeed marks the listing expired
description	string	Full description as text
descriptionHTML	string	Full description as HTML
descriptionEmpty	boolean	false means the description is present. Your built-in check that the backfill worked.
jobType	array	e.g. ["fulltime"] — when Indeed tags it
salaryMin / salaryMax / currency / interval	number/string	When Indeed publishes a salary
emails	array	Emails found in the description, if any

Company fields — added by scrapeCompanyDetails, populated when the employer has an Indeed profile:

Field	Type	Notes
companyUrl	string	Indeed company page (/cmp/…)
companyWebsite	string	The employer's own website
companyIndustry	string	e.g. Government, Accounting & Tax
companyDescription	string	Short company blurb
companyAddress	string	Headquarters/primary address
companyNumEmployees	string	e.g. 201 to 500
companyRevenue	string	Revenue band, when available
companyLogo	string	Logo image URL
employerKey	string	Indeed's internal employer id
ceoName	string	CEO name, when available

Staffing-agency fields — added by detectStaffingAgencies:

Field	Type	Notes
isStaffingAgency	boolean	Whether the posting looks like a staffing/recruiting agency rather than a direct employer
staffingAgencyReason	string	Which signals fired (company name, industry, description, or "our client" language)

For recruiters & sales teams

A fresh job post is a hiring-intent signal — a company that needs to hire right now. This actor gives you what you need to act on it: the company website/domain and CEO name to find and reach the decision-maker, and a staffing-agency filter so you can screen out postings already handled by recruiters and keep only direct employers. Turn on excludeStaffingAgencies for a clean list of companies you can actually pitch or source for.

When a search finds nothing, the run finishes with a FOUND_NO_RESULTS status message and writes the same signal to the run's key-value store — without pushing a dataset item, so an empty run is never billed. Automations can still detect the empty result for free:

{ "error": "FOUND_NO_RESULTS", "errorDescription": "Scraper didn't find any jobs for the given input" }

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Field coverage — an honest breakdown

Job fields (title, description, location, apply link, dates) are present on essentially every listing. The company fields come from Indeed's employer profile, which doesn't exist for every employer — sponsored and partner-ATS postings often have none. Typical coverage we observe:

Field group	Typical coverage	Why it varies
Title, description, location, apply link	~100%	Always available per listing
Company website / description / size / CEO / revenue	~65–80%	From Indeed's job API — present when the employer has an Indeed profile
Company industry	~10%+	Indeed's job API returns it for only a minority of employers

We don't fabricate missing values — if Indeed doesn't publish a field, it comes back null. Company website, description, size, revenue, and CEO come straight from Indeed's job API, so they're the reliable enrichment fields whenever the employer has an Indeed profile. Every job always has title, description, location, and apply link.

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Proxy (required)

Indeed refuses connections from datacenter/hosting IPs, so runs need a proxy. This actor defaults to Apify Proxy (datacenter), which the job scrape and description backfill both use — cheap and fast. Without any proxy, runs fail with a connection error.

Residential groups are selectable but rarely needed — they pull the same pages at many times the bandwidth. Try a re-run on datacenter first; blocks are usually transient.

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Migrating from another Indeed scraper

Set compatibleFieldNames: true and the output also includes alternate keys that match the field names other Indeed scrapers commonly use — positionName, url, id, externalApplyLink, postedAt, scrapedAt, and salary — alongside this actor's own field names. That lets you point an existing pipeline at this actor without rewriting your downstream code.

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Integrations & API

Runs and datasets are available through the whole Apify platform: schedule runs, trigger webhooks on finish, and connect to Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Google Drive, GitHub, Airbyte, and more. Everything is also reachable programmatically via the Apify API and the apify-client packages for Python and JavaScript.

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Pricing

Pay per result — you're billed only for the job listings the run returns. Company details are included in each result at no extra per-field charge. The best way to estimate your cost is to run a small test and multiply.

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Is scraping Indeed legal?

This actor collects only publicly available job-posting data — the same information any visitor sees on Indeed. It does not access private accounts or bypass logins. Results can still contain personal data (e.g. a contact email in a description); you are responsible for handling any personal data lawfully and for your own use case. If you're unsure whether your use is permitted, consult a lawyer. See Apify's guides on ethical and legal web scraping.

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FAQ

Why are some company fields empty? Because Indeed has no company profile for that employer. Job fields (title, description, apply link) are always present; company fields fill in when a profile exists — see coverage.

Do I really get full descriptions? That's the core feature: when Indeed's bulk response returns a blank description, the actor re-fetches it from the job page. The descriptionEmpty flag on every record lets you confirm it yourself — run the same query on any other scraper and compare.

Can I scrape a specific company's jobs? Yes — put its Indeed company-jobs URL (https://www.indeed.com/cmp/<Company>/jobs) in startUrls.

How many results can I get? It varies by query, location, and country; Indeed itself limits how deep any search goes. Set maxItems per search and run a test to see what your query returns.

How fresh are the jobs? Control it with maxAgeDays (default 7).

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Feedback

Found a bug or want a field added? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab in Apify Console — the scraper is actively maintained and tracks Indeed's changes.