Remote Job Leads Monitor — RemoteOK & WeWorkRemotely

Watch RemoteOK and WeWorkRemotely on a schedule and get only the NEW remote jobs matching your keywords since your last run — with an optional contract/freelance-only filter.

Remote job boards move fast: the good postings get hundreds of applicants within days. The applicants who land them are the ones who applied in the first hours. This monitor turns two of the biggest remote boards into a deduplicated alert stream, so you're always in the first wave.

What it does

1. Reads RemoteOK's official public API and WeWorkRemotely's public RSS feed.
2. Normalizes both into one job format: title, company, location, tags, employment type, salary range when published, direct link.
3. Applies your filters — keywords (title, company, tags, location) and optionally contract/freelance signals only.
4. Remembers every job it has already seen (per filter set, in a persistent state store) and outputs only the NEW ones on every later run.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["video", "motion"],
  "contractOnly": true
}

The defaults work as-is (both boards, all new jobs).

Output example

{
  "jobId": "wwr:pixelworks-motion-designer",
  "source": "weworkremotely",
  "title": "Motion Designer & Video Editor",
  "company": "PixelWorks",
  "location": "Europe Only",
  "employmentType": "Full-Time",
  "tags": ["Design"],
  "salaryMinUsd": null,
  "salaryMaxUsd": null,
  "url": "https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/pixelworks-motion-designer",
  "postedAt": "2026-07-05T08:00:00.000Z",
  "matchedKeywords": ["video"],
  "isNewSinceLastRun": true
}

A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store gives the counts per run — including per-source errors, so one board having a bad day never silently empties your feed.

How to use it

• Job seekers / freelancers: schedule every few hours with your skill keywords → apply in the first wave.
• Contract hunters: contractOnly: true keeps only gigs with contract/freelance/part-time signals.
• Talent watchers: keyword on a competitor's name to see when they hire remotely.

Fair use & data

• Reads only official public endpoints: the Remote OK API (jobs link back to Remote OK as their terms request) and WeWorkRemotely's public RSS feed.
• No personal data — these are company job postings; no candidate or poster identities are collected.
• Feeds are naturally bounded (~100 jobs each); the monitor's memory turns them into a complete over-time stream.

FAQ

Why these two boards? They're the two largest remote boards with clean public feeds. More sources can be added — tell us in the Issues tab which one you need.

First run floods me. That's the baseline (flagged isBaseline: true); disable includeBaselineInOutput to start silent.

How do I reset the memory? Set a new monitorId.