YC Jobs Scraper

YC Jobs Scraper collects the open jobs that Y Combinator startups post on Work at a Startup, one row per job: title, role, location, salary and equity as numbers, visa terms, experience and skills, with the company's batch, one-liner, team size and website. It reads the jobs page of every YC company marked as hiring, about 1,480 companies in September 2026. The form opens with Engineering selected, so Start gives you 50 jobs. YC shows only how long ago a job went up, so posting dates are approximate. It costs $1.00 per 1,000 jobs on the Free plan ($0.50 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 5,000 jobs.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
title, url	Job title as the company wrote it, and the job's page on ycombinator.com.
company, companySlug	Company name and its slug on ycombinator.com, e.g. orca-aerospace. The slug works in Companies.
companyBatch, companyBatchName	YC batch as a code and in words: S26 and Summer 2026.
companyOneLiner, companyTeamSize	What the company does in one line, and how many employees it lists in the YC directory.
companyIndustry, companyStatus	Industry, such as Fintech or Industrials, and the company's status, such as Active or Public.
companyWebsite, companyLocation	The company's own website and where it is based, with several places separated by semicolons: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote.
role, roleType	Job family, such as Engineering, Operations or Sales, and the specialty, e.g. Machine learning. roleType is empty on about half of the jobs.
jobType	Full-time, Internship, Contract or, rarely, Co-founder.
location, remote	Where the job is based, as the company typed it (San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)), and true when that text includes Remote.
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency	Salary range as numbers in the posted currency. salaryText keeps the original, e.g. $175K - $350K.
salaryPeriod	What the figures are per: year for most jobs, month or hour when the job says / monthly or / hourly. Empty when the figures have no period and are too small for a year.
equityMin, equityMax	Equity range in percent: 1.00% - 2.00% becomes 1 and 2. equityText keeps the original.
minExperience, minYears	Required experience as written (3+ years, Any (new grads ok)) and as a number of years, where 0 means new graduates are welcome.
visa, visaSponsorship	Visa terms as YC shows them, and true only when they read Will sponsor.
skills	Skills the company tagged, e.g. Python or Torch/PyTorch. Empty on about three quarters of the jobs.
postedAgo, postedDaysAgo	Age of the job as YC shows it (15 days, about 1 month) and as an approximate number of days.
description, interviewProcess	Full job description in Markdown and the interview process, filled when Include the full job description is on.
applyUrl	Application link on Work at a Startup, where candidates sign in with a YC account.

How to scrape YC jobs

1. Choose job families in Roles. Clear the field to get all 11 of them, from Engineering and Design to Recruiting & HR and Legal.
2. Narrow the jobs with Job types, Remote jobs only, Visa sponsorship only, Minimum salary (USD per year), Maximum years of experience required and Posted within the last N days. Enter 0 years to see jobs open to new graduates.
3. Add places to Locations (any of). They are matched against the location text, so London finds London jobs and US finds every job with US in its location.
4. Use Keywords (any of) and Exclude keywords for words in the title, skills, company name or one-liner, such as founding or python.
5. Limit the companies with YC batches (S26, W26 or Summer 2025), Industries (Fintech, Healthcare, Developer Tools) or Companies (slugs such as stripe, or company page links). Only those companies are opened, so the run also finishes sooner.
6. Turn on Include the full job description if you need the text and the interview process, then click Start. Jobs land in the Output tab in batches as the companies are read, and download as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Through the API, Roles takes codes such as eng, product or science. This input asks for engineering and science jobs at S26 and F26 companies that sponsor visas and take new graduates:

{
  "roles": ["eng", "science"],
  "visaSponsorship": true,
  "maxYearsRequired": 0,
  "batches": ["S26", "F26"],
  "includeDescription": true,
  "maxItems": 300
}

Example output

One job from a run on 30 September 2026. The full description was off in that run, so description and interviewProcess are empty.

{
  "key": "yc-job:107693",
  "jobId": "107693",
  "title": "Founding Flight Software Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orca-aerospace/jobs/eMihWDs-founding-flight-software-engineer",
  "applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workatastartup.com%2Fapplication%3Fsignup_job_id%3D107693&defaults%5BsignUpActive%5D=true&defaults%5Bwaas_company%5D=35525",
  "company": "Orca Aerospace",
  "companySlug": "orca-aerospace",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orca-aerospace",
  "companyWebsite": "https://orcaaerospace.com/",
  "companyBatch": "F26",
  "companyBatchName": "Fall 2026",
  "companyOneLiner": "AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle",
  "companyTeamSize": 3,
  "companyIndustry": "Industrials",
  "companyLocation": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "companyStatus": "Active",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "roleType": "Embedded systems",
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)",
  "remote": true,
  "salaryMin": 100000,
  "salaryMax": 200000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryText": "$100K - $200K",
  "equityMin": 0.25,
  "equityMax": 2,
  "equityText": "0.25% - 2.00%",
  "minExperience": "1+ years",
  "minYears": 1,
  "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
  "visaSponsorship": false,
  "skills": [
    "C++",
    "Python",
    "Linux"
  ],
  "postedAgo": "28 days",
  "postedDaysAgo": 28,
  "description": null,
  "interviewProcess": null,
  "logo": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/afa6ce6fe3345bb9e7b6296e9877371ada8e2155.png"
}

How much does it cost to scrape YC jobs?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 jobs	$1.00	$0.80	$0.65	$0.50

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

A run over every hiring company returns about 6,000 jobs, which costs $6.00 on the Free plan and $3.00 on Business. Jobs removed by a filter and jobs already sent in new-only mode are not charged, and the full description is included in the price.

Limits

• Only companies that the YC directory marks as hiring are read. To read a company without that mark, list it in Companies; its jobs page is opened anyway.
• postedDaysAgo turns YC's wording into days: about 1 month becomes 30 and over 1 year becomes 426, so Posted within the last N days can be off by weeks for older jobs. Jobs stay up for a long time: in September 2026 a quarter of them had been posted a year or more earlier.
• About 6% of salaries are monthly or hourly, such as $6K - $9K / monthly or $20 - $50 / hourly. salaryPeriod marks them, and Minimum salary compares them as yearly amounts (12 months or 2,080 hours).
• Some companies leave out the K: one listed its full-time engineering jobs as $110 - $160 in September 2026. Such figures stay as written with an empty salaryPeriod, and Minimum salary drops those jobs.
• About one job in five has no salary, and Minimum salary drops those. Salaries in INR, GBP, EUR, CAD and a few other currencies are compared at fixed approximate rates; the row keeps the original currency.
• A placeholder lower bound such as $1 - $200K leaves salaryMin empty, and a placeholder salary such as ₹1 INR leaves both figures empty.
• The form starts Maximum rows at 50. Through the API a run stops at 10,000 jobs unless you set maxItems.

New YC jobs every morning

Turn on Return only jobs new since the last run, give the run a Watch name such as yc-engineering (a saved task has one already) and schedule it daily. The first run returns every matching job and stores the IDs it has read. Each later run returns only jobs whose ID is missing from that snapshot, so you pay for each job once. When a run stops at Maximum rows, the jobs it did not get to stay out of the snapshot, and the next run returns them. The run's key-value store also gets a CHANGES record with the number of new jobs and, when the run read every company, the jobs that are no longer listed.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape YC jobs?

YC publishes these job pages on ycombinator.com for anyone to read without an account. The list of hiring companies comes from yc-oss, an openly published copy of the YC company directory. The actor keeps facts about the job and the company and leaves out the hiring manager's name that YC shows with a job. You are responsible for how you use the data, including republishing job texts.

How do I find jobs that sponsor a visa?

Turn on Visa sponsorship only. It keeps jobs whose visa reads Will sponsor, about one job in nine in September 2026. Three quarters say US citizen/visa only, and US citizenship/visa not required appears mostly on jobs outside the US, in cities such as London or Bengaluru.

How long does a full run take?

Reading every hiring company takes about 1,500 page requests and a few minutes. With the full description on, each matching job adds one more page, so the same run takes several times longer.

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Support

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