# We Work Remotely Jobs Scraper (`devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Pull We Work Remotely's public RSS feeds — the main feed or any of 10 category feeds — into typed job rows: company, position, category, job type, region, skills, plain-text description, and posting/expiry dates. No login, no pagination.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## We Work Remotely Jobs Scraper

**$1.70 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Built for recruiters, job-board aggregators, and labor-market researchers: pull We Work Remotely's live jobs feed — the main feed or any of 10 category feeds — in one call. Returns typed rows with the packed "Company: Position" title already split, sparse location/skill fields null-normalized, and HTML descriptions cleaned to plain text.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

We Work Remotely (weworkremotely.com) publishes its entire live job
list as public RSS 2.0, plus one dedicated feed per category. This
Actor fetches the main feed or one-or-more category feeds you choose,
merges and de-duplicates results by GUID when multiple categories are
selected, splits each packed `"Company: Position"` title into
structured fields, normalizes sparse location/skill/type fields, cleans
each HTML job description down to plain text, and lands one typed
dataset row per job — no pagination, no login, no per-job page visits
required.

### 🔥 Features

- 🛡️ **We rotate browser fingerprints** — `curl-cffi` impersonation replays real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes on every request, so the target sees a browser, not a script.
- 🔁 **We retry with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` — up to 5 attempts, honouring `Retry-After` whenever the target sends it.
- 🧱 **We fail loud, not silent** — a broken upstream feed surfaces as a failed run with a clear status message, never a quiet empty dataset.
- 🧊 **We keep the dataset clean** — Pydantic-validated typed rows, packed titles split into company/position, sparse fields null-normalized instead of passed through as empty strings.
- 💰 **You pay only for results that land** — Pay-Per-Event pricing. No data, no charge.

### 💡 Use cases

- Recruiter tooling — pull today's remote openings for a given category, filtered by keyword or company.
- Job-board aggregators — mirror We Work Remotely's coverage into your own listings alongside the rest of the Devil Scrapes job-board fleet.
- Labor-market research — track category and skill demand across We Work Remotely's postings over time.
- Lead generation — find companies actively hiring remote roles as a growth/budget signal.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Optionally pick one or more `categories` to narrow the feed — leave empty to pull the whole main feed (capped by `maxItems`).
3. Optionally set `keywords` or `company` to filter further.
4. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
5. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

#### Call it from Python

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("DevilScrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "categories": ["design", "product"],
        "keywords": [],
        "company": "",
        "maxItems": 100,
        "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": False},
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["position"], item["company"])
```

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `categories` | `array` | no | `[]` | Fetch these category feeds instead of the main feed; merged and de-duplicated by GUID. |
| `keywords` | `array` | no | `[]` | Keep jobs whose position/description/company contains ANY keyword (case-insensitive substring). |
| `company` | `string` | no | `""` | Case-insensitive substring match on company name. |
| `maxItems` | `integer` | no | `100` | Cap on rows emitted, applied after merge/dedupe/filter (1-1000). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | `{"useApifyProxy": false}` | Standard Apify Proxy config — not required for this public feed target. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "categories": ["design", "product"],
  "keywords": [],
  "company": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `guid` | `string` | Stable unique identifier (equals `url` in every sampled item). |
| `url` | `string` | We Work Remotely job page URL. |
| `company` | `string` | Hiring company, split from the packed title. |
| `position` | `string` | Job title, split from the packed title. |
| `category` | `string \| null` | WWR category label, `null` if untagged. |
| `job_type` | `string \| null` | Employment type (e.g. `"Full-Time"`), `null` if empty. |
| `region` | `string \| null` | Free-text region, `null` if empty. |
| `country` | `string \| null` | Free-text country, `null` if empty. |
| `state` | `string \| null` | Free-text state/province, `null` if empty. |
| `skills` | `array` | Comma-separated skills split into stripped tokens. May be empty. |
| `description` | `string` | HTML stripped to clean plain text. |
| `logo_url` | `string \| null` | Company logo URL, `null` if absent. |
| `pub_date` | `string \| null` | ISO-8601 publish timestamp, `null` if unparseable. |
| `expires_at` | `string \| null` | ISO-8601 expiry timestamp, `null` if absent/unparseable. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "guid": "https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/uttr-project-manager",
  "url": "https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/uttr-project-manager",
  "company": "UTTR",
  "position": "Project Manager",
  "category": "Sales and Marketing",
  "job_type": "Full-Time",
  "region": "Anywhere in the World",
  "country": null,
  "state": "New York",
  "skills": [],
  "description": "Headquarters: New York URL: https://www.uttr.com/ UTTR stands for...",
  "logo_url": "https://wwr-pro.s3.amazonaws.com/logos/0171/6351/logo.gif",
  "pub_date": "2026-09-09T15:41:42+00:00",
  "expires_at": "2026-10-09T15:41:42+00:00"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.20 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result` | $0.0015 | Per dataset item (→ $1.50 / 1 000 results) |

Example: 1,000 results at the rates above ≈ **$1.70** total ($0.20 start + $1.50 for the results). No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

We Work Remotely's RSS feeds only expose the *current* live listings —
there's no historical archive and no pagination cursor, so this Actor
returns a single snapshot per run. Only 10 category feeds are publicly
offered (the "All Other Remote" category has no dedicated feed and
isn't a selectable filter).

### ❓ FAQ

**Is this legal?**

We only fetch content the source makes publicly available via its own
documented RSS feeds. Respect We Work Remotely's terms of service
before using output commercially.

**How do I export to Sheets?**

After the run, click *Storage → Dataset → Export* and pick CSV. Google
Sheets imports it directly.

**Why is `country` empty on most rows?**

We Work Remotely's own feed leaves `country`/`state` empty on most
postings — we pass through exactly what the source reports, as `null`
when it's missing, rather than guessing.

**Can I fetch more than one category at once?**

Yes — select multiple values in `categories`; results are merged and
de-duplicated by `guid` before `maxItems` is applied.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes
weekly and we read every report.

***

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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Fetch these category feeds instead of the main feed. Results from multiple categories are merged and de-duplicated by GUID. Leave empty to fetch the main feed (all categories).

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep jobs whose position, description, or company contains ANY of these keywords (case-insensitive substring match). Leave empty to skip this filter.

## `company` (type: `string`):

Keep jobs whose company name contains this text (case-insensitive substring match). Leave blank to skip this filter.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap the number of rows emitted, applied after merging, de-duplicating, and filtering.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Not required for this target — the RSS feed endpoints returned 200 to a bare request with no proxy or impersonation during recon.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "design",
    "product"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "company": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "categories": [
        "design",
        "product"
    ],
    "keywords": [],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "categories": [
        "design",
        "product",
    ],
    "keywords": [],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "categories": [
    "design",
    "product"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/weworkremotely-jobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YmqYt9c2HPkfRms9t/builds/HkgggpbgeZqp8TnFV/openapi.json