Remote Jobs Scraper — Remotive, RemoteOK & Remote.co

Aggregate remote job listings from multiple free, no-auth job boards into a single normalised dataset.

What it does

This Apify Actor scrapes remote job postings from three popular remote-work job boards:

Source	Method	URL
Remotive	JSON API	https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs
RemoteOK	JSON API	https://remoteok.com/api
Remote.co	HTML scraping	https://remote.co/remote-jobs/

All results are normalised to a common schema with fields: source, title, company, url, category, jobType, salary, location, tags, datePosted, description.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
source	select	all	Which board(s) to scrape: remotive, remoteok, or all
category	string	—	Job category filter (e.g. software-dev, design, marketing). Supported by Remotive API; RemoteOK filters client-side via tags.
search	string	—	Optional keyword to filter by title, company, or tags
maxResults	integer	50	Max jobs per source (1–500)

Example input

{
    "source": "remotive",
    "category": "software-dev",
    "maxResults": 10
}

Output

Each item in the dataset:

{
    "source": "remotive",
    "id": "1749306",
    "title": "Senior Python Developer",
    "company": "Acme Corp",
    "url": "https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/...",
    "category": "Software Development",
    "jobType": "full_time",
    "salary": "$80k - $120k",
    "location": "Worldwide",
    "tags": ["python", "django", "aws"],
    "datePosted": "2025-01-15T10:00:00",
    "description": "We are looking for..."
}

Features

• ✅ No authentication required — uses free public APIs and HTML scraping
• ✅ Multiple sources — aggregate jobs from 3 boards in one run
• ✅ Filtering — by category and search keyword
• ✅ Deduplication — removes duplicate listings across sources
• ✅ Normalised schema — consistent fields regardless of source
• ✅ Rate-limit friendly — uses proper headers and reasonable request volume

How to run

Locally

$apify run -i '{"source": "remotive", "maxResults": 5}' --purge

On Apify Platform

$apify push

Then run the Actor from the Apify Console or via API.

Use cases

• Job aggregation — build a unified remote jobs feed
• Market research — analyse remote hiring trends across boards
• Job alerts — schedule periodic runs and get notified of new postings
• Recruitment — find candidates by monitoring companies hiring remotely

Tech stack

• Apify SDK for Python
• HTTPX — async HTTP client
• Beautiful Soup — HTML parsing for Remote.co

Resources

• Apify Platform documentation
• Apify SDK for Python
• Remotive API
• RemoteOK API