# Remote Jobs Aggregator - 8 Job Boards, One Clean Feed (`feedsmith/remote-jobs-aggregator`) Actor

Aggregates remote job listings from RemoteOK, Remotive, Himalayas, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads and The Muse into one normalized, deduplicated JSON feed with keyword, location, date and salary filters.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/feedsmith/remote-jobs-aggregator.md
- **Developed by:** [TRUONG VAN HOA](https://apify.com/feedsmith) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.80 / 1,000 jobs

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Remote Jobs Aggregator — 8 job boards, one clean feed

Pull **remote job listings from 8 public job boards** in a single run, normalized to one schema,
deduplicated across sources, and filtered by keyword, location, recency and salary — as clean JSON,
CSV or Excel.

- **One schema, 8 sources.** Every board's quirks (integer vs. free-text salary, RSS vs. JSON, `remote`
  flags, restricted geos) are normalized into the same flat record, so you never write per-source
  parsing code.
- **Deduplicated.** The same opening posted on more than one board is merged into a single record; the
  richest copy is kept (salary data > longer description > newest) and `alsoSeenOn` lists every other
  board it appeared on.
- **No login, no API key, no browser.** Plain HTTP against each board's public API/feed. Fast and cheap
  — a 300-job run across all 8 sources typically finishes in under a minute.
- **Pay only for results.** Filtered-out jobs and merged duplicates are free; you are charged only for
  the records actually saved.

### Sources

| Source | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [RemoteOK](https://remoteok.com) | JSON API | Fully remote-only board; salary as numbers when published |
| [Remotive](https://remotive.com) | JSON API | **Opt-in (off by default)** because of its redistribution terms. Free tier caps at ~15 jobs per call (verified live) |
| [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app) | JSON API, paginated | Numeric salary, seniority and category fields; largest volume of the 8 |
| [Jobicy](https://jobicy.com) | JSON API | Up to 200 jobs per call (server-side cap) |
| [Arbeitnow](https://www.arbeitnow.com) | JSON API, paginated | Mixed on-site/remote board; only `remote: true` postings are kept |
| [We Work Remotely](https://weworkremotely.com) | RSS feed | Title format `Company: Role`, split automatically |
| [Working Nomads](https://www.workingnomads.com) | JSON API | |
| [The Muse](https://www.themuse.com) | JSON API, paginated | Filtered to `location = Flexible / Remote` |

### What can you do with it?

| Use case | How |
| --- | --- |
| **Build or seed a niche job board** | `keywords: ["python", "data engineer"]`, `dedupe: true` for one clean, deduplicated feed across every source |
| **Recruiter / sourcing lead lists** | `keywords`, `locations`, `postedWithinDays: 7` for a fresh weekly digest of who's hiring for a role |
| **Hiring-signal / market research** | Run on a schedule, track which companies post remote roles and how salary bands move over time |
| **Job-alert automations** | Schedule the run, pipe new records into Slack/Telegram/email via Make, n8n or Zapier |
| **AI agents** | Simple input, flat JSON output, works through the Apify MCP server |

### Input

| Field | Example | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sources` | `["remoteok", "remotive"]` | Which boards to query. Leave empty for all 8. |
| `keywords` | `["python", "data engineer"]` | Keep a job if ANY keyword matches title/company/tags (case-insensitive) |
| `excludeKeywords` | `["senior"]` | Drop a job if ANY of these matches |
| `titleOnly` | `true` | Match keywords against the title only |
| `locations` | `["Europe", "Worldwide"]` | Substring match against the job's location text; `"Worldwide"` also matches jobs with no region restriction |
| `postedWithinDays` | `14` | Only jobs posted in the last N days. Jobs with an unknown post date are always kept |
| `minSalaryUsd` | `100000` | Only applied to jobs with USD salary data; non-USD or missing salary never gets filtered out. Hourly/monthly figures are annualized |
| `includeDescription`, `descriptionFormat` | `true`, `"text"` | `text` strips HTML to clean readable text; `html` keeps the source's raw HTML |
| `dedupe` | `true` | Merge the same job across sources |
| `maxItemsPerSource` | `500` | Cap on raw jobs scanned per source before filtering |
| `maxItems` | `200` | Hard cap on saved (and charged) jobs |

#### Example: fresh Python/data roles, deduplicated

```json
{
  "keywords": ["python", "data engineer"],
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "maxItems": 300
}
```

#### Example: one board only, everything

```json
{ "sources": ["remoteok"], "maxItems": 500 }
```

#### Example: well-paid, worldwide, lightweight feed

```json
{
  "locations": ["Worldwide"],
  "minSalaryUsd": 120000,
  "includeDescription": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

### Output

One record per job (or per merged duplicate group). Example, taken from a real run:

```json
{
  "id": "b8fbb55311035e5e880d7be66365a0b8e1aee54e",
  "source": "himalayas",
  "sourceJobId": "https://himalayas.app/companies/nvidia/jobs/senior-software-architect-networking-ai",
  "title": "Senior Software Architect, Networking AI",
  "company": "NVIDIA",
  "companyLogo": "https://cdn-images.himalayas.app/9jkqq85jdsq9vtt2fuhb5vq8y2zy",
  "companyUrl": "https://himalayas.app/companies/nvidia",
  "location": "United States",
  "isWorldwide": false,
  "employmentType": "Full Time",
  "seniority": "Senior",
  "category": "Developer",
  "tags": ["Software-Architecture", "AI", "Networking", "Data-Center-Architecture", "..."],
  "salaryMin": 184000,
  "salaryMax": 356500,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "yearly",
  "salaryText": "$184,000 - $356,500 / yearly",
  "description": "NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. ... We are seeking a Principal SW Architect, Networking to build the future of AI data-centers. ...",
  "url": "https://himalayas.app/companies/nvidia/jobs/senior-software-architect-networking-ai",
  "applyUrl": "https://himalayas.app/companies/nvidia/jobs/senior-software-architect-networking-ai",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-18T09:43:51.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T09:50:45.683Z",
  "alsoSeenOn": []
}
```

Field notes:

- `isWorldwide` — heuristic: true when the location text is empty or says something like "Remote",
  "Anywhere", "Worldwide" or "Flexible / Remote" (i.e. no specific country/region restriction).
- `salaryText` — always the best available human-readable salary string, even when a source only
  publishes free text (e.g. Remotive's `"$90 - $150 /hour"`); `salaryMin`/`salaryMax`/`salaryCurrency`/
  `salaryPeriod` are the parsed-out numeric fields when they could be extracted.
- `alsoSeenOn` — when `dedupe` is on and the same job (matched by normalized company + title) appears
  on more than one board, this lists the other sources it was found on; the saved record is the richest
  copy (has salary data > longer description > most recently posted).
- `description` — omitted (`null`) when `includeDescription` is off; otherwise stripped to plain text
  or kept as raw HTML per `descriptionFormat`.

### Pricing

Pay per event — you are charged only for what is saved:

| Event | When |
| --- | --- |
| `job-record` | Each job saved to the dataset (after filters and deduplication) |

Filtered-out jobs, merged duplicates and failed source requests are free. Set **Max total charge** on
the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when the cap is reached. See `PRICING.md` for the exact
per-event price and rationale.

### Scheduling & integrations

Run on a schedule (e.g. daily or a few times a week — see "Limits & good citizenship" below for why not
more often), then pull results via the Apify API, webhooks, Google Sheets, Make, n8n or Zapier. Each
record has `scrapedAt`, so scheduled runs can be appended into a time series to track new postings.

### Limits & good citizenship

The Actor throttles itself to at most 2 requests/second per host, well under any of these boards'
limits, retries on `429`/`5xx` with back-off, and uses a descriptive User-Agent
(`remote-jobs-aggregator/1.0`). A source that errors out (timeout, unexpected payload, rate limit) only
loses its own jobs for that run — it logs a warning and the run continues with the other 7.

### Attribution & terms

This Actor is **not affiliated with RemoteOK, Remotive, Himalayas, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, We Work Remotely,
Working Nomads or The Muse**. Every record includes `url` (the original job page) and `source`; if you
republish listings, link back to the original posting and credit the source board, and review each
source's own API terms before high-volume or public-facing use. Two sources are explicit about this in
their own API responses:

- **RemoteOK**: *"Please link back (with follow, and without nofollow!) to the URL on Remote OK and
  mention Remote OK as a source, so we get traffic back from your site. If you do not we'll have to
  suspend API access."*
- **Remotive**: *"Please do not submit Remotive jobs to third Party websites, including but not limited
  to: Jooble, Neuvoo, Google Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs. Please link back to the URL found on Remotive AND
  mention Remotive as a source... there is absolutely no need to request Remotive Job data too
  frequently... we advise max. 4 times a day."*

In short: attribute every source you display, don't resubmit Remotive's jobs to other job aggregators
(Google Jobs, LinkedIn, Jooble, etc.), and don't schedule runs more than a few times a day. No personal
data is collected beyond what each board already publishes in its public job ads (recruiter/company
contact info that a board itself includes in a listing may appear in `description`).

### Code example

A runnable Python script (only `requests` needed) that calls this Actor and writes a CSV: [remote-jobs/python\_jobs\_feed.py](https://github.com/ankaibua-spec/feedsmith-examples/blob/master/remote-jobs/python_jobs_feed.py) — print a de-duplicated feed of remote jobs matching your keywords.

### FAQ

**Is this affiliated with any of the 8 job boards?** No. It's an independent tool that reads each
board's public API/feed.

**Why do some jobs have `salaryMin`/`salaryMax` as `null`?** Not every board publishes structured
salary data. `salaryText` still shows whatever free-text salary info was available, if any.

**Why did Remotive only return ~15 jobs?** That's the board's own current free-API limit, not a bug in
this Actor — verified live, and unaffected by `search`/`category` params.

**A job appears twice in my results.** Turn on `dedupe` (default on). Duplicates are matched by
normalized company + title, so a very different title or company spelling on one board (e.g. a staffing
agency repost) can occasionally slip past the matcher.

**Something wrong or missing?** Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — fixes usually ship within a
day.

# Actor input Schema

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Which job boards to pull from. Leave empty to use all of them. Remotive is opt-in (off by default): its API terms ask users not to redistribute listings to third-party sites and to poll at most 4 times a day, and it returns only ~15 jobs per call.

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

Keep a job if ANY of these words appears in its title, company or tags (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep everything.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop a job if ANY of these words appears in its title, company or tags (case-insensitive).

## `titleOnly` (type: `boolean`):

When on, keywords/excludeKeywords only look at the job title (not company or tags).

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Keep a job if any of these terms matches its location text, e.g. "Europe", "USA", "Worldwide". "Worldwide" also matches jobs open to anyone with no region restriction.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only jobs posted in the last N days. Jobs with an unknown post date are always kept.

## `minSalaryUsd` (type: `integer`):

Only applied to jobs that actually publish USD salary data; jobs without salary info, or with a non-USD salary, are never dropped by this filter. Hourly/monthly/weekly figures are annualized for comparison.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the full job description. Turn off for a lighter, faster feed.

## `descriptionFormat` (type: `string`):

text = HTML stripped to clean, readable text (entities decoded, whitespace collapsed, paragraphs kept). html = the source's raw HTML.

## `dedupe` (type: `boolean`):

Merge the same job when it appears on more than one board (matched by normalized company + title). The richest copy is kept and alsoSeenOn lists the other sources.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Cap on how many raw jobs are pulled from each source before filtering. Higher = more complete, more requests.

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

Stop after this many jobs are saved to the dataset. You are only charged for jobs actually saved. Default 200 keeps a first test run around $0.36; raise it for full exports.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sources": [
    "remoteok",
    "himalayas",
    "jobicy",
    "arbeitnow",
    "weworkremotely",
    "workingnomads",
    "themuse"
  ],
  "titleOnly": false,
  "locations": [],
  "includeDescription": true,
  "descriptionFormat": "text",
  "dedupe": true,
  "maxItemsPerSource": 500,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per de-duplicated remote job: title, company, location, salary, tags, description, source and link to the original posting.

# 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 = {
    "locations": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("feedsmith/remote-jobs-aggregator").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 = { "locations": [] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("feedsmith/remote-jobs-aggregator").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 '{
  "locations": []
}' |
apify call feedsmith/remote-jobs-aggregator --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/X65JK73zooeGjgBg7/builds/Ha1crirRLr5MFAaeq/openapi.json