India Jobs Feed: Internshala, Instahyre, CutShort, Apna, Shine

Build a single India job inventory from eight job boards. Bring Apna, CutShort, Internshala, Instahyre, Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine results into one canonical dataset while keeping source identity and links.
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One canonical India jobs feed built from eight public job boards Combine Apna, CutShort, Internshala, Instahyre, Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine listings into a single dataset while keeping each source's identity and links.

🧩 Distinct members Keep every source listing separate.

🔗 Cross-board matching Spot the same job on several boards without merging rows.

🧭 Change context Track lifecycle states and source quality.

🤖 Agent-ready Short rows for AI agents, or full rows and exports.

Job-data teams can use this bilingual discovery feed for भारत jobs, blue-collar and entry-level hiring, India technology roles, and global startup hiring. It is designed for product managers, HR-tech teams, labor-market analysts, feed operations teams, and AI agents that need source-linked records.

🔎 What this feed does

It collects public listings from Apna, CutShort, Internshala, Instahyre, Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine. It normalizes the returned records into one canonical dataset.

Board	Based in	Strongest for	How it runs
Apna	India	Blue and grey collar roles	Separate Actor, bills its own price
CutShort	India	Technology and startup roles	Separate Actor, bills its own price
Internshala	India	Internships and entry-level jobs	Separate Actor, bills its own price
Instahyre	India	Technology roles	Separate Actor, bills its own price
Hirist	India	Technology and senior roles	Inside this feed, no second charge
WorkIndia	India	Blue collar and entry-level roles with monthly pay	Inside this feed, no second charge
Shine	India	Broad hiring across industries	Inside this feed, no second charge, not preselected
Wellfound	United States	Startup roles, India only here	Inside this feed, no second charge

Seven of the eight boards are India-based. Wellfound is a global startup board; the feed keeps a Wellfound job only when its own published locations name an Indian city, state, or India itself. Roles in other countries are dropped, never guessed. WorkIndia is preselected for new runs. Shine is available but not preselected, because it limits how fast many runs can read its pages at the same time; add it to sources when you want it.

Each source member keeps its own listingKey, so downstream joins do not merge or remove source records. Rows that look like the same job at the same company and city share a clusterId, and you can ask for one row per job with uniqueOnly. City spellings are matched across boards, so Bengaluru and Bangalore count as the same city. Matching is strict on purpose: when the same company posts one role on two boards for different cities, those stay separate. In our own test searches the same job showed up on more than one board mostly for large delivery and logistics employers across Apna and WorkIndia, and rarely elsewhere, so expect cross-board matches to be real but not frequent.

Lifecycle states are conservative: NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, CLOSED, and REOPENED. Closure detection is on by default, but a job is only marked CLOSED when its board's scan was proven complete and not cut short by your per-board limit, and the job was missing on two runs in a row. With a small per-board limit most scans are cut short, so jobs usually stay open rather than closing by mistake. Wellfound and CutShort never close jobs in this version. WorkIndia and Shine never close jobs either: WorkIndia lists a rolling batch of fresh postings rather than its whole inventory, and Shine is far too large to scan in full, so a missing job there says nothing about whether it is still open. For those two boards read NEW and UPDATED as the useful signals. Source quality flags make incomplete or capped scans visible.

Your monitor keeps its history when a board's Actor is updated. Only a change to your own search settings starts a fresh history.

If a run is about to reach its time limit, the feed stops waiting, stops any board still running, and returns the rows it already has with lifecycleStatus set to PARTIAL. Partial rows carry no new, updated, or closed guarantee, and your saved monitoring history is left untouched. RUN_SUMMARY says so in plain words.

🎯 Who uses it

• I am a job-data product manager building India listings into our product while preserving the source identity behind each row.
• I am an HR-tech analyst comparing titles, locations, skills, and salary details where each source publishes them.
• I am a labor-market researcher collecting a reproducible job or internship inventory with lifecycle and source context.
• I am a feed operations lead delivering canonical records and export files without collapsing similar listings across sources.

🚀 How it works

STEP 1 Choose a scope Set sources, a keyword, locations, and bounded limits.

STEP 2 Receive source members Review canonical rows with source IDs, links, and quality flags.

STEP 3 Export or repeat Use the dataset or verified chunked exports for your workflow.

For later runs, choose changesOnly to emit meaningful lifecycle changes instead of unchanged rows. Monitoring state persists in a named store across Apify runs. Dataset rows are pushed first, and export records are read-back verified before state commits.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
sources	array of strings	No	Choose one or more boards: Apna, CutShort, Internshala, Instahyre, Wellfound (India roles only), Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine. Apna, CutShort, Internshala, and Instahyre each run as a separate Actor that bills its own per-result price to your account on top of this feed. Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine run inside this Actor with no extra charge. Everything except Shine is preselected.
keyword	string	No	Search by a job title, skill, or other simple term. Use one skill word on CutShort. Leave empty for the latest jobs from each board.
locations	array of strings	No	Add cities or regions, or leave empty for all available locations.
companyNames	list of names	No	Keep listings whose employer name contains one of these names.
excludeKeywords	list of words	No	Remove listings containing any of these words in the title, employer, location, or description.
remoteOnly	boolean	No	Keep only listings marked remote by the source. Shine rarely marks a job remote, so expect few Shine rows with this on.
postedWithinDays	integer	No	Keep only jobs posted in the last N days. Applies to WorkIndia and Shine; the other boards ignore it.
minMonthlySalary	integer	No	Keep only jobs stating a monthly salary of at least this many rupees. Applies to WorkIndia only; WorkIndia jobs with no stated monthly pay are left out when it is set.
internshalaMode	enum	No	Choose Internshala jobs or internships.
includeDetails	boolean	No	Include descriptions, skills, salary, and company details when published. Defaults to disabled (keeps the default run fast); enable it for the full record.
outputMode	enum	No	Return all matching jobs (all), only new and changed jobs (changesOnly), or short rows for AI agents (compact, see below). Defaults to all.
uniqueOnly	boolean	No	Return one row per job when the same title, company, and city appear more than once, on one board or several. Fewer rows means a lower feed bill. Defaults to off.
maxTotalRows	integer	No	Optional limit on the total rows returned, shared evenly between boards. Compact mode returns 50 rows when it is empty.
monitorScope	text	No	Optional name for this monitor's saved state. Reuse the same name on a schedule to compare against the previous run. Leave empty for one-off searches; runs without a name never block each other.
maxItemsPerSource	integer	No	Maximum jobs from each selected board. Defaults to 25. A lower value lowers both the feed charge and the child Actors' charges.
maxPagesPerSource	integer	No	Search depth on boards that support page limits. Defaults to 5 pages.

🤖 Use it from an AI agent or MCP client

The Apify MCP server can call this Actor as a tool. For a quick search that returns a small, readable answer, pass one or two boards, a keyword, a city, a small per-board limit, and outputMode set to compact:

{
  "sources": ["workindia", "apna"],
  "keyword": "delivery partner",
  "locations": ["Bengaluru"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 15,
  "outputMode": "compact"
}

Compact mode returns at most 50 rows (set maxTotalRows to change that), one row per job, spread across the boards you chose. Each row has only title, company, location, salary, url, source, lifecycle, and clusterId, and a field the board does not publish is left out. Leave monitorScope empty so repeated or parallel calls never block each other. A search that uses only boards running inside this feed (Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, Shine) skips the separate board Actors and usually finishes faster.

🧾 Data table

The canonical dataset preserves source members and records only fields available from the selected source. Missing values are left out of the row, never filled with placeholders. A salary currency or period appears only when the source states it.

Field	Type	Description
listingKey	string	Stable source-namespaced member ID.
clusterId	string	Shared by rows that look like the same job at the same company and city. Absent when the title, company, or city is missing.
clusterSize	integer	Rows in this run that share the clusterId, when more than one.
isCanonical	boolean	True on the most complete row of a cluster, false on the other members.
sourcePlatform	string	Source platform that produced the member.
sourceRecordId	string	Native ID used by the source member.
inventoryType	string	Job or internship when published by the source.
title	string	Listing title when published by the source.
company	string	Company name when published by the source.
employer	string	Employer name as published (same value as company).
description	string	Source-provided listing description when published.
location	string	Listing location when published by the source.
salaryMin	number	Lower salary or stipend value when published.
salaryMax	number	Upper salary or stipend value when published.
salaryCurrency	string	Salary currency when published by the source.
salaryPeriod	string	Salary period when published by the source.
salaryRaw	string	Original salary or stipend text when published.
workArrangement	string	Work arrangement when published by the source.
isRemote	boolean	Whether the source marks the listing as remote.
isPartTime	boolean	Whether the source marks the listing as part-time.
contractTypes	array of strings	Contract types when published by the source.
skills	array of strings	Skills when published by the source.
postedAt	string	Published date when available.
validThrough	string	Application or listing end date when available.
listingUrl	string	Direct source listing URL when available.
applicationUrl	string	Application URL when available.
sourceUrl	string	Original source URL when available.
experienceMin	number	Minimum years of experience when the source states a number.
experienceMax	number	Maximum years of experience when the source states a number.
experienceText	string	Experience requirement in the source's own words.
companySize	string	Company size band when published.
companyStage	string	Company stage when published.
companyFounded	integer	Year the company was founded, when published.
employeeCount	integer	Employee count when published.
openings	integer	Open positions for the listing, when published.
applicants	integer	Applicants shown by the source at collection time.
education	string	Education requirement when published.
category	string	Job category or function when published.
functions	array of strings	Job function tags when published.
latitude	number	Job location latitude when the source publishes it.
longitude	number	Job location longitude when the source publishes it.
isActive	boolean	Whether the record is currently considered active.
lifecycleStatus	string	Conservative NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, CLOSED, or REOPENED state. PARTIAL means the run ran out of time and the row has no lifecycle guarantee.
firstSeenAt	string	Time this source member was first recorded in its state scope.
lastSeenAt	string	Time this source member was most recently seen.
closedAt	string	Time the member was marked closed, if it was closed.
changedFields	array of strings	Canonical fields that changed when a change was detected.
sourceComplete	boolean	Whether the source scan was explicitly proven complete.
sourceCapped	boolean	Whether the source result reached its configured record cap.
closureEligible	boolean	Whether this source result can participate in closure checks.
contractVersion	string	Version of the output layout.
nativeDedupeKey	string	The board's own de-duplication key, when it publishes one.
contentFingerprint	string	Hash of the business fields; a change marks the row UPDATED.
sourceRunId	string	Run that produced the row.
sourceBuildId	string	Build of the Actor that produced the row.
sourceDatasetId	string	Dataset the row was read from.
provenance	object	Adapter version plus the board's own fields, trimmed of long text already in the row.

In compact mode each row has only these fields, and a field the board does not publish is omitted:

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Job title.
company	string	Company name.
location	string	Job location.
salary	string	Salary or stipend as one short text, with currency and period when the board states them.
url	string	Link to the listing.
source	string	Board that published the job.
lifecycle	string	NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, CLOSED, REOPENED, or PARTIAL.
clusterId	string	Shared by rows that look like the same job on one or several boards.

WorkIndia states pay per month in rupees. Shine states pay on only a minority of postings. Experience on WorkIndia is read from its own wording (for example "1 - 2 Years" becomes a range, "Fresher" becomes zero).

📦 Exports

The default dataset is the canonical output. Each successful run also writes verified chunks to the default key-value store:

• EXPORT_JSONL_n: newline-delimited canonical records.
• EXPORT_ADZUNA_SHAPED_XML_n: XML with an Adzuna-shaped field layout.
• EXPORT_MANIFEST: chunk metadata, checksums, and source context.
• RUN_HEALTH: child-run status and diagnostics.
• RUN_SUMMARY: whether the run was complete or partial, rows per board, and a plain note on what each board bills.

The XML is explicitly Adzuna-shaped. It does not claim official Adzuna compatibility, certification, or partnership.

🛡️ Limits and safety

This feed does not claim complete India job-market coverage or prove market gaps. It returns records from the selected sources only.

Missing source values stay absent. Similar listings remain separate source members unless you turn on uniqueOnly, and listingKey remains the safe join key.

Closure detection needs a complete scan that your per-board limit did not cut short, plus two missed runs in a row. Apna, Internshala, Instahyre, and Hirist can close jobs under these safeguards. CutShort, Wellfound, WorkIndia, and Shine cannot close jobs in this version.

🧮 What a run costs you

A run has two parts. The feed charges for each job row it returns. In addition, Apna, CutShort, Internshala, and Instahyre each run as their own Actor, and each of those bills its own per-result price to your account for the rows it collects. Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine run inside this feed, so they add no second charge. Your total is the feed charge plus the child charges for the boards you select.

To keep the total low, pick only the boards you need, keep maxItemsPerSource small, and turn on uniqueOnly so a job listed more than once is returned once. Discovery runs default to includeDetails off, which is faster and cheaper. Turn it on when descriptions, skills, salary, or application context matter. Detailed rows can take longer on boards that publish a separate detail page.

💰 Pricing

Pay per returned job record. Empty runs and runs with no returned records do not incur result charges, and there is no subscription. The Store event is one Job posting for each row, and full details stay included in that row rather than creating a second charge from this feed.

The feed's own rate is shown live in the Store panel for your plan. Separate child-Actor charges apply to Apna, CutShort, Internshala, and Instahyre as described above. WorkIndia and Shine add no separate charge.

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❓ FAQ

Does this combine source listings into one record?

Not by default. Each Apna, CutShort, Internshala, Instahyre, Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine source member keeps a distinct listingKey, so every record stays traceable to its source. Rows that look like the same job share a clusterId. Turn on uniqueOnly to get one row per job.

भारत jobs feed कैसे काम करता है?

Choose sources and a scope, then run the Actor. It returns canonical rows with source member IDs, lifecycle information, links, and reliability flags.

When can a listing be marked closed?

Only when the board's scan was proven complete and not cut short by your per-board limit, and the job was missing on two runs in a row. CutShort, Wellfound, WorkIndia, and Shine cannot close jobs in this version.

Do the filters work across every board?

Yes. Keyword, location, company, excluded-word, and remote-only filters are applied to every selected board. Boards also receive their own native filters where available. If a board does not publish an employer or remote signal, that record cannot pass a matching filter that requires it.

Should I request full job details?

Request full details when you need descriptions, skills, salary, or application context. It can take longer and use more platform compute on some boards, while other boards already include most details in their listing response.

Why does my bill include more than the feed price?

Apna, CutShort, Internshala, and Instahyre run as separate Actors that bill their own per-result price to your account. Wellfound, Hirist, WorkIndia, and Shine run inside this feed and add no second charge. Select fewer boards or use a lower per-board limit to reduce the total.

What does a PARTIAL row mean?

The run reached its time limit before every board finished. The feed returned what it had, marked those rows PARTIAL, and did not change your monitoring history. Run again with fewer boards or a lower limit.

Does Wellfound return jobs outside India?

No. A Wellfound job is kept only when its own published locations name an Indian place. Roles in other countries are dropped.

How do I call this from an AI agent or MCP client?

Pass one or two boards in sources, a keyword, a city in locations, maxItemsPerSource between 10 and 25, and outputMode set to compact. You get at most 50 short rows (title, company, location, salary, url, source, lifecycle, clusterId) and a field the board does not publish is left out. Leave monitorScope empty so parallel calls never block each other. Add postedWithinDays for fresh jobs, or minMonthlySalary for WorkIndia pay.

Why is Shine not preselected?

Shine limits how fast many runs can read its pages at the same time, so a default run that included it could return fewer Shine rows when several runs start together. A single run is fine. Add shine to sources when you want it.

Why did a board return no rows?

Each board reports its own note in RUN_HEALTH. Common reasons are a keyword that board does not index (CutShort matches single skill words), a city spelled in a way the board does not use, or a filter such as minMonthlySalary that the board's jobs do not state. Try a broader keyword or remove one filter.

Is the XML an official Adzuna feed?

No. The XML uses an Adzuna-shaped layout for downstream mapping. It is not an official Adzuna integration or a promise of compatibility.

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