Indeed Scraper — Indeed Jobs API with Salaries

What does Indeed Jobs Scraper do?

Get Indeed job postings as clean, analysis-ready rows: title, company, company rating and size, city and state, the pay range parsed into salaryMin and salaryMax, job type, remote or hybrid flag, posting date, the full job description and the employer's own apply link. It is built for recruiters, job boards, salary analysts and sales teams who need Indeed listings in bulk instead of one browser tab at a time.

Type a keyword and a location - or paste an Indeed search URL - and scrape Indeed jobs into JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them straight from the Apify API. It works as a practical Indeed API alternative and Indeed jobs API for 22 Indeed country sites (indeed.com, uk.indeed.com, de.indeed.com, ca.indeed.com and more). Every row already carries the complete description, so there is no second "details" pass to pay for. The default 20-job run finished in about 9 seconds.

It reads only job data that Indeed serves publicly to any visitor of its job search. It does not log in, does not touch resumes or candidate profiles, and has no recruiter, email or phone-number columns. If an employer pasted an email address, phone number, personal profile link or a contact person's name into the posting text, it is replaced with [email removed], [phone removed], [profile link removed], [name removed] or [contact removed] before the row is saved, in both description and descriptionHtml.

Use cases for this Indeed scraper

• Recruiting or staffing agency building a client pipeline. Pull every new nurse, warehouse or software opening in a metro area each morning with datePosted: "1" and onlyNewSinceLastRun: true (you get, and pay for, only the jobs you have not seen yet), newest first with sort: "date", and reach the hiring company first. companySize and companyIndustry tell you whether the account is worth a call.
• Compensation analyst tracking pay. salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod and salaryCurrency come as numbers, salaryYearlyMin / salaryYearlyMax put hourly and monthly pay on one yearly scale, and salaryIsEstimate separates the employer's own range from Indeed's estimate, so you can build hourly-rate and annual-band datasets per city, job type and country.
• Job board or aggregator seeding listings. Keep a feed fresh with title, company, logo, location, salary, job type, full description and a direct applyUrl to the employer's ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and others).
• Sales team finding companies that are hiring. A company posting ten SQL and Tableau roles is buying a data stack. Filter by tags, company and companyRevenue, then push the accounts into your CRM as hiring-intent signals.
• Labour-market research. Measure demand for a skill over time, or compare remote versus on-site volumes by state or country with workplaceType, state and country.
• AI agents and RAG pipelines. Every row is self-describing, the description is plain text, and the Actor can be called with no input at all.

What data you get from every Indeed job

One row per job posting. Every column below exists in the dataset schema; the Overview table view shows title, company, location, salaryText, jobTypes, workplaceType, postedAt, companyRating, url, applyUrl, status and error.

Row status and provenance

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Indeed job page (https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=..., or the matching country site). For not_found and error rows, the Indeed API request that failed; its f_q (keyword) and f_l (location) parameters name the search.
status	string	ok, not_found or error (see the table below).
error	string	Reason when status is not ok. Absent on ok rows.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 time of extraction.
searchQuery	string	Keyword of the search that found the job.
searchLocation	string	Location of that search.
searchUrl	string	The Indeed URL from your input that found the job, when you gave one.
source	string	Where Indeed got the job: the employer itself, its applicant-tracking system or another job board.

Job

Field	Type	Description
jobKey	string	Indeed's 16-character job key (the jk in job URLs). Stable for the life of the posting, so use it to deduplicate across runs.
title	string	Job title as published.
jobTypes	array	full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, internship, permanent, fixed-term, freelance or per-diem, when Indeed tags them.
experienceLevel	string	entry, mid or senior, when Indeed tags the job with an experience level.
remote	boolean	True when Indeed tags the job as remote.
workplaceType	string	remote or hybrid, when Indeed tags it.
workSchedule	string	Schedule text, e.g. Monday to Friday, when published.
tags	array	Skills, education, benefits and shift tags Indeed attached, e.g. SQL, 401(k) matching, Day shift.
applyUrl	string	The employer's own apply page (its careers site or ATS), when the job links one. Absent for Indeed-only "Easily apply" jobs.

Company

Field	Type	Description
company	string	Hiring company name.
companyRating	number	Company's overall Indeed review rating, 1 to 5.
companyReviewCount	integer	Number of Indeed company reviews behind that rating.
companyUrl	string	Company page on Indeed.
companyLogo	string	Company logo image URL.
companyWebsite	string	Company's own website or careers page.
companyIndustry	string	Industry, e.g. Retail, Healthcare.
companySize	string	Employee band as Indeed shows it, e.g. 10,000+.
companyRevenue	string	Revenue band as Indeed shows it, e.g. $1B to $5B (USD).
companyDescription	string	Short company description from its Indeed profile.

Location

Field	Type	Description
location	string	Location as Indeed formats it, e.g. Virginia Beach, VA 23462.
city	string	City.
state	string	State or region code, e.g. NY.
postalCode	string	Postal code, when published.
streetAddress	string	Street address of the workplace, when the employer published one.
country	string	ISO country code of the job, e.g. US, GB, DE.
countryName	string	Country name.

Pay

Field	Type	Description
salaryText	string	The pay range as one readable string, e.g. USD 61,000 - 97,000 per year.
salaryMin	number	Lowest pay of the range.
salaryMax	number	Highest pay of the range (equal to salaryMin for a single figure).
salaryPeriod	string	hour, day, week, month or year.
salaryCurrency	string	ISO 4217 currency code, e.g. USD, GBP, EUR.
salaryIsEstimate	boolean	false when the employer published the pay, true when it is Indeed's own estimate.
salaryYearlyMin	number	salaryMin as a yearly amount (hour x 2,080, day x 260, week x 52, month x 12), for comparing pay across periods.
salaryYearlyMax	number	salaryMax as a yearly amount.

Dates

Field	Type	Description
postedAt	string	ISO 8601 time the job was published.
postedDaysAgo	integer	Whole days between postedAt and the run.
firstSeenAt	string	ISO 8601 time the job first appeared on Indeed (can be later than postedAt for jobs Indeed picked up from another site).

Posting text

Field	Type	Description
snippet	string	The first ~300 characters of the description, for previews.
description	string	The full description as plain text with line breaks, contact details removed. On every ok row.
descriptionHtml	string	The full description as HTML, contact details removed. Only with Include description HTML on.

A field is simply omitted when Indeed does not publish it. That is honest, not a guess. In the default run all 20 jobs had a description, city and posting date, 18 had a salary, 13 a company rating and 3 an industry; the share varies by country and search (German postings, for example, carry a salary much less often).

Result status (tri-state output)

status	Meaning	Billed?
ok	The job was found and extracted.	Yes
not_found	Indeed answered, but the search has no matches or the job key no longer exists.	No
error	Indeed could not be read after retries (network error, block, or a change on Indeed's side). error says why.	No

How to scrape Indeed with this Actor

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and click Try for free.
2. Type one or more Keywords (one search per line), a Location and pick the Country (Indeed site). Or paste Indeed search URLs from your browser into Indeed URLs - they keep their own keyword, location and filters.
3. Optionally set Date posted, Job type and Remote / hybrid.
4. Set Maximum jobs (start with the default 20 to see the output).
5. Click Start. The default input takes about 10 seconds; 1,000 jobs take about a minute.
6. Open the Output tab or Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

To automate it, use the API tab (Node.js, Python, curl examples) or add a Schedule.

Input

Every field is optional - the prefilled values already produce a complete run. See the Input tab for the full schema.

Field	Type	Default	When to change it
keywords	array of strings	["software engineer"]	The job titles or skills you want, one search per line, e.g. registered nurse, forklift driver. When you give your own Indeed URLs, the example keyword software engineer is skipped.
location	string	empty (prefilled New York, NY in Console)	City, state, region or postcode as you would type it on Indeed (London, Berlin, Texas, Remote). Empty searches the whole country.
country	string	us	The Indeed site: us, uk, ca, au, de, fr, in, nl, ie, es, it, ch, at, be, pl, mx, br, sg, nz, ae, za, jp. The location must be in that country.
radius	integer	25	Distance around the location, 0 to 100: miles on the US and UK sites, kilometres elsewhere.
datePosted	string	any	1, 3, 7 or 14 days. Use 1 on a daily schedule so you only pay for fresh postings.
jobType	string	any	fulltime, parttime, contract, temporary, internship or permanent.
remote	string	any	remote or hybrid for jobs Indeed tags that way.
experienceLevel	string	any	entry, mid or senior: only jobs Indeed tags with that level. Many postings carry no level and are then skipped.
salaryMin	integer	empty	Minimum yearly pay in the site's currency (USD, GBP, EUR...). Hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay is converted to a year; the top of the range counts, Indeed's estimate counts too, and jobs without any salary are skipped. A salary search reads about 3 x its share of maxItems (at least 100 jobs) to find matches.
excludeAgencies	boolean	false	Turn on to skip jobs posted by staffing, temp and recruitment agencies and keep direct employers only. Skipped jobs are free and counted in the run's status message. How agencies are detected: see the FAQ.
sort	string	relevance	date returns the newest jobs first. Indeed's API ignores a date sort, so the Actor reads a pool of 3 x each search's share of maxItems (100 to 1,000 jobs) in relevance order and returns the newest of them. Combine with datePosted for "the newest jobs of the last N days".
maxItems	integer	20	Your main spending cap. With several keywords or URLs it is split evenly between them.
includeDescriptionHtml	boolean	false	Turn on to also get descriptionHtml. The plain-text description is always included.
dedupeAcrossSearches	boolean	true	A job that an earlier keyword or URL of the same run already returned is skipped (free) instead of saved twice.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	For schedules: return and bill only jobs no earlier run with this option delivered. The job keys are kept in a named key-value store on your account (seenJobsStoreName, default indeed-jobs-seen). The first run returns everything.
seenJobsStoreName	string	indeed-jobs-seen	Give each monitor its own name when two schedules must not share their memory.
startUrls	array of strings	one example search URL	Indeed search URLs (https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=nurse&l=Chicago, also uk.indeed.com, de.indeed.com and the other sites), job URLs (https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=...) or bare 16-character job keys. A job URL or key fetches exactly that posting; one that no longer exists gives a free not_found row. A search URL needs a q or l parameter; a malformed job key or any other page (home page, company page) gives one free error row and is never turned into a search. Results come in Indeed's relevance order; a sort=date parameter in a URL works like sort: "date", and sc=0kf:explvl(SENIOR_LEVEL); like experienceLevel. When you type your own keywords, the built-in example URL is skipped.

There is no proxy field: the Actor always uses an Apify residential proxy in the country of the Indeed site you search. It is included in the price.

Example input (exactly the prefilled default):

{
    "keywords": ["software engineer"],
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 20,
    "startUrls": ["https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=data+analyst&l=Remote"]
}

A daily monitor of senior, well-paid openings, newest first, only the ones not delivered before:

{
    "keywords": ["registered nurse", "nurse practitioner"],
    "location": "Chicago, IL",
    "datePosted": "1",
    "experienceLevel": "senior",
    "salaryMin": 90000,
    "sort": "date",
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "seenJobsStoreName": "chicago-nurse-monitor",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "startUrls": []
}

A daily UK feed of fresh remote contract roles:

{
    "keywords": ["data engineer", "python developer"],
    "location": "London",
    "country": "uk",
    "datePosted": "1",
    "jobType": "contract",
    "maxItems": 500,
    "startUrls": []
}

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel. A real row from the default run (2026-10-16; description and tags shortened here), followed by what a search without matches returns:

[
    {
        "url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=91179c3a512855a5",
        "status": "ok",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T14:59:00.013Z",
        "jobKey": "91179c3a512855a5",
        "title": "Lead Healthcare Data Analyst Remote",
        "company": "Sentara",
        "companyRating": 3.7,
        "companyReviewCount": 3152,
        "companyUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Sentara-9",
        "companyLogo": "https://d2q79iu7y748jz.cloudfront.net/s/_squarelogo/256x256/92d0cb2bc67aac490daa4b1c29bf7cb3",
        "companyWebsite": "https://www.sentaracareers.com",
        "companySize": "10,000+",
        "companyRevenue": "$1B to $5B (USD)",
        "companyDescription": "Sentara is focused on living its mission – to improve health every day.",
        "location": "Virginia Beach, VA 23462",
        "city": "Virginia Beach",
        "state": "VA",
        "postalCode": "23462",
        "streetAddress": "350 Centre Pointe Dr",
        "country": "US",
        "countryName": "United States",
        "salaryText": "USD 122,408 - 179,649.59 per year",
        "salaryMin": 122408,
        "salaryMax": 179649.59375,
        "salaryPeriod": "year",
        "salaryCurrency": "USD",
        "salaryIsEstimate": false,
        "jobTypes": ["full-time"],
        "remote": true,
        "workplaceType": "remote",
        "tags": ["SQL", "Tableau", "Statistics", "Bachelor's degree", "401(k) matching", "Paid parental leave", "Day shift"],
        "postedAt": "2026-10-14T05:00:00.000Z",
        "postedDaysAgo": 2,
        "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-14T15:07:55.391Z",
        "snippet": "City/State Virginia Beach, VA Work Shift First (Days) Overview: Sentara is hiring for a Lead Healthcare Data Analyst! Overview The Healthcare Data Analyst Lead provides data analysis support to the customer by assisting with the development of reports and/or dashboards to monitor program and...",
        "description": "City/State\nVirginia Beach, VA\n\nWork Shift\nFirst (Days)\n\nOverview:\n\nSentara is hiring for a Lead Healthcare Data Analyst! ...",
        "applyUrl": "https://sentara.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/SCS/job/Sentara-Centre-Pointe/Lead-Healthcare-Data-Analyst-Remote_JR-107759-1",
        "source": "Sentara Health",
        "searchQuery": "data analyst",
        "searchLocation": "Remote",
        "searchUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=data+analyst&l=Remote"
    },
    {
        "url": "https://apis.indeed.com/graphql?f_kind=search&f_co=US&f_q=zzqxwv+plorbnik&f_l=Chicago%2C+IL&f_s=RELEVANCE&f_max=5&f_i=0&f_p=0&f_n=0",
        "status": "not_found",
        "error": "No results for this page",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T14:59:01.120Z"
    }
]

How much does it cost to scrape Indeed?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The residential proxy and the platform compute are included:

Event	Price	Charged when
Actor start	$0.005 per run	Once when the run starts. The platform charges one event per GB of memory and the Actor runs on 1 GB, so this is one event.
Job	$0.0025 per job ($2.50 per 1,000; $2.00 on the Business plan)	One job with status: ok was saved to the dataset, full description included.

1,000 Indeed jobs cost about $2.505 ($0.005 to start plus 1,000 x $0.0025). There is no extra charge for descriptions, company data or the HTML option. You are never charged for a row with status not_found or error. Overlapping searches (say nurse and registered nurse in the same city) often find the same job; it is saved and billed once per run (turn dedupeAcrossSearches off to get one row per search), and with onlyNewSinceLastRun a job is billed once across all your scheduled runs. Jobs removed by salaryMin, experienceLevel, excludeAgencies, the duplicate check or onlyNewSinceLastRun are never billed. The free Apify plan's $5 of monthly credit covers tens of thousands of jobs.

You can cap spending per run with Maximum jobs and with the run's Max total charge option; the Actor stops gracefully when either limit is reached and keeps everything it has already saved.

How it compares

This Actor reads the same job-search API that Indeed's own mobile app uses, which is why one request returns up to 100 jobs with full descriptions, and why runs take seconds instead of the minutes a browser-based Indeed scraper needs. Indeed's website shows a security check to automated page requests; the app API does not need a browser at all. If you want flat, typed columns (numbers for pay, ISO dates, booleans for remote), company firmographics on every row and a tri-state status you can trust inside an automated pipeline, this is a good fit.

It is not for you if you need resumes, candidate profiles or anything inside an Indeed account; employer contact names, emails or phone numbers (this Actor removes them on purpose); a vendor-backed feed with a stability guarantee; or one Actor that also covers other job boards (see Related Actors below).

Integrations, exports and API access

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML and HTML from the Output tab or the dataset API. From there, Apify integrations and webhooks push the same rows into Google Sheets, Airtable or a CRM, plus Slack, Amazon S3 or your own endpoint - directly, or through Zapier, Make and n8n. Add a Schedule with datePosted: "1" and today's new postings land in your sheet every morning.

The Actor can also be called from the Apify API (Node.js, Python and curl snippets are on the API tab), from the Apify MCP server, or by any AI agent that can call a tool: the inputs are plain strings and numbers, and every row carries status and error, so an agent can tell an empty search apart from a failure without parsing prose.

Tips

• Keep maxItems small while testing, then raise it.
• Put several keywords in one run instead of many single-keyword runs; you pay the start fee once. maxItems is split evenly across them.
• To cover a large market, split it into narrower searches (per city, per keyword, per job type) rather than one very deep search.
• On a schedule, turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun instead of deduplicating on jobKey yourself.
• When a filtered search returns fewer rows than you asked for, the log says so: loosen salaryMin / experienceLevel, add datePosted, or raise maxItems to let it read further.
• With Date posted plus Job type or Remote / hybrid together, Indeed filters by date and the Actor checks the job type itself, so such a run may read a few more pages to fill maxItems. That costs you nothing extra: only saved jobs are billed.

Limitations

• Undocumented data source. The Actor reads the public API of Indeed's mobile app, the same one its iPhone app calls. Indeed can change it at any time; when that happens rows come back as error (never silently wrong data) and the Actor is updated. Report it in the Issues tab.
• Country coverage. All 22 Indeed sites in the Country list use the same API. The US, UK and German sites are tested on every release; for the others, check the first rows of a small run.
• Depth per search. One search returns at most 2,000 jobs (20 pages of 100). Indeed itself rarely shows more than about 1,000 results for one query, so split large markets into narrower searches.
• Newest-first is sorted by the Actor. Indeed's app API accepts a date sort but does not apply it (tested 2026-10-16), so sort: "date" returns the newest jobs of a pool read in relevance order (3 x each search's share of maxItems, 100 to 1,000 jobs), not of every job on Indeed. With datePosted the pool covers only recent jobs. Rows of a sorted search are saved together when its pool is complete.
• Filters read a limited number of jobs. salaryMin, excludeAgencies and onlyNewSinceLastRun are checked by the Actor, which reads about 3 x each search's share of maxItems (at least 100 jobs, at most 2,000) before it stops; a rare match beyond that is not found.
• Salary is optional on Indeed. Many postings carry no pay, and some carry only Indeed's estimate (salaryIsEstimate: true). Coverage is high in the US and UK and low in Germany.
• Company fields depend on the company's Indeed profile. Small employers often have no rating, size, revenue or industry.
• No login and no personal data. Postings behind an Indeed account, resumes, candidate profiles and recruiter contact details are out of scope by design.
• Results reflect what Indeed published at the time of the run.

FAQ

Does this Actor need an Indeed account, an API key or my own proxy? No. You only need an Apify account. There is no login step, the Actor sends the public key that Indeed's mobile app ships to every user, and the residential proxy is set up and paid for by the Actor.

Does it get the full job description? Yes, on every ok row, as plain text in description. Turn on Include description HTML if you also want the original formatting in descriptionHtml.

Which countries does it support? 22 Indeed sites: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, India, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Japan. Pick one with country, or paste a search URL from that site.

How do I get more results? Raise maxItems first. Past about 1,000 jobs per search, split the market into several narrower searches (per city, per keyword, per job type) and run them together.

What happens if Indeed changes something? Rows come back with status: error and a reason instead of silently wrong data, so your pipeline can alert on it. You are not billed for error rows. Report it in the Issues tab with the run ID.

Is it legal to scrape Indeed? Scraping publicly available data is generally legal, but you are responsible for how you use the output. Read the legal notice below and Indeed's terms of service, and do not collect personal data without a legitimate reason.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxItems? The search had fewer matches, your filters (salaryMin, experienceLevel, excludeAgencies, onlyNewSinceLastRun, duplicates) removed jobs, or the run hit your Max total charge limit. The run log's "Filters:" line counts what was skipped. When filters removed everything, the run still succeeds with one free not_found row.

How does excludeAgencies recognise an agency? Indeed's data has no agency flag, so the Actor checks three things on every job and skips it when any one matches: the company's industry on Indeed is staffing or recruiting; the company name contains an agency word (Staffing, Recruitment, Recruiting, Personnel, Talent, Placement, Employment Services, Workforce Solutions, a trailing "HR" as in "Talent Spark HR", Employment Agency, Personaldienstleistungen, Zeitarbeit...) or is one of the large agencies (Robert Half, Randstad, Adecco, ManpowerGroup, Aerotek, Insight Global, TEKsystems, Hays, Michael Page, Kforce, AMN Healthcare and others); or the description says so ("Our client is...", "on behalf of our client", "we are a staffing agency", "acting as an employment agency", "Personaldienstleister", "Arbeitnehmerüberlassung", "für unseren Kunden suchen wir", "cabinet de recrutement"). Phrases after a negation ("no agencies", "keine Zeitarbeit") do not count. It is a heuristic: a small agency that never says it is one can slip through, and the option is off by default.

Can I use this Actor from an AI agent or MCP client? Yes. It runs with no input at all, every row is self-describing (status plus error), inputs are plain strings, and results can be fetched via the dataset API or the Apify MCP server.

Related Actors

• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper - use it for the same searches on LinkedIn, with seniority and applicant counts.
• ATS Jobs Scraper - use it to read every opening straight from a company's own applicant-tracking system.
• Dice Jobs Scraper - use it for US tech roles with skills and a visa-sponsorship flag.
• Seek Jobs Scraper - use it for Australia and New Zealand, where Seek is the leading board.
• XING Jobs Scraper - use it for Germany, Austria and Switzerland beyond what Indeed lists.
• JobStreet Scraper - use it for Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia).
• Remote Jobs Scraper - use it for remote roles from seven remote-only job boards, merged and deduplicated.
• Workable Jobs Scraper - use it for roles hosted on company Workable career pages.
• Welcome to the Jungle Jobs - use it for startup and tech roles in France and Europe.
• Glassdoor Scraper - use it for Glassdoor job listings with company ratings and salary estimates.
• Google Jobs Scraper - use it to collect job postings that Google aggregates from many job boards in one search.

Legal and data-protection notice

This Actor extracts only data that Indeed publishes publicly; it does not extract private user data such as recruiter names, email addresses, phone numbers, gender or precise location of individuals (contact details found in free-text job descriptions are removed before the row is saved), and it does not log in or work around access controls. However, your results could still contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you are unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You are responsible for complying with Indeed's terms of service and applicable law when using the extracted data.

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Indeed, Inc. or its owners. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.