Remote Jobs Scraper — RemoteOK, WWR & Himalayas API | $0.50/1k

What does Remote Jobs Scraper do?

Remote Jobs Scraper collects remote job listings from seven remote job boards in one run and delivers them as one clean dataset (JSON, CSV or Excel): Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Himalayas, Jobicy, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow (remote jobs only) and, if you pick it, Remotive. Every row has the same fields whatever board it came from: title, company, where applicants may live, job type, seniority, categories and tags, salary when the board publishes one, posting date, plain-text description, and the link back to the listing on the board.

It works as a remote jobs API: the data comes from the public feeds and APIs these boards publish for reuse (the Remote OK API, the We Work Remotely RSS feeds, the Himalayas, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, Working Nomads and Remotive job APIs). No account, no login, no API key, no browser and no proxy. The same job posted on several boards is merged into one row, and the sources column tells you every board it is on.

Try it: leave the input as it is and click Start. You get the 50 newest remote jobs, balanced across the boards, in about 10 seconds. Raise Maximum jobs to 2,000 for a full sweep of more than 1,000 unique jobs.

Use cases for this remote job scraper

• Remote job boards and newsletters: fill your board, Slack channel or weekly email with fresh remote jobs from seven sources, deduplicated, with the attribution link each board asks for.
• Job seekers and career coaches: one filtered list for "python, Europe, posted this week, $100k+" instead of seven browser tabs.
• Recruiting and sales teams: see which companies are hiring remotely right now, in which roles and at what published salary.
• Market research: count remote jobs by category, region, job type and salary band across boards, week after week.
• AI agents and automations: a scheduled run with postedWithinDays: 1 is a clean "new remote jobs today" feed; every row carries status and error.

What data you get from every remote job

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Stable id <board>:<id on that board>, e.g. remoteok:1137434
title	string	Job title as the board publishes it
companyName	string	Hiring company
source	string	Board the row comes from: remoteok, weworkremotely, himalayas, jobicy, workingnomads, arbeitnow, remotive
sourceName	string	The board's name to credit, e.g. "Remote OK", "We Work Remotely"
sourceUrl	string	The listing on the board. Link back to it when you show the job
applyUrl	string	Where to apply, as the board publishes it (usually its own listing or apply link)
sources	array	Every board this job was found on (source first)
sourceUrls	array	Every listing of this job: one per board, plus reposts and per-country copies on one board
companyUrl	string	Employer website, when the board publishes it
companyLogo	string	Company logo image URL
remote	boolean	Always true
location	string	Location text as published, e.g. "USA Only", "Europe, USA", "Worldwide"
locationRestrictions	array	Countries or regions applicants must be in
timezoneRestrictions	array	Accepted UTC offsets (Himalayas), e.g. [-8, -7, -6, -5]
isWorldwide	boolean	true when the board says anyone, anywhere may apply
jobType	string	full_time, part_time, contract, freelance, internship or temporary
seniority	string	Seniority as published, e.g. "Senior", "Mid-level"
categories	array	Board categories, e.g. "Software Development", "Design"
tags	array	Skill and topic tags
salaryMin, salaryMax	number	Salary range, only when the board publishes one (never estimated)
salaryCurrency	string	ISO code, e.g. USD, EUR
salaryPeriod	string	year, month, week, day or hour
salaryText	string	Salary as published when it came as text (Remotive), e.g. "$90k - $105k"
postedAt	string	ISO 8601 time the job was posted
expiresAt	string	ISO 8601 time the listing expires, when stated
descriptionText	string	Full description as plain text; e-mail addresses and phone numbers removed
descriptionHtml	string	Description as HTML, only with includeDescriptionHtml
matchedKeywords	array	Which of your keywords the job matched (only when keywords are given)
matchedCategories	array	Which of your categories the job matched (only when categories are given)
status	string	ok, not_found or error (see below)
error	string	Reason when status is not ok
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 time the feed was read

Optional fields are left out when a board does not publish them. Measured on a 1,077-job run (2026-09-28): every row has a title, company, board link, posting date and description; 85% have a job type, 74% a location restriction and 92% a worldwide flag, and 30% a published salary.

Result status (tri-state output)

status	Meaning	Billed?
ok	A remote job.	Yes
not_found	A board answered, but none of its current jobs matched your filters. One row per board says how many jobs were read.	No
error	A board could not be read after retries (it was down or refused the request). The row names the board; the other boards are still collected.	No

A run whose filters match nothing ends successfully with its free not_found rows, so a narrow scheduled search that is empty today is not a failed run.

How to scrape remote jobs with this Actor

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and click Try for free.
2. Pick the Job boards to read (all but Remotive are on by default).
3. Optionally narrow the results: Keywords (python, react native), Categories or tags (design, devops), Where applicants may live (US, Europe, Germany, anywhere), Job types, Minimum yearly salary, Posted within the last N days.
4. Set Maximum jobs and click Start. Rows appear in the Output tab; export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

Input

Everything is optional. The default input reads every board except Remotive and returns the newest jobs, balanced across boards. Example: Python or Go jobs open to people in Europe, posted in the last 7 days, paying at least 90,000 a year:

{
    "keywords": ["python", "golang"],
    "locations": ["Europe"],
    "postedWithinDays": 7,
    "minSalary": 90000,
    "maxItems": 200
}

Field	What it does
sources	Boards to read: remoteok, weworkremotely, himalayas, jobicy, workingnomads, arbeitnow, remotive. Default: all but remotive.
keywords	Keep jobs mentioning any of these words or phrases in title, tags, categories, company or description (whole words).
categories	Keep jobs whose board category or tags match any of these.
locations	Keep jobs open to applicants in any of these places. A European country also matches jobs limited to Europe/EU/EMEA; anywhere keeps only worldwide jobs.
includeWorldwide	With locations set, also keep worldwide jobs (default true).
jobTypes	full_time, part_time, contract, freelance, internship, temporary.
minSalary, includeJobsWithoutSalary	Yearly salary floor over published salaries (hourly, weekly and monthly pay is converted; no currency conversion).
postedWithinDays	Only jobs posted in the last N days.
maxItems	Maximum rows (default 100; 50 in the Console form).
maxItemsPerSource	Optional cap per board.
dedupe	Merge the same job across boards (default true).
order	balanced (boards take turns, newest first within each) or newest (one list by date).
includeDescriptionHtml	Also save the description as HTML.
startUrls	Advanced: read only these public feed URLs, e.g. a We Work Remotely category feed or https://jobicy.com/api/v2/remote-jobs?geo=usa&industry=marketing.

Output

A real row from a platform run on 2026-09-28 (description and categories shortened). This job was on Himalayas and Arbeitnow, so it is one row with both boards in sources:

{
    "url": "https://himalayas.app/companies/paddy/jobs/ai-product-engineer",
    "status": "ok",
    "jobId": "himalayas:paddy/ai-product-engineer",
    "title": "AI Product Engineer",
    "companyName": "Paddy",
    "source": "himalayas",
    "sourceName": "Himalayas",
    "sourceUrl": "https://himalayas.app/companies/paddy/jobs/ai-product-engineer",
    "applyUrl": "https://himalayas.app/companies/paddy/jobs/ai-product-engineer",
    "sources": ["himalayas", "arbeitnow"],
    "sourceUrls": [
        "https://himalayas.app/companies/paddy/jobs/ai-product-engineer",
        "https://www.arbeitnow.com/jobs/companies/paddy/ai-product-engineer-bielefeld-8892"
    ],
    "companyLogo": "https://cdn-images.himalayas.app/4damiw2wrr34drmiv7udmudnpyv6",
    "remote": true,
    "location": "Germany",
    "locationRestrictions": ["Germany"],
    "timezoneRestrictions": [1],
    "isWorldwide": false,
    "jobType": "full_time",
    "seniority": "Mid-level",
    "categories": ["Data Science", "Developer", "AI Engineer", "Product Engineer"],
    "salaryMin": 70000,
    "salaryMax": 100000,
    "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod": "year",
    "postedAt": "2026-09-28T03:45:54.000Z",
    "expiresAt": "2026-11-27T03:45:53.000Z",
    "descriptionText": "Das ist kein gewöhnlicher Job. Wir arbeiten an dem, was unsere Gesellschaft zukunftsfähig macht: Bildung. Dafür bauen wir paddy, das Agentic Operating System für Teaching & Learning. ...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T19:19:31.548Z",
    "tags": ["Software Development"]
}

A board that is down adds one free row such as {"status": "error", "source": "jobicy", "error": "Jobicy could not be read: HTTP 503 after 3 attempts. The other boards were still collected; run again later for this board."} at the top, and the jobs from the other boards follow.

How much does it cost to scrape remote jobs?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Platform usage (compute, storage, data transfer) is included in these prices:

Event	Price	Charged when
Actor start	$0.005 per run	Once when the run starts (one event per GB of memory; the Actor runs on 1 GB).
Result	$0.0005 per job	One job with status: ok was saved to the dataset.

1,000 remote jobs cost about $0.51 ($0.005 to start plus 1,000 x $0.0005). A job found on several boards is one row and is billed once. Rows with status not_found or error are never billed, and jobs your filters leave out are never saved or billed. You can cap spending per run with Maximum jobs and with the run's Max total charge option; the Actor stops gracefully at either limit.

Speed and reliability (real cloud runs)

Run	Jobs	Run time	Board requests
Full sweep (maxItems: 2000), 2026-09-28	2,000 jobs (the cap; 2,678 read)	17 s	121 of 121 succeeded
6 repeated sweeps (25 Himalayas pages each), 2026-09-28	1,077-1,165 unique jobs per run	7-10 s	271 of 271 succeeded
Default input (maxItems: 50)	50 jobs	about 10 s	every board on the first try

All boards are read in parallel from Apify's regular datacenter servers; each request is retried up to 3 times. If a board is down, its error row says so and the run still delivers the other boards.

Sources and attribution

The data comes from the public feeds these boards publish for developers and partners. Each board asks for credit, so every row carries sourceName and sourceUrl: when you publish or display these jobs, link each one back to its sourceUrl and name the board.

Board	Feed used	What the board asks
Remote OK	remoteok.com/api (about 100 newest jobs)	Link back to the job on Remote OK (followed link) and mention Remote OK as the source. Do not use its logo.
We Work Remotely	Main RSS feed and its 11 category feeds (about 270 jobs)	Attribute the links back to We Work Remotely.
Himalayas	himalayas.app/jobs/api (20 jobs per page; up to 2,000 per run)	Visible link back to himalayas.app and mention Himalayas as the source. Data refreshes daily.
Jobicy	jobicy.com/api/v2/remote-jobs (200 newest jobs)	Credit Jobicy with a direct link; application buttons go to the Jobicy listing. Poll at most hourly.
Working Nomads	workingnomads.com/api/exposed_jobs/ (about 50 newest jobs)	Credit and link back to the listing.
Arbeitnow	arbeitnow.com/api/job-board-api (only jobs flagged remote are kept)	Link back to Arbeitnow.com; do not abuse the free API.
Remotive (opt-in)	remotive.com/api/remote-jobs (a few dozen jobs, 24 hours delayed)	Link back to the Remotive URL and mention Remotive; at most 4 calls a day; do not submit its jobs to Jooble, Neuvoo, Google Jobs or LinkedIn Jobs.

Integrations, exports and API access

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML and HTML from the Output tab or the dataset API. Apify integrations and webhooks push the same rows into Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion or a CRM, Slack, Amazon S3 or your own endpoint, directly or through Zapier, Make and n8n. Call the Actor from the Apify API (snippets on the API tab), from the Apify MCP server or from any AI agent: every input is optional, and every row carries status and error.

Tips

• Schedule it daily with postedWithinDays: 1 for a feed of new remote jobs. Jobicy asks integrations not to poll more than once an hour, and the boards update a few times a day, so there is no gain in running more often.
• Use order: "newest" when you want the freshest jobs first regardless of board, and maxItemsPerSource to stop one board from dominating.
• Keywords are matched on whole words, so go does not match "good"; use golang for the language.
• Paste a filtered feed into Feed URLs when a board's own filter is exactly what you need, e.g. https://jobicy.com/api/v2/remote-jobs?geo=canada&industry=marketing.

Limitations

• Each board exposes only its current public feed. Remote OK's API lists its ~100 newest jobs, We Work Remotely's feeds ~270, Jobicy's 200, Working Nomads' ~50, Remotive's a few dozen (24 hours delayed). Himalayas pages deeper (up to 2,000 jobs per run). There is no history of closed jobs.
• Filters run inside the Actor on what the feeds return, so a narrow keyword finds the matching jobs among the current listings, not an archive search.
• Dedupe is by company and title. The same job with a clearly different title on two boards stays two rows; openings with the same title at the same company within 7 days become one row (per-country copies of one job add up in locationRestrictions; every listing stays in sourceUrls). Set dedupe: false to keep every listing as its own row.
• Salaries are only what boards publish (about 30% of jobs). No estimates and no currency conversion.
• Location data varies by board. Himalayas and Jobicy state eligible countries; Remote OK and Arbeitnow often give an office city; some jobs state nothing.
• Descriptions are the employer's own text. E-mail addresses and phone numbers are removed, but a description may still mention a person by name.

FAQ

Is this a Remote OK, We Work Remotely or Himalayas product? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public feeds these boards publish for reuse. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.

How many jobs can I get? A run with maxItems: 2000 returned 2,000 remote jobs in 17 seconds on 2026-09-28. The fixed-size feeds (Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Jobicy, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow) add up to about 680 jobs; Himalayas pages deeper and supplies the rest, up to 2,000 per run.

Why is Remotive off by default? Remotive asks API users to call it at most 4 times a day, shows only a few dozen jobs and delays them by 24 hours. Pick it in Job boards when you need it and schedule accordingly.

What happens when a board is down? You get one free error row naming the board and the jobs from every other board. The run only fails when no board could be read at all.

Do I need a proxy? No. The boards publish these feeds for reuse and answer Apify's regular servers.

Can I get recruiter names or e-mail addresses? No. The feeds do not publish them, and contact details inside descriptions are removed.

Legal and data-protection notice

This Actor reads only public job feeds that the boards publish for reuse; it does not log in, does not work around access controls and does not extract private user data such as member profiles, recruiter names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers (e-mail addresses and phone numbers found in free-text job descriptions are removed before a row is saved). 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 following each board's terms, including its attribution requirements listed above, and applicable law when you use or republish the data.

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Himalayas, Jobicy, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow or Remotive. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.