Indeed Jobs Scraper

A lightweight, reliable, and cost-effective Apify Actor designed to scrape Indeed job listings. It leverages plain HTTP requests via got-scraping (avoiding expensive browser overhead) combined with smart proxy rotation and session-based retries to bypass Cloudflare's IP-reputation blocking.

It is a sibling of the LinkedIn Jobs Scraper and is optimized for the recruiters, lead-gen, and job-boards markets.

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Features

• Cheapest & Browserless: Uses plain HTML and SSR JSON parsing (got-scraping + cheerio) rather than full headless browsers, resulting in minimal CPU/memory usage and low costs.
• Structured Salary Parse: Extracts and splits salary information into structured fields (salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryType) instead of just returning raw strings.
• Optional Full Descriptions: Scrapes full job description texts dynamically if toggled, letting you save budget for list-only runs.
• Robust Anti-Bot Bypass: Utilizes Apify's residential proxy pool with session rotation and automatic country-fallback.

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⚠️ Important Note on Speed & Reliability

Indeed sits behind strict Cloudflare edge protection that blocks requests based on IP reputation (rather than interactive JS challenges).

• Apify's residential proxies have varying success rates per request (~25% in the US, ~38% in the UK).
• To bypass this, this actor implements a capped retry budget (6 attempts per page) using a fresh proxy session for each attempt.
• Throughput Caveat: While blocked 403 response bodies are tiny (consuming virtually no bandwidth cost), runs will be slower due to these retries, and extreme proxy pressure might occasionally cause a page to fail or return partial results. Please factor this into your pricing and run expectations.

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Input Parameters

The Actor accepts the following input parameters:

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	-	Job title, keywords, or company name to search for (e.g. software engineer).
location	string	No	-	City, state, zip code, or country to search within (e.g. Austin, TX).
country	string	No	US	Indeed country/TLD and proxy target. Options: US, GB, CA, FR, DE.
radius	integer	No	25	Distance from location in miles.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of job postings to scrape.
parseFullDescription	boolean	No	false	If enabled, fetches and parses the full job description from the detail page for every job.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Residential	Custom proxy settings. Residential proxies are highly recommended.

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Output Data Structure

Each scraped job posting is pushed to the dataset with the following structure:

{
    "jobKey": "4c383cb69d814797",
    "title": "Software Engineer",
    "company": "Deloitte",
    "companyRating": 3.9,
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "isRemote": false,
    "salaryRaw": "$113,100 - $208,300 a year",
    "salaryMin": 113100,
    "salaryMax": 208300,
    "salaryType": "YEARLY",
    "jobTypes": ["Full-time", "Contract"],
    "postedAt": 1780407288556,
    "relativeDate": "22 days ago",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Collaborate with developers and product managers to design cyber security systems...",
    "descriptionFull": "Full description text if parseFullDescription is toggled...",
    "url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4c383cb69d814797",
    "applyUrl": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4c383cb69d814797",
    "searchQuery": "software engineer",
    "searchLocation": "Austin, TX",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-25T14:45:00.000Z"
}

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Billed Events (Pay-Per-Event Model)

This actor is billed using the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) model:

• actor-start: Charged once at the start of every run.
• job-scraped: Charged per job record successfully outputted to the dataset.