Wellfound Featured Lists with Funding and Curator Notes

Reads Wellfound's curated company lists and everything in them. The curator's own write-up of each company, total funding raised, social links, size, stage and open jobs today. No key and no login.

What is in a list that is nowhere else

Wellfound publishes about 200 featured lists. Each one holds five to twenty five companies that a person picked, in an order that person chose, with a paragraph they wrote about each.

That paragraph is curatorComment and it exists on no other Wellfound page. So does totalRaisedUsd, the funding total, which the startup index does not carry.

You also get Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, blog and Product Hunt links where Wellfound has them.

These lists are historical

A list from 2022 still says 2022. The companies in it are read today, so openJobs and activelyHiring are current while the curation is not. On an older list most companies have stopped hiring, and openJobs comes back zero.

Zero means zero. Empty means Wellfound published no count. Set hiringOnly to keep only the companies hiring right now, and the run summary says how many that dropped.

A list name it does not know

Ask for a list that does not exist and Wellfound answers with HTTP 200, the page furniture, and nothing where the list should be. Every detail page also carries a strip of four other lists at the bottom, so a tool reading the first list-shaped thing on the page finds four lists and looks like it worked.

This Actor reads the collection by the name you asked for, treats an empty one as missing rather than as empty, says so in the run summary, and charges you nothing for it.

Where the job count comes from

Wellfound puts the company's open job total in a different place on a list page than on the startup index. On a list page the count object holds only the split by role, and the total sits on the job list. openJobsFrom on every row says which of its own numbers answered.

Input

Field	What it does
listSlugs	List names or links. Leave empty to take them from the directory
maxLists	How many lists to read when you name none
maxResults	Upper bound for the whole run, across every list
hiringOnly	Keep only companies hiring today

Output

One row per company per list. A company in two lists gives you two rows, because the curator's comment is different.

RUN_SUMMARY in the key value store holds how many lists Wellfound publishes, which ones were read, how many companies each gave, and any name that does not exist.

Price

0.002 dollars per run and 0.003 dollars per company. Both are charged after the rows exist, so a run that finds nothing costs nothing.