# Y Combinator Jobs with Pay Bands, Equity and Visa Terms (`gubidonius/yc-jobs`) Actor

Every open job at Y Combinator companies, read company by company, with pay parsed into currency and period. The YC jobs pages ignore their own filters and cap at 50 with no total, so a landing page is a sample. Filter by batch, industry, region or role, or name the companies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gubidonius/yc-jobs.md
- **Developed by:** [Gregory Bolshakov](https://apify.com/gubidonius) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Y Combinator Jobs with Pay Bands, Equity and Visa Terms

Every open job at Y Combinator companies. Title, location, role, pay, equity, visa terms,
skills and the hiring manager, with the company beside them. No key and no login.

### The YC jobs pages are samples, not an index

Measured on 6 September 2026. `/jobs?role=design`, `/jobs?location=new-york` and
`/jobs?role=eng&location=india` all answer HTTP 200 with the same twenty jobs as `/jobs`. The
query string is accepted and ignored. The path forms do filter, and they are capped:
`/jobs/san-francisco`, `/jobs/new-york` and `/jobs/austin` each return exactly 50, and no page
publishes a total to compare against.

So this Actor does not read those pages at all. It picks companies from the directory and
opens each company's own jobs page, which is the only complete list YC publishes.

### The hiring flag is intent, not open roles

The directory marks 1,478 companies as hiring. On a 60-company sample of those, 4 had nothing
posted. On a 40-company sample without the flag, none had anything. So the flag is a good way
to save requests and is not proof of an open role, and the run summary counts the companies
that were marked and had nothing.

### The hiring manager is on the job page and nowhere else

The company jobs page carries no hiring manager at all: none on 205 postings sampled. The
job's own page carried one on 25 of 25, with a first and last name. So switching on the job
page option buys you the advert text, the interview process and a named contact, at one extra
request per job. No email or profile link is published anywhere on this surface.

### Pay is parsed, and nothing is annualised

`$119K - $252K` carries no currency code. `£50K - £80K GBP` does. So a code appears exactly
when the currency is not a dollar, and a bare dollar sign is not proof of US dollars.
`salaryCurrencyDeclared` tells you which of the two you are looking at.

`$6K - $9K / monthly` is a monthly band. Read as a yearly figure it understates the pay
twelvefold, so the period is its own column and no figure is converted. 118 of 205 sampled
postings published no pay at all.

`postedAgo` is "about 2 months", not a date. YC publishes no absolute posting date on this
surface, so the column keeps YC's own words rather than inventing a timestamp.

### What one row is

One job. `jobsOpenAtThisCompany` says how many the company had open, so a row tells you
whether it is one of one or one of nine. `RUN_SUMMARY` lists every company read, the jobs it
had, what was kept, and `complete` with `limitedBy`.

### Billing

Three events: a start fee charged only once jobs are returned, a per-job fee, and a separate
fee for opening a job's own page, charged only when you ask for it and only when the page
really returned something. A run that finds nothing costs nothing.

# Actor input Schema

## `companySlugs` (type: `array`):

Read the jobs of these companies and no others, by the slug at the end of their Y Combinator URL, for example airbnb or razorpay. When this is filled the directory search below is skipped entirely.

## `batches` (type: `array`):

Batch names exactly as Y Combinator writes them, for example Summer 2026. Not S26: a value the directory does not use returns zero companies, so every value is checked against the live list first and the run tells you the real spelling.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Top-level industries of the hiring company, for example B2B, Fintech, Healthcare.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Regions as YC groups the company, for example United States of America, Europe, South Asia. This is the company's region, not the job's location.

## `tags` (type: `array`):

Product tags on the company, for example Artificial Intelligence or Developer Tools.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

One or more of Active, Inactive, Acquired, Public. Leave empty for all four.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Words to search for in company names, taglines and descriptions. It searches companies, not job titles.

## `roleGroups` (type: `array`):

Keep only these role families, for example Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Operations. YC's own short codes such as eng also work. Filtered-out jobs are counted in the run summary and are never charged.

## `onlyCompaniesMarkedHiring` (type: `boolean`):

Restrict the company search to the 1,478 companies whose directory record says they are hiring. Measured on 6 September 2026: none of 40 companies without the flag had a posting, and 4 of 60 with it had nothing posted, so the flag saves a lot of requests and is not proof of an open role.

## `maxCompanies` (type: `integer`):

How many company job pages the run may open. One page is one request and yields about three and a half jobs, so this is the work budget.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on jobs for the WHOLE run. You are never charged for more than this.

## `openEachJobPage` (type: `boolean`):

Open each job's own page for the full advert text, the interview process and the HIRING MANAGER'S NAME. The company jobs page carries no hiring manager at all, on 205 postings sampled, and the job page carried one on 25 of 25. It is one extra request per job and is charged as its own event, so leave it off unless you want those three fields.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companySlugs": [],
  "batches": [
    "Summer 2026"
  ],
  "industries": [],
  "regions": [],
  "tags": [],
  "statuses": [],
  "query": "",
  "roleGroups": [],
  "onlyCompaniesMarkedHiring": true,
  "maxCompanies": 25,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "openEachJobPage": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companySlugs": [],
    "batches": [
        "Summer 2026"
    ],
    "industries": [],
    "regions": [],
    "tags": [],
    "statuses": [],
    "query": "",
    "roleGroups": [],
    "maxCompanies": 25,
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gubidonius/yc-jobs").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companySlugs": [],
    "batches": ["Summer 2026"],
    "industries": [],
    "regions": [],
    "tags": [],
    "statuses": [],
    "query": "",
    "roleGroups": [],
    "maxCompanies": 25,
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gubidonius/yc-jobs").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companySlugs": [],
  "batches": [
    "Summer 2026"
  ],
  "industries": [],
  "regions": [],
  "tags": [],
  "statuses": [],
  "query": "",
  "roleGroups": [],
  "maxCompanies": 25,
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call gubidonius/yc-jobs --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gubidonius/yc-jobs"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KnXY7oYacFIERm7ou/builds/0Oklz0gisf1mbIM0k/openapi.json