Wellfound Jobs Scraper — Startup Jobs, Salaries & Hiring Leads

🤖 What does Wellfound Jobs Scraper do?

Wellfound Jobs Scraper extracts public startup job listings from Wellfound for recruiting, hiring-market research, job-board enrichment, and lead generation. It returns structured job data such as titles, companies, company metadata, locations, remote options, compensation, equity, role category, posting date, job URLs, company URLs, and descriptions.

Use it to monitor startup hiring from Wellfound location pages, compare compensation signals, or build repeatable job-data feeds from Wellfound.

Great for: recruiters, sourcing teams, job boards, talent intelligence, market researchers, founders, and sales teams tracking startup hiring activity.

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💡 Why scrape Wellfound jobs?

• 📈 Track startup hiring trends — monitor jobs for a Wellfound location URL slug such as remote, san-francisco, or new-york.
• 🎯 Build hiring lead lists — find startups actively recruiting in a chosen location.
• 💰 Compare compensation signals — collect salary and equity ranges when listings include them.
• 🌍 Map remote availability — capture location and remote-location signals for distributed hiring research.
• 🧾 Power repeatable reports — schedule runs and download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or Parquet from the Apify Dataset.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Add the actor – Open Wellfound Jobs Scraper in Apify Store.
2. Set location – Use the location slug from a Wellfound URL, such as remote, san-francisco, or new-york.
3. Set maxItems – Choose how many job listings to return.
4. Run the actor – Click Run or trigger it from the Apify API, scheduler, or integrations.
5. Download results – Export the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or Parquet.

💳 Pricing

Apify's Free plan includes monthly credits that are useful for small tests and occasional monitoring. For larger startup-job workflows, use a paid Apify plan with higher limits and scheduled runs.

📝 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
location	String	Yes	Wellfound location URL slug, such as remote, san-francisco, new-york, los-angeles, austin, seattle, boston, chicago, denver, or district-of-columbia. Default: remote.
maxItems	Integer	Yes	Maximum number of jobs to return. Minimum 1, maximum 1000, default 50.

To find the correct location, open https://wellfound.com/jobs, choose a location, and copy the slug from the resulting URL path. For example, /location/san-francisco means location should be san-francisco, and /remote means location should be remote. The actor lowercases the value and converts spaces to hyphens, so San Francisco becomes san-francisco.

Monitor remote startup jobs

{
  "location": "remote",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Collect startup jobs in San Francisco

{
  "location": "san-francisco",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Use a copied Wellfound URL slug

{
  "location": "new-york",
  "maxItems": 75
}

📊 Output / Results

Each Dataset item is one Wellfound job listing. Fields appear when Wellfound provides them for that listing.

Field reference:

• id (string) — Wellfound job ID.
• slug (string) — Job slug used in the Wellfound listing URL.
• title (string) — Job title.
• companyId (string) — Wellfound company ID.
• companyName (string) — Hiring company name.
• companySlug (string) — Company slug used on Wellfound.
• companyUrl (string) — Wellfound company profile URL.
• companyLogoUrl (string) — Company logo URL when available.
• companyDescription (string) — Short company description or high concept when available.
• companySize (string) — Company size bucket when available.
• companyBadges (array) — Badge objects with id, name, label, and tooltip when available.
• location (string) — Primary location label.
• locations (array) — All listed job locations.
• remoteLocations (array) — Accepted remote locations when available.
• remote (string) — Remote-work signal when available.
• remoteKind (string) — Remote configuration kind, such as remote or onsite, when available.
• wfhFlexible (boolean) — Whether the listing is marked work-from-home flexible when available.
• compensation (string) — Salary or compensation range when listed.
• equity (string) — Equity range when listed.
• role (string) — Role category or primary role label.
• roleSlug (string) — Role slug used by Wellfound when available.
• jobType (string) — Job type, such as full-time or contract, when available.
• autoPosted (boolean) — Whether the listing is marked as automatically posted when available.
• atsSource (string) — ATS source signal when available.
• yearsExperienceMin (number) — Minimum years of experience when available.
• yearsExperienceMax (number) — Maximum years of experience when available.
• isBookmarked (boolean) — Bookmark state from the public page payload when available.
• postedAt (string) — Posting timestamp in ISO format.
• postedAtIso (string) — Posting timestamp in ISO format.
• jobUrl (string) — Wellfound job listing URL.
• descriptionText (string) — Plain-text job description or summary.

Example output

{
  "id": "4342678",
  "slug": "software-engineer",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "companyId": "9461632",
  "companyName": "Ataraxis AI",
  "companySlug": "ataraxis-ai",
  "companyUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/ataraxis-ai",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://photos.wellfound.com/startups/i/123456-medium_jpg.jpg",
  "companyDescription": "AI diagnostics for modern clinical teams",
  "companySize": "SIZE_11_50",
  "companyBadges": [
    {
      "id": "ACTIVELY_HIRING",
      "name": "ACTIVELY_HIRING_BADGE",
      "label": "Actively Hiring",
      "tooltip": "Actively processing applications"
    }
  ],
  "location": "New York City",
  "locations": ["New York City"],
  "remoteLocations": ["United States"],
  "remote": "remote",
  "remoteKind": "remote",
  "wfhFlexible": false,
  "compensation": "$140k – $190k",
  "equity": "0.05% – 0.15%",
  "role": "Software Engineer",
  "roleSlug": "developer",
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "autoPosted": false,
  "atsSource": "greenhouse",
  "yearsExperienceMin": 3,
  "yearsExperienceMax": 7,
  "isBookmarked": false,
  "postedAt": "2026-05-20T14:24:18Z",
  "postedAtIso": "2026-05-20T14:24:18Z",
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/ataraxis-ai/jobs/software-engineer",
  "descriptionText": "Build production systems for an AI healthcare startup working with clinical data and modern infrastructure."
}

🧭 Tips / Common Recipes

• Remote job monitoring: use location="remote".
• City-specific hiring: use URL slugs such as san-francisco, new-york, los-angeles, austin, or seattle.
• Recurring market snapshot: schedule the actor daily or weekly with the same location and maxItems settings.

⚙️ Best Practices

• Start with maxItems between 25 and 100 for exploratory runs, then increase once your filters are tuned.
• Use the location slug from the Wellfound URL after choosing a location at https://wellfound.com/jobs.
• Some listings do not include salary, equity, remote rules, or long descriptions. The actor returns those fields when they are available.
• Keep the same input settings across scheduled runs so changes in output reflect hiring movement rather than filter changes.

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Considerations

• Respect Wellfound's Terms of Service, robots policies, and applicable usage rules.
• Use scraped job data responsibly and avoid excessive or abusive request patterns.
• Handle personal data and company data in line with privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA where applicable.
• If you publish analysis or republish job listings, keep attribution and source-linking practices in mind.
• This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wellfound. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

❓ FAQ

Can I filter by role? No. This actor currently uses the location pages that are known to work reliably.

Can I use plain text instead of slugs? The actor lowercases the value and converts spaces to hyphens, but the intended input is the URL slug from Wellfound. For example, San Francisco becomes san-francisco.

Do all listings include compensation and equity? No. Wellfound listings vary. The actor returns compensation and equity when they are available on the listing.

Can I export results to CSV or Excel? Yes. Open the run Dataset in Apify and choose JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or Parquet.

🛟 Support

Need a custom field, workflow, or export format? Open an issue or contact me at https://igolaizola.com/#contact I can adapt the scraper to your recruiting, job-board, or market-intelligence workflow.