Built In Chicago Scraper

What does Built In Chicago Scraper do?

Built In Chicago Scraper helps you search and extract structured job posting data from builtinchicago.org, the Chicago tech hub of the Built In network covering startups, scale-ups, and enterprise tech companies hiring in the Chicago area.

You can extract job details such as titles, descriptions, posting dates, expiration dates, locations (including geo-coordinates), salary ranges, employment types, application URLs, hiring organization profiles, industries, benefits, and education requirements. Built In Chicago Scraper supports a REST API which gives you access to the extracted dataset, enables you to download it in various formats, and use it in other applications.

It allows you to search and extract Chicago tech and startup job listings from Built In Chicago, a popular career platform for software, data, product, and tech-adjacent roles. Built In job pages expose detailed structured data including company profiles, location and salary information, and tech taxonomies that can power hiring intelligence, talent analytics, and recruitment tools.

What data can I extract from Built In Chicago with a web scraper?

With this web scraping tool, you can extract the following data from builtinchicago.org:

💼 Job titles	📝 Full descriptions
📅 Posting dates	⏳ Expiration dates
📍 Job locations	🗺️ Geo-coordinates
💰 Salary ranges	🕒 Employment types
🔗 Application URLs	🏢 Hiring organizations
🖼️ Company logos	🌐 Company profile URLs
📊 Industries	🎁 Benefits
🎓 Education requirements	🆔 Job IDs

Why scrape Built In Chicago?

Built In Chicago is a key destination for Chicago-area tech hiring, with thousands of postings from startups and major tech employers across software engineering, data, product, design, sales, and operations. Built In job pages expose tech role taxonomy, company profiles, and salary/location filters that can fuel a wide range of analytics and product use cases.

• Monitor Chicago tech hiring trends across companies and roles
• Track salary ranges and compensation patterns
• Build datasets of company hiring activity
• Power recruitment intelligence dashboards
• Aggregate job listings into talent platforms
• Create comparative job market analysis tools
• Support market research on the Chicago tech ecosystem

How to use Built In Chicago Scraper?

Built In Chicago Scraper is designed for an easy and fast start even if you've never extracted data from websites before. Here's how you can extract data from builtinchicago.org with this web scraping tool:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open Built In Chicago Scraper on the Apify platform.
3. Click on the Try for free button.
4. Enter the start URLs for job search results or individual job detail pages.
5. Click on the Start button and wait for the data to be extracted.
6. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Input

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• startUrls (array of objects) - Required. URLs to start with. You can provide job search result URLs or individual job detail page URLs.
• maxItems (integer) - The maximum number of jobs to scrape per start URL. Default: 5
• proxyConfiguration (object) - Proxy configuration settings.

Supported URL Types (examples)

You can use job search results and individual job detail pages:

Search URL example:

• https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software

Job Detail Pages:

• https://www.builtinchicago.org/job/tax-innovation-software-engineering-senior-manager/9188829

Example:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software" },
        {
            "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/job/tax-innovation-software-engineering-senior-manager/9188829"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
}

Output

The scraped data will be saved as a dataset. Each item will represent a job posting. You can choose in what format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, HTML table, CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or NDJSON.

Example output structure:

{
    "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/job/tax-innovation-software-engineering-senior-manager/9188829",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software",
    "jobId": "9188829",
    "title": "Tax Innovation - Software Engineering - Senior Manager",
    "description": "At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions...",
    "datePosted": "2026-04-29",
    "validThrough": "2026-05-01T16:18:16+00:00",
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "industry": [
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Professional Services",
        "Business Intelligence",
        "Consulting",
        "Cybersecurity",
        "Generative AI"
    ],
    "jobBenefits": "401(K), 401(K) matching, Adoption Assistance, ...",
    "directApply": false,
    "applicationUrl": "https://jobs.us.pwc.com/job/dallas/tax-innovation-software-engineering-senior-manager/932/94464275408",
    "address": {
        "addressLocality": "Chicago",
        "addressRegion": "Illinois",
        "addressCountry": "USA",
        "postalCode": "60606",
        "streetAddress": "One North Wacker Drive"
    },
    "geo": {
        "latitude": 41.883229,
        "longitude": -87.632398
    },
    "applicantLocationRequirements": ["USA"],
    "baseSalary": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "minValue": 124000,
        "maxValue": 335000,
        "value": null,
        "unitText": "YEAR"
    },
    "educationRequirements": "Bachelor Degree",
    "hiringOrganization": {
        "name": "PwC",
        "url": "https://builtin.com/company/pwc",
        "logo": "https://builtin.com/sites/www.builtin.com/files/2025-07/Builtin profile logo - 400 x 400.png"
    }
}

🔍 Looking to Scrape more Job & Career Websites?

In addition to this actor, you can explore our suite of dedicated scrapers tailored for other popular job boards and career platforms. Each scraper is optimized for its target site to ensure accurate, efficient, and high-performance data extraction.

Scraper	Country	Description
Jobindex.dk Scraper	Denmark	Extract job listings, company details, and application links from Jobindex.dk—Denmark's top job portal. Ideal for recruitment, market research, and competitor tracking.
Jobs.ams.at Scraper	Austria	Scrape job listings from AMS Austria's public employment service—titles, company details, locations, employment relationships, working time, education levels, and more.

Explore these solutions to expand your data collection capabilities across job boards and career intelligence websites.

---

👀 p.s.

Got feedback or need an extension?

Lexis Solutions is a certified Apify Partner. We can help you with custom solutions or data extraction projects.

Contact us over Email or LinkedIn

Image Credit

Image credit: builtinchicago.org