# Built In Chicago Scraper (`lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper`) Actor Built In Chicago job scraper to extract Chicago tech jobs, salaries, locations, and company data from builtinchicago.org for recruitment, hiring analytics, and job market research. - **URL**: https://apify.com/lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Lexis Solutions](https://apify.com/lexis-solutions) (community) - **Categories:** Jobs, AI, Agents - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $9.90 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ![Built In Chicago Scraper](https://i.ibb.co/7trtNcss/Screenshot-2026-05-03-at-8-40-31-PM.png) ### 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](https://www.builtinchicago.org) 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:
πŸ’Ό Job titles πŸ“ Full descriptions
πŸ“… Posting dates ⏳ Expiration dates
πŸ“ Job locations πŸ—ΊοΈ Geo-coordinates
πŸ’° Salary ranges πŸ•’ Employment types
πŸ”— Application URLs 🏒 Hiring organizations
πŸ–ΌοΈ Company logos 🌐 Company profile URLs
πŸ“Š Industries 🎁 Benefits
πŸŽ“ Education requirements πŸ†” 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: ```json { "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: ```json { "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" } } ``` #### πŸ” 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](https://apify.com/lexis-solutions/jobindex-dk-scraper) | Denmark | Extract job listings, company details, and application links from Jobindex.dkβ€”Denmark's top job portal. Ideal for recruitment, market research, and competitor tracking. | | [Jobs.ams.at Scraper](https://apify.com/lexis-solutions/jobs-ams-at-scraper) | Austria | Scrape job listings from AMS Austria's public employment serviceβ€”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. *** πŸ‘€ p.s. Got feedback or need an extension? Lexis Solutions is a [certified Apify Partner](https://apify.com/partners). We can help you with custom solutions or data extraction projects. Contact us over [Email](mailto:info@lexis.solutions) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexis-solutions) ### Image Credit Image credit: [builtinchicago.org](https://www.builtinchicago.org/) # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): URLs to start with. Supports search pages (e.g. https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software) and individual job detail pages (e.g. https://www.builtinchicago.org/job//). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of jobs that will be scraped per start URL. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Select proxies to be used by your crawler. Built In Chicago rate-limits sustained requests from a single IP, so a rotating proxy is recommended for runs above ~40 jobs. Datacenter proxies work reliably and are cheaper than residential. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software" } ], "maxItems": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software" } ], "maxItems": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`πŸ’Ύ 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); }); // πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ 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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software" }], "maxItems": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("πŸ’Ύ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software" } ], "maxItems": 5, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lexis-solutions/builtinchicago-org-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Built In Chicago Scraper", "description": "Built In Chicago job scraper to extract Chicago tech jobs, salaries, locations, and company data from builtinchicago.org for recruitment, hiring analytics, and job market research.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "QpRgE4ouhMvGphMyb" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/lexis-solutions~builtinchicago-org-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-lexis-solutions-builtinchicago-org-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/lexis-solutions~builtinchicago-org-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-lexis-solutions-builtinchicago-org-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/lexis-solutions~builtinchicago-org-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-lexis-solutions-builtinchicago-org-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "startUrls" ], "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "URLs to start with. Supports search pages (e.g. https://www.builtinchicago.org/jobs?search=Software) and individual job detail pages (e.g. https://www.builtinchicago.org/job//).", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Maximum number of jobs", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of jobs that will be scraped per start URL.", "default": 5 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Select proxies to be used by your crawler. Built In Chicago rate-limits sustained requests from a single IP, so a rotating proxy is recommended for runs above ~40 jobs. Datacenter proxies work reliably and are cheaper than residential.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```