MediaBistro.com Scraper

What does MediaBistro.com Scraper do?

MediaBistro.com Scraper will help you search and extract comprehensive job posting data from mediabistro.com, a career platform dedicated to media, marketing, and creative professionals.

You can extract job details such as titles, descriptions, posting dates, locations, employment types, hiring organizations, and application links. MediaBistro.com 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 media and creative job listings from MediaBistro.com, a comprehensive career platform for media professionals. MediaBistro job pages include role metadata, employer context, and media-specific taxonomy useful for targeted hiring datasets. The scraper supports the REST API which gives you access to the extracted dataset, enables you to download it in various formats, and use it in other applications.

What data can I extract from MediaBistro.com with a web scraper?

With this web scraping tool, you can extract the following data from MediaBistro.com:

📰 Job titles	📝 Full descriptions
📅 Posting dates	📍 Job locations
🔗 Application links	💼 Employment types
🏢 Hiring organizations	🌆 City information
🗺️ State/Region	🌍 Country
📮 Postal codes	🌐 Job URLs
🔍 Search URLs

Why scrape MediaBistro.com?

MediaBistro.com is a comprehensive career platform providing job listings for media, marketing, creative, and communications professionals across various specialties. The site aggregates job postings from employers worldwide, offering detailed information on positions, requirements, and company profiles. Scrape targets include job titles, descriptions, locations, employment types, application links, and company information.

• Monitor media and creative job market trends
• Track employment types and compensation patterns
• Analyze job requirements and skill demands
• Aggregate job listings for career portals
• Build recruitment intelligence dashboards
• Power job alert and notification systems
• Create comparative job market analysis tools
• Support talent acquisition and career planning

How to use MediaBistro.com Scraper?

MediaBistro.com Scraper is designed for easy and fast start even if you've never extracted data from websites before. Here's how you can extract data from MediaBistro.com with this web scraping tool:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open MediaBistro.com 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.mediabistro.com/jobs?q=editor&keyword=software

Job Detail Pages:

• https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/1504665446-web-producer-job-at-redwood-software-in-raleigh
• https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/2172103554-technical-development-lead-cloud-saas-net-azure-bittitan
• https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/3404823398-senior-account-executive

Example:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs?q=editor&keyword=software" },
        {
            "url": "https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/1504665446-web-producer-job-at-redwood-software-in-raleigh"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
}

Note: The startUrls field is required

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:

{
    "title": "Lead Web Developer Job at MNJ SOFTWARE in Osage City",
    "description": "Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.About UsEnergize your career with one of Information Technology's fastest growing companies...",
    "datePosted": "2026-04-29T14:16:19.000Z",
    "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
    "hiringOrganization": "MNJ SOFTWARE",
    "address": {
        "addressLocality": "Osage City",
        "addressRegion": "KS",
        "addressCountry": "United States",
        "postalCode": "66523"
    },
    "applicationLink": "https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/1442950367/referral-link",
    "url": "https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/1442950367-lead-web-developer-job-at-mnj-software-in-osage-city",
    "startUrl": "https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs?q=editor&keyword=software"
}

Notes and Limitations

• The actor relies on the structure of the MediaBistro.com website. If the website structure changes, the actor may need to be updated.
• For large-scale scraping, use Apify's proxy services to avoid IP blocking.
• When using a proxy, requests can originate from different locations, so the number of results may differ compared to non-proxy runs.

🔍 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.

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Jobs.ams.at Scraper	Austria	Scrape job listings from AMS Austria’s public employment service—titles, company details, locations, employment relationship, working time, education levels, and more. Supports API-backed pagination, query or startUrls input, location normalization, radius, and maxItems.

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

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