Apna.co Jobs Scraper

Extract structured job listings from Apna.co — India's largest blue & grey collar job platform with 70M+ registered users, 500K+ active listings and presence across 400+ Indian cities.

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Why Apna.co

Apna.co dominates the Indian blue and grey collar market — sales executives, delivery agents, customer support reps, accountants, IT freshers, admin staff and everything in between. Unlike Naukri or LinkedIn, Apna focuses on:

• Fresher & entry-level roles across all sectors
• Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities with deep coverage beyond metros
• SMB and startup hiring at scale
• Mobile-first job seekers — 70M+ app downloads

This makes it ideal for salary benchmarking at the entry/mid level, workforce market research, and aggregating job data that other portals miss.

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How It Works

Apna.co is built on Next.js with full SSR. Every page embeds all job data as __NEXT_DATA__ JSON in the HTML. This means the actor uses CheerioCrawler — pure HTTP requests with no browser — making it extremely fast and cheap.

Flow:

1. Build search URLs from keyword × city combinations
2. Fetch each listing page via HTTP
3. Parse __NEXT_DATA__ JSON → extract job objects
4. Paginate via ?page=N until maxPages or maxJobs
5. Optionally fetch detail pages for full description + external apply URL

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Supported Search Patterns

Pattern	Example URL
Keyword search	/jobs/python-developer-jobs
Keyword + city	/jobs/software-engineer-jobs-in-bangalore
WFH keyword	/jobs/work_from_home-data-analyst-jobs
Part-time	/jobs/part_time-customer-support-jobs
Freshers	/jobs/freshers-sales-executive-jobs
Department	/jobs/dep_it_software_engineering-jobs
City all jobs	/jobs/jobs-in-mumbai

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Input

{
  "keywords": ["python-developer", "data-analyst", "software-engineer"],
  "cities": ["bangalore", "mumbai", "hyderabad"],
  "workFromHome": false,
  "partTime": false,
  "freshers": false,
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "maxPages": 10,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "requestDelay": 300,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	[]	Job role slugs. Use hyphens: python-developer, sales-executive
cities	array	[]	City slugs. Empty = all India
departments	array	[]	Department slugs: dep_sales_bd, dep_it_software_engineering
workFromHome	boolean	false	WFH/remote listings only
partTime	boolean	false	Part-time listings only
freshers	boolean	false	Fresher-friendly listings
maxJobs	integer	200	Total jobs cap (0 = unlimited)
maxPages	integer	10	Pages per search (0 = unlimited)
scrapeDetails	boolean	false	Fetch detail pages for full description
requestDelay	integer (ms)	300	Delay between requests
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Parallel requests

Common Keywords

python-developer, java-developer, react-developer, data-analyst, data-scientist, sales-executive, business-development-executive, customer-support-executive, delivery-executive, accountant, hr-executive, operations-executive, digital-marketing-executive, content-writer, graphic-designer, telecaller

Department Slugs

Slug	Department
dep_it_software_engineering	IT & Software Engineering
dep_sales_bd	Sales & Business Development
dep_customer_support	Customer Support
dep_admin_back_office_computer_operator	Admin & Back Office
dep_delivery_driver_logistics	Delivery & Logistics
dep_marketing_brand_digital_marketing	Marketing & Digital
dep_finance_accounting	Finance & Accounting
dep_restaurant_hospitality_tourism	Hospitality & Tourism
dep_teaching_training_education	Education & Training
dep_healthcare_pharma_doctor_nurse	Healthcare & Pharma

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Output

Example record:

{
  "jobId": "1265759031",
  "url": "https://apna.co/job/bengaluru/python-developer-1265759031",
  "title": "Python Developer",
  "company": "MRI Software India",
  "companyId": "1539114",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://apna-organization-logos.gumlet.io/...",
  "location": "Bengaluru/Bangalore",
  "city": "Bengaluru/Bangalore",
  "isWfh": false,
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryRaw": null,
  "salaryType": 3,
  "experienceMin": 4,
  "experienceMax": 6,
  "experienceRaw": "4 - 6 Yrs",
  "employmentType": "Full Time",
  "department": "Software Engineering",
  "category": "Software Project Management",
  "isExternalJob": true,
  "externalJobUrl": "https://mrisoftware.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/...",
  "description": null,
  "uiTags": ["Work from Office", "Full Time", "Min. 4 years"],
  "createdOn": "2026-04-08",
  "searchKeyword": "python-developer",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-15T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Key Fields

Field	Description
jobId	Unique Apna.co numeric job ID
url	Detail page URL
title	Job title
company	Hiring company
location	City/area
isWfh	Remote/WFH flag
salaryMin/salaryMax	In ₹/month (null if not disclosed)
salaryType	1=monthly, 2=annual, 3=not disclosed
experienceMin/experienceMax	Years of experience required
employmentType	Full Time / Part Time / Contract
department	Job function/department
category	Specific role category
isExternalJob	Applies via external ATS
externalJobUrl	Direct ATS application link
uiTags	Badge labels shown in UI
description	HTML description (only with scrapeDetails: true)

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Cost & Performance

Mode	Cost	Speed
scrapeDetails: false	~0.005 CU / 100 jobs	~200 jobs/min
scrapeDetails: true	~0.05 CU / 100 jobs	~30 jobs/min

CheerioCrawler — no browser overhead. SSR HTML parsed directly.

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Use Cases

• Salary benchmarking at entry/mid level across Indian cities
• Talent availability mapping — which cities have deepest supply for a role
• Blue collar market research — delivery, retail, hospitality, sales
• Fresher hiring intelligence — track demand for entry-level roles
• SMB hiring trends — Apna's employer base skews smaller companies
• HR tech data pipelines — integrate into ATS or workforce analytics

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Notes

• Salary is in ₹/month (Indian Rupees per month) when salaryType=1
• salaryType=3 means salary is not disclosed by employer
• isExternalJob=true means the job was posted from an ATS; externalJobUrl contains the direct apply link
• Pagination uses ?page=N (1-indexed)

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Changelog

Version	Date	Notes
1.0.0	2026-04-15	Initial release — CheerioCrawler, SSR NEXT_DATA parsing, keyword/city/dept/WFH/part-time filters