Hirist.tech IT Jobs Scraper

Extract structured IT job listings from Hirist.tech — India's #1 niche tech job portal with 4M+ registered professionals and 50K+ active listings. Salary ranges, tech skills, experience levels, recruiter info and full job descriptions — all in one place.

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Why Hirist.tech

Hirist.tech is India's most respected platform for IT and tech hiring. Unlike generic job boards, every listing here is tech-focused — with structured salary data in LPA, tech stack tags, and seniority levels. No existing Apify actor scrapes it properly.

What makes this actor different:

• Salary data — Every listing shows salary in LPA (Lakhs Per Annum). Parsed into salaryMin and salaryMax numbers
• Tech stack as structured data — Skills extracted as an array, not buried in text
• Recruiter info — Name and contact details when available
• API interception — The actor captures Hirist's own JSON API responses during page load, delivering clean pre-structured data without fragile DOM parsing
• Full pagination — Scrapes all pages, not just the first

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How It Works

Hirist.tech is a React Single Page Application. The actor uses Playwright to load each page and intercepts the XHR/fetch API calls that Hirist fires to load job data. This gives pre-structured JSON directly — no DOM parsing required in most cases. A DOM fallback handles edge cases.

Flow:

1. Build search URLs from keyword × city combinations
2. Load each search page with Playwright
3. Intercept Hirist's JSON API response → parse job cards
4. Optionally open each detail page for full description, exact salary and recruiter info
5. Paginate until maxPages or maxJobs reached

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Supported Tech Categories

Hirist.tech covers the full India IT job spectrum. Any keyword that appears in the URL pattern /k/{keyword}-jobs works:

Category	Keywords
Backend	java, python, node-js, golang, ruby, php
Frontend	react, angular, vue-js, javascript, typescript
Mobile	android, ios, react-native, flutter
Data & AI	data-science, machine-learning, deep-learning, data-engineering, nlp
DevOps & Cloud	devops, aws, azure, gcp, kubernetes, docker
Database	sql, mongodb, postgresql, elasticsearch, redis
QA	selenium, cypress, appium, performance-testing
Security	cybersecurity, penetration-testing, soc
Architecture	solution-architect, microservices, system-design
All jobs	Leave keywords empty

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Input

{
  "keywords": ["python", "data-science", "devops"],
  "cities": ["bangalore", "hyderabad", "pune"],
  "experience": "2-5",
  "maxJobs": 300,
  "maxPages": 10,
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "requestDelay": 1000,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	[]	Tech keywords to search. Empty = all jobs
cities	array	[]	City filters. Empty = all India
experience	string	""	Experience filter: 0-2, 2-5, 5-10, 10+ or empty
maxJobs	integer	100	Max total jobs to scrape (0 = unlimited)
maxPages	integer	10	Max pages per keyword+city (0 = unlimited)
scrapeDetails	boolean	true	Open detail pages for full description + recruiter
requestDelay	integer (ms)	1000	Delay between page navigations
maxConcurrency	integer	2	Parallel browser tabs

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Output

Each job is saved as one JSON record. Example:

{
  "jobId": "1596353",
  "url": "https://www.hirist.tech/j/senior-python-engineer-at-razorpay-1596353",
  "title": "Senior Python Engineer",
  "company": "Razorpay",
  "companyType": "Product",
  "location": "Bangalore",
  "isRemote": false,
  "salaryMin": 25,
  "salaryMax": 40,
  "salaryRaw": "25 - 40 LPA",
  "experienceMin": 4,
  "experienceMax": 8,
  "experienceRaw": "4 - 8 Yrs",
  "skills": ["Python", "Django", "FastAPI", "PostgreSQL", "Redis", "AWS", "Microservices"],
  "description": "We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to join our Payments Infrastructure team...",
  "recruiterName": "Priya Sharma",
  "postedAt": "2 days ago",
  "keyword": "python",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-15T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Unique Hirist job ID
url	string	Job detail page URL
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company name
companyType	string	Product / Service / Startup / MNC
location	string	City or cities
isRemote	boolean	Remote/WFH flag
salaryMin	number	Minimum salary in LPA
salaryMax	number	Maximum salary in LPA
salaryRaw	string	Salary as displayed ("25 - 40 LPA")
experienceMin	number	Min years of experience
experienceMax	number	Max years of experience
experienceRaw	string	Experience as displayed ("4 - 8 Yrs")
skills	array	Required tech skills
description	string	Full job description
recruiterName	string	HR/recruiter contact name
postedAt	string	Post date/time
keyword	string	Keyword used to find this job
scrapedAt	string	Scrape timestamp (ISO 8601)

Download Formats

JSON, JSONL, CSV, XLSX, XML — all available from Apify Console Dataset tab.

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Use Cases

• Salary benchmarking — salaryMin/salaryMax in LPA for every role. Compare Python vs Java vs DevOps pay across Indian cities
• Tech stack demand analysis — Which skills appear most across 50K+ listings? skills array enables aggregation
• Recruiter outreach lists — recruiterName for direct HR contacts
• Job market monitoring — Schedule daily runs to track new listings for specific tech stacks in target cities
• Startup vs MNC intelligence — companyType field lets you filter product companies from service firms
• AI / LLM grounding — description + skills + salaryRaw as structured context for job-matching agents, resume gap analysis or market research

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Automation & Integration

n8n / Make / Zapier

Schedule runs and route results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack alerts or CRM. Example: run daily for machine-learning in Bangalore, push new listings to a Slack channel.

Apify API

# Start a run
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "keywords": ["python", "data-science"],
    "cities": ["bangalore"],
    "maxJobs": 500,
    "scrapeDetails": true
  }'

# Get results
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/YOUR_DATASET_ID/items?token=YOUR_TOKEN&format=json"

AI Pipelines

All fields are typed and consistently named. Integrate directly with LangChain, LlamaIndex or OpenAI function-calling for:

• Resume-to-job matching
• Salary prediction models
• India IT market trend analysis

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Technical Notes

• Hirist.tech is a React SPA — standard HTTP crawlers return empty pages
• This actor uses Playwright to fully render the React app
• API interception captures Hirist's own JSON API during page load — faster and more reliable than DOM parsing
• DOM fallback activates if API interception misses data
• Salary is in LPA (Lakhs Per Annum) — multiply by 100,000 for INR annual value
• Pagination uses ?page=N query parameter or Next button click

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Legal & Ethical Use

Users are responsible for compliance with Hirist.tech Terms of Service and applicable Indian data protection regulations. Use reasonable delays and do not republish individual recruiter personal data.

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Changelog

Version	Date	Notes
1.0.0	2025-04-15	Initial release — API intercept + DOM fallback, keyword/city/experience filters, full pagination