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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FAQ

Is this a Hirist.tech API alternative?

Yes. Hirist.tech has no public jobs API, so this actor works as an unofficial Hirist API alternative — it loads the React app with Playwright and intercepts Hirist's own JSON responses to deliver clean structured job data.

Can I scrape Hirist.tech without an API or login?

Yes. The actor scrapes Hirist.tech without any API key and without login. You just supply keywords, cities and an experience filter, and it returns structured listings.

How do I export Hirist.tech jobs to CSV or JSON?

Every run writes a dataset you can download as JSON, JSONL, CSV, XLSX or XML from the Apify Console Dataset tab, making it a simple Hirist.tech data export and CSV/JSON tool.

Does it extract salary and tech skills data?

Yes. This Hirist.tech IT jobs scraper parses salary into salaryMin/salaryMax in LPA and returns the required tech stack as a structured skills array.

Changelog

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Hirist API alternative, scraping without login, and CSV/JSON data export use cases.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

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

📝 Changelog

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.