Lagou Tech Jobs Scraper (拉勾网) — China IT Jobs, Salaries & Tech Stacks (No API)

Scrape Lagou.com (拉勾网), China's #1 technology-focused job board, and export thousands of tech job listings to CSV, JSON or Excel. This Lagou.com scraper — also a China tech-jobs scraper and IT job-board scraper — extracts salaries, required skills & tech stacks, company funding stages, company size and industry from top Chinese tech employers including ByteDance (字节跳动), Alibaba (阿里巴巴), Tencent (腾讯), Baidu (百度), Meituan (美团), JD.com (京东), Xiaomi (小米) and Huawei (华为). Unlike generic Chinese job sites, Lagou focuses exclusively on technology, software engineering, product, data science and AI/ML roles. No login and no API key required.

🏆 Why this Lagou scraper?

27 fields per job · tens of thousands of tech jobs per run · parsed salary ranges (min/max) · required skills & tech stack · company funding stage · export to JSON / CSV / Excel. The unofficial Lagou.com API alternative for salary benchmarking, recruitment intelligence and China tech-labor-market research.

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✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• 💻 Tech-only coverage — Lagou is dedicated to software, engineering, product, data science and AI/ML, so the data is far more targeted than a generic job board.
• 🔤 English + Chinese keywords — search with Python, Java, React, Go, AI, or Chinese terms like 前端工程师, 算法; Chinese keywords often surface different results.
• 🏙️ Multi-city targeting — pass cities in Chinese or English (beijing, 上海, shenzhen, hangzhou, chengdu); leave empty for Beijing only.
• 💰 Parsed salary ranges — every listing carries the raw salary string plus parsed salaryMin / salaryMax (thousands RMB/month) for instant benchmarking.
• 🧠 Skills & tech stack — the required skills field lets you map the most in-demand languages, frameworks and tools.
• 🏢 Company intelligence — company size, industry, funding stage (IPO, Series A–D…), logo and profile URL for every job.
• 🔁 Experience-filter expansion — expandFilters multiplies each keyword + city into ~6 experience-level searches, returning ~6× more unique jobs per query.
• ⚙️ Volume & speed controls — cap total jobs, tune concurrency and request delay.
• 🛡️ Proxy support — Apify Proxy integration; residential proxies strongly recommended for a Chinese platform.

🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Configure — add Search Keywords (e.g. Python, Java, Go) and Cities (e.g. beijing, shanghai, shenzhen). Keep Expand with Experience Filters on for maximum unique results.
2. Run — click Start. The Actor sweeps every keyword × city (× experience) combination and streams tech jobs into your dataset.
3. Get your data — open the Output tab and export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the Apify API.

📥 Input

Give the Actor at least one keyword. More keywords and cities mean more unique results.

Example — full China tech-market sweep (salary benchmarking)

{
  "keywords": ["Python", "Java", "React", "Go", "AI"],
  "cities": ["beijing", "shanghai", "shenzhen", "hangzhou", "chengdu"],
  "expandFilters": true,
  "maxJobsTotal": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "requestDelay": 1000,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Example — frontend roles in Beijing & Shanghai (Chinese keywords)

{
  "keywords": ["前端工程师", "React", "Vue"],
  "cities": ["beijing", "shanghai"],
  "expandFilters": true,
  "maxJobsTotal": 500
}

Example — quick AI/ML test run

{
  "keywords": ["AI", "机器学习"],
  "cities": ["shenzhen"],
  "expandFilters": false,
  "maxJobsTotal": 100
}

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array	Job search keywords (English or Chinese). More keywords = more unique results. Required.
cities	array	City names (Chinese or English). More cities = more results. Empty = Beijing only.
expandFilters	boolean	Multiply searches by experience levels (~6× more combos), each returning a different job set. Highly recommended. Default true.
maxJobsTotal	integer	Global cap on total jobs to collect. 0 = unlimited (full scrape).
maxConcurrency	integer	Parallel combo processing (1–10). Higher = faster but more proxy usage. Default 3.
requestDelay	integer	Delay between requests in ms (300–5000). Default 1000.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential proxies strongly recommended.

📤 Output

One row per tech job — 27 fields, with two pre-configured views (Overview and Full Details), exportable to JSON, CSV or Excel. Here is a trimmed sample record:

{
  "jobTitle": "高级Python开发工程师",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.lagou.com/wn/jobs/12345678.html",
  "companyName": "字节跳动",
  "companyShortName": "ByteDance",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.lagou.com/gongsi/j12345.html",
  "salary": "30k-50k",
  "salaryMin": 30,
  "salaryMax": 50,
  "city": "北京",
  "district": "海淀区",
  "workYear": "3-5年",
  "education": "本科",
  "jobNature": "全职",
  "jobType": "后端开发",
  "skills": "Python,Go,MySQL,Redis,分布式",
  "companySize": "2000人以上",
  "industryField": "移动互联网",
  "financeStage": "上市公司",
  "companyLogo": "https://www.lgstatic.com/thumbnail_300x300/…/logo.png",
  "publishTime": "2026-07-04 10:22:00",
  "positionId": 12345678,
  "companyId": 12345,
  "searchKeyword": "Python",
  "searchCity": "beijing",
  "pageNumber": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• Salary benchmarking — compare Python vs Java vs Go developer salaries across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other cities using parsed salaryMin/salaryMax.
• Tech stack analysis — aggregate the skills field to identify the most in-demand languages, frameworks and tools in China's tech market.
• Hiring-trend monitoring — track which companies are hiring aggressively and which sectors are growing.
• Recruitment intelligence — build candidate-sourcing pipelines with targeted job-market data.
• Employer intelligence — cluster jobs by companyName, financeStage and companySize to profile top Chinese tech employers.
• Academic research & data journalism — study China's technology labor market and wage trends with hard data.

👥 Who uses it

Tech recruiters & sourcing teams targeting the China market · compensation & HR analysts benchmarking salaries · market researchers & consultants tracking China tech hiring · data journalists studying wage trends · founders and BD teams mapping competitors and funding stages.

💰 Pricing

This Actor runs on a simple pay-per-result model — you pay for the tech jobs you extract, with no separate Apify platform fees to calculate. Try it on the free tier first, then scale up. See the Pricing tab on this page for the current rate.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape Lagou.com? The Actor accesses only publicly available job-listing data displayed on Lagou.com — no login, authentication or private data is involved. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Lagou's terms and applicable laws.

Does Lagou.com have a public API? Lagou has no public developer API, so this Actor works as an unofficial Lagou.com API: you send keywords and cities and get back structured job records, salaries and company data — a practical Lagou API alternative for automated access.

Do I need an API key or login? No. There is no Lagou account, login or API key required — only an Apify account.

Why does each keyword + city combination return only ~45 jobs? Lagou limits search results to 3 pages (~45 jobs) per query. The experience-filter expansion compensates by creating ~6 separate searches per keyword + city, each returning a different job set — which is why expandFilters: true is recommended.

Can I use Chinese keywords? Yes. Both English (Python) and Chinese (Python开发工程师, 前端工程师, 算法) keywords work, and Chinese keywords often surface different results.

Do I need residential proxies, and how much data can I get? Residential proxies are strongly recommended, since Lagou may block datacenter IP ranges. With broad keyword and city coverage you can collect tens of thousands of unique jobs per run; a 5-keyword × 5-city run typically yields 2,000–3,500 unique jobs.

Is this a Lagou.com unofficial API or API alternative?

Yes. Lagou has no public developer API, so this Actor is a drop-in Lagou.com API alternative — send keywords and cities, get back structured job records, salaries and company data.

How do I export Lagou jobs to CSV or JSON?

Every run writes one record per tech job to a dataset you can export to CSV, JSON or Excel in one click, or pull via the Apify API — a ready-made China tech-jobs dataset for salary benchmarking and recruitment analytics.

Can I scrape Lagou without login or an API key?

Yes. The Actor reads only publicly visible listings, so you can scrape Lagou without login, authentication or an API key — just configure keywords, cities and a residential proxy.

How do I benchmark developer salaries in Beijing and Shanghai?

Search a role like Python across beijing and shanghai; each record includes salaryMin and salaryMax so you can compare pay by city, exported to CSV or JSON.

Can I scrape jobs from ByteDance, Alibaba or Tencent on Lagou?

Yes. The scraper returns companyName, financeStage and skills for every listing, so you can filter results to top Chinese tech employers after export to CSV or JSON.

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify to monitor China's tech job market automatically — daily or weekly. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, push them to Google Sheets, or use the Apify API, webhooks and Make, n8n or Zapier integrations to feed Lagou job and salary data into your dashboards, ATS and analytics pipelines.

⭐ Support & feedback

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Issues tab — response is usually fast. If this Actor saves you time, a ★★★★★ review on the Store page genuinely helps and is hugely appreciated. 🙏

⚖️ Legal

This Actor extracts only publicly available data and is intended for legitimate research, analytics and recruiting use. You are responsible for complying with Lagou.com's terms of service, GDPR and any applicable local laws.

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📝 Changelog

2026-07-06

• ✨ README overhaul: added badges, three ready-to-run example scenarios, a realistic output sample, full input/output field references, expanded FAQ, and a cross-linked jobs-suite section.

2026-07-01

• Maintenance pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data and confirmed successful runs within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
• Sharpened Store metadata (SEO title & description) and expanded the FAQ with high-intent, long-tail questions for easier discovery in Google and Apify Store search.
• Added ready-to-run example tasks that cover common real-world use cases.

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 Lagou.com unofficial API / API alternative use, exporting Lagou jobs to CSV/JSON datasets, and scraping Lagou without login or an API key.

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.

• 2026-06-01 — Maintenance & reliability pass: pulled the latest source and rebuilt the Actor on the current base image; build verified.

Last reviewed: 2026-06-01.

2026-06-04

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