Lagou Tech Jobs Scraper (拉勾网)

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 and tech stacks, company funding stages and more 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 — making the data highly targeted for salary benchmarking, recruitment intelligence and market research. No login and no API key required.

What you get

One structured record per tech job (27 fields), with two pre-configured views (Overview and Full Details):

• jobTitle — full position title
• jobUrl — direct link to the job listing
• companyName / companyShortName — official name and brand / short name
• companyUrl — company profile page URL
• salary — raw salary string (e.g. 20k-40k)
• salaryMin / salaryMax — parsed monthly salary range (thousands RMB)
• city / district — job city and district
• workYear — required work experience
• education — minimum education requirement
• jobNature / jobType — full-time/part-time and job category/level
• skills — required skills and tech stack
• companySize — employee count range
• industryField — company industry sector
• financeStage — company funding stage (IPO, Series A–D, etc.)
• companyLogo — company logo image URL
• jobDescription — full job description text (when available)
• publishTime — listing publish timestamp
• positionId / companyId — Lagou internal IDs
• searchKeyword / searchCity — keyword and city filter used
• scrapedAt — ISO scrape timestamp

Export the dataset to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the Apify API.

Use cases

• Salary benchmarking — compare Python vs Java vs Go developer salaries across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other cities.
• Tech stack analysis — 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.
• Academic research & data journalism — study China's technology labor market and wage trends with hard data.

How to use

1. Add Search Keywords (e.g. Python, Java, React, Go, AI). Both English and Chinese keywords work — more keywords mean more unique results.
2. Add Cities in Chinese or English (e.g. beijing, 上海, shenzhen). Leave empty for Beijing only.
3. Keep Expand with Experience Filters on for ~6× more unique results per keyword + city.
4. Set Max Jobs Total (0 = unlimited), Concurrency and Request Delay to control volume and speed.
5. Configure the Proxy — residential proxies are strongly recommended for a Chinese platform.
6. Run, then export results to CSV / JSON / Excel or pull them via the Apify API.

Example input

{
  "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"] }
}

FAQ

Do I need an API key or login?

No. The Actor accesses only publicly available job listing data displayed on Lagou.com — no login, authentication or private data is involved.

Why does each keyword + city combination return only ~45 jobs?

Lagou limits search results to 3 pages (about 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 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.

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. It's 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.

Scheduling & integration

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

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Changelog

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.