Remotive Remote Jobs Scraper

Extract remote job listings from Remotive — a curated remote job board with thousands of positions across software development, design, marketing, sales, and more. This actor uses Remotive's public JSON API to deliver clean, structured job data in seconds.

Perfect for job seekers, recruiters, developers building job boards, and analysts researching the remote work market.

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🚀 What does Remotive Remote Jobs Scraper do?

It queries Remotive's API with your chosen categories and search keywords, deduplicates results across multiple queries, and saves every job as a structured dataset record. No browser, no proxy, no login required.

Example use cases:

• Aggregate remote job listings for a niche job board
• Track which companies are hiring remotely in your tech stack
• Research remote salary ranges by category or skill
• Monitor new remote postings daily via scheduled runs
• Feed job data into ATS, CRMs, or Slack notifications

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📦 What data does it extract?

Field	Description	Example
jobId	Unique Remotive job ID	"193847"
title	Job title	"Senior Python Developer"
company	Company name	"Buffer"
companyLogo	Company logo URL	"https://remotive.com/..."
category	Job category	"software-dev"
tags	Skills / tech stack	["python", "django", "aws"]
jobType	Employment type	"full_time"
location	Required candidate location	"Worldwide"
salary	Salary range (if disclosed)	"$90,000 - $130,000"
description	Full job description (HTML)	"<p>We're looking for..."
url	Job listing URL	"https://remotive.com/job/..."
postedAt	Publication date	"2026-03-15T08:00:00"
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp	"2026-03-15T09:00:00.000Z"

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⚙️ Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
categories	string[]	[]	Filter by job category. Empty = all categories.
searchTerms	string[]	[]	Filter by keyword. Combined with categories for narrower results.
limit	integer	0	Max results per API request. 0 = return all available.
maxJobs	integer	0	Max total jobs to save across all queries. 0 = unlimited.

Available categories

Category slug	Description
software-dev	Software development & engineering
design	UI/UX, graphic and product design
marketing	Digital marketing, growth, SEO
sales	Sales, business development
product	Product management
customer-support	Customer success & support
data	Data science & analytics
devops-sysadmin	DevOps, infrastructure, cloud
finance-legal	Finance, accounting, legal
hr	Human resources, recruiting
qa	Quality assurance & testing
writing	Content, copywriting, technical writing
all-others	Everything else

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💡 Example inputs

Fetch all remote jobs:

{
  "categories": [],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxJobs": 0
}

Software engineering jobs with Python:

{
  "categories": ["software-dev"],
  "searchTerms": ["python"],
  "maxJobs": 100
}

Full-stack and devops roles:

{
  "categories": ["software-dev", "devops-sysadmin"],
  "searchTerms": ["react", "kubernetes"],
  "maxJobs": 200
}

All design and marketing jobs:

{
  "categories": ["design", "marketing"],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxJobs": 0
}

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📊 Output example

{
  "jobId": "193847",
  "title": "Senior Python Developer",
  "company": "Buffer",
  "companyLogo": "https://remotive.com/assets/company/buffer.png",
  "category": "software-dev",
  "tags": ["python", "django", "aws", "remote"],
  "jobType": "full_time",
  "location": "Worldwide",
  "salary": "$90,000 - $130,000",
  "url": "https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/software-dev/senior-python-developer-193847",
  "postedAt": "2026-03-15T08:00:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-15T09:12:34.000Z"
}

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💰 Pricing

Volume	Estimated cost
100 jobs	~$0.30
500 jobs	~$1.50
All jobs (~2,000)	~$6.00

Remotive typically lists 1,500–3,000 active jobs at any given time. A full scrape of all categories completes in under 10 seconds.

Tier	Price per result
Default	$0.003
Bronze	$0.0027
Silver	$0.0024
Gold	$0.0021

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⚡ Performance

• Pure API — no browser, no rendering, instant results
• No proxy required — Remotive's API is fully public
• Multi-query deduplication — jobs appearing in multiple category+search combinations are saved only once
• Lightweight — typical full run uses under 128MB RAM

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🔗 Integration

Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML. Connect to:

• Zapier / Make — trigger workflows when new jobs are posted
• Google Sheets — auto-fill a remote job tracker
• Slack — post daily job digests to your team channel
• REST API — pull structured data into your application

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❓ FAQ

Does this require a Remotive account or API key? No. Remotive's job API is publicly accessible with no authentication.

How many jobs does Remotive have? Typically 1,500–3,000 active listings at any time, refreshed daily.

Can I combine categories and search terms? Yes — the scraper runs every combination of categories × searchTerms and deduplicates the results automatically.

How do I get only the freshest jobs? Run the actor daily on a schedule. Use maxJobs or limit to cap results and reduce cost.

Is the salary field always populated? No — salary is only included when the company chooses to disclose it. Jobs without salary data will have salary: null.