Handshake Jobs Scraper

Scrape public job and internship postings from Handshake — the platform US colleges run their campus recruiting on. Search by city and role, or paste a listing or job URL. No login, no cookies, no student account.

Every posting comes back with the employer, salary range, location, dates, classification and the full job description — plus the employer's own careers URL, which most Handshake scrapers throw away.

Why use this scraper

• No account needed. This reads Handshake's public find-jobs pages and public job pages. It never touches a student login, a university SSO, or private student data.
• The employer's real website, on every row. Handshake publishes each employer's own careers URL inside the posting. That gives you employerWebsite and employerDomain for free, and makes the optional email enrichment accurate instead of a domain guess.
• Multi-location postings kept intact. A campus posting listed in Tampa, Dallas and Jersey City returns all three in allLocations, not just the first.
• Salary that is actually there. Handshake employers fill in structured pay far more often than general job boards do — roughly 95% of rows in testing carried salaryMin/salaryMax with a currency and period.
• Monitoring mode. Run it on a schedule and get only postings you have not seen before, with no charge for the ones that get skipped.
• Expired postings are reported honestly. Handshake's listing pages are cached, so some ids point at jobs that have closed. Those are counted as expired, not silently dropped and not billed.

Overview

Handshake is where roughly 18 million US students and recent graduates look for entry-level jobs and internships, and where employers post to reach them. The postings this actor reads are the ones Handshake publishes openly for search engines, so no credentials are involved at any point.

Coverage is drawn from Handshake's own public find-jobs grid: 94 US cities, a remote listing, 62 nationwide role categories, and 762 city-plus-role pages. Each of those pages hands back up to 200 job ids in one request.

Supported inputs

Input	Example	What it does
Cities	austin-tx, Austin, TX	Every published role in that city
Roles	nursing, Software Engineering	That role nationwide
Cities + Roles	akron-oh + nursing	The city/role page when Handshake publishes one
Remote	remoteOnly: true	Handshake's remote listing
Listing URL	https://joinhandshake.com/find-jobs/austin-tx/sales/	Scrapes that page directly
Job URL	https://app.joinhandshake.com/public/jobs/11320393	Scrapes that single posting

Cities accept plain text (Austin, TX) or Handshake's slug (austin-tx). Bare city names work when unambiguous, so use portland-or or portland-me rather than Portland.

Use cases

• Campus recruiting intelligence. See which employers are hiring new graduates in a city, at what salary, in which role categories.
• Entry-level salary benchmarking. salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency and salaryPeriod across a whole role or metro.
• Recruiting-agency lead lists. Every row carries the employer's own domain, so an employer hiring 12 nurses in Akron is a qualified prospect with a website you can act on.
• Job-board aggregation. Pull Handshake's early-career supply into your own board or newsletter.
• New-posting alerts. Monitoring mode plus Apify's scheduler gives a "posted since last run" feed.
• Labour-market research. Role-group taxonomy, industry, employment type and posting dates for early-career hiring.

How it works

1. Your cities and roles resolve to Handshake find-jobs listing URLs. Handshake only publishes some city/role pairs, so a pair it does not publish widens to that city's unfiltered listing instead of returning nothing.
2. Each listing page is fetched once. The job ids live in the page's embedded Next.js payload, up to 200 per page, not in the visible 15 cards. These pages do not paginate, so breadth comes from adding cities and roles rather than walking page numbers.
3. Every job id is fetched in parallel from its public job page and parsed from the JobPosting structured data block.
4. The 15 server-rendered cards carry three things the structured data does not — role groups, the remote flag and pay schedule — so those get merged in where available.
5. Optionally, each employer's own careers site is read for a contact email.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
locations	array	["new-york-ny"]	Cities to search, as slugs or plain text
roles	array	[]	Role categories; empty means every role in the chosen cities
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Add Handshake's remote listing
startUrls	array	[]	Listing or job URLs; replaces the city/role search when set
enrichEmails	boolean	false	Look up a contact email on the employer's own site
qualifyByPayment	boolean	false	Flag employers that take payments online; needs enrichEmails
monitoringMode	boolean	false	Return only postings not seen on previous runs
resetMonitoringState	boolean	false	One-shot: clear the "already seen" record
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on jobs collected
maxConcurrency	integer	10	Job pages fetched in parallel
proxy	object	disabled	Optional; Handshake's public pages serve fine direct

Example input

{
  "locations": ["austin-tx", "new-york-ny"],
  "roles": ["sales", "software-engineering"],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "enrichEmails": false
}

Output overview

One row per job posting. No padding rows, no duplicate rows for the same posting inside a run.

Output sample

{
  "jobId": "11320393",
  "jobUrl": "https://app.joinhandshake.com/public/jobs/11320393",
  "title": "Sales Account Manager",
  "employerName": "Ford Audio-Video, LLC",
  "employerWebsite": "http://www.fordav.com",
  "employerDomain": "fordav.com",
  "employerLogoUrl": "https://joinhandshake-production.imgix.net/app/public/assets/institutions/15545/original/hs-emp-logo-data.",
  "description": "As a Sales Account Manager, you will:\n\n• Prospect, qualify, and close new business opportunities.\n\n• Present AV solutions to senior executives.",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p></p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">As a Sales Account Manager, you will:</p><ul>...",
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "jobType": "Job",
  "industry": "Construction",
  "roleGroups": [
    "Sales Managers",
    "Advertising Sales Agents",
    "Customer Success Managers and Sales Representatives of Services"
  ],
  "location": "Austin, Texas",
  "addressLocality": "Austin",
  "addressRegion": "Texas",
  "addressCountry": "United States",
  "allLocations": [
    { "city": "Austin", "state": "Texas", "country": "United States" }
  ],
  "isRemote": false,
  "salaryMin": 82500,
  "salaryMax": 440000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "YEAR",
  "paySchedule": "Annual Salary",
  "datePosted": "2026-08-18T19:35:46Z",
  "validThrough": "2027-08-18T19:35:45Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T10:10:00.868Z"
}

Key output fields

Field	Type	Notes
jobId	string	Handshake's numeric posting id
jobUrl	string	Public job page
title	string	Job title, with Handshake's | employer | Handshake suffix removed
employerName	string	Hiring organisation
employerWebsite	string	The employer's own careers URL, from the posting
employerDomain	string	Bare domain from that URL
employerLogoUrl	string	Employer logo
description	string	Full description as plain text
descriptionHtml	string	Full description with original markup
employmentType	string	FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, INTERN, CONTRACTOR
jobType	string	Handshake's own Job vs Internship split; see the FAQ
industry	string	Employer industry
roleGroups	array	Handshake role taxonomy; see the FAQ
location	string	Primary location, City, State
allLocations	array	Every site on a multi-location posting
isRemote	boolean	See the FAQ
salaryMin / salaryMax	number	Pay range
salaryCurrency	string	Usually USD
salaryPeriod	string	YEAR, HOUR, MONTH
paySchedule	string	Handshake's own label, e.g. Annual Salary
datePosted	string	ISO 8601
validThrough	string	ISO 8601 expiry
contactEmail	string	Only when enrichEmails is on
contactWebsite	string	Only when enrichEmails is on
emailEnrichment	object	Emails, phones, socials, confidence; only when enrichEmails is on

FAQ

Do I need a Handshake account or student login? No. This reads only the pages Handshake publishes openly for search engines. It never authenticates, and it never touches student profiles or applications.

Why are jobType, roleGroups, isRemote and paySchedule empty on some rows? Handshake renders 15 rich job cards per listing page but hands out up to 200 ids. Those four fields exist only on the 15 cards. Rows built from the other ids carry every other field in full. To maximise how many rows get them, use more city and role combinations with a smaller maxItems each, rather than one page with a large cap.

Why did I get fewer rows than maxItems? Handshake's listing pages are cached and can lag by several days, so some ids point at postings that have since closed. Those return a 404, are counted as expired in the run log, and produce no dataset row and no charge.

Why did my city plus role combination return the whole city instead? Handshake only publishes certain city/role pages. akron-oh/nursing exists, austin-tx/nursing does not. When a pair has no page, the run widens to that city's unfiltered listing and says so in the log.

How many jobs can I get from one city? Up to 200 ids per listing page, and the page reports Handshake's own totalCount so you can see what it is capping. Add role pages for the same city to reach more.

Do I need a proxy? No. Handshake's public pages answer fine over a direct connection. The proxy input is there for high-volume runs or blocked networks.

How accurate is the email enrichment? Handshake hands over the employer's own careers URL, so enrichment reads that exact site rather than guessing a domain from the company name. Hit rate still depends on whether the employer publishes an address at all; large employers usually route through forms instead. You are billed only when an email is returned.

Support

Found a bug or need a field that is missing? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab and it will be looked at.

Additional services

Need this data on a schedule, pushed into your own database, or combined with other job boards? Custom scraping and data-delivery work is available on request via the Issues tab.

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🤖 For AI agents & LLM apps

This actor is a clean data source for agent pipelines. Output is flat JSON with stable field names, one object per posting.

• Deterministic input. Pass locations and roles as arrays of slugs; no natural-language parsing needed on your side.
• Stable ids. jobId is Handshake's own posting id, so it is safe as a primary key across runs.
• Deduplication built in. monitoringMode keeps a per-user record of delivered ids, so an agent polling on a schedule sees each posting exactly once.
• Both description formats. description is plain text ready for embedding or summarisation; descriptionHtml keeps the markup when you need structure.
• Cost control. maxItems is a hard cap, and expired postings are never billed.

Call it from the Apify API, the MCP server, or any LangChain / LlamaIndex Apify integration.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly accessible job postings that Handshake publishes for search engine indexing. It does not log in, does not bypass authentication, does not access student profiles, applications or any private data, and does not solve CAPTCHAs.

You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with Handshake's terms of service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA and equivalents), and any restrictions that apply to contact data in your jurisdiction. This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Handshake or Stryder Corp.

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