# Handshake Jobs Scraper (`memo23/handshake-jobs-scraper`) Actor Scrape public Handshake jobs and internships: employer, salary range, location, dates, role taxonomy and the full description. Search by city and role, or paste any listing or job URL. Every row carries the employer's own careers domain. No login and no student account needed. - **URL**: https://apify.com/memo23/handshake-jobs-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Muhamed Didovic](https://apify.com/memo23) (community) - **Categories:** Jobs, AI, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. 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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 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. ![How Handshake Jobs Scraper works](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muhamed-didovic/muhamed-didovic.github.io/main/assets/how-it-works-handshake.png) ### 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 ```json { "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 ```json { "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": "

As a Sales Account Manager, you will: