RemoteOK Jobs Scraper

Scrape the entire live RemoteOK board — 1,000+ remote jobs, not just the 100 newest that RemoteOK's public API returns — with full job descriptions, salary ranges, tags, benefits, applicant-location eligibility, and opt-in employer contact emails. Built for recruiters, job boards, market researchers, and lead-gen teams who need remote-hiring data that is actually complete.

How it works

1. Paste a RemoteOK URL (or set filters) — the main board, a salary-filtered board, or direct job URLs.
2. The actor walks RemoteOK's board feed at ~50 jobs per request — the whole live board costs ~21 requests, and every row already carries the complete job record.
3. Filters (keyword, tags, countries, salary, time window, job type) run before a job counts toward your maxItems, so you only pay for rows you keep.
4. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console, or stream via the Apify API.

💰 $0.99 per 1,000 jobs. Full-board depth and full descriptions at the market's lowest price tier.

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✨ Why use this scraper?

• Full board depth, verified. RemoteOK's public API stops at the 100 newest jobs (~4 days of postings). This actor reaches the complete live board — 1,000+ jobs going back weeks. Most alternative scrapers are thin wrappers around that 100-job API.
• Full descriptions, not stubs. RemoteOK truncates job descriptions at ~1,000 characters in its structured data. This actor recovers the complete text from the page itself — 5,000–20,000 characters where the employer wrote that much.
• Employer contact emails (opt-in). Flip enrichEmails and each row gains contactEmail + contactWebsite, discovered from the hiring company's own website. Turns a job feed into a lead list.
• Broken-data proof. RemoteOK emits invalid JSON for multi-country listings (missing commas between country objects). This actor repairs it on the fly — precisely the rows where location eligibility matters most.
• Cheap and fast to run. Default mode needs no per-job page fetches, so a full-board scrape finishes in seconds and consumes a fraction of the compute of detail-crawling scrapers.

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What makes this richer than alternatives

Capability	This actor	Typical RemoteOK scraper
Board depth	✅ Full live board (1,000+ jobs)	❌ Newest ~100 (public API cap)
Description	✅ Full text from the page	⚠️ ~1,000-char API stub
Multi-country eligibility	✅ Parsed (invalid JSON repaired)	❌ Often missing or broken
Contact emails	✅ Opt-in enrichment	❌
Employer website	✅ When the listing exposes it	❌
Benefits, work hours, industry	✅ Included	⚠️ Rarely
Paid-placement flags	✅ isSticky / isHighlighted / isVerified	❌
Filter billing	✅ Filtered rows are free	⚠️ Billed after scraping

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Supported inputs

Option A — Search by URL 🔗 (recommended)

Paste any remoteok.com URL into Start URLs. Auto-classified:

URL shape	Meaning
https://remoteok.com/	Full live board
https://remoteok.com/?min_salary=100000	Board filtered by minimum salary (server-side)
https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/{slug}	One specific job (detail page)

Mix listing and job-detail URLs in the same array.

Option B — Configure with Filters 🎛️

Leave Start URLs empty and set any of tag (e.g. python, design), searchKeyword (e.g. senior engineer), minSalary, countries, jobTypes, timeFilter. Tag and keyword are matched client-side over the full board — RemoteOK has no reliable server-side tag or search filter (verified: its tag boards interleave unrelated jobs), so exact client-side matching is the only honest way to filter this site.

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🎯 Use cases

• Recruiting & sourcing — pull every live listing for a skill, salary band, or geography; contact hiring companies directly with enriched emails.
• Job boards & aggregators — mirror the complete RemoteOK board into your product with one scheduled run per day.
• Salary benchmarking — structured salary.min / salary.max in USD across 1,000+ remote positions.
• Lead generation — every job is a company actively spending money on hiring; contactEmail + companyWebsite make them reachable.
• Market research — tag frequency, benefits offered, and geographic-eligibility trends across the remote market.
• Job alerts — schedule daily with timeFilter: "24h" and get only fresh postings.

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Quick start

Minimal input — full board, up to 1,000 jobs:

{
    "startUrls": ["https://remoteok.com/"]
}

Python jobs open to US applicants, posted in the last week, with employer emails:

{
    "tag": "python",
    "countries": ["US"],
    "timeFilter": "7d",
    "enrichEmails": true
}

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Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Notes
startUrls	array	[]	Any remoteok.com URLs; overrides Option B when non-empty
tag	string	""	Matched against each job's tag chips, client-side
searchKeyword	string	""	Matched over title + company + industry + location; every word must match
minSalary	integer	0	USD/year; server-side param + permissive client check
countries	array	[]	Names (United States, Europe) or ISO-2 (US, DE); Anywhere jobs always pass
tagsFilter	array	[]	Any-of tag match; tag merges into this
jobTypes	array	[]	FULL_TIME, CONTRACT, …
timeFilter	select	""	24h / 7d / 30d / 90d
includeDetailPages	boolean	false	Opt-in per-job page fetch; adds ogImage — everything else is already in the row
includeDescription	boolean	true	Off = drop all description fields
cleanHtml	boolean	false	On = plain-text description only
enrichEmails	boolean	false	Opt-in employer email discovery; billed per email found
maxItems	integer	1000	Filtered-out rows never count

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Output overview

One dataset row per job, 30+ fields. Highlights:

• Identity: jobId, slug, url, applyUrl
• Job: title, description (+ descriptionHtml, descriptionText, descriptionUrls[]), employmentType[], occupationalCategory[], industry, workHours, jobBenefits[], tags[]
• Company: companyName, companyLogo, companyPageUrl, companyWebsite, opt-in contactEmail / contactWebsite / emailEnrichment
• Geography: applicantCountries[] (who may apply — ["Anywhere"] or explicit country lists), location, jobLocationType
• Compensation: salary { currency, min, max, unit }, salaryText
• Timing: postedDate, epoch, validThrough, applyBefore
• Board state: isSticky, isHighlighted, isVerified, source, scrapedFrom, scrapedAt

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Output samples

Job row (real smoke-test data, description truncated for display)

{
    "type": "job",
    "jobId": "1135606",
    "slug": "remote-senior-demand-generation-manager-testgorilla-1135606",
    "url": "https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-senior-demand-generation-manager-testgorilla-1135606",
    "title": "Senior Demand Generation Manager",
    "companyName": "TestGorilla",
    "companyLogo": "https://r2.remoteok.com/jobs/….jpg",
    "companyPageUrl": "https://remoteok.com/company/testgorilla",
    "companyWebsite": "https://testgorilla.com",
    "description": "Hi there, I'm Mehak, interim Head of Marketing at TestGorilla. We're excited to share more about the Sr. Demand Generation Manager role… (7,234 chars total)",
    "descriptionUrls": ["https://www.testgorilla.com/careers/"],
    "jobLocationType": "TELECOMMUTE",
    "applicantCountries": ["Anywhere"],
    "employmentType": ["FULL_TIME"],
    "industry": "Startups",
    "jobBenefits": ["distributed_team", "async", "paid_time_off"],
    "workHours": "Flexible",
    "tags": ["sales", "marketing"],
    "salary": { "currency": "USD", "min": 70000, "max": 100000, "unit": "YEAR" },
    "salaryText": null,
    "postedDate": "2026-08-01T09:04:12+00:00",
    "validThrough": "2026-10-30T09:04:12+00:00",
    "applyBefore": "Oct 30th, 2026",
    "applyUrl": "https://remoteok.com/l/1135606",
    "applyType": "remoteok",
    "directApply": false,
    "isSticky": false,
    "isHighlighted": false,
    "isVerified": true,
    "source": "listing",
    "scrapedFrom": "https://remoteok.com/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-04T09:48:11.102Z"
}

With enrichEmails: true, matching rows additionally carry:

{
    "contactEmail": "hello@testgorilla.com",
    "contactWebsite": "https://testgorilla.com",
    "emailEnrichment": { "website": "…", "emails": ["…"], "source": "…" }
}

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Key output fields

Identifiers

• jobId — RemoteOK's numeric id (stable, unique).
• slug / url — canonical job-detail URL.

Job information

• description — the FULL posting text. RemoteOK's own structured data truncates at ~1,000 chars; this actor recovers the complete text from the page (often 5,000–20,000 chars).
• tags[] — RemoteOK's rendered tag chips, lowercased. Note: RemoteOK auto-tags some listings loosely — a minority of rows carry 20+ generic tags. That is the site's own data, reported faithfully.
• jobBenefits[] — e.g. distributed_team, async, 401k_matching, equity_compensation.

Company

• companyPageUrl — the RemoteOK company profile (/company/{slug}).
• companyWebsite — the employer's own site, when the listing exposes it (a minority of rows). With enrichEmails on, it seeds email discovery directly.

Geography (the load-bearing field)

• applicantCountries[] — who may apply. Either ["Anywhere"] or an explicit list like ["United Kingdom", "Australia", "New Zealand"]. RemoteOK's own JSON for multi-country rows is invalid (missing commas) — this actor repairs and parses it, so the field is populated where wrapper scrapers return nothing.

Compensation

• salary — structured { currency, min, max, unit } from the listing (USD/year). Most rows carry a range; salaryText preserves the display string when present.

Application

• applyUrl — https://remoteok.com/l/{jobId}, RemoteOK's public apply entry point. See FAQ for why the employer's final ATS URL is not directly exposed.
• directApply — RemoteOK's own flag for whether applications happen on-platform.

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❓ FAQ

How is this different from RemoteOK's free API? The public API returns only the ~100 newest jobs (about 4 days of postings) with truncated descriptions. This actor walks the full live board — 1,000+ jobs — with complete descriptions, benefits, badges, and repaired country data.

Why is applyUrl a remoteok.com link and not the employer's ATS? RemoteOK gates the employer's external URL behind a JavaScript bot-check — verified: their API, their HTML, and their /l/{id} redirect all point back to remoteok.com. applyUrl is the same public apply entry every visitor uses. Where the listing itself exposes employer links, you get them in companyWebsite and descriptionUrls; enrichEmails closes the rest of the gap with a direct contact email.

Does the tag filter miss jobs? No — the opposite. RemoteOK's own tag boards are unreliable (they interleave unrelated jobs — verified during development), so this actor scans the complete board and matches tags client-side against each job's real chips. Exact, reproducible, and misses are never billed.

Why do some rows have odd tags? RemoteOK auto-tags listings and is sometimes generous (a non-technical job carrying developer). Tags are reported as the site publishes them. For precise role filtering, combine searchKeyword (title/company match) with tagsFilter.

How many jobs will I get? The live board holds roughly 1,000 jobs spanning ~3 weeks of postings (it grows and shrinks daily). maxItems caps the run; filtered-out rows never count toward it.

When should I enable includeDetailPages? Almost never — board rows already contain the complete record. Turn it on only if you want ogImage (the social-share card per job). It costs ~1 request per job instead of ~21 total.

Is enrichEmails guaranteed to find an email? No — it is best-effort discovery from the employer's website (seeded by companyWebsite when the listing exposes it, otherwise name-based lookup with a business-precision guard). You are billed per email found, never for misses.

Can I schedule it? Yes — any Apify schedule works. For a daily "new jobs" feed, set timeFilter: "24h" and schedule the actor every morning.

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Support

• 🐛 Issues tab of this actor — the fastest way to reach me, usually answered within hours.
• 💬 Feature requests welcome: more filters, output fields, or integrations ship on demand.

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Additional Services

Need something beyond this actor?

• Custom scrapers for any job board, directory, or listing site — delivered as private Apify actors.
• Managed data feeds — scheduled runs, deduplication, delivery to your warehouse (BigQuery, Postgres, S3, Google Sheets).
• Email enrichment at scale across any of my actors.

Open an issue on this actor or message via my Apify profile to discuss.

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🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is agent-friendly out of the box:

• Structured, stable schema — every field is always present (null when unavailable, never omitted), so tool-calling code never branches on missing keys.
• MCP-ready — callable through Apify's MCP server; the input schema above is the tool contract. A minimal call is { "searchKeyword": "python", "maxItems": 20 }.
• Token-friendly modes — set cleanHtml: true for plain-text descriptions, or includeDescription: false for compact metadata-only rows that fit hundreds of jobs in one context window.
• Deterministic filters — all filtering is exact and client-side; the same input yields the same selection logic on every run.
• Fast and cheap in loops — a filtered query typically completes in seconds and only bills matching rows, so agents can iterate freely.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Remote OK / remoteok.com. It accesses only publicly available data — the same pages any visitor sees — and does not bypass authentication, paywalls, or access controls. You are responsible for how you use the data: comply with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA where relevant), respect RemoteOK's terms of service, and attribute RemoteOK as the source where their data guidelines require it. Job data is scraped from a live site and can change or contain employer-supplied errors; verify before making decisions based on it.

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License

Apache-2.0