# Blind by GuidePoint Reviews & Salary Scraper (`muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Blind company profiles, employee reviews, discussions, channel posts, and recent salary submissions for workplace and compensation research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhammad Afzal](https://apify.com/muhammadafzal) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.99 / 1,000 blind results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Blind by GuidePoint Scraper

> **Free-plan limit:** Apify free-plan users receive at most 5 delivered records per run. Paid and agentic-payment runs may use the configured `maxResults` limit.

Extract public Blind company reviews, company profiles, discussions, channel posts, and recent salary submissions into structured JSON for workplace research, recruiting intelligence, compensation analysis, and employer monitoring.

This Actor reads only pages that Blind publishes on the open web. It does not log in, accept session cookies, bypass CAPTCHA, access private groups, or expose member email addresses or identities.

### What it extracts

| Record | Useful fields |
|---|---|
| Company | `companyName`, `industry`, `employeeSize`, `foundedYear`, `overallRating`, `reviewCount`, `location` |
| Review | `title`, `pros`, `cons`, six ratings, `jobTitle`, `location`, `countryCode`, `createdAt` |
| Post | `title`, public `content` excerpt, author alias, employer, reactions, comments, views, `itemUrl` |
| Salary | role, total compensation, base, bonus, equity, level/YOE/location metadata, submission time |

Every item also includes `recordType`, a stable `id`, `sourceUrl`, `itemUrl`, and `scrapedAt`. Fields unavailable for a record type are explicitly `null`, giving agents and pipelines a stable shape.

### When to use it

Use this Actor to compare employee sentiment, monitor public company discussions, analyze recent compensation submissions, or export public Blind data to Sheets, a database, or an AI workflow.

Do not use it for private feeds, account data, private channels, comments hidden behind authentication, employee identification, or bulk historical pagination. The current contract extracts the records server-rendered on each requested public page; it does not call login-gated APIs or promise an entire historical archive.

### Input

| Field | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `companyNames` | Blind company names or URL aliases | `["Microsoft"]` |
| `sections` | `profile`, `reviews`, `posts`, and/or `salaries` | `["reviews"]` |
| `salaryCountrySlug` | Country part of a Blind salary URL | `united-states` |
| `startUrls` | Exact public company, channel, post, or article URLs | `[]` |
| `maxResults` | Global schema-valid record cap, 1–1000 | `50` |
| `maxConcurrency` | Simultaneous page requests, 1–10 | `2` |

You can combine generated company pages with exact `startUrls`. Duplicate pages and duplicate records are removed.

#### Company reviews example

```json
{
  "companyNames": ["Microsoft", "Google"],
  "sections": ["profile", "reviews"],
  "maxResults": 40,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}
```

#### Salaries example

```json
{
  "companyNames": ["Microsoft"],
  "sections": ["salaries"],
  "salaryCountrySlug": "united-states",
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

#### Public channel example

```json
{
  "companyNames": [],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.teamblind.com/channels/artificial-intelligence" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}
```

#### Run with the Apify API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~blind-by-guidepoint-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companyNames":["Microsoft"],"sections":["reviews"],"maxResults":10}'
```

Keep Apify tokens in secret storage or an authorization header in production; do not commit them.

### Output example

```json
{
  "recordType": "review",
  "id": "447115",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.teamblind.com/company/Microsoft/reviews",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "companyName": "Microsoft",
  "companyAlias": "Microsoft",
  "title": "Good work-life balance",
  "content": null,
  "itemUrl": "https://www.teamblind.com/company/Microsoft/review/example",
  "authorAlias": "H*****",
  "authorCompany": null,
  "jobTitle": "Software Engineer",
  "location": "Redmond, WA",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-27T15:09:18.000Z",
  "overallRating": 4,
  "careerRating": 3,
  "workLifeBalanceRating": 5,
  "compensationRating": 3,
  "cultureRating": 4,
  "managementRating": 4,
  "pros": "Strong engineering culture.",
  "cons": "Large-company bureaucracy.",
  "helpfulCount": 2,
  "likeCount": null,
  "commentCount": null,
  "viewCount": null,
  "totalCompensation": null,
  "baseSalary": null,
  "bonus": null,
  "equity": null,
  "salaryMetadata": null,
  "companyWebsite": null,
  "industry": null,
  "employeeSize": null,
  "foundedYear": null,
  "reviewCount": null,
  "logoUrl": null
}
```

The default dataset contains only business records. `OUTPUT` in the default key-value store contains the run outcome (`DATA`, `EMPTY`, `BLOCKED`, or `REJECTED`), page counts, delivered result count, and warnings.

### Pricing

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

| Event | Price (USD) | When it is charged |
|---|---:|---|
| `apify-default-dataset-item` | FREE: $0.03099; BRONZE: $0.03099; SILVER: $0.03099; GOLD: $0.02099; PLATINUM: $0.02099; DIAMOND: $0.02099 | Blind result — One schema-valid public Blind record written to the default dataset. |
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.005 | Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run. |

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

### Reliability and limits

The Actor uses realistic browser headers, bounded concurrency, classified retries, deduplication, strict output validation, and a global result cap. Valid records are preserved if another page fails. A 404, rate limit, block, or changed page shape is recorded in `OUTPUT` instead of creating fake dataset rows.

Blind is a third-party website and can change its public page format or availability. Public pages currently expose a server-rendered first batch of data. This Actor intentionally does not bypass authentication or CAPTCHA and does not claim full historical pagination. Use low concurrency and request only the data you need.

### Responsible use

Use the data in accordance with applicable law, Blind’s terms, privacy rules, and your organization’s policies. Do not use anonymous aliases or content to identify, harass, discriminate against, or make automated employment decisions about individuals. Avoid republishing sensitive user-generated content without a lawful basis.

For support, include the run ID, requested public URL, and the `OUTPUT` warning. Never include account credentials, cookies, or private member data.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNames` (type: `array`):

Use this when scraping Blind company pages by name or URL alias, for example `Microsoft` or `Google`. Defaults to Microsoft; this is not a general keyword search.

## `sections` (type: `array`):

Use this to choose public company data sections. `salaries` returns recent submissions for salaryCountrySlug. Defaults to reviews.

## `salaryCountrySlug` (type: `string`):

Use this for salary pages, as the lowercase Blind URL slug, for example `united-states` or `canada`. Defaults to `united-states`; it is not a free-text location filter.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Use this for exact public `teamblind.com/company/...`, `/channels/...`, `/post/...`, or `/article/...` pages. Login, account, and private URLs are rejected.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Use this to cap schema-valid dataset records across all pages. Apify free-plan users receive no more than 5 delivered records per run; paid users may request up to 1,000.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Use this to limit simultaneous public page requests. Default 2, range 1–10; higher values can trigger rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyNames": [
    "Microsoft"
  ],
  "sections": [
    "reviews"
  ],
  "salaryCountrySlug": "united-states",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Public company, review, post, and salary records.

## `output` (type: `string`):

Outcome, counts, and warnings for this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companyNames": [
        "Microsoft"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companyNames": ["Microsoft"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companyNames": [
    "Microsoft"
  ]
}' |
apify call muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,muhammadafzal/blind-by-guidepoint-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/0iz5OsFKTtjxBeIdn/builds/3aQf2VN2UIj6E8mjw/openapi.json