# Job Search API: Find Jobs by Keyword and Location (`neverapply/job-search-api`) Actor

Search jobs by keyword, title, and location across 1.2M active jobs direct from 59k company career sites and ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle). Filter by date posted, remote, seniority, employment type, salary, company. Direct employer apply links. $2 per 1,000 jobs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neverapply/job-search-api.md
- **Developed by:** [NeverApply](https://apify.com/neverapply) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job retrieveds

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?

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

## Job Search API: Find Jobs by Keyword and Location

Search 1.2M active jobs by keyword, title, and location. Every job comes straight from one of 59,000+ companies' own career sites and ATS platforms, in 70 countries, and 99.9% of apply links go to the employer, not to a job board.

Type what you are looking for (`data engineer`, `nurse practitioner`, `python`), add a country, a city, or a date range, and get clean, structured jobs in seconds. No login, no cookies, and no scraping at run time.

### What you get

One dataset row per job, in one schema no matter which ATS the employer uses:

| Field | What it holds |
|-------|---------------|
| `title`, `company_name`, `company_domain`, `company_logo_url` | The role and the hiring company |
| `ats_name` | Where the job is published: Workday, Oracle Cloud HCM, SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Ashby, and more, or `company site` |
| `apply_link` | The employer's own apply page |
| `vacancy_key` | Shared by rows with the same employer, title, and location, so you can count each vacancy once |
| `description`, `excerpt` | Clean HTML description and a short plain-text summary |
| `primary_country_code`, `location`, `remote_status`, `is_global` | Country, city, and remote / hybrid / on-site |
| `category`, `commitment`, `experiences`, `requirements`, `tags` | Category, full-time or contract, seniority, requirements, skills |
| `salary_min_annual_usd`, `salary_max_annual_usd` | Salary converted to annual USD when the employer states it |
| `published_at`, `expires_at` | When we first saw the job and when it leaves the index unless it is confirmed live again |

### How to use

1. Enter **Keywords**, for example `software engineer`.
2. Optionally set **Countries**, **Cities**, **Remote status**, **Date posted**, **Experience level**, or **Employment type**.
3. Keep **Maximum jobs** at `100` for a first run.
4. Run the Actor. Results land in the default dataset (Overview view).
5. Schedule it with **Date posted** = *Past 24 hours* to get new matching jobs every day, and send them anywhere with Apify integrations (webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n) or the Apify API.

### Input

All fields are optional.

- **Keywords**: words in the title or the posting. Leave empty to list the newest jobs that match the filters.
- **Countries**: ISO-2 codes (`US`, `GB`, `DE`, ...)
- **Cities**: city names as they appear in `location.name` (`London`, `New York`)
- **Remote status**: completely remote, hybrid, or on-site
- **Date posted**: past 24 hours, 3 days, week, or month
- **Experience level**: entry, mid, senior, lead, or executive
- **Employment type**: full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, or internship
- **Category**: Information Technology, Finance & Banking, Healthcare, and the other categories in the form
- **Company**: an exact company name
- **ATS**: only jobs published on one applicant tracking system
- **Minimum salary (USD a year)**: only jobs that state a salary at or above this amount
- **Sort by**: relevance (default) or newest first
- **Maximum jobs**: up to 1,000 per run; you pay only for jobs written to the dataset

### Output sample

Illustrative, not live inventory:

```json
{
    "id": 12345,
    "title": "Senior Data Engineer",
    "company_name": "Acme Corp",
    "company_domain": "acme.com",
    "ats_name": "Greenhouse",
    "apply_link": "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/acme/jobs/123",
    "primary_country_code": "US",
    "is_global": false,
    "location": { "name": "New York", "slug": "new-york" },
    "remote_status": { "name": "Hybrid", "slug": "hybrid" },
    "category": { "name": "Information Technology", "slug": "information-technology" },
    "salary_min_annual_usd": 150000,
    "salary_max_annual_usd": 190000,
    "excerpt": "Build and run the data platform behind Acme's payments products...",
    "published_at": "2026-09-23T09:12:00+00:00",
    "expires_at": "2026-10-23T09:12:00+00:00"
}
```

### Pricing

$2 per 1,000 jobs (`job-retrieved` event, $0.002 each). No subscription and no minimum. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Need every job, not a search? [Job Postings API: Company Career Site Jobs](https://apify.com/neverapply/job-postings-api) pulls the full feed by country, category, and date at $1 per 1,000 jobs. The direct [NeverApply Jobs API](https://neverapply.co/developers) is cheaper at volume.

### Typical uses

- **AI agents and assistants:** find live jobs for a user by role and location, with direct apply links.
- **Job alerts:** schedule a daily search for new jobs that match a role, city, or salary.
- **Recruiting and sales:** find which companies hire for a role in a market and use `company_domain` for outreach.
- **Niche job boards:** fill a board for one role family, city, or remote-only audience.

### FAQ

#### Does the Actor scrape sites when I run it?

No. It searches NeverApply's index of employer jobs. Scraping and parsing happen upstream, so a run of 1,000 jobs takes seconds.

#### Why at most 1,000 jobs per run?

Each search returns its best 1,000 matches. To get more, split the search, for example by country or by **Date posted**, or use the [Job Postings API](https://apify.com/neverapply/job-postings-api) feed.

#### How fresh is the data?

About 18,000 new jobs are added each day. Each job is re-checked against the employer's ATS, and a job that disappears from the ATS leaves the index.

### Support

Built and maintained by [NeverApply](https://neverapply.co) (Kasovy LLC, Sheridan, WY, United States).

Questions or feature requests: use the Issues tab on this Actor, or email <hello@neverapply.co>.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Job title, skill, or any words in the posting (e.g. <code>data engineer</code>, <code>nurse practitioner</code>, <code>python remote</code>). Leave empty to list the newest jobs.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO-2 country codes (e.g. <code>US</code>, <code>GB</code>, <code>DE</code>). Leave empty for all countries.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City names exactly as they appear in <code>location.name</code> (e.g. <code>London</code>, <code>New York</code>). Leave empty for any city.

## `remoteStatus` (type: `string`):

Workplace arrangement: completely remote, hybrid, or on-site.

## `postedWithin` (type: `string`):

Only jobs added in this period.

## `experienceLevel` (type: `string`):

Seniority extracted from the posting.

## `commitment` (type: `string`):

Full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, or internship.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Job category to filter by.

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Exact company name (e.g. <code>Stripe</code>). Leave empty for all companies.

## `atsName` (type: `string`):

Only jobs published on this applicant tracking system.

## `minSalaryUsd` (type: `integer`):

Only jobs whose stated minimum salary, converted to annual USD, is at least this amount. Jobs that do not state a salary are left out.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Relevance ranks the best keyword matches first. Newest lists the latest jobs first.

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many jobs (1,000 at most per run). You pay only for jobs written to the dataset.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "data engineer",
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "London"
  ],
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "maxJobs": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

Default dataset of matching jobs. The Overview view shows title, company, ATS, location, and apply link; Eligibility shows work authorization, clearance, and relocation fields.

# 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 = {
    "query": "software engineer",
    "countries": [
        "US"
    ],
    "maxJobs": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neverapply/job-search-api").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 = {
    "query": "software engineer",
    "countries": ["US"],
    "maxJobs": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neverapply/job-search-api").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 '{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "maxJobs": 100
}' |
apify call neverapply/job-search-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neverapply/job-search-api"
        }
    }
}
```

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/q7T7dh1NZ9EBLrrPz/builds/Kc6b3TqiN3vbc3CBq/openapi.json