The Muse Jobs Scraper 🎯

Scrape thousands of curated job listings from The Muse in seconds. Get clean, structured data — job title, company, location, remote flag, category, experience level, description and the direct apply link — with no API key, no login, and no headless browser.

Fast, lightweight and datacenter-proxy friendly. Priced to undercut every other job scraper on the store.

⭐ ~$1 per 1,000 jobs — one of the cheapest job scrapers on Apify.

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✨ What you get

Every job is returned as a clean, flat record:

Field	Description
title	Job title
company	Hiring company name
location	Primary location
location_all	All listed locations, comma-joined
remote	true when the job is Flexible / Remote
url	Direct link to the job page (apply here)
description	Full description, HTML stripped (capped at 5,000 chars)
categories	List of job categories
level	Experience level (Entry / Mid / Senior / Management)
job_type	Job type (e.g. external)
posted_at	Publication date (ISO-8601 UTC)
source	Always themuse
job_id	The Muse job id
scraped_at	When the record was scraped (ISO-8601 UTC)

All fields are nullable, so your downstream pipeline never breaks on a missing value.

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🚀 Quick start

Set your input and run:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "categories": ["Software Engineering", "Data Science"],
  "levels": ["Entry Level", "Senior Level"],
  "locations": ["New York, NY", "Flexible / Remote"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

That's it. The Actor paginates through every matching result page and pushes one dataset item per job.

Input options

Property	Type	Description
mode	select	search — apply the filters below and paginate.
categories	array	Optional categories, e.g. Software Engineering, Data Science. Repeatable.
levels	array	Optional experience levels, e.g. Entry Level, Senior Level. Repeatable.
locations	array	Optional locations, e.g. New York, NY, Flexible / Remote. Repeatable.
company	string	Optional single company slug, e.g. spacex.
maxItems	integer	Max jobs to scrape (default 100, max 1000).

Leave every filter empty to scrape the newest jobs across all categories.

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💡 Use cases

• Job aggregation — feed a job board or newsletter with fresh, structured listings.
• Recruiting & sourcing — track which companies are hiring for which roles and levels.
• Labor-market & salary research — analyze demand by category, level and location.
• Building job boards — power a niche vertical board with clean data and apply links.

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⚖️ Why this Actor?

	The Muse Jobs Scraper	Manual copy-paste	Official API wrappers
No API key required	✅	✅	❌ (rate-limited keys)
Structured, nullable output	✅	❌	⚠️
HTML-stripped descriptions	✅	❌	❌
Remote detection	✅	❌	❌
Datacenter-proxy friendly	✅	—	—
Price	💚 ~$1 / 1k	Free (slow)	Varies

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📤 Output example

{
  "title": "Sr. Staff Engineer (GenAI)",
  "company": "Uber",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "location_all": "San Francisco, CA",
  "remote": false,
  "url": "https://www.themuse.com/jobs/uber/sr-staff-engineer-genai",
  "description": "About the Role ...",
  "categories": ["Software Engineering"],
  "level": "Senior Level",
  "job_type": "external",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-17T00:26:18+00:00",
  "source": "themuse",
  "job_id": 21470001,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T16:20:00+00:00"
}

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❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Muse exposes a public jobs API — this Actor uses it directly.

Will it work with datacenter proxies? Yes, it is designed to run without residential proxies.

How many jobs can I get? Up to 1,000 per run via maxItems. Run multiple filtered searches to cover more.

Is the data legal to use? The Actor collects publicly available job listings. You are responsible for complying with The Muse's terms and applicable laws.

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