Wellfound Startup Jobs Scraper

Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) startup jobs scraper by keyword / role + optional location: title, startup name, salary + equity, remote flag, locations, and absolute job URL — one clean Dataset row per listing.

Built for startup recruiting intel, equity benchmarking, lead gen, and PPE-friendly exports. No browser automation — HTTP + Chrome TLS fingerprint against Wellfound SEO role pages (/role/…) and the embedded Apollo __NEXT_DATA__ store.

Wellfound SSR embeds Apollo entities (JobListingSearchResult, StartupResult) with compensation strings like $120k – $200k • 0.01% – 0.15%. This Actor GETs the public SEO landing pages with curl_cffi (chrome124), maps salary vs equity into separate fields, and paginates with ?page=N until maxJobs. Residential proxy is optional (often works without proxy; use RESIDENTIAL if you hit Security Check).

Why this Actor: Startup + equity schema (not generic cheap jobs) · Remote / city SEO URLs · Clean salary/equity split · No Playwright · No email-harvesting claims · Cheap PPE-friendly alternative to bloated multi-board Actors · CSV / API / webhooks ready

Store icon: set the Actor icon in Apify Console (PNG not shipped in this repo; assets/ reserved for later).

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Table of contents

1. What this Actor does
2. What you get
3. Features
4. Input
5. Output example
6. Output fields
7. Quick start (API)
8. Use cases
9. Limitations
10. FAQ
11. Keywords

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What this Actor does

Step	Action
1	Accept keyword + optional location / maxJobs
2	Map to SEO URL: /role/{slug}, /role/r/{slug} (Remote), or /role/l/{slug}/{city}
3	GET HTML with Chrome impersonate
4	Parse __NEXT_DATA__ → Apollo seoLandingPageJobSearchResults
5	Expand StartupResult.highlightedJobListings → Dataset rows (salary + equity)
6	Paginate ?page=N until maxJobs or last page

Input: keyword, location, max jobs, proxy.
Output: one Dataset row per job.

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What you get

Job / startup

• jobId, title, jobType, jobUrl
• companyName, companySlug, companySize, companyHighConcept, companyLogoUrl

Compensation (equity angle)

• compensation (raw), salaryLabel, equityLabel

Location / remote

• location, locationNames, remote, remoteKind

Meta

• keyword, locationQuery, scrapedAt, error, errorMessage

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Features

Capability	Detail
Keyword + location	e.g. software engineer + Remote / San Francisco
Equity-aware schema	Splits Wellfound compensation into salary vs equity %
No browser	curl_cffi impersonate chrome124 + browserforge headers
Apollo SSR	Reads embedded search results — no fragile CSS selectors
Proxy-aware	Optional Apify proxy (RESIDENTIAL if Security Check / 403)
PPE-friendly	Listings only — no email harvesting claims

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Input

Field	Required	Description
keyword	Yes	Role keyword (maps to Wellfound SEO slug)
location	No	Remote, city name, or empty for all
maxJobs	No	1–200 (default 40)
proxyConfiguration	No	Default off; enable RESIDENTIAL if blocked

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Output example

{
  "jobId": "4716782",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "companyName": "Boom",
  "companySlug": "boom-app",
  "companySize": "SIZE_11_50",
  "companyHighConcept": "Modern rental financial services for property managers and renters",
  "location": "Austin",
  "locationNames": ["Austin"],
  "remote": false,
  "compensation": "$120k – $200k • 0.01% – 0.15%",
  "salaryLabel": "$120k – $200k",
  "equityLabel": "0.01% – 0.15%",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4716782-software-engineer",
  "keyword": "software engineer",
  "locationQuery": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T20:00:00Z",
  "error": false,
  "errorMessage": null
}

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Output fields

See Dataset schema in Console. Key fields: title, companyName, salaryLabel, equityLabel, remote, jobUrl. Soft-fail rows set error=true with an actionable errorMessage (403 / unknown role / parse failure).

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Quick start (API)

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/noahadler~wellfound-jobs/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"software engineer","location":"Remote","maxJobs":20}'

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Use cases

• Startup / VC talent pipeline monitoring
• Equity + salary band benchmarking by role
• Remote-first hiring market scans
• Competitive hiring intel for niche roles

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Limitations

• Uses public SEO role pages only — arbitrary free-text that is not a Wellfound SEO role returns 404 soft-fail
• GraphQL live search is behind Security Check (not used)
• Equity / salary only when Wellfound publishes them on the card
• No full JD HTML or applicant PII
• Rate limits / Security Check may require RESIDENTIAL proxy

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FAQ

Does this need a browser? No — HTTP + __NEXT_DATA__.

Remote vs city? location=Remote → /role/r/…; city → /role/l/{role}/{city}; empty → all locations.

Why equity fields? Wellfound’s differentiator vs generic job boards is startup equity in the compensation string — this Actor splits it explicitly.

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Keywords

Wellfound, AngelList Talent, AngelList jobs, startup jobs scraper, equity jobs API, remote startup jobs, Wellfound scraper, Apify jobs actor