Built In Jobs Scraper — US Tech & Startup Jobs

Scrape current US tech and startup openings from Built In, including remote flags and salary bands where posted.

Claude / Codex skill to describe and setup this actor: SKILL.md

What Built In jobs data does this scraper extract?

Published postings follow nomad-agent-job-row-v1. The shared fields carry source identity, title and company, parsed locations, dates, the complete plain-text body when available, source markup when usable, and work type. Unavailable scalar facts are null; no parsed location is []. Source-only facts appear in versioned custom.data only when mapped there. See the Output example section for the exact dataset fields and diagnostic rows.

The Actor always fetches detail pages. includeDescription is accepted only as a legacy compatibility input and is ignored. Missing optional fields are null; records with no complete description are not emitted.

How to scrape Built In jobs with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run — no login to the target site, no cookies, no proxies to configure.
2. Pick job categories (or leave empty for the curated default in categoryPages — see Input below) and adjust maxItems.
3. Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it over the API.

Run it from your own code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("nomad-agent/builtin-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "—", item["company"], item["url"])

Or a single HTTP call that runs the Actor and returns items in one response:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nomad-agent~builtin-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
categories	array (multi-select)	(empty)	Friendly Built In job categories to scrape — 21 verified categories including Software Engineering, Frontend, JavaScript, DevOps, Data & Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Sales, Operations, HR, Finance, Legal, Content, Customer Success, Project Management, Cybersecurity + IT, and Internships. Leave empty to use the default shown in categoryPages below. Merges with categoryPages if both are set.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum number of listings to return across all category pages. Set to 0 for no limit.
maxPagesPerCategory	integer	1	How many pagination pages to fetch per category URL. Page 1 is always fetched; subsequent pages use the ?page=N parameter.
includeDescription	boolean	true	Deprecated compatibility input; ignored. The Actor always fetches detail pages and emits only records with a complete description.
postedWithin	string	any	Keep only jobs published inside this window. Use any for no date filter, or a duration — 1h, 24h, 3d, 2w, 6m. Jobs the source published no date for are kept rather than dropped. Applied to the age parsed from each card's relative N Days Ago badge. Replaces postedWithinDays, still accepted for existing integrations.
categoryPages (Advanced)	array	/jobs/remote/dev-engineering/front-end, /jobs/remote/dev-engineering/javascript, /jobs/remote/data-analytics/machine-learning, /jobs/remote/dev-engineering/devops, /jobs/remote/data-analytics/data-engineering	Legacy/low-level form: raw Built In category page paths or full URLs. Pre-filled with this Actor's actual default coverage (previously a hidden code-level default with no UI visibility) so you can see and edit exactly what a default run fetches. Prefer categories for common cases; use this for one-off or niche categories not covered by the enum. Merges with categories, doesn't replace it.
cacheTtlSeconds (Advanced)	integer	1800	Reuse a page fetched this many seconds ago instead of hitting builtin.com again on rapid re-runs. Set 0 to always fetch live.

Output example

Every row follows nomad-agent-job-row-v1, the one shape shared by all of this fleet's job Actors. A row carries every field; null means the source did not publish that fact, and locations: [] means no usable location was parsed from the posting. Nothing is guessed.

{
  "schemaVersion": "nomad-agent-job-row-v1",
  "recordType": "posting",
  "source": "builtin",
  "id": "a1b2c3",
  "url": "https://example.com/builtin/jobs/a1b2c3",
  "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
  "company": "Example Company",
  "locations": [
    "Bilbao",
    "Spain"
  ],
  "postedAt": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
  "deadline": "2026-10-15",
  "description": "The complete posting body as plain text, exactly as the source published it — never truncated.",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>The complete posting body as the source's own markup.</p>",
  "workType": "remote",
  "custom": {
    "schemaId": "nomad-agent-job-custom-builtin-v1",
    "data": {
      "skills": "…",
      "industries": "…"
    }
  }
}

Field	Meaning
schemaVersion	Always "nomad-agent-job-row-v1".
recordType	"posting" for a job, "diagnostic" for a row reporting something about the run itself.
source	Which job source the posting came from, from the collector registry's vocabulary — not the Actor name.
id	Stable identifier for the posting within source.
url	Canonical public URL of the posting on the source site.
title	Job title exactly as the source publishes it, untruncated.
company	Employer name as published.
locations	Places the role is based, most specific first — e.g. ["Bilbao", "Spain"].
postedAt	When the source published the posting, ISO-8601 UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).
deadline	Closing date for applications as an ISO-8601 calendar date (YYYY-MM-DD).
description	The complete posting body as plain text — never truncated, never summarised.
descriptionHtml	The posting body as the source's own markup, preserving lists, headings and links.
workType	Working arrangement: "remote", "hybrid" or "onsite".
custom	Facts only this source publishes, as {"schemaId", "data"}.

A run also emits diagnostic rows — recordType: "diagnostic" with a warnings array — when it has something to report, such as a source returning nothing. They are never billed and are easy to filter out on recordType.

Integrations

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Console, pull it over the Apify API (including run-sync-get-dataset-items for a single blocking call), wire it into Make/Zapier/n8n, or drive it from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per Actor start and $0.0009 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.095. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Use cases

• US tech job boards and alert bots
• Startup-hiring market research
• Sourcing pipelines for US tech roles
• Salary benchmarking by city

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Built In jobs? This Actor reads only publicly available job postings — data any visitor can see without logging in. No personal data behind authentication is touched. Review the target site's terms and your local regulations for your specific use case.

Do I need an account on the target site? No. Postings are fetched from public pages/APIs — no login, cookies or session tokens.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live listings. Results are cached for cacheTtlSeconds (default 30 min, set 0 to always hit the source live).

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run (set 0 where supported for no cap). Most sources paginate from newest to oldest.

What's the difference between categories and categoryPages? categories is a friendly multi-select of common Built In job categories — pick from a list, no need to know the site's internal URL structure. categoryPages (Advanced) is the raw underlying mechanism: literal Built In category page paths or URLs, for categories not covered by the friendly list. Both feed the same fetch and can be combined.

Something broken or missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — it is monitored and reliability fixes ship fast.

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