Wellfound Job Scraper — Startup Jobs

Scrape live startup job openings from wellfound.com (formerly AngelList Talent) into clean, structured JSON.

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What Wellfound 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.

How to scrape Wellfound jobs with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run with the defaults, or set a keyword to narrow the listing.
2. The Actor uses ordinary browser rendering through the configured proxy. If Wellfound presents a CAPTCHA or anti-bot challenge, the run stops honestly without attempting to clear or evade it.
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/wellfound-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 30})
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~wellfound-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 30}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
keyword	string	""	Optional role query appended to the listing URL (e.g. "frontend engineer", "react"). Leave empty to scrape the default jobs listing.
maxItems	integer	30	Maximum number of postings to return.
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. Replaces postedSince, still accepted for existing integrations.
titleExclude	array of strings	[]	Drop postings whose title contains any of these words/phrases (case-insensitive).
companyExclude	array of strings	[]	Drop postings whose company name contains any of these words/phrases (case-insensitive).
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Keep only postings flagged remote (isRemote true). Postings without a confirmed remote signal are dropped when on.
jobType	string	""	Keep only postings of this employment type (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Internship, Temporary). Unknown types are kept, not dropped. Empty = all types.
salaryMin	integer	0	Keep only postings whose pay reaches at least this amount (compared to the top of the range). Postings without an exposed salary are kept. 0 disables.
salaryMax	integer	0	Keep only postings whose pay starts at or below this amount (compared to the bottom of the range). Postings without an exposed salary are kept. 0 disables.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential proxy group	Ordinary proxy transport used to load public pages. It is not used to solve or evade a presented challenge.
startUrl	string	https://wellfound.com/jobs	Advanced: override only if you want to start from a specific saved search or filtered listing URL.
detailUrlContains	string	/jobs/	Advanced: override only if wellfound.com changes its URL structure and the actor stops finding postings.
useResidentialProxy	boolean	true	Deprecated — superseded by proxyConfiguration above. Kept for backward compatibility; only used when proxyConfiguration is left unset.

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": "wellfound",
  "id": "a1b2c3",
  "url": "https://example.com/wellfound/jobs/a1b2c3",
  "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
  "company": "Example Company",
  "locations": [
    "Bilbao",
    "Spain"
  ],
  "postedAt": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
  "deadline": null,
  "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-wellfound-v1",
    "data": {
      "equity": "…"
    }
  }
}

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.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.05 per Actor start and $0.004 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.45. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Export results as JSON, CSV or Excel; connect via Make, Zapier or n8n; call directly with run-sync-get-dataset-items; or plug into AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Use cases

• Startup-hiring intelligence — track who's hiring across the Wellfound network
• Job-alert bots and boards focused on startup / VC-backed roles
• Recruiting and sourcing pipelines targeting early-stage companies
• Labour-market research on the startup ecosystem

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Wellfound? 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 — no login, cookies or session tokens.

Why do some runs return fewer results than maxItems? wellfound.com can challenge a listing or detail page even through a residential proxy. The Actor does not clear or evade those challenges, so extraction is best-effort and the run records a degraded source outcome. If a run returns 0 postings, enable the debug input to save a page snapshot for distinguishing a challenge from a genuinely empty listing.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live listings — there's no caching layer.

How can I identify newly listed jobs? Schedule the Actor and compare its full current snapshot downstream.

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run. The listing page is paginated newest-first.

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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