Wellfound Job Scraper — Startup Jobs

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

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

What Wellfound jobs data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
id	Numeric posting id parsed from the URL (e.g. 1234567 from .../jobs/1234567-role-slug); blank if the URL doesn't carry one
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring company name (may be blank on pages that don't expose structured data)
location	Location text, including remote hints (may be blank on pages that don't expose structured data)
isRemote	Boolean — true when the posting carries a remote signal (schema.org jobLocationType = TELECOMMUTE, a remote keyword in the location, or applicant-location-requirements with no office); null when the page fell back to meta extraction
salary	Human-readable compensation, e.g. "USD 120,000 – 160,000/year" (from JSON-LD baseSalary); null when the posting doesn't expose pay
salaryMin / salaryMax	Numeric lower/upper bounds of the pay range (null when unexposed)
salaryCurrency	ISO currency code of the salary, e.g. "USD" (null when unexposed)
equity	Equity percentage range, e.g. "0.1% - 1.0%", parsed from the description when it mentions equity (best-effort; null when none stated)
jobType	Employment type from schema.org employmentType (e.g. FULL_TIME, CONTRACTOR, INTERN); null when unexposed
companyLogo	Hiring company's logo URL from JSON-LD hiringOrganization.logo (null when absent)
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date where wellfound.com provides it (may be blank)
snippet	Short description excerpt
source	Always "wellfound" — useful when merging with other job-board datasets

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.
postedSince	integer	0	Only keep postings posted within this many days. Postings whose date wasn't exposed by the page are kept, not dropped. 0 disables the filter.
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

{
  "id": "2847193",
  "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
  "company": "Acme Startup",
  "location": "Remote (US)",
  "isRemote": true,
  "salary": "USD 140,000 – 180,000/year",
  "salaryMin": 140000,
  "salaryMax": 180000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "equity": "0.1% - 0.5%",
  "jobType": "FULL_TIME",
  "companyLogo": "https://photos.wellfound.com/.../acme-logo.png",
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/2847193-senior-backend-engineer",
  "postedAt": "2026-06-29",
  "snippet": "We're looking for a senior backend engineer to help scale our platform...",
  "source": "wellfound"
}

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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