Y Combinator Jobs Scraper (No Login) + Full Descriptions

$0.1/1K jobs | Extract jobs from Y Combinator's Work at a Startup board in bulk, with full descriptions, company, locations and dates. Filter by keyword, location, remote and job type. No login or API key. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.

Y Combinator Work at a Startup Jobs Bulk Scraper

Our scraper collects recent startup jobs from Y Combinator's Work at a Startup board and lets you filter by keyword, location, work arrangement, employment type and posting age. Every row carries the complete original job description in text and HTML, so you never have to open the posting to read it. It is ideal for startup job alerts, recruiting and sourcing pipelines, hiring-market analytics and job boards.

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Key Benefits

• No login or API key: nothing to set up, and no account at risk.
• Low pricing: $0.10 per 1,000 jobs, with lower rates on Scale and Business plans ($0.075 and $0.05 per 1,000), and no start fee.
• 🚀 Quick to try: a 10-job run finished in about 23 seconds in our check.
• Full descriptions only: a posting with a missing or truncated description is never returned.
• No repeats across runs: schedule the same search daily and get only postings you have not received yet.

How It Works

1. Provide your search. Every filter is optional:
   • (optional) Search queries (e.g., software engineer, product manager). A job matches when its title or description contains every word of a query.
   • (optional) Locations (e.g., United States, San Francisco, US). Countries match by name, code and native name, so one country can be written several ways.
   • (optional) Work arrangement (remote, hybrid, onsite) and employment type (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Internship).
   • (optional) Posted within (e.g., 24h, 7d, 2w). Default is any.
2. Set how many jobs you want with maxItems.
3. Click Start. The form opens with software engineer in United States and 20 jobs, so a first run returns real rows in under a minute.

More settings:

• maxItems - How many jobs one run returns. Default is 50; 0, or anything above 200, means 200.
• dedupe - On by default: jobs already delivered to your Apify account for the same search are skipped. Set dedupe.enabled to false to get everything again, or set dedupe.key to keep separate alert histories.

Run the same search twice and the second run returns only new jobs, possibly none. That is the repeat suppression working; turn dedupe off to see every job again.

Work at a Startup is a startup-only board, so search by role (software engineer, product manager) rather than by company stage.

Work at a Startup postings often give no city. In our 10-job check, 3 rows had an empty locations list; a location filter also matches on applicant-location requirements, so it can return postings with no city listed.

Salary shows on some postings only (1 of 10 in our check), and no posting in that check named a hiring contact.

A run returns at most 200 jobs, so split a big export by country or keyword and keep dedupe on so the runs do not overlap.

Data You'll Receive

• Job details: title, complete description (text and HTML), locations, posting date.
• Company: employer name.
• Terms: work arrangement and employment type, whenever the posting states them (unknown facts are null). Salary appears on some jobs only.
• Links and identity: the Work at a Startup job URL, plus a stable id and source for deduplication.

Sample output data

Here is an example job from this Actor (long text shortened for display):

{
  "schemaVersion": "nomad-agent-job-row-v5",
  "source": "ycombinator_was",
  "id": "109851",
  "url": "https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/109851",
  "title": "Mechanical Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)",
  "company": "Astranis",
  "locations": [
    "San Francisco, California, United States"
  ],
  "countryCodes": [
    "US"
  ],
  "applicantLocations": null,
  "postedAt": "2026-10-13T16:00:00Z",
  "deadline": null,
  "description": "Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, a… [truncated for display]",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments… [truncated for display]",
  "workType": null,
  "salary": null,
  "employmentTypes": [
    "Full-time"
  ],
  "hiringContacts": []
}

Work at a Startup Jobs API

Results are stored in a dataset that you can export as CSV, JSON or Excel, or read on demand through the Apify API. Newest first: results are sorted by posting date, so a small maxItems gets you the latest jobs.

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Run evidence

Start with one input and output

An Apify account is required. Use your Apify API token when calling the API; Console runs do not need that token pasted into the input. No user API-key field is required by this input schema.

Free-tier event rates checked 2026-10-04: result $0.0001.

Cost: Total = Actor event charges + platform usage if separately billed + any BYO-provider charges. See “Current costs” for your event rates, plan tiers and a calculation. A sample does not promise future billable volume.

Input and output below were read from the same successful run 0J3PC4Tu41KN8O6GF (2026-10-03, immutable build SoREk9WVQbdqsxZ1K). This is an observed example, not a guarantee that repeating it returns this row.

Input JSON

{
  "dedupe": {
    "enabled": false,
    "key": ""
  },
  "maxItems": 3,
  "queries": [],
  "locations": [],
  "locationTypes": [],
  "employmentTypes": [],
  "postedWithin": "any",
  "schemaVersion": "nomad-agent-simple-inventory-search-v2"
}

Matching output excerpt

Long strings and arrays are shortened for display; this is not a complete dataset fixture.

{
  "schemaVersion": "nomad-agent-job-row-v3",
  "source": "ycombinator_was",
  "id": "113275",
  "url": "https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/113275",
  "title": "Engineering Manager",
  "company": "Emergent",
  "locations": [
    "Bangalore"
  ],
  "postedAt": "2026-10-03T14:00:00Z",
  "deadline": null,
  "description": "Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications. Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and grow… [truncated for display]",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.</p>\n<p>Since our public launch, we've crossed <strong>$130M in Annualise… [truncated for display]",
  "workType": null,
  "salary": null,
  "employmentTypes": [
    "Full-time"
  ],
  "hiringContacts": []
}

Recent Y Combinator Work at a Startup jobs with complete original descriptions. Each row carries the source ID and URL, title, employer, locations, the original description as text and HTML, posting date, deadline, work arrangement, employment type, salary and the hiring contacts the source names, whenever the source publishes them. Unknown optional facts are null; an empty locations array means the source names no physical place, and an empty hiringContacts array means the source names nobody. locations is where the job is, countryCodes lists the countries of those places as ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes (null when no place has a known country), and applicantLocations is where an applicant may live, for example a remote job open only to residents of some countries: it is null when the source states nothing and [] when it states no restriction.

Coverage includes jobs from public Y Combinator Work at a Startup pages. Every posting is verified before it is served. A posting with a missing, truncated or unverified description is never returned: every row has the full original text.

Input

{"schemaVersion": "nomad-agent-simple-inventory-search-v2", "queries": ["software engineer"], "locations": ["Europe"], "locationTypes": ["remote"], "employmentTypes": [], "postedWithin": "7d", "maxItems": 50, "dedupe": {"enabled": true, "key": ""}}

Every filter is optional, and an empty list means no filter. Filters are applied to all available postings before maxItems is counted.

• queries: a posting matches a query when its title or description contains every word of it, as whole words, ignoring case. A posting matches when any query matches.
• locations: a city, region, country name or two-letter ISO country code. Countries match by name, code and native name (Germany, DE and Deutschland find the same postings), and EU and Europe cover their member countries.
• locationTypes (remote, hybrid, onsite) and employmentTypes (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Internship): while one is set, a posting whose source does not state that fact is left out.
• postedWithin: a positive duration in hours (h), days (d), weeks (w) or 30-day months (m), up to 36500 days, or any. Postings without a source date use the date they were first seen, which later refreshes never reset.
• maxItems defaults to 50; 0, or anything above 200, means 200.
• dedupe suppresses postings already delivered to the same Apify account for the same search; different filters keep separate histories. Set dedupe.enabled to false to get stateless results, or set dedupe.key to keep separate alert histories.

Output

One flat row per posting in the nomad-agent-job-row-v5 format: schemaVersion, source, id, url, title, company, locations, countryCodes, applicantLocations, postedAt, deadline, description, descriptionHtml, workType, salary, employmentTypes, hiringContacts. employmentTypes lists the types the source states (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Internship) or is null. countryCodes lists the countries of the job's places as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (for example DE, FR), in the same order as locations, each once. A code comes from the source if it states one, otherwise from the place label. It's null when no place has a known country (a remote job with no country, or an unidentifiable place) and never an empty list. A place without a known country adds nothing, so the list can name fewer countries than there are places. A posting stored on a single-country board with no place at all carries that board's country, so locations can be [] while countryCodes names one. The locations filter matches countries against these codes as well as names and text. applicantLocations lists the regions where the source says an applicant may live (for example United States for a remote job open to US residents), null when it states nothing and [] when it states no restriction. Each hiring contact has a name, and a title and url or null. Newest postings come first. A run summary, including any input field that was mapped or ignored, is written to the RUN-SUMMARY record of the run's key-value store.

Changes

• October 2026: countryCodes added (row v5). Rows are now nomad-agent-job-row-v5: one new field, countryCodes, lists the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes of the job's places, in the order of locations, each once (null when no place has a known country, never an empty list). A code is the country the source states, or if it doesn't state one, the country read from the place label. A place whose country can't be determined adds nothing. locations and applicantLocations are unchanged. Input, other fields, and pricing are unchanged. Integrations validating against the v4 schema must allow the new field and the new schemaVersion.
• October 2026: applicantLocations added (row v4). Rows are now nomad-agent-job-row-v4: one new field, applicantLocations, lists where an applicant may live as the source states it (null when the source states nothing, [] when it states no restriction). locations is unchanged and still the physical place only; for a remote job open to some regions it is often [] while applicantLocations lists the regions. Input, other fields and pricing are unchanged. Integrations that validate rows against the v3 schema must allow the new field and the new schemaVersion.
• October 2026: recordType removed. nomad-agent-job-row-v3 rows no longer include the recordType field, because every dataset row is a posting. Read schemaVersion instead. The RUN-SUMMARY record is unchanged.
• September 2026: search filters and richer rows. The input (nomad-agent-simple-inventory-search-v2) adds queries, locations, locationTypes and employmentTypes. Rows are now nomad-agent-job-row-v3 and add employmentTypes and hiringContacts. Integrations that still send keyword or location keep working: those values become queries and locations, remote: true becomes locationTypes: ["remote"], and other old fields are ignored with a note in RUN-SUMMARY instead of failing the run. Pricing is unchanged.
• Earlier: this Actor moved to verified available postings in the shared simple job format, and every row includes the complete description.

Fast setup and source code

Public repository · Agent setup skill.

Use the Actor’s current input form for filters, or start with its documented API example. Select the latest build. Read the dataset together with the run summary: a successful status alone does not show that every source was reached.

Restrictive filters or repeat-delivery suppression can produce zero results.

Product guides and related tools

• Guide and starter input on nomadagent.dev
• Product overview and public links
• Public setup guide
• Job Atlas job-data tools
• Oink personal job alerts
• Applied to 200 jobs with no response? What to do instead

Current costs

Current Actor event rates, checked 2026-10-16. USD; use the Pricing tab for your plan and later changes.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Job result (result)	$0.0001	$0.0001	$0.000075	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005

For example, 100 × result totals $0.01 in Actor event charges on Free. This is an arithmetic example, before any waiver; actual charged events depend on the run and selected options. It is not a promise of output or a charge for simply setting an item cap.

Your total is the charged Actor events, plus platform usage only if this Actor’s Pricing tab bills it separately, plus any external provider you use with your own key. Do not add platform usage twice when it is included. Apify credits and plan discounts affect your invoice. Set a run cost limit in Console before starting.

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