Y Combinator Jobs Scraper — Work at a Startup (1,000+ Jobs)
Pricing
$0.90 / 1,000 job results
Scrape the whole Work at a Startup board — 1,000+ live YC jobs, not just engineering. Each posting carries parsed salary, equity, visa policy, skills, full description and the hiring company's profile (industry, website, team size, founders). Filter by YC batch, role, type or remote. No start fee.
Job ID
id
Optional
Numeric workatastartup.com job listing ID (stringified). Stable identifier, used for de-duplication across query fan-out and for delta mode.
Job title
title
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Cleaned job title (HTML stripped, mojibake-fixed, truncated to 140 chars).
Company name
company
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Hiring company name (cleaned, truncated to 120 chars).
Company slug
companySlug
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YC company slug as used in workatastartup.com URLs (e.g. "lindy"). Empty string if not provided by the source.
YC batch
companyBatch
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Y Combinator batch code the company belongs to (e.g. "S23"). Empty string if not provided by the source.
Location
location
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Job location as given by the source (cleaned, truncated to 200 chars). Falls back to the literal string "Unknown" when the source provides no location.
Remote
isRemote
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True when the location text advertises a remote option (e.g. "San Francisco / Remote (US)"); false otherwise.
Role type
roleType
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Role category as classified by workatastartup.com (e.g. "Machine learning", "Frontend", "Data science", "Product design"). Empty string if not provided.
Employment type
jobType
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Employment type normalised to "Full-time", "Part-time", "Contract" or "Internship". Empty string if not provided.
Salary (raw)
salary
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Free-text salary range exactly as published by the company (e.g. "$150K - $220K", "₹40 INR"), truncated to 80 chars. Empty string when undisclosed.
Salary min
salaryMin
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Lower bound of the salary range parsed from the raw salary string (K expanded to thousands). Null when no numeric amount was published.
Salary max
salaryMax
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Upper bound of the salary range parsed from the raw salary string. Null for single-value or undisclosed salaries.
Salary currency
salaryCurrency
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ISO currency code inferred from the salary symbol or trailing code (e.g. "USD", "INR", "EUR", "GBP"). Null when undisclosed.
Salary period
salaryPeriod
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Pay period of the salary figures: "year" (default), "month", "week", "hour" or "day". Null when undisclosed.
Equity range
equity
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Equity range as published by the company (e.g. "0.10% - 0.50%"). Null when not disclosed or when detail enrichment is off.
Visa sponsorship
visaSponsorship
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Visa policy stated on the posting (e.g. "Will sponsor", "US citizen/visa only", "US citizenship/visa not required"). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Minimum experience
experience
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Minimum experience stated on the posting (e.g. "3+ years"). Null when unspecified or when detail enrichment is off.
Skills
skills
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Skill tags listed on the posting (e.g. ["Figma", "Machine Learning"]). Empty array when none listed or when detail enrichment is off.
Description (text)
description
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Full job description as plain text (HTML stripped, truncated to 8000 chars). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Description (HTML)
descriptionHtml
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Full job description as source HTML (truncated to 24000 chars). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company tagline
companyTagline
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Company one-liner / tagline (e.g. "AI executive assistant for busy professionals"). Available even without detail enrichment.
Company description (text)
companyDescription
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Company hiring pitch as plain text (HTML stripped, truncated to 6000 chars). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company description (HTML)
companyDescriptionHtml
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Company hiring pitch as source HTML (truncated to 24000 chars). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company industry
companyIndustry
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Company industry as classified by YC (e.g. "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness"). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company logo URL
companyLogo
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URL of the company logo image. Available even without detail enrichment.
Company website
companyWebsite
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Company website URL. Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company location
companyLocation
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Company headquarters location (e.g. "Bengaluru, India"). Null when detail enrichment is off.
Company team size
companyTeamSize
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Company team size (headcount) as reported by YC. Null when unavailable or when detail enrichment is off.
Company last active
companyLastActiveAt
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Timestamp of the company's last activity on Work at a Startup, when the source provides it; a freshness proxy (the source exposes no per-job posting date). Often null.
Founders
founders
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Founder profiles from the company page: name, avatarUrl, linkedin, pastCompanies, bio. Empty array when detail enrichment is off.
Posting date
postedAt
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Always null. Neither the workatastartup.com search API nor the detail page exposes a per-listing posting date; see companyLastActiveAt for a company-level freshness proxy.
Context snippet
snippet
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Short composed summary (company one-liner + role type / job type / YC batch), cleaned and truncated to 400 chars.
Apply URL
applyUrl
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Work at a Startup application URL for this posting (routes through YC sign-in). Null when the source omits it.
Listing URL
url
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Canonical workatastartup.com job listing URL, e.g. https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/.
Is new
isNew
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Present and true only in delta mode (onlyNewSinceLastRun): marks a posting not delivered by a previous run.
Source tag
source
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Constant source identifier for this actor's records: "ycombinator_was".
