Workday Jobs Scraper - Every Opening From Any Careers Site

Paste any Workday careers URL. It returns every live opening.

Most Fortune 500 careers sites run on Workday, and unlike Greenhouse or Lever, their API addresses cannot be guessed: the tenant, the wd-number shard and the site name are all set per company. This Actor reads all three out of whatever URL you paste - the careers home page, a search page, or a single job posting link.

No proxy. No browser. No API key.

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Input

{
  "careersUrls": [
    "https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite",
    "https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site"
  ],
  "searchText": "machine learning",
  "titleKeywords": ["engineer"],
  "postedWithinDays": 7
}

Any link from the company's Workday site works - if you can open it in a browser, this Actor can decompose it. A compact tenant/wd5/SiteName triple works too.

searchText is passed to Workday's own server-side search (the same box on the careers page), so filtering happens before fetching and you are billed only for what matches.

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Output

One row per opening, in the same normalised schema as the sibling ATS Actors - so Workday rows join cleanly against Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and SmartRecruiters rows on the same columns.

Field	Notes
companyName, boardToken, ats	Who, and which board it was read from
title, location, isRemote	From the listing
publishedAt	Real date derived from Workday's posted-on text
postedOnText	The original display string, kept for auditing
jobUrl, applyUrl	The public posting link
globalId	workday:{tenant/shard/site}:{jobId} - stable join key
description, employmentType	Only with includeDescription

Export as Excel, CSV, JSON or XML, or pull it through the API.

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Three traps this Actor absorbs for you

These are verified behaviours of the live endpoint, not documentation quotes - the endpoint is not documented anywhere.

1. Asking for more than 20 jobs returns zero. The endpoint pages at exactly 20 records. limit: 21 answers HTTP 200 with an empty list and total still filled in - indistinguishable from a company that is not hiring. This Actor always pages at 20 and steps offset until total.

2. The posting date is a sentence, in your language. postedOn is a localized display string ("Posted Today", "Posted 3 Days Ago"). Every request this Actor makes pins Accept-Language: en-US and derives a real date from the English strings. Past 30 days, Workday only says "30+ Days Ago" - turn on includeDescription to get each job's true start date from the detail record instead.

3. The listing is thin. Description, employment type and the real posting date live one request deeper, per job. includeDescription fetches them - one extra request per job, priced accordingly by your own choice.

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Monitoring: only what changed

Set onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and schedule it. The first run records a baseline and returns everything. After that, every run returns only roles that opened (isNew: true) or closed (isClosed: true) since the last one. A morning with no hiring activity returns nothing and costs only the start fee.

Changing the URLs or filters starts a fresh baseline - otherwise every job you stopped asking about would be reported as newly closed, which is a wrong answer rather than a noisy one.

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Limits

• This is the API behind the public careers page: read-only, unauthenticated, and not documented as a public contract. Workday can reshape it without notice; this Actor tolerates missing fields and reports boards it cannot read as notFound rows rather than dropping them.
• The list response has no department or salary. Both may appear in the detail record (includeDescription), when the company fills them in.
• Some tenants run heavily customized sites; the mainstream layout is what this Actor reads.
• It pages politely - one POST per 20 jobs, bounded concurrency.

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How this works, in full

The endpoint, the URL decomposition and all three traps are written up here, with live examples:

Workday job boards have a JSON API too. It's just better hidden.

For one company you can build this yourself - the article gives you the code. This Actor earns its keep at the point where that stops being true.

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Support

A tenant that will not resolve? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the careers URL.