# Ashby + Greenhouse + Lever Job Scraper — Startup ATS API (`quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper`) Actor Extract every job posting from Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever career pages — validated against 335 real startup boards, most running Ashby. Clean normalized JSON, no login, no proxies, pay only for jobs returned. - **URL**: https://apify.com/quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Quietloop Labs](https://apify.com/quietloop-labs) (community) - **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 job posting scrapeds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Ashby + Greenhouse + Lever Job Scraper — Startup ATS API Extract **all job postings from any company's career page** powered by [Ashby](https://www.ashbyhq.com/) — the fastest-growing applicant tracking system (ATS) among venture-backed startups — plus [Greenhouse](https://www.greenhouse.com/) and [Lever](https://www.lever.co/). Just provide company slugs and get clean, normalized JSON with job titles, locations, apply URLs and (optionally) full descriptions. Perfect for **job boards, lead generation, recruiting intelligence, labor market research and job alert tools**. ### Why Ashby-first? Most multi-ATS scrapers on Apify Store treat Ashby as an afterthought behind Greenhouse and Lever. This one doesn't, because the data says otherwise: when we scanned 1,127 active YC-backed companies for their career-page ATS, **199 ran on Ashby — nearly as many as Greenhouse and Lever combined (72 + 35 = 107)**. If you're tracking startup hiring, Ashby coverage isn't optional anymore. - ✅ **No login, no API keys, no proxies** — it reads the official public job board APIs that power the companies' own career pages, so results are stable and reliable. No brittle HTML parsing, no anti-bot walls. - ✅ **One normalized schema across 3 ATS platforms** — Ashby, Greenhouse and Lever results all come out in the same format, ready to merge into your database. - ✅ **ATS auto-detection** — don't know which ATS a company uses? Pass just the slug and the Actor figures it out. - ✅ **Fast and cheap** — plain HTTP JSON requests, no headless browser. Hundreds of jobs are scraped in seconds. - ✅ **Filter before you pay** — apply a regex title filter (e.g. `engineer|developer`) so you only store (and get charged for) the jobs you actually need. - ✅ **Battle-tested at scale** — the same fetch logic runs daily in production, powering a live AI/ML job board across 335 real company boards and 12,000+ collected postings (see [Validation](#validation) below). ### Input ```json { "companies": [ { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear" }, { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "stripe" }, { "ats": "lever", "slug": "plaid" }, "ashby/notion", "openai" ], "includeDescription": false, "titleFilter": "engineer|developer" } ```` Each entry in `companies` can be: | Format | Example | Behavior | |---|---|---| | Object | `{ "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear" }` | Scrapes the given board directly | | `ats/slug` string | `"ashby/notion"` | Same as above, shorthand | | Bare slug string | `"openai"` | **Auto-detects** the ATS (tries Greenhouse → Lever → Ashby) | The **slug** is the company identifier in the career page URL: - Ashby: `https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/` - Greenhouse: `https://boards.greenhouse.io/` or `https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/` - Lever: `https://jobs.lever.co/` #### Options | Field | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `includeDescription` | boolean | `false` | Include the full job description text in each item | | `titleFilter` | string (regex) | — | Case-insensitive regex; only matching job titles are saved and charged | ### Output One dataset item per job posting, in the same schema regardless of ATS: ```json { "ats": "ashby", "company": "linear", "id": "as-linear-d3bc1ced-3ce4-4086-a050-555055dbb1ff", "title": "Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer", "location": "Europe", "url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linear/d3bc1ced-3ce4-4086-a050-555055dbb1ff", "updatedAt": "2021-04-27T20:13:45.158+00:00", "description": null } ``` - `id` is globally unique and stable across runs (`as-`/`gh-`/`lv-` prefix + slug + ATS job ID) — ideal for deduplication and change detection. - `description` contains the full job description when `includeDescription` is `true`, otherwise `null`. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or feed it into your pipeline via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2). ### Pricing This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing: you pay a small fixed fee per scraped job posting (`job-scraped` event) plus the Actor start event. Use `titleFilter` to keep costs down by only saving relevant jobs. No subscriptions, no rental fee — you pay exactly for what you get. ### Validation The scraping logic in this Actor is the same code that powers a live job board in production: - **335 real company boards scraped successfully** (Ashby, Greenhouse and Lever combined) across a YC-portfolio company sample, yielding **12,273 normalized job postings** in a single run. - Runs **daily** in production with automated failure alerting. - Of the newly-discovered boards in that sample, **Ashby accounted for 199 out of 306 (65%)** — the majority ATS among modern YC-backed startups. ### Use cases - **Job board / job aggregator** — keep thousands of tech company openings fresh on a schedule - **Recruiting & sourcing intelligence** — track who is hiring for which roles and where - **Sales lead generation** — hiring signals are buying signals (e.g. companies hiring "Data Engineer" may need your data tooling) - **Labor market research** — monitor demand for skills, remote-work share, hiring velocity - **Job alerts** — run daily, diff by `id`, and notify on new matching postings ### FAQ **Is this legal?** The Actor only reads public, unauthenticated job board APIs that the companies themselves expose to publish their openings. No personal data is collected. **What happens if a slug is wrong?** That company is reported in the log and in the `RUN_SUMMARY` key-value store record; the run continues with the remaining companies. **Do I need proxies?** No. These are official public endpoints designed to be fetched by career page widgets — no blocking, no CAPTCHAs. **Why does this cover only Ashby, Greenhouse and Lever?** These three cover the large majority of venture-backed startup career pages. Open an issue on the Actor page if you need another ATS (Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, ...) — the normalized schema is designed to extend to more platforms. # Actor input Schema ## `companies` (type: `array`): List of company job boards to scrape. Each item can be:
1. An object: { "ats": "ashby" | "greenhouse" | "lever", "slug": "company-slug" }
2. A string "ashby/company-slug" (ATS prefix + slug)
3. A bare slug string "company-slug" — the Actor auto-detects which ATS the company uses (tries Greenhouse, then Lever, then Ashby).

The slug is the identifier in the career page URL, e.g. https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/\, https://boards.greenhouse.io/\, https://jobs.lever.co/\. ## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`): If enabled, each dataset item includes the full job description text. Disable for a lighter, faster dataset (description will be null). ## `titleFilter` (type: `string`): Optional case-insensitive regular expression applied to job titles. Only matching jobs are saved (and charged). Example: engineer|developer ## Actor input object example ```json { "companies": [ { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear" }, { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "stripe" }, { "ats": "lever", "slug": "plaid" } ], "includeDescription": false } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "companies": [ { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear" }, { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "stripe" }, { "ats": "lever", "slug": "plaid" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "companies": [ { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear", }, { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "stripe", }, { "ats": "lever", "slug": "plaid", }, ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "companies": [ { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "linear" }, { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "stripe" }, { "ats": "lever", "slug": "plaid" } ] }' | apify call quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=quietloop-labs/ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Ashby + Greenhouse + Lever Job Scraper — Startup ATS API", "description": "Extract every job posting from Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever career pages — validated against 335 real startup boards, most running Ashby. Clean normalized JSON, no login, no proxies, pay only for jobs returned.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "gfKoWfN3EKPPfXr1I" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/quietloop-labs~ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-quietloop-labs-ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/quietloop-labs~ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-quietloop-labs-ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/quietloop-labs~ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-quietloop-labs-ashby-greenhouse-lever-job-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "companies" ], "properties": { "companies": { "title": "Companies", "type": "array", "description": "List of company job boards to scrape. Each item can be:
1. An object: { \"ats\": \"ashby\" | \"greenhouse\" | \"lever\", \"slug\": \"company-slug\" }
2. A string \"ashby/company-slug\" (ATS prefix + slug)
3. A bare slug string \"company-slug\" — the Actor auto-detects which ATS the company uses (tries Greenhouse, then Lever, then Ashby).

The slug is the identifier in the career page URL, e.g. https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/<slug>, https://boards.greenhouse.io/<slug>, https://jobs.lever.co/<slug>." }, "includeDescription": { "title": "Include full job description", "type": "boolean", "description": "If enabled, each dataset item includes the full job description text. Disable for a lighter, faster dataset (description will be null).", "default": false }, "titleFilter": { "title": "Job title filter (regex)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional case-insensitive regular expression applied to job titles. Only matching jobs are saved (and charged). Example: engineer|developer" } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```