Extract data like job title, description, salary range, location, job link and company socials.
Specify the search based on job title, location or customized via URL.
Supports search and URL lists. Download your data as HTML Table, JSON, JSON-L, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS
Added parameter include_company_socialscompany social media links like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook to the output if available
Addded parameters include_company and exclude_company to allow users to filter job listings by specific companies or exclude certain companies from the output
Imroved the Input Form UI/UX for better usability & readability
Version 0.8.4 - Hotfix Update
Release Date: 2025-09-01
Issues fixed
Resolved a bug causing runs to fail unexpectedly in some cases due to parsing issues when certain data fields were missing
Improvements added
Version 0.8.3 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-08-28
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved parsing issues when certain data fields were missing
Resolved some issues with job filtering in Stream Output mode
General stability improvements
Improvements added
Improved keywordfilter to support a variety of formats including spaces, and some special characters like @ # . to allow more flexible keyword searches
Added include_job_page parameter to allow users to choose whether to scrape detailed job posting pages for each job listing, which can save time and resources if only some data is needed
Added multi-location support with a new locations parameter to allow users to specify multiple job locations for more flexible job searches
Added 30+ new selectable job locations including continents like Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and a variety of new cities
Added slugfield to company output to provide a unique identifier for each company
Increased usage limits for free users from 3 to 5 runs per day
Improved error handling and logging for better debugging
Version 0.8.2 - Maintenance Update
Release Date: 2025-08-25
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved an issue when reseting monitoring mode
General stability improvements
Improvements added
Increased Usage Limits for free users to 5 runs per day
Version 0.8.1 - Maintenance Update
Release Date: 2025-08-18
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved issue on automated tests
General stability improvements
Improvements added
Version 0.8.0 - Maintenance Update
Release Date: 2025-08-17
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improved error handling
General stability improvements
Version 0.7.8 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-07-15
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved some issue with monitoring mode
Improvements added
Added reset_monitoring parameter to allow users to reset the monitoring state and start scraping all job posts from the specified query
Added stream_output parameter to allow users to stream the output in real-time, which is useful for monitoring long-running scraping tasks
Added keyword parameter to allow users to filter job listings by specific keywords in the job title or description
Improved monitoring_mode to ensure it only returns new job postings, based on job id, published date and description instead of job url only (previously)
Improved monitoring_mode to ensure it reclaims jobs that were previously scraped but are now new or updated
Added support for gracefully aborting the scraper process, allowing users to stop the scraping process without losing progress
Added support for migration events, allowing the scraper to handle server migrations without losing progress
Sorted Input Parameters for better usability & readability
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.7.6 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-06-30
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Added prefiltering step so job pages will not be scraped unnecessarily
Added monitoring_mode, which enables users to get only new job postings on runs, this will be enabled by default
Added only_unique_jobs, which enables the users to get only unique job postings, this will be enabled by default
Improved general performance
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.7.5 - Stability Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-06-27
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Added usage quota for free users to prevent recent abusive behaviour overloading our infrastructure
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.7.4 - Bug Fixing Update
Release Date: 2025-06-24
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved Actor crashing during high load times
Changed default Residential Proxy Region
Improvements added
Version 0.7.2 - Bug Fixing Update
Release Date: 2025-06-24
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed some data validation issues
Improvements added
Version 0.6.9 - Bug Fixing Update
Release Date: 2025-06-21
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed some data validation issues
Improvements added
Version 0.6.8 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-06-21
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed some data validation issues
Improvements added
Added several new filter options for job salary, job types, job skills, job experience
Improved README documentation readability
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.6.7 - Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-06-12
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
We added support for role-only listing urls
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.6.6 - Improvement & Fix Update
Release Date: 2025-06-11
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Expired job listings will now be logged correctly
Improvements added
Increased max_pages limit from 25 to 100 for paying users
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.6.5 - Improvement & Fix Update
Release Date: 2025-06-11
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed bug where page_offset parameter was not respected
Increased minimum memory to 256 MB due to out-of-memory errors and maximum to 4096 due to input errors on default ui settings
Improvements added
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.6.4 - Improvement & Fix Update
Release Date: 2025-06-09
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improved error messages when job search ends up in a 404 error
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Improvements added
Sorted job locations and job titles selection
'url' parameter is now completly removed as it got replaced by 'urls' parameters to insert bulk listing or job page urls
Version 0.6.3 - Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-06-04
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Improvements added
Added 15 new selectable locations including Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria and Poland
Version 0.6.2 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-05-29
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Improvements added
Added new Output Table View
Added support for location only Listing URL formats
Added Bulk Listing URL support for up to 5 URLs at once for our paying users
Added company category multi select filter with 400+ unique company categories
Version 0.6.1 - Stability Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-05-25
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Improved general stability & availability of the service
Version 0.6 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-05-22
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved some parsing issues
Improvements added
Added some new company fields
Improved general stability
Version 0.5.5 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-05-21
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improved proxy rotation handling
Improvements added
We rescaled our own infrastructure further due to increased throughput resulting in temporarily service outages
Version 0.5.0 - Major Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-05-20
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
General reliability and performance fixes across the scraping pipeline.
Improvements added
Implemented a robust, self-managed scraping infrastructure to ensure high reliability and scalability under increased user demand. This upgrade addresses frequent 403 errors and rate-limiting issues caused by platform-level bot protection, significantly improving stability for all users
Revamped filtering logic: enhanced support for last_x_days and remote_only parameters to provide more precise and user-centric job discovery
Increased max_pages limit from 7 to 25, enabling deeper data extraction while maintaining fair usage practices.
Improved log messages
Version 0.0.50 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-05-15
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved an issue that triggered 403 responses during requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.48 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-05-06
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved an issue that triggered 403 responses during requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.47 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-05-03
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved an issue that triggered 403 responses during requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.46 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-04-30
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved an issue that triggered 403 responses during requests
Corrected the log output to accurately reflect the 'last_x_days' parameter
Improvements added
Version 0.0.43 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-04-28
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved issue when encountering 403 requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.42 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-04-28
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed an issue where the scraper collected all jobs on a listings page incorrectly due to frontend structure changes.
Handled HTTP 403 errors gracefully when encountered during scraping.
Improvements added
Introduced request throttling to significantly slow down the scraper, reducing the likelihood of being blocked by bot protection mechanisms.
Version 0.0.41 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-04-24
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved issue when encountering 403 requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.40 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-04-09
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Resolved issue when encountering 403 requests
Improvements added
Version 0.0.36 - Maintenance Update
Release Date: 2025-04-07
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Version 0.0.35 - Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-03-03
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed 403 Error due to changes to bot protection
Improvements added
Added remote_only parameter to allow users to filter only jobs with remote working policies that are truly open for fully remote work
Version 0.0.32 - Improvement Update
Release Date: 2025-02-25
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Added 40+ new jobs to select directly from the "Job Title" drop down menu
Added 16 new locations to select directly from the "Job Location" drop down menu
Version 0.0.30 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2025-02-15
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed 403 Error due to changes to bot protection
Improvements added
Version 0.0.30 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-12-12
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Extraction of job details failed with an unhandled exception if items were missing
Improvements added
Version 0.0.28 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-12-06
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Jobs are now saved directly to the dataset as they are extracted, rather than at the end of a run
Version 0.0.27 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-12-05
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed parsing issues on company size
Improvements added
Version 0.0.26 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-10-13
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed parsing issues on company name, job type
Improvements added
Added residential proxy configuration as default
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.25 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-10-12
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed parsing issues on multiple columns
Improvements added
Version 0.0.21 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-10-01
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed filtering out expired jobs without a job id
Improvements added
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.20 - Improvement Update
Release Date: 2024-09-30
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Improvements added
Added last x days parameter to filter job retrieval by custom amount of days.
Added offset parameter to offset the starting page from which the scraper should scrape.
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.19 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-09-16
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed scraper failing because by using custom job title or job location
Improvements added
Improved readme documentation on custom job titles / locations
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.18 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-09-15
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed scraper failing fetching data with 403 error due to heavy bot protection
Improvements added
Improved custom job url validation
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.16 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-08-30
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed scraper failing fetching data with no error due to frontend changes
Improvements added
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Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.15 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-08-19
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed scraper failing fetching data with status 403 due to cloudflare protection on the frontend of Wellfound
Improvements added
Enabled proxy settings for users if needed
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.14 - Issue Resolving Update
Release Date: 2024-07-15
Improvements and Fixes:
Issues fixed
Fixed scraper failing by not beeing able to extract job details content due to changes on the frontend of Wellfound
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0.11 - Major Update
Release Date: 2024-06-04
Improvements and Fixes:
🔍 Search Customization:
Added Custom Job Title input - enables users to enter a preferred job title that is not present in the job titles input list
Added Custom Job Location input - enables users to enter preffered job location that is not present in the job locations input list
📝 Added new high qualitys output fields
job_id: Unique identifier for the job.
job_listing_posted: Timestamp of when the job listing was posted.
job_min_salary: Minimum salary value as a number.
job_max_salary: Maximum salary value as a number.
job_salary_currency: Currency of the salary (e.g., USD).
job_salary_unit: Unit of the salary (e.g., YEAR).
job_experience: Required experience description.
required_experience_years: Required years of experience.
required_experience_months: Required months of experience.
job_location_requirement: Location requirement for the job.
hires_remotely: Areas where the company hires remotely.
job_benefits: Description of job benefits.
job_listing_valid_until: Timestamp of when the job listing expires.
direct_application: Indicates if direct application is allowed.
company.profile_url: URL to the company's profile.
company.url: Company's website URL.
company.logo_url: URL to the company's logo.
company.twitter_url: URL to the company's Twitter profile.
company.linkedin_url: URL to the company's LinkedIn profile.
🛠️ Error Handling and Logging:
Added Additional comprehensive error handling to manage site-specific issues and changes.
Added more input validations steps
Added more logging information
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
Version 0.0 - Initial Release
Release Date: 2024-06-01
Features:
📝 Job Listings Extraction:
Scrapes job listings from Wellfound with pagination
Scrapes detailed job posting page for every job listing
Extracts key details such as job title, job description, job details, job url, company name, location, salary, and posting date and many more.
🔍 Search Customization:
Allows users to specify job titles, locations, and other filters.
Configurable search parameters to narrow down job listings according to user preferences.
📊 Data Output:
Outputs dataset as JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML for easy integration and analysis.
Provides a clean and structured data output for further processing or direct use.
🛠️ Error Handling and Logging:
Comprehensive error handling to manage site-specific issues and changes.
Detailed logging to assist in debugging and tracking scraping activities.
Improvements and Fixes:
Initial release with all core features and functionalities fully tested.
Resolved initial bugs identified
Notes:
Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
This changelog entry documents the initial release of the job listings web scraper actor, detailing its core features, functionalities, and initial bug fixes.
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