# Wellfound Jobs Scraper: Startup Salary, Equity & Visa Jobs (`s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Wellfound (AngelList) startup jobs without login: salary and equity as numbers, startup stage, YC, top investors, valuation and how fast they reply, visa sponsorship and funding, filters Wellfound lacks, job alerts. Excel, CSV, JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/s\_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Superior Actors](https://apify.com/s_actors) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.64 / 1,000 jobs

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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,
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### Wellfound Jobs Scraper & API: Startup Salary, Equity and Visa Jobs

Scrape **Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) startup jobs** to Excel, CSV or JSON **without login**. Every job comes with its salary and equity as numbers and the startup behind it. What sets it apart:

- **Salary and equity as numbers.** "$120k – $200k • 0.01% – 0.15%" becomes `salaryYearlyMin`, `salaryYearlyMax`, `salaryCurrency`, `equityMin`, `equityMax`. Filter by minimum salary or minimum equity.
- **Startup signals on every job, free**: stage (early, growth, scale, public), size, **Y Combinator**, **top investors**, **valuation $500M+ / $1B+**, growing fast, Glassdoor ratings.
- **How fast the startup replies to applicants**: "Responds within a day", "within a week", top 1% of responders. Keep only startups that answer.
- **Visa sponsorship, relocation, skills and funding** from each job page (optional): total raised, number of rounds, last round and its date.
- **Job alerts, no reposts.** Schedule it and get only the jobs you have not seen.

```json
{ "roles": ["software engineer"], "locations": ["San Francisco"], "ycOnly": true, "onlyWithEquity": true }
```

No Wellfound account, no cookies. Use it as a **Wellfound jobs API**: one call returns clean JSON with the fields above.

#### What you get

**One row per job.** Real example, September 2026 (software engineer, United States):

| job | startup | location | salary and equity | stage | replies | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | Confident LIMS | San Francisco Bay Area | $100k – $180k • 0.05% – 0.25% | Early stage | within a day | ✅ |
| Software Engineer | Boom | Austin | $120k – $200k • 0.01% – 0.15% | Early stage | | |
| Embedded Software Engineer | Starfish Space | Tukwila | $100k – $180k • 0.01% – 0.05% | Growth stage | | |
| Software Engineer - Fullstack | Nextdoor | Dallas | $135k – $200k | Public | | |

In our test of 100 US software engineer jobs (September 2026) 98 had a pay range, 13 offered equity (10 more said "no equity"), 81 had the startup's stage, 49 were backed by top investors, 31 were YC startups and 30 showed how fast the startup replies.

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `jobId`, `jobUrl`, `title`, `primaryRole` | The job and its Wellfound page |
| `companyName`, `companyId`, `companyUrl`, `companyLogo`, `companyTagline` | The startup and its one-line pitch |
| `location`, `locations`, `workplaceType`, `remoteAllowedIn` | Where; `remote`, `remote or on-site`, `hybrid` or `on-site`; countries a remote job accepts |
| `salaryText`, `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryCurrency`, `salaryPeriod`, `salaryYearlyMin`, `salaryYearlyMax` | Pay as posted and per year (₹ lakhs converted: ₹20L = 2 000 000) |
| `equityMin`, `equityMax`, `hasEquity`, `compensationText` | Equity range in % (`hasEquity` = false for "No equity") |
| `postedDate`, `postedAt` | When the job went live on Wellfound |
| `employmentType`, `yearsExperienceMin`, `experienceLevel` | Full-time, contract, internship, cofounder; minimum years asked |
| `companyStage`, `companySize`, `ycFunded`, `topInvestors`, `valuation`, `growingFast`, `recentlyFunded`, `businessModel`, `companyBadges` | Wellfound's startup badges |
| `responseTime`, `responseDays`, `topResponder` | How fast the startup usually replies to applicants |
| `glassdoorRating`, `glassdoorWorkLifeBalance`, `glassdoorLeadership` | Glassdoor ratings Wellfound shows for well-rated companies |
| `description`, `descriptionMarkdown`, `descriptionHtml` | The full job description |
| `searchKeyword`, `searchLocation`, `searchUrl`, `isNew`, `scrapedAt` | Which search found the job; job alerts |

With **Load job pages** (or the visa / relocation filters) each job also gets:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `visaSponsorship`, `relocation` | Does the startup sponsor a visa / allow relocation |
| `skills`, `preferredTimezones`, `collaborationHours`, `remotePolicy` | Skills asked; time zones and hours for remote jobs |
| `fundingTotal`, `fundingRounds`, `lastRoundType`, `lastRoundDate`, `lastRoundAmount` | Funding: "$23.9M", 5 rounds, Series B, Dec 2024 |
| `industries`, `companyWebsite`, `city`, `region`, `country`, `latitude`, `longitude` | Markets, website and exact address |
| `recruiterRecentlyActive`, `isClosed` | The recruiter was active lately; the job was taken down |

Four table views: **Jobs**, **Startups**, **Salary & equity** and **Visa & funding**.

#### How it works

| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Search | Each role in each location (or your pasted Wellfound links), page by page: 20 startups per page with up to 3 jobs each |
| 2. Filters | Date posted, job type, salary, equity, experience, stage, size, YC, investors, valuation, reply time, title words, companies. Jobs removed here are not charged |
| 3. Job pages | Only if you ask: visa sponsorship, relocation, skills, funding. Visa and relocation filters apply after the page is read; jobs that fail them are not charged |
| 4. Clean-up | The same job found by several searches appears once; reposts (same title, startup and place) are skipped |
| 5. Job alerts | With **Only new jobs** on, jobs from earlier runs are skipped and not charged |

#### Why this Actor

| | This Actor | Typical Wellfound scraper |
|---|---|---|
| Salary and equity as numbers | ✅ Min / max, per year, currency, equity % | ⚠️ One text field |
| Stage, YC, top investors, valuation | ✅ On every job, free | ⚠️ Some, or extra charge |
| How fast the startup replies | ✅ Field and filter | ❌ |
| Visa sponsorship and relocation filters | ✅ | ⚠️ Some |
| Funding (raised, rounds, last round) | ✅ With job pages | ⚠️ Some, extra charge |
| Job alerts (only new jobs) | ✅ Seen jobs not charged | ⚠️ Some |
| Filtered-out jobs and reposts | ✅ Free | ❌ Charged, or not filtered |
| Price per 1 000 jobs | **$0.80** | $1-$150 |

#### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription needed. Apify Scale and Business plans pay less:

| Event | Free and Starter plans | Scale plan | Business plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run start | $0.005 | $0.005 | $0.005 |
| Job (with description, salary, equity and startup badges) | $0.0008 | $0.00072 | $0.00064 |
| Job page (visa, relocation, skills, funding), only when turned on | $0.0005 | $0.00045 | $0.0004 |

**1 000 jobs = $0.80**, with job pages $1.30. Free: jobs removed by your filters, reposts, jobs already seen by a job alert. Platform usage and proxy are included. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options: the Actor stops there.

#### Ready-made tasks

| Task | What it does |
|---|---|
| [Wellfound Remote Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper/examples/wellfound-remote-jobs) | Remote startup jobs with salary and equity |
| [Startup Jobs With Visa Sponsorship](https://apify.com/s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper/examples/startup-jobs-visa-sponsorship) | Only jobs where the startup sponsors a work visa |
| [Y Combinator Startup Jobs](https://apify.com/s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper/examples/yc-startup-jobs) | Jobs at YC-funded startups, with equity |

#### Job alerts

1. Set your roles, locations and filters, turn on **Only new jobs**, give the alert a **Monitor name**.
2. Save it as a task and add a **schedule** (every morning, with "Posted within: Past 24 hours").
3. Send the results by email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or **n8n** with Apify integrations.

The first run returns the current jobs; next runs return only jobs not seen before.

#### FAQ

**Does Wellfound have an API?** Not a public one for job search: the old AngelList API is closed. This Actor reads the job pages Wellfound shows to any visitor and returns them as JSON through the Apify API.

**Which roles and locations work?** The ones Wellfound has job pages for: roles like "software engineer", "product manager", "data scientist", "designer", "marketing", "sales", "devops engineer"; places like "San Francisco", "New York", "London", "Berlin", "Bangalore", "India", "Europe", "United States", and "Remote". You can also paste any wellfound.com/role/... or /location/... link.

**How many jobs per search?** Wellfound lists up to 89 pages of 20 startups for a search, with up to 3 jobs of each startup per page: about 4 000 jobs for a big role. For more, add locations or roles.

**How is equity shown?** As Wellfound posts it: a range in % of the company ("0.05% – 0.25%"). `hasEquity` is false when the job says "No equity" and empty when it says nothing.

**What does "replies within a week" mean?** Wellfound measures how fast each startup answers applications and shows it as a badge. Startups without the badge are skipped by the filter.

**Do I need a Wellfound account?** No. Only pages any visitor can open are read.

#### Use with the API and AI agents

Run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python client, **n8n**, Make or Zapier, or from AI agents through the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com) (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor). One call: `POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/s_actors~wellfound-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items` with the input above returns the jobs as JSON. Set **Job description** to "None" for smaller answers.

#### Is it legal?

The Actor reads public Wellfound job listings that anyone can open without an account, as a visitor does. It does not log in or collect personal profiles. Use the data according to the laws that apply to you (GDPR and similar) and Wellfound's terms.

# Actor input Schema

## `roles` (type: `array`):

Job roles as Wellfound lists them, one per line: "software engineer", "product manager", "data scientist", "marketing", "designer", "sales". Close names are matched to a Wellfound role ("python" → "python-developer"). Each role is searched in each location.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

City, region or country: "San Francisco", "New York", "London", "Berlin", "Bangalore", "India", "Europe", "United States", or "Remote". Empty = anywhere.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only remote jobs (Wellfound's remote job pages). With a location: remote jobs among that location's jobs.

## `maxJobsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Per role and location (and per search link). Wellfound shows up to 89 pages of 20 startups per search, up to 3 jobs per startup: about 4 000 jobs.

## `postedWithin` (type: `string`):

Only jobs posted in this period (Wellfound's publish time).

## `jobTypes` (type: `array`):

Only these job types. Empty = all.

## `minYearlySalary` (type: `integer`):

Only jobs whose pay range reaches this amount per year, in the job's currency. Implies "Only jobs with salary".

## `onlyWithSalary` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only jobs that show a pay range.

## `minEquityPercent` (type: `string`):

Only jobs whose equity range reaches this share of the company, e.g. "0.1" or "1". Implies "Only jobs with equity".

## `onlyWithEquity` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only jobs that offer equity (stock options) with a stated range.

## `maxYearsExperience` (type: `integer`):

Entry-level search: skip jobs that ask for more years than this (e.g. 1 or 2). Jobs that state no minimum are kept.

## `titleInclude` (type: `array`):

Keep only jobs whose title contains one of these words (case-insensitive), e.g. "senior", "backend".

## `titleExclude` (type: `array`):

Skip jobs whose title contains one of these words, e.g. "intern", "manager".

## `companyStages` (type: `array`):

Only startups at these stages (Wellfound's stage badge). Empty = all.

## `companySizes` (type: `array`):

Only startups with this many employees. Empty = all.

## `ycOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only startups funded by Y Combinator.

## `topInvestorsOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only startups with Wellfound's "Top Investors" badge.

## `minValuation` (type: `string`):

Only startups with this valuation badge.

## `growingFastOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only startups with strong hiring growth in the past month.

## `maxResponseDays` (type: `string`):

Only startups that, by Wellfound's data, usually answer applications within this time. Skip companies that never reply.

## `companyExclude` (type: `array`):

Skip jobs of companies whose name contains one of these words.

## `includeJobDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each job's page for visa sponsorship, relocation, skills, time zones, industries, company website, funding (total, rounds, last round) and the exact post date. One extra event per job; on automatically with the two filters below.

## `visaSponsorshipOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only jobs where the startup sponsors a work visa. Loads job pages; jobs without sponsorship are free.

## `relocationOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only jobs where the startup allows relocation. Loads job pages.

## `skipDuplicates` (type: `boolean`):

A job with the same title, company and location as one already in the results is skipped and not charged.

## `onlyNewJobs` (type: `boolean`):

Return only jobs not returned by earlier runs with the same monitor name. Schedule it daily for startup job alerts by email, Slack or n8n. The first run returns the current jobs.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Separate job alert lists: runs with the same name share the jobs already seen.

## `searchUrls` (type: `array`):

wellfound.com/role/..., /role/l/<role>/<location>, /role/r/<role> (remote), /location/<place> or /remote links.

## `jobUrls` (type: `array`):

Full data of specific jobs: wellfound.com/jobs/<id>-<title> links. Closed jobs are returned with isClosed = true.

## `descriptionFormat` (type: `string`):

Format of the job description. HTML comes from the job page (turn on "Load job pages").

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Most requests go direct; when Wellfound slows them down, the rest go through Apify Residential proxy. Keep the default. Proxy traffic is included in the price.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many Wellfound pages load at once.

## `debugLog` (type: `boolean`):

Log every failed attempt.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "roles": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "United States"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "maxJobsPerSearch": 100,
  "postedWithin": "anyTime",
  "onlyWithSalary": false,
  "onlyWithEquity": false,
  "ycOnly": false,
  "topInvestorsOnly": false,
  "minValuation": "",
  "growingFastOnly": false,
  "maxResponseDays": "",
  "includeJobDetails": false,
  "visaSponsorshipOnly": false,
  "relocationOnly": false,
  "skipDuplicates": true,
  "onlyNewJobs": false,
  "monitorName": "default",
  "descriptionFormat": "text",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "debugLog": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

The main job fields.

## `startups` (type: `string`):

Startup stage, size, YC, investors, valuation, how fast they reply.

## `compensation` (type: `string`):

Salary per year and equity range.

## `details` (type: `string`):

Visa sponsorship, relocation, skills and funding from job pages.

## `all` (type: `string`):

Every field of every job.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "roles": [
        "software engineer"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "United States"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("s_actors/wellfound-jobs-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "roles": ["software engineer"],
    "locations": ["United States"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "roles": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "United States"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,s_actors/wellfound-jobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/yUxdPk00X9pqHaUjr/builds/c2XNVppaaPa7uEaP2/openapi.json