Wellfound Scraper - Startup Jobs, Salary & Equity

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wellfound or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Wellfound" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Scrape Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) startup jobs — with the two things most job scrapers can't give you: a published salary range and an equity percentage. No login, no cookies.

Built for recruiters, startup job boards, comp benchmarking and B2B lead lists of companies that are actively hiring.

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What you get

One row per job, every row carrying the same fields:

Field	What it is
title, jobUrl, jobId	The role and its canonical link
companyName, companySlug, companyUrl	Who's hiring
companySize	e.g. SIZE_201_500
companyTagline	What the company actually does
companyMarkets	Wellfound's own badges — Actively Hiring, Top 10% of responders, stage and investor signals
primaryLocation, locations	Where the role sits
isRemote, remoteDetail	Remote status
compensation	Original string, e.g. "$150k – $220k • 0.5% – 1.0%"
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency	Parsed into numbers so you can filter and chart
equityMin, equityMax	Equity percentage range
jobType, experienceLevel	Employment type and seniority
postedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp
description	Full role description

Filters

onlyRemote · onlyWithSalary · minSalary · maxPagesPerRole · maxResults

Filters run inside the crawl, so a filtered-out job never costs you anything.

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Example input

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer", "product-manager"],
  "onlyWithSalary": true,
  "minSalary": 150000,
  "maxPagesPerRole": 3,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Role slugs are the ones Wellfound uses in its own URLs: software-engineer, product-manager, designer, data-scientist, sales, marketing.

Example output

{
  "type": "job",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "companyName": "Clutch",
  "companySize": "SIZE_201_500",
  "companyTagline": "Reinventing Car Buying and Selling",
  "companyMarkets": ["Actively Hiring", "Top 10% of responders"],
  "primaryLocation": "Toronto",
  "isRemote": false,
  "compensation": "$160k – $200k",
  "salaryMin": 160000,
  "salaryMax": 200000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4538876-senior-software-engineer"
}

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Pricing

$0.003 per job. You are charged only for rows actually delivered to your dataset. A search that matches nothing costs $0 and tells you why.

Honest limits

• Wellfound blocks a share of requests at random. Measured across four different identities (browser headers, Googlebot, curl, UK egress): every one succeeded 5–6 times out of 8, and the failures were clean 403s, not partial data. The actor retries on a fresh proxy session, which clears roughly 96% of pages — but the residential proxy is required, not optional.
• Equity is published on a minority of postings (~19% in a real sample). Salary is far more common (~90%). Both are left null when Wellfound has no value — never defaulted to 0.
• Company pages and city-filtered job pages are 403 for logged-out clients, so this actor works from the role feeds and the general jobs feed. The company data you get comes attached to each job, which is where it's useful anyway.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/wellfound-scraper').call({
    "roles": [
        "software-engineer"
    ],
    "maxPagesPerRole": 2,
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. You can call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server - describe the data you need and let the assistant run this Actor for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape Wellfound? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Is this an official Wellfound tool? No. It is an independent, third-party Actor with no affiliation to, endorsement by or sponsorship from Wellfound. See the Disclaimer below.

Tips

• onlyWithSalary: true plus minSalary gives you a clean comp-benchmarking dataset in one run.
• companyMarkets containing "Actively Hiring" is a strong buying signal for B2B outreach.
• Dedupe on jobId when accumulating scheduled runs.

Related actors

• Y Combinator Scraper — companies, founders and jobs
• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — filter-based, no login
• Multi-ATS Job Scraper — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wellfound or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Wellfound" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Wellfound product, is not authorised or certified by Wellfound, and does not distribute Wellfound software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.