Wellfound Jobs Scraper

Startup jobs from Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) — full job descriptions, pay ranges, remote status, and the hiring company's size, stage and funding badges, all in one row.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key. Everything comes from public pages.
• The whole job description on every row, not a truncated teaser — and it arrives without a second request per job, so runs stay fast and cheap.
• The company comes with the job. Name, one-liner, headcount band, logo, and Wellfound's own badges (Actively Hiring, YC Funded, Top Investors, Valuation $1B+, Glassdoor ratings) are nested on every job row for free.
• It tells you when a search did not run. Wellfound answers 200 OK to a misspelled role or city by quietly searching for something else — often thousands of unrelated jobs. This actor detects that and returns an error row instead of the wrong data. That is the main reason to pick it over a home-made scraper.
• Honest counts. Wellfound's own job total is larger than what its pages can actually hand back, and its "per page" number counts companies, not jobs. Every run returns a summary row that states both, so you never mistake one for the other.
• Stable JSON — the same envelope (_input, _source, _scrapedAt, recordType) as every other scraper in this collection, so one loader reads them all.

How it works

1. You give it role slugs, location slugs, or Wellfound search URLs — the same words that appear in Wellfound's own address bar (software-engineer, san-francisco).
2. It walks the result pages for each search, page by page, stopping when Wellfound runs out of results, when your page cap is hit, or when a page returns nothing new.
3. Duplicate listings are removed — Wellfound repeats some rows across consecutive pages — and each job is checked to make sure it really belongs to the search you asked for.
4. Results land in your dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, with one summary row per search telling you exactly what happened.

You do not manage browsers, sessions, retries or pagination.

Input

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "locations": ["san-francisco"],
  "remote": false,
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 5,
  "includeStartups": false,
  "includeJobDetails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "minRequestInterval": 0.8,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Type	Description
roles	array	Role slugs as they appear in Wellfound's URL — software-engineer, product-manager, data-scientist. Around 515 exist; browse them at wellfound.com/browse/tech-jobs. Combined with locations as a cross-product.
locations	array	Location slugs — san-francisco, new-york, london, berlin, bangalore, united-states. Coverage is limited and Wellfound publishes no list; an unsupported one comes back as an error row that says so.
remote	boolean	Search each role's remote listings instead of the general ones. Cannot be combined with locations — Wellfound has no "remote jobs in a city" page, so that combination is refused rather than quietly ignored.
searchUrls	array	Paste Wellfound search URLs directly. Supported: /role/<role>, /role/r/<role>, /role/l/<role>/<location>, /location/<location>.
maxItemsPerSearch	integer	Stop after this many unique jobs per search. 0 = no cap. Counted after duplicates are removed. Default 100.
maxPagesPerSearch	integer	Ceiling on pages per search. Default 5. Each page returns 20 companies and roughly 12–56 jobs.
includeStartups	boolean	Also emit one row per company as its own record. The same company data is already nested on every job row, so turn this on only if you want companies as a separate table. Default false.
includeJobDetails	boolean	Fetch each posting's own page to add the employer's website and geocoded locations. Costs one extra request per job (~45 per page). Default false.
maxConcurrency	integer	Requests in flight. Default 3.
minRequestInterval	number	Seconds between request starts — the real speed control. Default 0.8.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy. Residential is the default — it was measured to be both more reliable and faster here than datacenter.

Output

Four record types share one dataset, told apart by recordType.

JOB

{
  "_input": "role=software-engineer location=san-francisco",
  "_source": "S1-nextdata",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-09-16T02:17:50Z",
  "recordType": "JOB",
  "id": "4639821",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "slug": "software-engineer",
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4639821-software-engineer",
  "primaryRoleTitle": "Software Engineer",
  "compensation": "$150k – $176k",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "remote": false,
  "remoteConfig": null,
  "locationNames": ["Denver", "San Francisco"],
  "acceptedRemoteLocationNames": [],
  "yearsExperienceMin": null,
  "yearsExperienceMax": null,
  "liveStartAt": 1787861184,
  "autoPosted": false,
  "atsSource": "AtsIntegration::Greenhouse::Listing",
  "isBookmarked": false,
  "description": "As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high-impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message que… (truncated)",
  "startup": {
    "id": "395014",
    "name": "Checkr",
    "slug": "checkr",
    "companySize": "SIZE_501_1000",
    "highConcept": "The only background check company using artificial intelligence and machine learning",
    "logoUrl": "https://photos.wellfound.com/startups/i/395014-2a2164ef6a8cd5954eb970228e62ce15-medium_jpg.jpg?buster=1692326450",
    "companyUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/checkr",
    "badges": [
      { "id": "ACTIVELY_HIRING", "label": "Actively Hiring", "tooltip": "Actively processing applications", "rating": null },
      { "id": "YC-395014", "label": "YC Funded", "tooltip": "Startup funded by Y Combinator", "rating": null },
      { "id": "HIGHLY_RATED-395014", "label": "Highly rated", "tooltip": "Checkr is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.1 out of 5 stars", "rating": "4.1" },
      "… 7 more"
    ]
  },
  "searchedRole": "software-engineer",
  "searchedLocation": "san-francisco",
  "searchedRemote": false,
  "pageNumber": 1
}

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Wellfound's job id.
title	string	Job title as posted.
jobUrl	string	Direct link to the posting.
primaryRoleTitle	string	Wellfound's normalised role for the job.
compensation	string	Pay range exactly as Wellfound displays it. Empty when undisclosed.
jobType	string	full-time, contract, internship, …
remote	boolean	Whether the posting is remote.
remoteConfig	object	Remote policy detail when the employer set one.
locationNames	array	Cities the job is open in.
acceptedRemoteLocationNames	array	Regions accepted for remote applicants.
yearsExperienceMin / Max	integer	Experience band when stated.
liveStartAt	integer	Unix timestamp the posting went live.
autoPosted	boolean	Whether it was synced in automatically from the employer's system.
atsSource	string	Which applicant-tracking system it came from (Greenhouse, Lever, …). Useful for deduping against other job feeds.
description	string	The complete job description.
startup	object	The hiring company — name, slug, headcount band, one-liner, logo, profile URL and badges.
searchedRole / searchedLocation / searchedRemote	—	Which search produced this row.
pageNumber	integer	Which result page it came from.

With includeJobDetails: true, each job also gains detailCompanyWebsite (the employer's own site), detailJobLocation (geocoded), detailDatePosted, detailEmploymentType, detailIndustry, detailDirectApply, detailBaseSalary and detailHiringOrganization.

SEARCH_SUMMARY

One per search, so you can always tell what a run actually did.

{
  "recordType": "SEARCH_SUMMARY",
  "searchUrl": "https://wellfound.com/role/l/software-engineer/san-francisco",
  "surface": "role_location",
  "totalJobCount": 763,
  "totalStartupCount": 290,
  "pageCount": 15,
  "perPage": 20,
  "pagesFetched": 2,
  "jobsReturned": 81,
  "startupsReturned": 38,
  "duplicateJobsDropped": 5,
  "duplicateStartupsDropped": 2,
  "stoppedBecause": "max_pages_reached",
  "filtersHeld": true,
  "routeRendered": "/seoLanding/roleLocationSearch",
  "effectiveFilters": { "role": "software-engineer", "location": "san-francisco", "page": 2 },
  "perPageCountsStartupsNotJobs": true,
  "totalJobCountExceedsReachable": true,
  "pagesOverlap": true
}

Field	Description
totalJobCount / totalStartupCount	Wellfound's own totals, verbatim.
perPage	Counts companies, not jobs — perPageCountsStartupsNotJobs flags this.
pageCount	Wellfound's page count, derived from the company total.
jobsReturned	Unique jobs this run actually returned.
duplicateJobsDropped	Rows Wellfound repeated across pages and this actor removed.
stoppedBecause	max_items_reached, max_pages_reached, page_count_reached, no_new_rows, or page_wrapped_to_N.
filtersHeld	true means Wellfound ran the search you asked for.
effectiveFilters	The filters Wellfound actually applied.
totalJobCountExceedsReachable	Wellfound counts more jobs than its pages can return.

STARTUP

Emitted only when includeStartups: true — one deduplicated row per company, with the same fields as the nested startup block plus highlightedJobCount.

ERROR

One per search that failed or was refused, so every input maps to at least one row.

_error	Meaning
filters_dropped	Wellfound answered 200 but ran a different search — usually a role or city slug it does not recognise. The wrong rows were discarded.
not_found	Wellfound has no page for that slug.
invalid_input	Refused before any request — a malformed slug, or remote combined with a location.
fetch_failed	Network or server trouble after retries.
path_blocked	The page is not reachable by any automated client.

Known limits

• Search is by role and location, not free text. Wellfound's keyword search and its live job feed are not available to automated clients, so this actor uses the role and location pages instead.
• Company profile pages are not scrapable by any client, so company data comes from what the search results already carry — which is substantial, but not the full profile.
• Not every job in a search is reachable. Each page shows up to 3 jobs per company, so a company with 40 openings contributes 3. totalJobCount tells you how many exist; jobsReturned tells you how many you got.
• Location coverage is limited and Wellfound publishes no list of supported cities. Unsupported ones return an error row naming known-good slugs.