# India Tech Jobs Scraper — Instahyre, CutShort & Foundit (`seemuapps/india-tech-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape tech job listings across India from Instahyre, CutShort and Foundit in one run, with title, company, location, salary and skills.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/india-tech-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 job listing results

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — 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

## India Tech Jobs Scraper — Instahyre, CutShort & Foundit

Search tech job listings across India in one run — aggregated from **Instahyre**, **CutShort**, and **Foundit** (formerly Monster India). No login required.

### What you get

- Job title, company, location, and application URL for every listing
- Skills / tags per job, and salary or experience range where the source publishes it
- Full job description where the source exposes one (CutShort)
- Each record tagged with its `source` board so you can filter or compare boards side by side
- Results from all three boards combined into a single dataset — export straight to JSON, CSV, or Google Sheets

### Use cases

- Talent sourcing and recruiter lead generation across India's top tech job boards
- Market research — compare salary ranges and in-demand skills by role and city
- Job-alert automation — run on a schedule and diff against your previous dataset
- Competitive analysis of which companies are hiring for which roles

### How to use

1. Enter **Keywords / role** — a job title or skill, e.g. `software engineer`, `data scientist`, `devops`
2. Optionally enter a **Location** to narrow results to a city, e.g. `Bangalore`, `Mumbai`
3. Choose which **Job boards** to search — Instahyre, CutShort, Foundit, or any combination (all three by default)
4. Set **Max items** — the maximum total number of job records returned across all selected boards (default 100; set 0 for unlimited)
5. Run the actor — results appear in the **Dataset** tab

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "source": "foundit",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "company": "Microsoft Corp",
  "location": "Bengaluru, India",
  "url": "https://www.foundit.in/job/senior-software-engineer-microsoft-corp-bengaluru-bangalore-india-64945550",
  "postedDate": "8 hours ago",
  "salaryOrExperience": "8-10 Years",
  "tags": ["Java", "Microservices", "Distributed Systems", "Python"],
  "description": null,
  "searchKeywords": "software engineer",
  "searchLocation": "Bangalore"
}
```

### Notes on coverage per board

Each board publishes a different subset of fields and supports search differently:

- **Instahyre** — no title/description/salary field on the public feed; skills come through as `tags`, and matching is done by filtering the live listing feed against your keywords and location.
- **CutShort** — publishes listings under fixed role + city category pages rather than free-text search, so an unusual keyword phrase may return no results even though jobs for that skill exist under a different category name. Full job descriptions are included when available.
- **Foundit** — the most complete free-text search of the three, with genuine keyword and location filtering, experience range, and (when public) salary range.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Job title or keyword to search for, e.g. 'software engineer', 'data scientist', 'devops'.

## `location` (type: `string`):

City or location to filter jobs by, e.g. 'Bangalore', 'Mumbai'. Leave blank to search all of India.

## `boards` (type: `array`):

Which job boards to search. Leave all selected to aggregate results from every source.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total number of job records to return across all selected boards combined. Set 0 for unlimited.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "software engineer",
  "location": "Bangalore",
  "boards": [
    "instahyre",
    "cutshort",
    "foundit"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One job listing per record, tagged with its source board.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": "software engineer",
    "location": "Bangalore"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/india-tech-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 = {
    "keywords": "software engineer",
    "location": "Bangalore",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/india-tech-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 '{
  "keywords": "software engineer",
  "location": "Bangalore"
}' |
apify call seemuapps/india-tech-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/india-tech-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/kmc9lpTYmGVe6ghPb/builds/NzUO7xMz1i8W6JegC/openapi.json