Y Combinator Jobs Scraper

Extract live job listings from Y Combinator startups — filter by role and location, get title, company, batch, salary, and apply link in a single run.

What you get

• Job title and direct YC link to the listing
• Company name, YC batch (e.g. S11, W24), tagline, profile URL, and logo
• Posted date (e.g. "6 days ago")
• Employment type, category, sub-role (e.g. "Full-time" / "Engineering" / "Backend")
• Salary range when listed (e.g. $225K - $300K)
• Location including remote and hybrid setups
• Apply URL — direct link to the company's application form on Work at a Startup

Use cases

• Job search aggregation — pipe live YC startup roles into your own job board, Slack, or Notion
• Recruiter sourcing — track which YC companies are hiring for specific roles
• Market research — analyse YC hiring trends, salary bands, and remote-vs-onsite splits
• Investor intel — see which portfolio companies are scaling teams
• Lead generation — surface fast-growing startups by their hiring activity

How to use

1. Pick a Role (Software Engineer, Designer, Product Manager, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Recruiting & HR, Science, or Support)
2. Optionally set a Location (Any, Remote, San Francisco, New York, LA, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, India)
3. Set Max Items (0 = all available)
4. Run the actor — results land in the Dataset tab
5. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console

Scrape remote engineering jobs

{
  "role": "software-engineer",
  "location": "remote"
}

Scrape all product manager roles

{
  "role": "product-manager",
  "location": ""
}

Output format

One dataset record per job:

{
  "jobTitle": "Staff Software Engineer (Backend)",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artisan/jobs/4ovMdGw-staff-software-engineer-backend",
  "jobId": "4ovMdGw",
  "company": "Artisan",
  "companyBatch": "W24",
  "companyTagline": "AI employees called Artisans, starting with an AI BDR",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artisan",
  "companyLogo": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3aa68965eefe42dc96e16073740dae2087ad188f.png",
  "postedAgo": "11 days ago",
  "employmentType": "Full-time",
  "category": "Engineering",
  "role": "Full stack",
  "salary": "$225K - $300K",
  "location": "San Francisco / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
  "applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=...",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/role/software-engineer/remote"
}

Parameters

Field	Default	Description
Role	Software Engineer	Role category to scrape
Location	Any location	Optional location filter — Remote, San Francisco, New York, LA, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, India
Max Items	0	Maximum jobs to return per run. 0 = all listings on the page

Notes

• The Y Combinator public job board surfaces a curated set of recent listings per role/location combination — typically 30–50 per page
• For deeper coverage, run the actor across multiple role and location combinations and merge the datasets
• Jobs without a salary listed will have salary: null in the output
• Each run is a single HTTP fetch — fast and lightweight