Indeed Jobs Scraper (HTTP + Cheerio)

This Apify actor scrapes job listings from Indeed using fast HTTP requests and Cheerio for parsing, avoiding slow and resource-intensive headless browsers.

Features

• Scrapes Indeed job search results.
• Extracts job title, company, location, salary, post date, and full description.
• Supports providing a full search URL (recommended) or building one from keywords and location.
• Can scrape multiple search URLs in a single run.
• Handles pagination to collect multiple pages of results.
• Configurable concurrency and proxy settings to avoid blocks.
• Supports using browser cookies for authenticated sessions or to bypass CAPTCHAs.
• Saves results to the Apify dataset.

Input

The actor accepts the following input fields:

Search Parameters

• Search URL (recommended) (searchUrl): A full Indeed search URL. If provided, the keyword and location fields are ignored.
  • Example: https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=software+engineer&l=Remote&fromage=7
• Start URLs (startUrls): An optional list of multiple search URLs to crawl.
• Keyword (keyword): The job title or keywords to search for (e.g., 'software engineer').
• Location (location): The geographic location to filter jobs by (e.g., 'New York', 'Remote').
• Date Posted (posted_date): Filter jobs by when they were posted (Last 24 hours, Last 7 days, Last 30 days).

Scraping Options

• Max Jobs (maxItems): The maximum number of jobs to scrape.
• Collect job detail pages (collectDetails): If enabled, the actor will visit each job's detail page to extract the full description.

Advanced Options

• Proxy configuration (proxyConfiguration): Configure Apify Proxy settings. Residential proxies are recommended if you encounter blocking.
• Max concurrency (maxConcurrency): The number of parallel requests.
• Cookies (cookies, cookiesJson): Provide cookies to handle sessions or bypass bot detection.

Output

The actor outputs a dataset of job listings with the following fields:

• title: The job title.
• company: The company name.
• location: The job location.
• postedAt: A string describing when the job was posted (e.g., "Posted 3 days ago").
• salary: The estimated salary range, if available.
• description_html: The job description in HTML format.
• description_text: The job description in plain text.
• url: The URL of the job posting.
• source: The source of the job listing (always 'indeed').
• search_url: The search result page URL where the job was found.