# Remote Jobs (`skilled_glee/remote-jobs`) Actor

Remote job listings search API. Returns job titles, companies, locations, and descriptions. NOTE: relevance scoring is currently degraded. Deterministic search, no AI.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/skilled_glee/remote-jobs.md
- **Developed by:** [EchoEmpire LLC](https://apify.com/skilled_glee) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.50 / 1,000 job extracteds

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Remote Jobs

**Search queries in, remote job listings out.**

### What it does

Searches remote job listings from Remotive's public job API (single source, no browser, no AI). Returns job title, company, category, job type, candidate location requirement, salary text, tags, URL, posting date, and description for each match. Up to 50 jobs per query (`limitPerQuery`, default 25).

> **DEGRADED:** Relevance scoring is currently degraded (measured 0.367 on test queries). Results are returned but may include less relevant matches. We are working on improvements.

### Input

```json
{
  "queries": ["python developer"],
  "limitPerQuery": 25
}
```

`queries` (required) is a list of search strings passed to Remotive's keyword search. There is no location filter input: every listing is a remote job, and `location` in the output is Remotive's candidate-location requirement (for example `"Worldwide"` or `"USA only"`). If `queries` is empty, the Actor falls back to `"python developer"` and charges for those jobs normally, so always pass the queries you want.

### Output

One dataset record per job (not one record per query):

```json
{
  "id": "1234567",
  "url": "https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/software-dev/senior-python-developer-1234567",
  "title": "Senior Python Developer",
  "company": "Example Corp",
  "category": "Software Development",
  "jobType": "full_time",
  "location": "Worldwide",
  "salary": "",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T12:00:00",
  "tags": ["python", "django"],
  "description": "Job description text (HTML stripped, first 3,000 characters)...",
  "query": "python developer",
  "status": "ok"
}
```

`salary` is the free-text salary string the employer gave Remotive and is often empty. A query that fails or finds nothing produces one record `{"query": "...", "status": "error", "error": "..."}`. The key-value store record `run-summary` holds `requested`, `queriesSucceeded`, `queriesFailed`, `billable_units`, and `ppe_event`.

### Use cases

- Job board aggregation
- Recruitment pipelines
- Career monitoring

### Pricing

**$0.0045 per job extracted** ($4.50 per 1,000 jobs)

Charged once per `status: "ok"` job record saved. Error records (failed query, no jobs found) are not charged.

### Limitations

- **Relevance scoring degraded** — results may include off-target matches
- Single source (Remotive); coverage and freshness are whatever Remotive lists
- No location, salary, or date filters
- Some listings have incomplete data (for example empty `salary`)

### Failure behavior

Each query is processed independently. A failed query produces an explicit error record and the batch continues. Transient Remotive API errors (429/5xx/network) are retried up to 3 times.

# Actor input Schema

## `limitPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Jobs fetched per query.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Job search queries, e.g. python developer.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "limitPerQuery": 25,
  "queries": [
    "python developer"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

No description

## `id` (type: `string`):

No description

## `url` (type: `string`):

No description

## `title` (type: `string`):

No description

## `company` (type: `string`):

No description

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

No description

## `salary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `publishedAt` (type: `string`):

No description

## `status` (type: `string`):

No description

## `error` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "python developer"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("skilled_glee/remote-jobs").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 = { "queries": ["python developer"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("skilled_glee/remote-jobs").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "python developer"
  ]
}' |
apify call skilled_glee/remote-jobs --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,skilled_glee/remote-jobs"
        }
    }
}
```

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/MvqkujcobYhefQM1q/builds/mjKFCfRfIydNWcPbU/openapi.json