Indeed Jobs Scraper — Pay Per Result

Scrape public Indeed job listings by keyword and location. Clean, stable dataset schema. Pay-per-event pricing.

Store search keywords: Indeed scraper · Indeed job scraper · Indeed jobs · jobs data · job listings scraper

---

What you get

For each job:

Field	Description
id	Indeed job key
title	Job title
company	Company name
companyRating	Company rating when shown
location	Location string
salary	{ min, max, period, currency, raw }
jobType	e.g. Full-time
postedAt	ISO date when parseable, else relative text
description	Plain text
descriptionHtml	HTML description (when available)
url	Public job URL
isRemote	Remote heuristic
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp
searchQuery	Query that found this job

Example input

{
  "queries": ["software engineer", "data analyst"],
  "location": "Remote",
  "country": "www.indeed.com",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "datePosted": "7",
  "parseFullDescription": true,
  "dedupeAcrossQueries": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Example output item

{
  "id": "abc123def456",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "company": "Example Corp",
  "companyRating": 3.8,
  "location": "Remote",
  "salary": {
    "min": 120000,
    "max": 150000,
    "period": "year",
    "currency": "USD",
    "raw": "$120,000 - $150,000 a year"
  },
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "postedAt": "2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z",
  "description": "We are looking for a software engineer...",
  "descriptionHtml": "<div>We are looking for a software engineer...</div>",
  "url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=abc123def456",
  "isRemote": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T06:00:00.000Z",
  "searchQuery": "software engineer"
}

Pricing (PPE)

Event	Price	When charged
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Once per run (auto; first 5s compute waived)
apify-default-dataset-item (Job listing)	$0.005 (~$5 / 1,000 jobs)	Each job written to the dataset

Browser + residential proxies are required for Indeed reliability — that cost is baked into the per-job price so the Actor stays profitable without passing opaque platform usage on top.

Local PPE test:

$ACTOR_TEST_PAY_PER_EVENT=true ACTOR_USE_CHARGING_LOG_DATASET=true npm run dry-run

Reliability

• Real Chromium browser (Playwright) — plain HTTP clients get 403’d by Indeed
• Session pool + up to 6 retries; blocked sessions are retired
• Block / captcha heuristics → retry with a fresh proxy session
• Dedupe by Indeed jobkey (optional across queries)
• Mosaic JSON parse first; DOM selectors as fallback
• Default residential proxies + low concurrency (1–2)
• Run fails if zero jobs are returned (so you are not left with a silent empty success)

We do not promise 100% success — Indeed rate-limits and challenges aggressive traffic. If a run fails, lower concurrency to 1 and retry.

Limitations (honest)

• Public pages only. No login, no Indeed employer/applicant private data.
• Residential proxies required for reliable results. Datacenter IPs are almost always blocked.
• Cloudflare / captcha interstitials can still interrupt runs; the actor retries and fails those requests rather than bypassing challenges with ToS-evasive tooling.
• Browser runs cost more compute than HTTP scrapers — price reflects delivered jobs (PPE), not compute.
• Layout changes on Indeed can break parsers — report issues; we prioritize selector stability.
• Full descriptions require one extra page per job (parseFullDescription: true).
• Results reflect what Indeed shows publicly for the given domain/country at scrape time.

How to run

On Apify

1. Open this Actor in Console or Store
2. Paste queries + location
3. Keep residential proxy on
4. Start → download dataset (JSON / CSV / Excel)

Local

# from monorepo root
npm install
cd actors/indeed-jobs
# edit storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
npm run dry-run

Publish

cd actors/indeed-jobs
npm run sync-shared
npx apify login
npx apify push

Then set PPE events in Console and publish to Store.

Related actors (catalog)

Same publisher profile (cross-discovery): LinkedIn Jobs, Facebook Marketplace, G2 Reviews, Trustpilot Reviews, Google Trends, company lead-gen wedge — shipping in wave 1.