We Work Remotely Jobs Scraper

Extract every remote job posted on We Work Remotely — title, company, every region the role is open to, salary, employment type, the exact publication time, the full description and the listing's own URL — in one structured dataset. Built for recruiters sourcing remote candidates, job-board aggregators, salary-data analysts, and ATS integrations that need fresh remote-job data without reading listing pages by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• Whole-board coverage: 11 selectable category pages, 10 real category labels — Full-Stack, Front-End, Back-End, Design, DevOps & Sysadmin, Management & Finance, Product, Customer Support, Sales & Marketing and All Other Remote Jobs, each selectable from a dropdown. The 11th page, Software Developer, is We Work Remotely's cross-listing surface — its jobs all belong to one of the other 10 — so a full board sweep in September 2026 returned 336 jobs carrying 10 distinct category values.
• 5 region presets that respect "Anywhere in the World" — Anywhere, USA Only, Americas, EMEA and APAC. Each preset is matched against the job's full eligibility list rather than a single headline badge, so a worldwide-open role is never dropped from a USA-only run — and on the live board 295 of 336 jobs are open to anywhere in the world.
• Salary parsed into salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency and salaryInterval — and never invented — the human-readable string is preserved as salaryRaw. We Work Remotely leaves pay off most postings: 60 of 336 jobs (17.9%) on a full board sweep showed a band, and 51 of those 60 also carried a machine-readable amount. Where there is no real figure all five fields come back empty, instead of a placeholder currency and interval that would poison your averages.
• 3 employment-type options + 5 "posted within" windows — Full-Time or Contract; 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, or Any time. Every date window is measured against the job's exact publication timestamp, which is filled on 100% of rows in both light and full modes.
• includeDescription toggle for cheap light-mode scans — turn full descriptions off to skim the whole 336-job board in one pass at a fraction of the cost, or leave it on (the default) for descriptionText, descriptionHtml, parsed salary amounts and companyWebsite. Titles, companies, regions, listing chips, most logos, card salary bands and exact posting times come back either way.
• Full-text keyword search across title, company and the entire job description — a search for python returns every posting that mentions it anywhere in the job text, not just the ones carrying it in the headline: 45 matches on a live 336-job board against the 6 that name it in the title or company. Keywords match as whole words, so java returns 12 genuine Java roles and leaves out the 17 listings that only ever mention JavaScript.
• startUrls accepts any We Work Remotely category or search URL — paste a saved filter URL to pick the pages you want, and your keyword, region, employment type and date window still narrow what comes back.
• Cross-category deduplication — a job tagged Full-Stack and Front-End appears exactly once. Sweeping all 11 category pages returned 336 rows and 336 distinct jobs: zero repeats.
• Every listing chip captured in a categories array — employment type, region and country labels and the "Top 100" badge, non-empty on 100% of rows. Switch full descriptions on and every row also gains its category label plus any named skills the employer listed, such as React, Figma or Ruby on Rails: 78 of 336 jobs (23.2%) carry skills, a median of 3 each.

Use Cases

Recruitment & Talent Sourcing

• Build a daily feed of new remote Senior Engineer roles in a target stack
• Surface contract-only postings for a freelance bench
• Track competing remote employers hiring for the same role
• Identify worldwide-eligible jobs to widen your candidate funnel

Market & Salary Research

• Benchmark the pay bands that are published, by category and region, with parsed salaryMin/salaryMax
• Track the share of Full-Time vs. Contract roles over time
• Measure hiring velocity by counting postedWithin=24h snapshots day over day
• Identify which categories publish pay at all — roughly 18% of live postings show a band

Job Board & Aggregator Operations

• Power a niche remote-jobs vertical with a clean, deduped feed
• Cross-post curated remote roles into a Slack or Discord community
• Auto-update a static jobs site from a scheduled We Work Remotely pull
• Run keyword digests (e.g. "rust", "Postgres", "Figma") on a daily schedule

ATS & CRM Enrichment

• Enrich a CRM of remote-friendly companies with their currently open roles
• Attach employer logos to partner records for the roughly one listing in three that carries one
• Stream new postings into Zapier for inbox or Slack alerts
• Match candidate profiles against postings within hours of publication

Getting Started

Minimal — one category, default cap

{
    "categories": ["remote-full-stack-programming-jobs"],
    "maxResults": 25
}

Keyword + region filter

{
    "searchQuery": "rust",
    "region": "usa",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Multi-category, last 7 days

{
    "categories": [
        "remote-full-stack-programming-jobs",
        "remote-customer-support-jobs"
    ],
    "postedWithin": "7",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Direct URL, light mode (no descriptions)

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://weworkremotely.com/categories/remote-customer-support-jobs"
    ],
    "includeDescription": false,
    "maxResults": 30
}

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	""	Free-text keyword such as 'python', 'designer', or 'marketing manager'. Matches anywhere in the posting — job title, company name and the full job description — as a whole word, so 'java' will not return JavaScript jobs while plurals still match ('designer' finds 'designers'). Leave empty for no keyword filter.
categories	string[]	[]	Pick one or more job categories. Leave empty to include all categories. Options: Full-Stack Programming, Front-End Programming, Back-End Programming, Software Developer (general), Design, DevOps & Sysadmin, Management & Finance, Product, Customer Support, Sales & Marketing, All Other Remote Jobs.
region	select	Any region	Geographic eligibility filter. We Work Remotely tags each listing with a region. Options: Any region, Anywhere in the World, USA Only, Americas Only, EMEA Only, APAC Only.
employmentType	select	Any	Filter by employment type. Options: Any, Full-Time, Contract.
postedWithin	select	Any time	Only show jobs posted within this time window. Options: Any time, Last 24 hours, Last 3 days, Last 7 days, Last 30 days.
startUrls	string[]	[]	Optional. Paste full We Work Remotely search or category URLs (e.g., https://weworkremotely.com/categories/remote-design-jobs) to choose which pages are read. This replaces the Categories dropdown and the built-in search; the keyword, region, employment-type and posted-within filters still apply to what those pages return.

Results

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of jobs to collect across all categories/URLs in this run. Set to 0 for no cap.
includeDescription	boolean	true	On by default: fetch the full description, the parsed salary amount and the company website from each listing's own page. Turn it off for faster, cheaper light scans — descriptionHtml, descriptionText, the four salary amount fields and companyWebsite are then left empty. Everything else, including the exact posting time, the card salary band, region, the listing's chips and most logos, comes back either way. With descriptions on, categories also gains the job's category label and any named skills the employer listed.

Output

Each result is a flat one-row-per-job record. Here is a real row from a default run. descriptionHtml is omitted for length. Salary amounts, companyWebsite and companyLogo are filled only where We Work Remotely itself publishes them — the fill notes under each table below give the measured rates.

{
    "url": "https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/samsara-staff-software-engineer",
    "guid": "samsara-staff-software-engineer",
    "title": "Staff Software Engineer",
    "company": "Samsara",
    "companyWebsite": "https://www.samsara.com/",
    "category": "remote-full-stack-programming-jobs",
    "categories": ["Full-Time", "United States of America", "Full-Stack Programming"],
    "region": "United States of America",
    "location": "Remote",
    "employmentType": "Full-Time",
    "salaryRaw": "$100,000 or more USD",
    "salaryMin": 100000,
    "salaryMax": 100000,
    "salaryCurrency": "USD",
    "salaryInterval": "year",
    "datePosted": "2026-08-17T13:57:14+00:00",
    "datePostedRelative": "18d",
    "descriptionText": "About the role: Samsara (NYSE: IOT) sits at the center of hardware, software, AI...",
    "applyUrl": null,
    "companyLogo": "https://we-work-remotely.imgix.net/logos/0154/3705/logo.gif?ixlib=rails-4.0.0&w=50&h=50&dpr=2&fit=fill&auto=compress",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T15:21:30.315663+00:00"
}

Core Job Info

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Canonical We Work Remotely job detail URL
guid	string	Stable slug used as a unique identifier across runs
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company name
category	string	The category We Work Remotely itself assigns to the job — one of 10 slugs, regardless of which listing page it was found on
categories	string[]	Every chip on the listing — employment type, region and country labels and the "Top 100" badge. With full descriptions on, the job's category label is added, plus any named skills the employer listed in the listing's own Skills box (78 of 336 jobs, a median of 3 each)
region	string	Every region the job is open to, comma-separated when there is more than one — a worldwide label ("Anywhere in the World"), a single country ("United States of America"), or a full country list. 15 of 336 jobs on a live board list several, the longest naming 51 countries. Note the asymmetry with the region input filter, which has 5 coarse presets: filtering by USA Only still surfaces rows reading "United States of America" and "Anywhere in the World", because both are genuinely US-eligible.
location	string	Free-text company headquarters from the listing card
employmentType	string	Normalized "Full-Time" or "Contract"
datePosted	string	Exact publication timestamp, to the second — filled on 100% of rows whether full descriptions are on or off, and identical in both modes on 335 of 336 jobs cross-checked
datePostedRelative	string	Freshness label exactly as the listing shows it ("New", "1d", "16d") — always present, on every run type
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of data extraction

Salary & Compensation

Field	Type	Description
salaryRaw	string	Human-readable salary string as displayed on the listing (e.g. "$100,000 or more USD")
salaryMin	number	Parsed minimum salary value
salaryMax	number	Parsed maximum salary value
salaryCurrency	string	Three-letter currency code (e.g. "USD", "EUR")
salaryInterval	string	Pay interval (year, month, week, day, hour)

We Work Remotely publishes compensation on a minority of postings, and how many you see depends on which jobs your run covers. A full 336-job sweep showed a pay band on 60 listings (17.9%), and 51 of those 60 also carried a machine-readable amount — 15.2% of the whole board. A capped run reads the top of every category page, where the upgraded listings sit, so it lands higher: 27 of 100 rows on a default 100-job run. Postings without a real figure return all five fields empty. Where a listing shows a range, We Work Remotely publishes only its floor as a machine-readable number, so salaryMax equalled salaryMin on all 51 — salaryRaw keeps the full band as written.

Company & Description

Field	Type	Description
companyWebsite	string	The employer's own site, taken from the listing's own page. How often it is there depends on the category: a full 336-job sweep filled it on 120 rows (35.7%), from 65% of All Other Remote Jobs and 61% of Design roles down to 12% of Full-Stack Programming. A capped run reads the top of every category page, where the upgraded listings sit, and does better still — 55 of 100 rows on a default 100-job run. Where We Work Remotely holds no employer URL the field is empty; it never points at the job board itself
companyLogo	string	Employer logo image URL. We Work Remotely only publishes a logo on upgraded listings — 104 of 336 jobs (31.0%) on a light board sweep, rising to 121 of 336 (36.0%) with full descriptions on, because some listings show a logo on their own page that the card omits
descriptionText	string	Plain-text job description
descriptionHtml	string	Original HTML job description with formatting preserved
applyUrl	string	Direct apply link. We Work Remotely keeps this behind a login, so it is empty on every row — the url field opens the listing's own page, where the apply button lives

Tips for Best Results

• Start with maxResults: 25 on your first run to confirm the filter combo returns what you expect, then scale up.
• Use includeDescription: false for cheap snapshots — titles, companies, regions, listing chips, most logos, card salary bands and the exact posting time all come back from a single pass over each category.
• For salary research, run one category at maxResults: 0 and filter the sheet on salaryRaw — it is the widest net at 60 of 336 live postings (17.9%), and 51 of those 60 also carry parsed salaryMin/salaryMax amounts. Sizing a study on salaryRaw first tells you how big a sample you actually have.
• To monitor a niche keyword, schedule the actor daily with postedWithin: "1" and searchQuery set to your term — each run returns only fresh postings from the last 24 hours.
• Cross-reference region: "anywhere" against region: "usa" to surface roles that are worldwide-eligible but specifically include the US, versus roles that are US-only.
• Sort on datePosted for true recency — it is the exact publication time on every row, in both light and full runs. datePostedRelative is the board's own label, so a refreshed listing reads "New" while datePosted keeps its original time: the two answer different questions.
• applyUrl is behind a We Work Remotely login and is empty on every row — use url, which opens the listing's own page with its apply button. For CRM matching reach for companyWebsite instead: it filled 55 of 100 rows on a default capped run, and coverage is highest in All Other Remote Jobs, Design and Sales & Marketing and lowest in Full-Stack Programming, where it is closer to one row in eight.

Pricing

From $1.00 per 1,000 results — pay only for what you get. No compute charges — you only pay per result returned. Your Apify discount tier sets your rate, and Gold subscribers pay the lowest.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.12	$0.11	$0.11	$0.10
1,000	$1.20	$1.13	$1.06	$1.00
10,000	$12.00	$11.30	$10.65	$10.00
100,000	$120.00	$113.00	$106.50	$100.00

Tiered rates take effect on 19 September 2026; until then every plan pays $1.00 per 1,000 results. A "result" is any job row in the output dataset. Platform fees (compute, storage) are additional and depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new postings
• Webhooks — Custom API integrations
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate recruitment research, market analysis, and job-aggregation use cases. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and We Work Remotely's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any illegal purpose. Respect candidate privacy and the hiring company's stated application channels.