# Ashby Jobs API - Career Page Scraper & Remote Job Filter (`starbright_overlap/ashby-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Ashby jobs API and career page scraper. Read live postings from any Ashby job board or careers page, or search thousands of known Ashby ATS boards in one run. Every row dated and described, and more than half of postings marked remote by the employer.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/starbright\_overlap/ashby-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sulle H](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Ashby Jobs API — 2,996 Career Pages, Half of Them Remote

Ashby is an applicant tracking system used mainly by venture-backed technology companies, and its
job board API is open. It is also, measurably, the most remote-heavy source in this family.

Point it at a company, or leave the list empty and search a bundled registry of **2,996 live
Ashby career pages** carrying **52,191 open postings**.

```json
{ "keywords": ["engineer"], "postedWithinDays": 14, "maxJobs": 200 }
```

```json
{ "companies": ["https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai"] }
```

No login, no cookies, no proxies, no API key.

### More than half the postings here are remote

Measured across **every live board in this registry — 32,407 postings from 1,588 boards**:

| | |
|---|---|
| Work arrangement stated by the employer | **85.1%** |
| Marked remote | **54.2%** |

That is not a claim about the job market. It is a fact about **who uses Ashby** — remote-friendly
technology companies. If you are building a remote job board or sourcing distributed talent, this
is the highest-yield single platform in this family, and `remoteOnly` filters on the employer's
own checkbox rather than on a regular expression over the location string.

### Everything is dated and described

| Field | Fill rate (all 32,407 postings in this registry) |
|---|---|
| `postedAt` | **100%** |
| `descriptionText` | **100%** |
| `department` | ~100% |
| `employmentType` | ~100% |
| `remote` | **85.1%** |
| `salary` | **38.9%** |

`postedWithinDays` works properly here — every row carries a real publish date, so a 7-day or
14-day window means what it says. On the platforms with no date (Workday, Rippling, Pinpoint,
BambooHR) that filter has to keep undated rows rather than drop them.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `provider` | Always `ashby` — the same schema the multi-ATS Actors below emit |
| `company` / `companySlug` | Employer board name |
| `jobId` | Ashby posting id — stable, so it works as a dedupe key across runs |
| `title` | Job title |
| `location` | Location as the employer entered it |
| `department` | Department, from the employer's own org structure |
| `employmentType` | Full-time, contract, intern |
| `remote` | Ashby's own `isRemote` flag |
| `postedAt` / `updatedAt` | Publish and last-change timestamps |
| `applyUrl` | Direct link to the posting |
| `descriptionText` | Full posting text as readable plain text |
| `salary` | Ashby's compensation summary where the employer published one — see below |
| `scrapedAt` | When this row was read |

### About the pay field

Ashby returns compensation as a **human-readable summary**, not as numbers:

```json
{ "salary": "$211.4K – $290.6K • Offers Equity" }
```

This Actor passes that through as written. It does not parse it into a minimum and maximum,
because the string mixes currency, period and equity notes in ways that differ per employer, and
inventing structure over that would be guessing. **38.9%** of postings carry it.

If you need pay as separate numbers, **Recruitee** and **Pinpoint** publish minimum, maximum,
currency and period as real fields — both linked below.

### Input

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Keep only titles containing one of these. Case-insensitive. |
| `excludeKeywords` | Drop titles containing any of these, e.g. `senior`, `intern`. |
| `locations` | Keep only locations containing one of these. |
| `remoteOnly` | Keep only postings the employer marked remote. Real field, not a regex. |
| `postedWithinDays` | Freshness filter. Every Ashby row has a real date, so this works properly. |
| `companies` | Board names or board URLs. Leave empty to search all 2,996. |
| `maxBoards` | How many boards to scan, largest-first. |
| `maxJobs` | Hard cap on rows, so a run costs what you expect. |

### Finding a company slug

The board lives at `jobs.ashbyhq.com/<slug>`, so the slug is the last path segment. Paste the whole
URL and the Actor extracts it. Or run without `companies` and read the `companySlug` column.

### Recipes

**A remote job board, cheaply.** `remoteOnly` plus `postedWithinDays: 7`, run daily. Over half the
rows here already qualify, so you spend far less on rows you then throw away than on a general feed.

**Track hiring at venture-backed companies.** Ashby's user base skews to funded startups, so a
diff of `jobId` between runs is a reasonable proxy for who is scaling and in which department.

**Full-text search.** Descriptions come back on every row as plain text, so one run gives you a
corpus you can grep for a framework, a certification, or a seniority signal the title never says.

### Pricing

Pay per result — you are charged per job row delivered. A board that fails or returns nothing costs
you nothing. Platform usage is included rather than billed on top.

### Beyond Ashby

Companies move between applicant tracking systems, and most job-data projects need more than one:

- **[Career Site Job Feed](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed)** — the same engine
  across every platform in this family, in one run, with an identical output schema.
- **[New Job Alerts](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/new-jobs-feed)** — the same coverage, but
  each run returns only what appeared since the previous run.
- **[Recruitee Jobs API](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/recruitee-jobs-scraper)** — structured
  pay ranges with currency and period.

### Notes

- **A dead slug never aborts the run.** Failures land in a `FAILED_BOARDS` record in the key-value
  store, with the reason for each.
- **`companySlug:jobId` is a stable key**, safe for detecting what opened and closed between runs.
- **No login, no proxies, no API key.** Ashby publishes this board API openly.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep only jobs whose title contains at least one of these. Case-insensitive. Leave empty for every job.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop jobs whose title contains any of these, e.g. `senior`, `intern`.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Keep only jobs whose location contains one of these, e.g. `london`, `new york`, `germany`.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only postings flagged remote by the ATS or with a remote-looking location.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Freshness filter. Defaults to 90 days because some employers leave postings open for years — measured across the registry, 15% of Greenhouse and about half of the largest SmartRecruiters boards are over a year old. Set a large number such as 3650 to include everything. Postings with no publication date (most Workday rows) are always kept.

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Board slugs, e.g. `bjakcareer`. Leave empty to search all 2,996 known ashby employers.

## `maxBoards` (type: `integer`):

Boards are scanned largest-first, so a capped run still returns the most jobs. Raise it to sweep all 2,996 boards.

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on results, so a run costs what you expect. Defaults to 500 — enough to evaluate the feed on free-tier credits. Clearing the box falls back to that, so type a large number such as 500000 to sweep everything.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch the full description text. Available on Greenhouse, Workable, Ashby and Breezy. SmartRecruiters and Workday do not expose descriptions on their listing endpoints, so those rows return null however this is set. Turning it off makes runs several times faster.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Higher is faster but more likely to hit ATS rate limits.

## `maxJobsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Keeps one huge employer from filling the whole run. Boards are scanned largest-first, so without this the first few boards use up the entire result budget. Raise it when you want depth on a few employers rather than breadth across many.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "engineer"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "postedWithinDays": 90,
  "maxBoards": 300,
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "includeDescription": true,
  "concurrency": 8,
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

Every posting matching your filters, normalized across all six ATS platforms.

## `failedBoards` (type: `string`):

Written only when a board was unreachable or rate-limited. The run itself is unaffected.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "engineer"
    ],
    "postedWithinDays": 90,
    "maxJobs": 500,
    "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("starbright_overlap/ashby-jobs-scraper").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 = {
    "keywords": ["engineer"],
    "postedWithinDays": 90,
    "maxJobs": 500,
    "maxJobsPerCompany": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("starbright_overlap/ashby-jobs-scraper").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "engineer"
  ],
  "postedWithinDays": 90,
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
}' |
apify call starbright_overlap/ashby-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/HdFCENJ2g9Bwexkfo/builds/whGrc3JDkEfjyl7xj/openapi.json