# SmartRecruiters Jobs Scraper - 4,300+ Company Boards (`starbright_overlap/smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape live job postings from any SmartRecruiters career site, or search 4,300+ known SmartRecruiters employers in one run. Titles, locations, departments, apply links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/starbright\_overlap/smartrecruiters-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 $1.00 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## SmartRecruiters Jobs Scraper — One Board or 4,334 At Once

Most SmartRecruiters scrapers need you to already know which company you want. This one ships a
registry of **4,334 live SmartRecruiters career sites** (363,544 open postings at last
count), so you can search across employers without naming any of them.

```json
{ "keywords": ["data engineer"], "locations": ["berlin"], "maxJobs": 200 }
```

Or point it at specific companies, the usual way:

```json
{ "companies": ["dominos", "visa", "bosch"] }
```

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

### Why the registry matters here

SmartRecruiters is the applicant tracking system where "which companies actually use it?" is hardest
to answer. Boards live at `jobs.smartrecruiters.com/<company>` and there is no public directory of
them. This registry was built by harvesting the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl URL indexes and
then validating every candidate slug against the live API, so every entry returned real postings
when it was checked. A companion Actor re-validates the whole list on a schedule and drops boards
that have gone dark.

Boards are scanned **largest-first**, so a capped run still returns the most data available.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `provider` | Always `smartrecruiters` — the same schema the multi-ATS Actors below emit |
| `company` / `companySlug` | Employer name and its SmartRecruiters slug |
| `jobId` | SmartRecruiters posting id — stable, so it works as a dedupe key across runs |
| `title` | Job title |
| `location` | City and country as published |
| `department` | Department label |
| `employmentType` | Full-time, part-time or contract, as the employer set it |
| `remote` | The board's own remote flag, where set |
| `postedAt` | Release date, ISO 8601 |
| `applyUrl` | Direct link to the posting on the employer's board |
| `scrapedAt` | When this row was read |

### What SmartRecruiters does not publish

Worth knowing before you build on it: **the SmartRecruiters postings endpoint carries no description
text.** `descriptionText` comes back `null` on every row whatever `includeDescription` is set to,
because descriptions sit behind a separate per-posting request the public listing API does not
expose. Salary is likewise not a structured field.

If body text is the requirement, Greenhouse, Workable, Ashby and Breezy all publish it — the
[Career Site Job Feed](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed) covers those in the same
output schema.

### Pagination, done properly

The SmartRecruiters API caps a response at 100 postings no matter what `limit` you pass, and only
`offset` reaches the rest. A scraper that ignores this reports a 24,000-posting employer as a
100-posting employer — which is exactly what happened while this registry was being built, and why
board sizes here come from the API's own `totalFound` rather than from counting returned rows.

### 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 board flags remote. |
| `postedWithinDays` | Freshness filter, 90 days by default. |
| `companies` | Board slugs. Leave empty to search all 4,334. |
| `maxBoards` | How many boards to scan, largest-first. |
| `maxJobs` | Hard cap on rows, so a run costs what you expect. |
| `maxJobsPerCompany` | Stops one huge employer filling the entire run. |

### Finding a company slug

Open the careers page and read the URL: `jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Bosch` gives `Bosch`. Slugs appear
case-sensitive in the URL; this Actor normalizes them either way. When a company frames its board
into its own site, the slug is still in the page source.

Or skip the question entirely — run without `companies` and the `companySlug` column tells you who
is out there.

### Recipes

**Find who is hiring for a skill.** Set `keywords`, leave `companies` empty. One run scans the
largest boards in the registry and returns matching roles across hundreds of employers.

**Track a shortlist.** Put ten slugs in `companies`, run daily, and diff the `jobId` set — new ids
are openings, missing ids are roles that closed.

**Build a market map.** Departments and locations across the registry show where an industry is
adding headcount, rather than where it says it is.

### Use it as an API

Most people who rely on this Actor never open the Apify console after the first run — they call it
from their own code and read the rows straight back. One request in, job rows out, no polling and no
dataset id to chase:

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/starbright_overlap~smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["engineer"], "maxJobs": 200}'
```

```python
import requests

rows = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/starbright_overlap~smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
    params={"token": "YOUR_TOKEN"},
    json={"keywords": ["engineer"], "maxJobs": 200},
    timeout=300,
).json()

for r in rows:
    print(r["company"], "—", r["title"], "—", r["applyUrl"])
```

```javascript
const rows = await (await fetch(
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/starbright_overlap~smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN',
  { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({"keywords": ["engineer"], "maxJobs": 200}) },
)).json();
```

Your token is at **Settings → Integrations** in the Apify console. Keep `maxJobs` set to what you
actually need — it is the cap that decides what the call costs.

#### Running it on a schedule instead

If you want the rows to arrive without asking, add a **Schedule** from the Actor page (Actions →
Schedule) and point a webhook at your endpoint. A daily schedule plus the `postedWithinDays` filter
is the usual setup for a job board or an alerting pipeline.

### 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, so the per-result price is the
whole price.

### Beyond SmartRecruiters

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 Workday, Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Lever, Ashby and Breezy: 27,000+ employer
  boards in one run, 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, so you are not diffing datasets
  yourself.

Rows from all of them share one schema, so you can union the datasets without a mapping layer.

### Notes

- **A dead slug never aborts the run.** Failures are collected into a `FAILED_BOARDS` record in the
  key-value store, with the reason for each.
- **`companySlug:jobId` is a stable key.** It does not change while a posting is open, which makes
  it safe for detecting what opened and closed between runs.
- **No login, no proxies, no API key.** SmartRecruiters publishes this endpoint openly. Private
  boards are invisible to every scraper, including this one.

# 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. `dominos`. Leave empty to search all 4,334 known smartrecruiters employers.

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

Boards are scanned largest-first, so a capped run still returns the most jobs. Raise it to sweep all 4,334 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.

## `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,
  "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/smartrecruiters-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/smartrecruiters-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/smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,starbright_overlap/smartrecruiters-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/WYbNbhTUFSVBdjCPJ/builds/Xe5meS4PcEU6KOmqj/openapi.json