# Ashby Jobs API — Search 3,400+ Ashby Job Boards (`suitable_sunspot/ashby-jobs-api`) Actor

Search open jobs on 3,400+ company job boards hosted on Ashby by title, location, remote and posting date, or get every job from companies by name. Only-new-jobs monitoring. $2 per 1,000 jobs, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/suitable_sunspot/ashby-jobs-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Dmitry Melikhov](https://apify.com/suitable_sunspot) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, 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 listings

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

## Ashby Jobs API — search 3,400+ Ashby job boards

**Every open job on 3,400+ company job boards hosted on Ashby (jobs.ashbyhq.com), searchable by title, location and remote.** No company list required, no login, no browser, no proxy.

- **Search mode** — `{"keywords": ["data engineer"], "locations": ["London", "remote"]}` searches a daily index of every live Ashby board we know, newest jobs first.
- **Company mode** — company names (`OpenAI`) or boards (`ashby:notion`), fetched live with full descriptions.
- **Only-new monitoring** — schedule it and receive only postings that appeared since the last run.
- **$2 per 1,000 jobs.** Jobs removed by your filters are free.

### Quick start

```json
{ "keywords": ["product manager"], "excludeKeywords": ["senior"], "locations": ["New York", "remote"], "postedWithinDays": 7, "maxItems": 200 }
```

```json
{ "companies": ["OpenAI", "ashby:notion"], "keywords": ["engineer"], "onlyNewJobs": true, "stateKey": "targets" }
```

### Output

One row per job: `vendor` (`ashby`), `company`, `title`, `url` (direct apply link), `location`, `postedAt`, `jobId`, `remote`, `employmentType`, `department`, `description` (company mode), plus `sourceUrl` and `fetchedAt`.

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### Who uses it

| You are | You give it | You get |
|---|---|---|
| **Job seeker / job board** | Title keywords + locations | Fresh postings from employers' own career sites, often before aggregators list them |
| **Sales / SDR team** | Target-account list + a daily schedule | "Acme opened 3 Data Engineer roles" — a buying signal every morning |
| **Recruiting agency** | Client and prospect companies | Every new opening with a direct apply link |
| **Analyst / investor** | Watch-list companies | Hiring velocity by company, department and location |
| **AI agent** (API / MCP) | `keywords` or `companies` | Structured jobs in one call |

### Daily job alerts → Google Sheets or Slack

Schedule the Actor (Apify *Schedules*, n8n, Make or Zapier) with `onlyNewJobs: true` and a fixed `stateKey`. The first run is your baseline; every later run returns only postings that appeared since — and you are not billed again for jobs you already received. No new jobs means zero rows and zero cost.

n8n: **Schedule Trigger → HTTP Request → Google Sheets (Append rows) → Slack**, with

- **POST** `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/suitable_sunspot~ashby-jobs-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?timeout=180&maxTotalChargeUsd=0.1`
- Header `Authorization: Bearer <your Apify token>`
- Body: `{"keywords": ["machine learning"], "onlyNewJobs": true, "stateKey": "ashby-alert", "maxItems": 200}`

`maxTotalChargeUsd` caps the cost of each run.

**Python** (`pip install apify-client`):

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<your Apify token>")
run = client.actor("suitable_sunspot~ashby-jobs-api").call(
    run_input={"keywords": ["machine learning"], "onlyNewJobs": True, "stateKey": "ashby-alert", "maxItems": 200},
    max_total_charge_usd=0.10,
)
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["company"], "|", job["title"], "|", job["url"])
```

### What it costs

$2.00 per 1,000 jobs, nothing else. A daily alert that finds 300 new postings a week costs **$0.60 a week**; a one-off search for 100 jobs costs **$0.20**. Jobs removed by your filters, errors, companies not found and jobs you already received in monitoring mode are never charged. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, enough to try it at no cost.

### Limits

- Search mode reads an index rebuilt daily and returns jobs without descriptions; use company mode for full text.
- Only public Ashby boards are read.

Need Lever, Ashby, Workday and 6 more ATS in one run? See [ATS Jobs API](https://apify.com/suitable_sunspot/keyless-ats-jobs-api).

# Actor input Schema

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

Keep jobs whose title contains any of these words (matched at word start: 'engineer' matches 'Engineering Manager', 'AI' does not match 'maintain'). Leave companies empty to search every company in the daily index of ~20,000 live Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Breezy and Personio boards. Filtered-out jobs are free.

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

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

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

Keep jobs whose location contains any of these (city, region or country as written in the posting, e.g. Berlin, London, Germany, United States). Use 'remote' to also accept remote roles.

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

Keep only jobs the ATS flags as remote or whose title/location says remote, anywhere or work from home.

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

Only jobs first published in the last N days. Jobs without a publish date are dropped when this is set.

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

Optional. Company names (Stripe, Notion, NVIDIA — looked up in a directory of ~35,000 ATS boards), 'vendor:board' strings (greenhouse:gitlab, lever:palantir, ashby:openai) or careers-page URLs (https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite). Fetched live. Leave empty to search the whole index with the filters above.

## `onlyNewJobs` (type: `boolean`):

Turn this on for scheduled monitoring. The Actor remembers which jobs it already delivered (in a named key-value store in your own Apify account) and returns only postings that appeared since your previous run. You pay only for the new rows. The first run returns all current jobs as the baseline.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Used with 'Only new jobs'. Keep one name per watch-list (e.g. 'sales-targets', 'competitors') so different schedules keep separate memories.

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

Cap per company. Hitting it is reported as coverageStatus=capped with a reason, never a silent truncation. Default 200; raise it for big employers.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard ceiling on delivered rows across all companies in one run (and therefore on cost).

## `includeDescriptions` (type: `boolean`):

Company mode: fetch full job descriptions (one extra request per job for Workday, SmartRecruiters and Breezy). Search mode returns jobs without descriptions.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries per request for retryable failures (429, 5xx, network).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Public ATS APIs rarely need a proxy; enable only if a source blocks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "onlyNewJobs": false,
  "stateKey": "default",
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 200,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDescriptions": true,
  "maxRetries": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "software engineer"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("suitable_sunspot/ashby-jobs-api").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": ["software engineer"],
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("suitable_sunspot/ashby-jobs-api").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": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call suitable_sunspot/ashby-jobs-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/ZhwDW90Epudp60eFV/builds/JTTnYqme69IodZXIj/openapi.json