# 📈 Hiring Signal Monitor - Track Jobs Opening & Closing (`that_red_bird/hiring-signal-monitor`) Actor

⚡ ~$0.002/board. Know the day a company starts hiring — or quietly stops. ✅ Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee. ✅ Reads the official public job-board APIs, so there is no anti-bot to fight and nothing to break.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/that\_red\_bird/hiring-signal-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [mohamed alaya](https://apify.com/that_red_bird) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

## Hiring Signal Monitor

Track which roles a company **opens** and **closes**. Job posts appearing is the cleanest public
signal that a company is growing; posts quietly disappearing is the signal nobody watches.

### Supported job boards

Greenhouse · Lever · Ashby · Workable · SmartRecruiters · Recruitee

These are read through each vendor's **public JSON endpoint** — the same one the company's own
careers page calls. No anti-bot, no cookies, no browser, nothing to break.

Paste the careers URL and the provider is detected automatically:

```
https://boards.greenhouse.io/COMPANY
https://jobs.lever.co/COMPANY
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/COMPANY
https://apply.workable.com/COMPANY
https://COMPANY.recruitee.com
https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/COMPANY
```

Shorthand works too: `greenhouse:stripe`, `lever:netflix`.

### Input

```json
{
  "companies": ["https://jobs.lever.co/company-a", "greenhouse:company-b"],
  "keywords": ["engineer", "data"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["intern"],
  "locationFilter": "berlin",
  "alertOn": "both",
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX"
}
```

### Output

| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| `opened` | roles that appeared since last run |
| `closed` | roles that disappeared |
| `signal` | `HIRING_UP` · `HIRING_DOWN` · `FLAT` |
| `openRoles` / `previousOpenRoles` | headline counts |
| `jobs` | the full current list (id, title, location, department, url) |

### Who uses it

**Sales teams** — a company opening 12 roles just became a buying signal.
**Recruiters** — be first on a new req the day it posts.
**Investors and analysts** — headcount direction without waiting for a filing.
**Job seekers** — a personal alert for one company, filtered to your role.
**Competitor watchers** — which teams a rival is quietly building.

### Tip

Run it daily. Point the webhook at a Slack channel and it becomes a standing intelligence feed
that costs nothing to maintain.

# Actor input Schema

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

Career-board URLs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/COMPANY, https://jobs.lever.co/COMPANY, https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/COMPANY, https://apply.workable.com/COMPANY, https://COMPANY.recruitee.com, https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/COMPANY) or shorthand like "greenhouse:stripe".

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

Case-insensitive match on job title and department. Leave empty to track every role.

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

Drop any role whose title or department contains one of these words, e.g. intern, contract.

## `locationFilter` (type: `string`):

Keep only roles whose location contains this text, e.g. berlin or london.

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

Keep only roles whose location or title says remote, anywhere, distributed or work from home.

## `alertOn` (type: `string`):

Whether to report roles appearing, disappearing, or both.

## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Push only boards where roles opened or closed (plus repeatedly failing boards). Recommended when tracking many companies.

## `includeJobList` (type: `boolean`):

Include every current role in each row. Turn off for a compact signal-only feed.

## `keepHistory` (type: `integer`):

How many past snapshots to keep per company. The output includes openRolesHistory so you can chart hiring trends over time.

## `alertOnErrorAfter` (type: `integer`):

Flags a company whose board keeps failing — renamed, moved ATS, or taken down. 0 disables it.

## `resetBaseline` (type: `boolean`):

Forget stored job lists and start fresh. Use after changing the filters.

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

Hard cap on dataset rows per run. 0 = no cap.

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

How many career boards to check in parallel.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

POSTed when roles open or close. Slack/Discord/Zapier compatible.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Named key-value store holding the last seen job lists. Use different names to track separate company sets.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "https://jobs.lever.co/leverdemo"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "alertOn": "both",
  "onlyChanges": false,
  "includeJobList": true,
  "keepHistory": 30,
  "alertOnErrorAfter": 3,
  "resetBaseline": false,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "concurrency": 5,
  "stateStoreName": "hiring-signal-monitor-state"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `hiringChanges` (type: `string`):

No description

## `downloadCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `boardsChecked` (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 = {
    "companies": [
        "https://jobs.lever.co/leverdemo"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("that_red_bird/hiring-signal-monitor").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 = { "companies": ["https://jobs.lever.co/leverdemo"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("that_red_bird/hiring-signal-monitor").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 '{
  "companies": [
    "https://jobs.lever.co/leverdemo"
  ]
}' |
apify call that_red_bird/hiring-signal-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,that_red_bird/hiring-signal-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

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/IcJITTe9aNfer50Cr/builds/W83xtZuNECvkIxaFw/openapi.json