# Indeed Jobs Scraper: Salaries, Descriptions & Monitor (`themineworks/indeed-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public Indeed job listings by keyword and location: title, company, location, salary, job type, posted date, description, apply URL. No login. Pay per job.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/themineworks/indeed-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Mine Works](https://apify.com/themineworks) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 job scrapeds

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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?

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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.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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# README

## Indeed Jobs Scraper

Scrape public Indeed job listings by keyword and location. Returns structured job data with **no login**: title, company, location, salary, job type, posted date, description snippet, and the apply URL.

> ⚡ Part of a 74-scraper suite with 8,800+ runs · no login, no cookies, no ban risk.
>
> 💸 You are only charged for delivered results — empty searches, failed pages and duplicates are never billed.

### What it does

Indeed is the largest job board in the world, and its search results are public — but they
are rendered behind an embedded JSON payload and protected by an anti-automation layer that
blocks ordinary HTTP clients. This actor drives a hardened browser to clear that layer, then
reads the structured payload rather than scraping rendered HTML, so the fields you get back
are the same ones Indeed's own front end uses.

You give it a search query, a location and a country. It walks the result pages and returns one
clean record per job: title, company, location, salary string, job type, posting age, a parsed
ISO posting date, a description snippet, and the flags Indeed exposes for urgently-hiring and
sponsored listings. Every record carries the `search_query` and `search_location` that produced
it, so a multi-search dataset stays attributable.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `query` | string | yes | `"software engineer"` | Job title, skill, or keyword to search for (Indeed's 'what' field). |
| `location` | string | no | `"New York"` | City, state, ZIP, or 'Remote' (Indeed's 'where' field). Leave empty for nationwide. |
| `country` | string | no | `"US"` | Which Indeed country site to search. Sets both the Indeed domain and the residential proxy exit country. |
| `maxResults` | integer | no | `45` | Maximum number of job listings to return. Each solved search page yields ~15-45 jobs. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "location": "New York",
  "country": "US",
  "maxResults": 45
}
````

### Output

One record per job. Field list and example below are taken from a real run, not a mock-up.

| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `job_id` | string | `"82075119d56dbfed"` |
| `job_url` | string | `"https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=82075119…` |
| `title` | string | `"Apprentice Electrician"` |
| `company` | string | `"Huckleberry Electric"` |
| `location` | string | `"Lynnwood, WA"` |
| `remote` | boolean | `false` |
| `salary` | string | `"$21 - $28 an hour"` |
| `job_type` | string | `"Full-time"` |
| `posted` | string | `"30+ days ago"` |
| `posted_date` | string | `"2026-06-11T05:00:00.000Z"` |
| `description` | string | `"Want to become a highly skilled residentia…` |
| `urgently_hiring` | boolean | `false` |
| `sponsored` | boolean | `true` |
| `search_query` | string | `"electrician"` |
| `search_location` | string | `"Seattle, WA"` |
| `scraped_at` | string | `"2026-07-27T08:55:11.044Z"` |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "job_id": "82075119d56dbfed",
  "job_url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=82075119d56dbfed",
  "title": "Apprentice Electrician",
  "company": "Huckleberry Electric",
  "location": "Lynnwood, WA",
  "remote": false,
  "salary": "$21 - $28 an hour",
  "job_type": "Full-time",
  "posted": "30+ days ago",
  "posted_date": "2026-06-11T05:00:00.000Z",
  "description": "Want to become a highly skilled residential electrician. Assist journeyman electricians with residential service and installation projects.",
  "urgently_hiring": false,
  "sponsored": true,
  "search_query": "electrician",
  "search_location": "Seattle, WA",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-27T08:55:11.044Z"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Recruitment market mapping** — pull the same query weekly across cities to see who is hiring, at what salary, and how fast postings turn over.
- **Compensation benchmarking** — the `salary` string is captured verbatim as Indeed shows it, so you can band roles by title and location without a survey.
- **Competitor headcount signals** — track a named company's postings over time as a leading indicator of expansion or a new team.
- **Lead generation for staffing agencies** — companies posting `urgently_hiring` roles are in-market right now.
- **Job-board aggregation** — feed a niche board or newsletter with fresh, structured listings instead of an RSS scrape.
- **Labour-market research** — quantify remote versus on-site mix by filtering the `remote` boolean across a query set.

### FAQ

#### Do I need an Indeed account or API key?

No. The actor reads publicly visible search results. There is no login step and you never supply credentials.

#### Which countries are supported?

Set `country` to the Indeed domain you want — US, UK, IN, CA, AU and the other country sites Indeed operates. `location` is passed through as typed, so it accepts anything the site's own location box accepts.

#### Why is `salary` a string rather than a number?

Because Indeed publishes it as a string and the shape varies — hourly ranges, annual ranges, 'From £X', or nothing at all. Parsing it to a number would force a guess and quietly lose the unit, so the field is preserved exactly as displayed and left for you to parse against your own rules.

#### How current are the results?

They are fetched live at run time. `posted` keeps Indeed's own relative wording and `posted_date` gives you a sortable ISO timestamp derived from it.

#### What happens if a search returns nothing?

You are not charged. Billing fires per delivered job, after the record is validated and stored, so an empty or blocked search costs nothing.

### Billing

Pay per event: one `job-scraped` event per delivered record, charged only **after** the record is validated and stored. Empty results, blocked pages and duplicates are never charged. Store discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans.

### Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent

This actor runs as an MCP server, so an AI agent can call it directly:

```
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/indeed-scraper
```

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("themineworks/indeed-scraper").call(run_input={"query": "software engineer", "location": "New York", "country": "US", "maxResults": 45})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)
```

### Legal and compliance

This actor collects only publicly available information — the same data any visitor can see without logging in. It does not access private or authenticated areas, does not attempt to bypass paywalls, and collects no personal data beyond what the source already publishes openly. You are responsible for using the output in line with the source site's terms and with the data protection law that applies to you.

MIT © [The Mine Works](https://apify.com/themineworks)

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Job title, skill, or keyword to search for (Indeed's 'what' field).

## `location` (type: `string`):

City, state, ZIP, or 'Remote' (Indeed's 'where' field). Leave empty for nationwide.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Which Indeed country site to search. Sets both the Indeed domain and the residential proxy exit country.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job listings to return. Each solved search page yields ~15-45 jobs.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Indeed hard-blocks datacenter and unproxied traffic (PerimeterX + Cloudflare). Residential is required and is the default; the country is set automatically from the Country field above.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "location": "New York",
  "country": "US",
  "maxResults": 45,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "query": "software engineer",
    "location": "New York",
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("themineworks/indeed-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 = {
    "query": "software engineer",
    "location": "New York",
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("themineworks/indeed-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "location": "New York",
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call themineworks/indeed-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/indeed-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Indeed Jobs Scraper: Salaries, Descriptions & Monitor",
        "description": "Scrape public Indeed job listings by keyword and location: title, company, location, salary, job type, posted date, description, apply URL. No login. Pay per job.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "bgCfNN6Ke7pSYOsAq"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/themineworks~indeed-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-themineworks-indeed-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/themineworks~indeed-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-themineworks-indeed-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/themineworks~indeed-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-themineworks-indeed-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "query"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "query": {
                        "title": "Search query",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Job title, skill, or keyword to search for (Indeed's 'what' field)."
                    },
                    "location": {
                        "title": "Location",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "City, state, ZIP, or 'Remote' (Indeed's 'where' field). Leave empty for nationwide."
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country",
                        "enum": [
                            "US",
                            "GB",
                            "CA",
                            "IN",
                            "AU",
                            "DE",
                            "FR",
                            "NL",
                            "IE",
                            "SG",
                            "NZ",
                            "ES",
                            "IT",
                            "BR",
                            "MX",
                            "ZA",
                            "AE"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Which Indeed country site to search. Sets both the Indeed domain and the residential proxy exit country.",
                        "default": "US"
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max results",
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of job listings to return. Each solved search page yields ~15-45 jobs.",
                        "default": 45
                    },
                    "proxy": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Indeed hard-blocks datacenter and unproxied traffic (PerimeterX + Cloudflare). Residential is required and is the default; the country is set automatically from the Country field above."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```