India Jobs MCP

Nine India job boards and two recruiter tools, behind one MCP endpoint — so your agent never has to pick a board.

Built by The Mine Works, on top of our published data actors. This is the India-only counterpart to our global Recruiting & Jobs MCP: every tool here is India-specific, or India-first.

Tools

Tool	What it returns	Price
search_all_india_jobs	Naukri, Indeed India, Foundit, Shine, Hirist, Internshala — one query, all six	$0.14 complete · $0.08 partial · $0.02/source · $0 if nothing found
search_jobs_naukri	India's largest broad-market job board	$0.04
search_jobs_indeed_india	Indeed's India site (indeed.co.in)	$0.05
search_jobs_foundit	Foundit (formerly Monster India)	$0.04
search_jobs_shine	Shine.com (Times Group)	$0.04
search_jobs_hirist	Hirist — India tech-specific roles	$0.04
search_internshala	Internshala — internships, jobs, and fresher jobs	$0.04
search_jobs_apna	Apna — India's largest blue-collar/early-career app, category browse	$0.04
search_jobs_cutshort	CutShort — India tech/startup roles, category browse	$0.04
search_jobs_instahyre	Instahyre — India tech recruiting, function/size browse	$0.04
find_candidates	Source people at a company by title (LinkedIn)	$0.10
enrich_profile	Enrich a LinkedIn profile URL into structured data	$0.06
company_snapshot	LinkedIn company profile + AmbitionBox ratings/salaries	$0.08
hiring_signals_india	Is this company hiring in India, and where? All 6 searchable boards + employer snapshot	$0.18 complete · $0.11 partial · $0.025/section · $0 if nothing found

search_all_india_jobs always costs less than calling the 6 tools individually.

Apna, CutShort, and Instahyre are standalone tools, not part of the aggregator: none has a real free-text search server-side (verified against all three live APIs, not their marketing copy) — they're category/function/city browse only. Apna's "keyword" field is a client-side filter applied after a full crawl of the browse scope; without a category, a generic query walked 675+ jobs with zero matches in testing before timing out — Apna's inventory skews blue-collar, so white-collar keyword queries are architecturally the wrong fit for it. Folding any of the three into a keyword-search aggregator would mean sources silently returning unrelated results, or timing out, next to the ones that actually matched. Use them directly when you want their specific taxonomy.

Worked example

Ask your agent: "Find backend engineering roles in Bangalore across every major India job board."

// tools/call → search_all_india_jobs
{ "keywords": "backend engineer", "location": "Bangalore", "max_per_source": 10 }

{
  "keywords": "backend engineer",
  "location": "Bangalore",
  "sources_tier": "complete",
  "sources_attempted": 6,
  "sources_usable": 6,
  "total_jobs_found": 54,
  "results_by_source": {
    "naukri": ["..."],
    "indeed_india": ["..."],
    "foundit": ["..."],
    "shine": ["..."],
    "hirist": ["..."],
    "internshala": ["..."]
  }
}

One call, six boards, one bill — $0.14 for a complete result instead of $0.24 buying each source separately.

Setup

The server speaks Streamable HTTP. Use your Apify API token as a bearer token.

Claude Desktop / Claude Code — add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-jobs": {
      "url": "https://themineworks--india-jobs-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor — same block in .cursor/mcp.json.

Windsurf — same block under mcpServers in your Windsurf MCP settings.

Cold start is about 6 seconds; warm calls answer in about a second.

Billing promise

No result, no charge. Ever.

• A search that finds nothing costs nothing — not a reduced fee, nothing.
• Repeat an identical call within 60 seconds and it's free (retries shouldn't cost twice).
• The two composite tools are priced by what they actually delivered: complete, partial, or per-section. Nothing found, nothing billed.
• Apify plan discounts apply on top of every price above.

Apify platform usage is billed by Apify on top of these prices, as with any Standby actor.

Coverage — read this before you buy

• Job-seeker side: nine boards spanning broad-market (Naukri, Foundit, Shine, Indeed India), tech-specific (Hirist, CutShort, Instahyre), blue-collar/early-career (Apna), and internships/freshers (Internshala).
• Employer side: candidate sourcing and profile enrichment via LinkedIn, employer reputation via LinkedIn + AmbitionBox (India's own employer-review site), and a live hiring-signals report aggregating open postings for one company across all six searchable boards.
• CutShort and Instahyre are category/function browse, not keyword search — verified directly against both live APIs, not assumed from their marketing copy. They're honest about that limit in their own tool descriptions.
• This server is India-only. For US/global job-market data (ATS boards, LinkedIn global, Indeed's other seven country sites, SimplyHired), see our Recruiting & Jobs MCP.

More from The Mine Works

Individual actors behind these tools are published separately at apify.com/themineworks. Full MCP server suite: themineworks.com/mcp.