RemoteOK Scraper: Remote Jobs, Salary & Tags

Scrape live remote job listings from RemoteOK — title, company, salary range, tags, location and apply link. Filter by keyword or tag. No login, no API key, pay per job. Use it as an MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT & AI agents.

⚡ 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

RemoteOK publishes its entire live board as a single public JSON feed. That makes this the cheapest actor in the collection to run — one HTTP request, filtered client side, with no browser and no proxy pressure.

Each record carries the job id, title, company, location, a tags array, salary range where disclosed, the posting timestamp, a cleaned plain-text description, the apply URL and the company logo. Two source-data problems are repaired on the way through, which is the main reason to use this rather than reading the feed yourself.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
keyword	string	no	"python"	Filter jobs whose title, company or tags contain this keyword.
tags	array	no	[]	Only return jobs carrying at least one of these RemoteOK tags, e.g. 'engineer'.
maxJobs	integer	no	10	Maximum jobs to return.

Example input

{
  "keyword": "python",
  "tags": [],
  "maxJobs": 10
}

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	"1135437"
title	string	"General Shop"
company	string	"HEICO"
location	string	"Los Angeles, "
tags	array	[]
posted_at	string	"2026-07-26T09:33:11+00:00"
description	string	"POSITION: GENERAL SHOP LOCATION: Chatswort…
apply_url	string	"https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-ge…
url	string	"https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-ge…
scraped_at	string	"2026-07-27T10:37:21.001Z"

Example output

{
  "job_id": "1135437",
  "title": "General Shop",
  "company": "HEICO",
  "location": "Los Angeles, ",
  "tags": [],
  "posted_at": "2026-07-26T09:33:11+00:00",
  "description": "POSITION: GENERAL SHOP LOCATION: Chatsworth, California SHIFT: 6:15am - 4:45pm (Monday thru Thursday). Please mention the word **PHENOMENAL** and tag RMjMuOTQuMTYyLjE2OA== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjMuOTQuMTYyLjE2OA==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.",
  "apply_url": "https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-general-shop-heico-1135437",
  "url": "https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-general-shop-heico-1135437",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-27T10:37:21.001Z"
}

Use cases

• Remote job aggregation — feed a niche board, newsletter or Slack alert with structured listings.
• Remote salary benchmarking — filter to records that actually disclose a range and band by tag.
• Tech-stack demand tracking — the tags array is already normalised by RemoteOK, so counting demand per technology needs no parsing.
• Remote-hiring company discovery — build a list of companies that genuinely hire remotely, filtered by stack.
• Job-alert automation — run on a schedule with a keyword filter and push new matches downstream.

FAQ

Why not just call the RemoteOK feed myself?

You can, and for a raw dump you should. This actor exists for the two defects in that feed: 68 of 100 live records carry double-encoded text, so 'colaboração' arrives as 'colaboração', and undisclosed salaries are published as 0 rather than null. Both are repaired here — text is decoded back to correct UTF-8, and a 0 salary is returned as absent so it never reads as a zero-paying job.

How do I filter results?

By keyword, which matches title, company and tags, and by tags, which matches RemoteOK's own tag vocabulary. Both are optional; leave them empty to take the whole board.

How fresh is the data?

It is the live feed at run time — RemoteOK updates continuously and posted_at gives the exact posting timestamp.

Is salary always present?

No. Most listings do not disclose one. When a range is published you get salary_min and salary_max; when it is not, both fields are absent rather than zero.

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/remoteok-jobs-scraper

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("themineworks/remoteok-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={"keyword": "python", "tags": [], "maxJobs": 10})
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.

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