# YC Jobs Scraper - Work at a Startup (`thirdwatch/yc-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Y Combinator's Work at a Startup board: titles, salary and equity ranges, company, batch, location, remote flag, and apply URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thirdwatch/yc-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Thirdwatch](https://apify.com/thirdwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 results

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## YC Jobs Scraper — Work at a Startup

> **Thirdwatch portfolio:** 5K users across 97 public Actors, 2M+ records delivered, and >99% run success. [Explore all Thirdwatch Actors](https://apify.com/thirdwatch).

Scrape Y Combinator's "Work at a Startup" job board — every listing carries real salary and equity ranges, the company's batch and one-liner, and a direct apply URL. Reads the board's embedded Inertia data, so results are complete and structured.

Use it for startup job aggregation, compensation research, talent sourcing, and market mapping of YC companies.

### Why this Actor

- **Salary + equity on every row:** `salaryMin`/`salaryMax`/`salaryCurrency` and `equityMin`/`equityMax` — the fields most job boards hide.
- **Company context bundled:** name, slug, batch, one-liner, logo, and last-active timestamp on each job row.
- **Structured JSON:** parses the page's `data-page` payload — no DOM guessing.
- **Filters:** free-text `query` and `role` type filtering, plus `maxJobs` to bound runs.
- **Cheap:** pure HTTP, ~$0.0003 per run.

### Quick start

```json
{
  "query": "backend engineer",
  "maxJobs": 40
}
```

### Input

| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---:|---|
| `query` | No | Free-text filter over title, company, and description. |
| `role` | No | Role-type filter (e.g. `engineering`). |
| `maxJobs` | No | Max jobs to return. Default: 50. |

### Output

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `jobId`, `title`, `jobUrl` | Job identity and listing link. |
| `applyUrl` | Direct application URL. |
| `companyName`, `companySlug`, `companyBatch`, `companyOneLiner`, `companyLogoUrl` | Company profile. |
| `companyLastActiveAt` | When the company last engaged on the platform. |
| `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryCurrency` | Compensation range. |
| `equityMin`, `equityMax` | Equity range (%). |
| `location`, `jobType`, `roleType` | Where and what kind of role. |

### Notes & limitations

- Only jobs currently listed on workatastartup.com — expired postings disappear.
- Salary/equity are as published by the company; some listings omit them.

# Actor input Schema

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

Free-text search, e.g. "frontend", "machine learning". Leave empty for all jobs.

## `role` (type: `string`):

Role category slug from workatastartup.com, e.g. software-engineer, product-manager, design.

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Max jobs

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxJobs": 100
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thirdwatch/yc-jobs-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thirdwatch/yc-jobs-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call thirdwatch/yc-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/qRYe5lFf2GvIK44hN/builds/bP6Yqo271JcQy94Tp/openapi.json