# Startup Jobs (YC / Wellfound) (`timbered_oak/startup-jobs-yc-wellfound`) Actor

Fetches Y Combinator Work at a Startup public job listings by company slug. Wellfound blocks non-browser requests (HTTP 403) so this build is YC-only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/timbered\_oak/startup-jobs-yc-wellfound.md
- **Developed by:** [Mark](https://apify.com/timbered_oak) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.50 / 1,000 job posting scrapeds

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/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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# README

## Startup Jobs (YC / Wellfound)

Fetches public job listings from Y Combinator's Work at a Startup, per company.

**Wellfound is not scraped.** Wellfound (`wellfound.com`) returns HTTP 403 to
non-browser requests from this build's hosting, and the brief bars adding a
proxy to work around it. This actor ships **YC-only**.

### How it works

YC gates the Work at a Startup company directory and full job-search API
behind login, but each company's own jobs page
(`ycombinator.com/companies/<slug>/jobs`) still server-renders the full job
list, unauthenticated, in an embedded Inertia `data-page` JSON blob. This
actor fetches that page per company slug you give it and parses that blob —
no login, no proxy, no browser automation.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `companySlugs` | array of strings | yes | YC company slugs, e.g. `"stripe"` from `ycombinator.com/companies/stripe`. |
| `maxJobsPerCompany` | integer | no | Cap on rows pushed per company. Unlimited if omitted. |

### Output row

```json
{
  "company": "DoorDash",
  "batch": "S13",
  "role": "Staff iOS Engineer, Storefront",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Seattle, WA, US",
  "remote": false,
  "salaryBand": "$119K - $252K",
  "equityBand": null,
  "postedAt": "about 2 years",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/doordash/jobs/uv04VyJ-staff-ios-engineer-storefront"
}
```

`postedAt` is YC's own relative string (e.g. "about 2 years") — YC does not
publish an absolute post date on this page. `salaryBand`/`equityBand` are
`null` when the company didn't fill them in. `applyUrl` is the public YC job
page (not the login-gated Work at a Startup apply flow).

Company-level only: no founder or hiring-manager names, no individual PII.

### Pricing

$0.0025 per `job-scraped` event (one per pushed row). No start fee.

### Known gaps

- Wellfound is excluded (see above).
- A company with zero open roles, or an unknown/misspelled slug, returns zero
  rows for that slug and is not charged for it.
- `postedAt` is relative text, not a timestamp — re-run periodically to
  detect new postings rather than diffing dates.

# Actor input Schema

## `companySlugs` (type: `array`):

Y Combinator company slugs from a Work at a Startup company URL, e.g. "stripe" from ycombinator.com/companies/stripe. Wellfound is not scraped — it returns HTTP 403 to non-browser requests from most hosts; this actor is YC-only.

## `maxJobsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Cap on rows pushed per company. Leave empty for no cap.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companySlugs": [
    "stripe",
    "airbnb",
    "doordash"
  ]
}
```

# 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 = {
    "companySlugs": [
        "stripe",
        "airbnb",
        "doordash"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("timbered_oak/startup-jobs-yc-wellfound").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 = { "companySlugs": [
        "stripe",
        "airbnb",
        "doordash",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("timbered_oak/startup-jobs-yc-wellfound").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 '{
  "companySlugs": [
    "stripe",
    "airbnb",
    "doordash"
  ]
}' |
apify call timbered_oak/startup-jobs-yc-wellfound --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/oF29Dl30T2iIgc8jO/builds/5U2zXC2UgH400EE1R/openapi.json