# Indeed Scraper — Jobs, Salaries & Companies (`tortuga/indeed-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Indeed jobs by keyword + location or search URL, 20+ countries: title, company, rating, remote/hybrid, salary min/max/period, job type, benefits, posted date, apply type, full description.

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

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 job scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Indeed Scraper — Jobs, Salaries & Companies

Scrape job listings from **Indeed** by keyword and location, or from any Indeed search URL, on 20+ country sites
(indeed.com, uk.indeed.com, ca.indeed.com, au.indeed.com, in.indeed.com, de.indeed.com, fr.indeed.com and more).
For every job you get the title, company with its rating, location, remote/hybrid flag, salary as text **and** as
parsed min / max / period / currency, job type, shifts, benefits, requirements, posted date, how to apply and the
job URL. Optionally it also opens each job for the **full description**, street address and coordinates.

No Indeed account, no cookies, no browser. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or use the API.

### What data does the Indeed Scraper return?

| Field | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `title` | `Senior Financial Accountant` | |
| `company` | `SFI Health` | |
| `companyRating`, `companyReviewCount` | `2.8`, `10` | Indeed company reviews, when the company has a page |
| `companyUrl`, `companyReviewsUrl`, `companyLogo` | `https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Sfi-Health` | logo only for employers with branding |
| `location`, `city`, `state`, `postalCode`, `country` | `Wigan`, `Wigan`, `ENG`, `null`, `GB` | |
| `isRemote`, `isHybrid` | `false`, `false` | from Indeed's remote/hybrid tags (works in every language) |
| `salaryText` | `From £39,000 a year` | exactly as Indeed shows it |
| `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryPeriod`, `salaryCurrency` | `39000`, `null`, `year`, `GBP` | period: year, month, week, day, hour; open ranges have one bound |
| `jobTypes` | `["Full-time", "Permanent"]` | in the site's language |
| `shifts`, `benefits` | `["Flexitime"]`, `["Company pension", "Sick pay"]` | |
| `requirements` | `["Accounting", "Accounts payable"]` | skills, degrees, licences Indeed extracted from the ad |
| `snippet` | `- Qualified accountant CIMA or ACCA...` | the short summary on the results page |
| `postedAt`, `postedAgo` | `2025-02-04T06:00:00Z`, `30+ days ago` | |
| `applyType` | `Indeed Apply` or `Company website` | |
| `sponsored`, `sponsoredGroup` | `true`, `null` | see the FAQ on sponsored jobs |
| `urgentlyHiring`, `isNew`, `responsiveEmployer` | `false` | Indeed badges |
| `jobKey`, `url` | `ffb0b123ced17e48`, `https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ffb0b123ced17e48` | |
| `searchKeyword`, `searchLocation`, `searchUrl`, `site`, `position`, `scrapedAt` | | where and when the job was found |
| `description`, `descriptionHtml` | `Job Purpose: The post holder will...` | with **Include full job description** |
| `streetAddress`, `latitude`, `longitude` | `1 Botanic Court, Wigan`, `53.5518`, `-2.68068` | with details, when the employer published an address |
| `employerResponseInfo` | `Responded to 51-74% of applications in the past 30 days...` | with details |
| `language` | `en` | with details |

### How to scrape Indeed jobs by keyword and location

1. Enter one or more **Keywords** (job title, skill or company), a **Location** and the **Country**.
2. Optionally set filters: date posted, job type, remote / hybrid, minimum pay, distance, experience level, sort by
   date, only "Easily apply" jobs.
3. Set **Max jobs** and run. Results appear in the dataset as they are found.

```json
{
  "keywords": ["data analyst", "business analyst"],
  "location": "Chicago, IL",
  "country": "US",
  "datePosted": "7",
  "remote": "hybrid",
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

You can also paste Indeed search URLs (with any filters you picked on the site) into **Start URLs**, from any
country site:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=registered+nurse&l=Houston%2C+TX&fromage=3" },
    { "url": "https://de.indeed.com/jobs?q=entwickler&l=Berlin" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 300,
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 150
}
```

#### Output example

```json
{
  "jobKey": "ffb0b123ced17e48",
  "url": "https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ffb0b123ced17e48",
  "title": "Senior Financial Accountant",
  "company": "SFI Health",
  "companyRating": 2.8,
  "companyReviewCount": 10,
  "companyUrl": "https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Sfi-Health",
  "location": "Wigan",
  "country": "GB",
  "isRemote": false,
  "isHybrid": false,
  "salaryText": "From £39,000 a year",
  "salaryMin": 39000,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "jobTypes": ["Full-time", "Permanent"],
  "shifts": ["Flexitime"],
  "benefits": ["Company pension", "Flexitime", "Free parking", "Referral programme", "Sick pay", "Work from home"],
  "requirements": ["Accounting", "Accounting software", "Accounts payable"],
  "postedAt": "2025-02-04T06:00:00Z",
  "postedAgo": "30+ days ago",
  "applyType": "Indeed Apply",
  "searchKeyword": "accountant",
  "searchLocation": "Manchester",
  "site": "uk.indeed.com",
  "description": "Job Purpose:\n\nThe post holder will form a critical part of the UK Finance Team...",
  "streetAddress": "1 Botanic Court, Wigan",
  "latitude": 53.5518,
  "longitude": -2.68068
}
```

### How many jobs can I get per search?

Indeed shows visitors who are not signed in **only the first page** of a search: 15 jobs. Page 2 and the separate
job pages ask you to sign in, and this actor never signs in. To get more, **Collect more than Indeed's first page**
(on by default) repeats your search through Indeed's own filters (newest first, last 24 hours / 3 / 7 / 14 days, each
job type, remote, hybrid, pay level, experience level, skills...) and keeps every job it has not seen yet. In tests a
broad search ("registered nurse" in Houston, 2,354 matches) gave **410 distinct jobs** from 61 page loads, and
"software engineer" in New York gave 400 from 37. Narrow searches end sooner, when the filters stop turning up new
jobs. For thousands of jobs, run several searches (more keywords, nearby cities, or Start URLs) in one run; duplicates
across searches are removed.

### Can I get the full job description?

Yes. Turn on **Include full job description**. For each job the actor loads Indeed's results page with that job open
in the side panel, which contains the full description (plain text and HTML), the street address with coordinates,
shift details and the employer's response rate. It is one extra request per job, so the run is slower.

### Does it work without login? Which countries are supported?

It works without any login or cookies. Pick one of 20 countries in the **Country** list, or paste a search URL from
any Indeed site (e.g. `https://ie.indeed.com/jobs?q=...`, `https://jp.indeed.com/jobs?q=...`). The actor
automatically uses a proxy IP in that site's country; Indeed refuses IPs from countries it does not serve.

### What are sponsored jobs and sponsored job groups?

`sponsored: true` marks paid job ads. On most country sites nearly every job is a paid ad and it is a normal
result. On indeed.com the first page also contains carousels of sponsored jobs grouped by career, such as
"Careers in DevOps engineering", 10 jobs each and often unrelated to your keyword (a "nurse" search can show fitness
trainers). They are skipped by default; turn on **Include sponsored job groups** to keep them. Those jobs carry the
group name in `sponsoredGroup`.

### Monitor changes on a schedule

Turn on **Only new or changed items** to watch a search: each run remembers what earlier runs returned and outputs only jobs that are new or whose title or pay (min, max, period) changed. Unchanged jobs are dropped before any job details are opened, so they are not charged. **Max jobs** then sets how many jobs are checked per run; sort by date so the newest jobs land in that window (with **Collect more than Indeed's first page** off, one page of 15 jobs costs one request). Save the input as a task and add a Schedule in Apify (for example daily); give each watch its own **Monitoring key** if several schedules use the same search. Every output item has `changeType` (`new` or `changed`), and changed jobs have `previousValues` with the old values, e.g. `{"salaryMax": 140000}`.

### Pricing

Pay per job: **$0.003 per job** ($3 per 1,000), with the full description included when `includeDetails` is on.
No start fee and no subscription.

### Proxy note and cost

Indeed is protected by Cloudflare: datacenter IPs get a "Security Check" page, so the actor uses Apify
**residential** proxies (the default) in the Indeed site's country. Measured on the platform, each results page is
about 0.08-0.25 MB of residential traffic (about $0.0006-0.002) and brings 15 jobs, or 1-15 new ones during the
expansion. Worked example: 1,000 jobs from broad searches cost about **$0.10-0.20 of platform usage** (proxy plus
compute) on top of the per-job price. Details add one page per job (about $0.0003-0.002 each). Pages that
come back blocked are retried on a new IP automatically.

### Is it legal to scrape Indeed?

The actor reads only public pages that anyone can open without an account: job ads as employers publish them,
company names, ratings and pay information. It does not log in, does not open anything behind Indeed's sign-in wall
and does not collect job seekers' data. Job descriptions are written by employers and sometimes name a recruiter or
contact person; that is part of the public ad. You are responsible for using the data in line with Indeed's terms
and the privacy laws that apply to you (for example GDPR when you process personal data from ads).

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

One search per keyword, e.g. "software engineer", "registered nurse", "amazon". Leave empty to list every job in the location.

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

City, state, region or postcode as you would type it on Indeed, e.g. "New York, NY", "London", "Berlin", "Remote". Leave empty to search the whole country.

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

Which Indeed site to search for the keywords. For other Indeed sites, paste a search URL into Start URLs.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional: Indeed search URLs from any country site, with any filters you set on Indeed, e.g. https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=data+analyst\&l=Chicago%2C+IL\&fromage=7. Single job pages (/viewjob) are not accepted.

## `datePosted` (type: `string`):

Only jobs posted within this many days.

## `jobType` (type: `string`):

Indeed's job type filter. Permanent, apprenticeship and freelance exist on some country sites only.

## `remote` (type: `string`):

Only remote jobs or only hybrid jobs.

## `minSalary` (type: `string`):

Indeed's Pay filter, written the way the site shows it, e.g. "$80,000" on indeed.com or "£40,000" on uk.indeed.com. Indeed matches it against stated and estimated pay.

## `radius` (type: `string`):

Search radius around the location in miles (kilometres on metric sites). Empty = Indeed's default (usually 25).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Relevance (Indeed's default) or newest first.

## `experienceLevel` (type: `string`):

Indeed's experience level filter (offered on indeed.com and a few other sites).

## `easyApplyOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only jobs you can apply to on Indeed (Indeed Apply).

## `includeSponsoredGroups` (type: `boolean`):

On indeed.com, page 1 also shows carousels of sponsored jobs grouped by career (e.g. "Careers in DevOps engineering"), 10 jobs each and often unrelated to your keyword. Off by default; turn on to save them too (they carry a sponsoredGroup label).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many jobs in total (you pay per job saved).

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Optional cap for each keyword / start URL, so one search does not use the whole Max jobs budget.

## `expandSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Indeed shows visitors who are not signed in only the first page of a search (15 jobs). With this on, the actor repeats the search through Indeed's own filters (newest first, date posted, job type, remote, pay, experience, ...) and keeps the jobs it has not seen yet. Each extra page is one request.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each job for the full description (text and HTML), street address with coordinates, shifts and the employer's response rate. One extra request per job, so runs are slower and use more proxy traffic.

## `onlyNewOrChanged` (type: `boolean`):

Remember what earlier runs of this search returned and output only new jobs or jobs whose title or pay changed. Use with a Schedule; unchanged jobs are not charged. With this on, Max jobs (and Max jobs per search) is the number of jobs checked per run; sort by date to watch the newest jobs.

## `monitoringKey` (type: `string`):

Name for this watch, so several schedules on the same search stay separate; defaults to a key derived from the search input

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxy is required: Indeed shows datacenter IPs a Cloudflare check. The actor picks a residential IP in the Indeed site's country automatically. Each search page is about 0.3 MB of residential traffic (about $0.0025 at $8/GB) and returns 15-45 jobs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "country": "US",
  "datePosted": "",
  "jobType": "",
  "remote": "",
  "radius": "",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "experienceLevel": "",
  "easyApplyOnly": false,
  "includeSponsoredGroups": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "expandSearch": true,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "onlyNewOrChanged": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "software engineer"
    ],
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tortuga/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 = {
    "keywords": ["software engineer"],
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tortuga/indeed-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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call tortuga/indeed-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tortuga/indeed-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/e9uoWpgfU4Sty35UD/builds/HKx9I1t2I4eqQzzDp/openapi.json