Instahyre Jobs Scraper — Tech Jobs API

Scrape public job listings from Instahyre.com into clean, structured JSON. This Apify Actor talks to Instahyre's own public job-search and employer-public-job JSON endpoints — the same APIs the website front end uses — via Crawlee CheerioCrawler and the Apify SDK. No browser automation is required for the happy path. No login bypass. No email enrichment.

What this Actor does

Instahyre is a leading India-focused tech hiring platform used by startups and MNCs for software, data, product, design, and business roles. Recruiters, analysts, and automation pipelines often need bulk access to titles, employers, locations, experience bands, skills, company profiles, and apply URLs. This Actor turns any keyword/location search (or pasted Instahyre search URL) into dataset rows you can export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or feed into Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own ATS/LLM pipeline.

Each run:

1. Builds Instahyre /api/v1/job_search/ queries from keywords, location, experience band, and optional searchUrls.
2. Paginates results (35 per page) until maxJobs is reached (default 100, hard max 5000).
3. Optionally fetches /api/v1/employer_public_jobs/{id} for full HTML + plain-text descriptions and experience bands.
4. Normalizes company profile fields (tagline, founded year, headcount) and experience strings.
5. Deduplicates on jobId, tags source=instahyre, and charges the pay-per-event (PPE) event job-scraped.

Scrape Instahyre tech job listings

Use keyword + city filters the way you would on the site:

{
  "keywords": "python",
  "location": "Bangalore",
  "experienceMin": 2,
  "experienceMax": 6,
  "maxJobs": 200,
  "includeDescription": true
}

Or paste Instahyre search / SEO / job URLs into searchUrls — query parameters and slugs are mapped onto the public job_search API.

Instahyre jobs API alternative

Instahyre has no official public developer API for bulk extraction. This Actor is a practical Instahyre jobs API alternative: it calls the same unauthenticated JSON endpoints the SPA already uses (/api/v1/job_search/ and /api/v1/employer_public_jobs/{id}), with a correct same-origin Referer header. When Cloudflare returns 403 from certain datacenter IPs (more common on HTML surfaces), enable Apify Proxy (default RESIDENTIAL) or set useMockData: true to run against bundled fixtures.

Competitor context on Apify Store: getascraper/instahyre-jobs-scraper ($1.05/1k) and themineworks ($2/1k). This Actor targets ~$1.00–$1.20 per 1,000 jobs via PPE event job-scraped.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
searchUrls	string[]	—	Instahyre search, SEO, or job URLs
keywords	string	—	Mapped to Instahyre skills
location	string	—	City (e.g. Bangalore, Mumbai)
experienceMin / experienceMax	integer	—	Client band; years sent when max set
maxJobs	integer	100	Cap 1–5000
includeDescription	boolean	true	Extra detail request per job
useMockData	boolean	false	Force fixtures (also auto on 403)
proxyConfiguration	object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify Proxy groups

Output fields

jobId, title, companyName, companyTagline, companyFounded, employeeCount, location, city, state, country, experience, experienceMin, experienceMax, salaryText, salaryMin, salaryMax, currency, skills[], employmentType, postedAt, jobUrl, applyUrl, descriptionHtml, descriptionText, industry, function, acceptOutstation, companyAbout, source (= instahyre), scrapedAt.

Local development

cd /workspace/instahyre-jobs-scraper
npm install
npm run build
# Mock run (recommended on blocked networks):
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage npm run start:dev
# Or with Apify CLI:
npx apify-cli run -p

Default local storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json sets useMockData: true.

Deploy / push

export APIFY_TOKEN=your_token_here
npx apify-cli login -t "$APIFY_TOKEN"   # or: apify login
npx apify-cli push                      # from this directory

See BUILD.md for monetization setup at ~$1.10 per 1,000 jobs PPE.

Pricing (PPE)

Intended Store pricing: ~$1.10 / 1,000 jobs via custom event job-scraped (or Console synthetic apify-default-dataset-item). Configured in Apify Console after first push — see BUILD.md. Memory limits: 512–2048 MB (default 1024).

Limitations & ethics

• Public data only. Does not log in, bypass CAPTCHAs, or scrape private profiles.
• Does not enrich employer emails.
• Instahyre may rate-limit or Cloudflare-challenge some IP ranges; use Apify Proxy if needed.
• Users must comply with Instahyre's Terms of Service and applicable law (including India's DPDP Act where relevant).
• Pagination ceiling ~10,000 results per filter combination (Instahyre search index window).

Project layout

.actor/           actor.json, input_schema.json, dataset_schema.json, output_schema.json
src/              main.ts, instahyre-api.ts, normalize.ts, types.ts
fixtures/         search + detail JSON for mock mode
Dockerfile        Apify Node 24 multi-stage build
BUILD.md          login, push, PPE monetization

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