Wellfound.com Scraper

Extract job listings from wellfound.com at scale as clean, structured records for analysis, job boards, recruiting and market research. Runs without a login or session cookie — no account setup, no manual steps.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for startups worldwide

A dedicated startup-focused scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (USD) are tuned for wellfound.com.

📄 Clean job records

Job title, direct listing URL and publish date for every record, in a consistent structure.

💶 Compensation data

Compensation is returned as published by the employer, in USD, covering salary and equity in a single field. Missing compensation is returned as null, never guessed.

🔓 No login, no session cookie

Runs fully unattended. Full job and company data is returned without a Wellfound account or a pasted session cookie, so scheduled and automated runs never break when a login expires.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost, originalPublishDate and originalUrl, so daily feeds return genuinely new jobs instead of reposted duplicates.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"software-engineer"	Job role or keyword (e.g. 'software-engineer', 'product-manager'). Leave empty to browse all listings.
company	string	(empty)	Scrape jobs from a specific company page. Use the company's Wellfound slug (e.g. 'stripe', 'airbnb'). Overrides searchQuery when set.
location	string	(empty)	City or region (e.g. 'san-francisco', 'new-york'). Leave empty to use the remote filter.
remote	boolean	true	When no location is set, filter for remote positions only.
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of job listings to return. Each page contains up to 20 results.
sortBy	string	(empty)	Sort results by recency or relevance.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return jobs posted within this many days. Leave empty to return all jobs.
skipReposts	boolean	false	Skip jobs that have already been seen in a previous run.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Optional Wellfound search URLs to scrape directly. Overrides searchQuery and location when provided.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Fetch full job details from individual listing pages.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Wellfound internal listing ID
url	string	Direct link to the job listing
title	string	Job or listing title
primaryRoleTitle	string	Wellfound's canonical role for the job
location	string	All locations joined into one string, or null
locationNames	array	Individual location names as a list, or null
remote	boolean	True if the job is remote
jobType	string	Employment type, e.g. full-time, or null
yearsExperienceMin	integer	Minimum years of experience, or null
yearsExperienceMax	integer	Maximum years of experience, or null
compensation	string	Salary and equity as published by the employer, in USD, or null
description	string	Raw job description
descriptionText	string	Job description as plain text
descriptionMarkdown	string	Job description as Markdown
company	string	Company name
companyId	string	Company internal ID
companySlug	string	Company slug on Wellfound
companyProfileUrl	string	Link to the company profile page
companyLogoUrl	string	Company logo image URL
companyTagline	string	Company one-line description, or null
companySize	string	Employee count band, e.g. 51-200, or null
companyBadges	array	Company badges such as actively hiring, or null
publishDate	string	Date the job was posted (YYYY-MM-DD)
publishDateISO	string	Date the job was posted, ISO 8601
contentHash	string	Stable content hash used for change/repost detection
summary	string	One-line human-readable summary of the listing
source	string	Always wellfound.com
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape
isRepost	boolean	True if this listing was seen in a previous run
originalPublishDate	string	First-seen post date for reposts, or null
originalUrl	string	First-seen URL for reposts, or null

Example record

{
  "id": "4417465",
  "url": "https://wellfound.com/company/vested-finance-1/jobs/4417465-software-engineer",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "primaryRoleTitle": "Software Engineer",
  "location": "India, Berkeley, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore Urban",
  "remote": true,
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "compensation": "$23k – $25k",
  "company": "Vested Finance",
  "companySize": "51-200",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-07-01",
  "isRepost": false
}

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Examples

Search for founding engineer roles in San Francisco:

{
  "searchQuery": "founding engineer",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Only jobs from the last 3 days:

{
  "searchQuery": "founding engineer",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "daysOld": 3
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.wellfound.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "founding engineer",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$2.45 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.24
1,000	~$2.45
10,000	~$24.50
100,000	~$245.00

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $1.47 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Compensation is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry a null compensation field.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: wellfound.com — startups worldwide job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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