Wellfound.com Scraper

Extract job listings from wellfound.com at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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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.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in USD. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost and changeStatus, 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	Platform internal listing ID
title	string	Job or listing title
salaryMin	string	Minimum salary (numeric), or null
salaryMax	string	Maximum salary (numeric), or null
equityMin	string	Minimum equity percentage
equityMax	string	Maximum equity percentage
publishDateISO	string	ISO 8601 date posted
isRepost	string	true if seen in a previous run
url	string	Direct link to the listing

Example record

{
  "id": "1084213",
  "title": "Founding Engineer",
  "salaryMin": 45000,
  "salaryMax": 60000,
  "equityMin": null,
  "equityMax": null,
  "publishDateISO": "2026-07-01",
  "isRepost": false,
  "url": "https://www.wellfound.com/job/1084213"
}

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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

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• 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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