# Wellfound (AngelList) Jobs Scraper - Startup Jobs & Pay (`vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Wellfound startup jobs with pay parsed into numbers, full descriptions, company size and stage, and YC / top-investor / unicorn badges.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vaulted](https://apify.com/vaulted-apis) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

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

## 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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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Wellfound (AngelList) Jobs Scraper — Startup Jobs & Pay

Scrape startup jobs from Wellfound with **pay parsed into numbers**, full job
descriptions, company size and funding stage, and investor badges.

Most Wellfound scrapers hand back `"$150k – $176k"` as a string and stop at the
job. This returns `payMin: 150000`, `payMax: 176000`, `payPeriod: "YEAR"` — and
attaches the company behind the job: how big it is, what stage it's at, whether
it's YC-funded, and which ATS it runs.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `title` / `roleTitle` | Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer |
| `company`, `companySize` | Checkr, SIZE\_501\_1000 |
| `companyStage`, `companyPitch` | Scaling, "background checks using ML" |
| `ycFunded`, `topInvestors`, `unicorn` | true / true / false |
| `highlyRated`, `goodWorkLifeBalance` | employer-quality badges |
| `activelyHiring`, `quickResponder` | responsiveness signals |
| `compensation` | $150k – $176k |
| `payMin`, `payMax`, `payPeriod`, `payCurrency` | 150000, 176000, YEAR, USD |
| `payIsEquityOnly` | true where the offer is equity with no cash |
| `locations`, `remote`, `remoteLocations` | \["Denver","San Francisco"], false |
| `jobType`, `yearsExperienceMin` | full-time, 5 |
| **`atsSource`** | **greenhouse / lever / ashby** |
| `description` | the full posting, not a snippet |
| `postedAt`, `url`, `jobId` | ISO date, direct link, 4639821 |

Equity is handled properly: `"$130k – $210k • 0.05% – 0.2%"` yields the cash
range, and a listing quoted only in equity is flagged rather than parsed as a
salary of 0.05.

### Why the company data matters

Every listing carries its employer's stage, size and investor signals, so you
can filter to *YC-funded companies at Series B hiring senior engineers* in one
query. `atsSource` also tells you which applicant tracking system each company
runs — a hiring-tooling signal that isn't published anywhere else.

### Input

```json
{
  "roles": ["software-engineer", "product-manager"],
  "locations": ["united-states", "remote"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 500
}
```

Roles and locations are Wellfound slugs — `software-engineer`, `data-scientist`,
`designer`; `united-states`, `san-francisco`, `new-york`, `remote`. Every role is
searched in every location.

### Use cases

- Startup job aggregation and job boards
- Compensation benchmarking across funding stages
- Tracking which startups are hiring, and for what
- Finding YC-funded or top-investor-backed companies that are actively hiring
- Recruiting pipelines aimed at startups
- Feeding startup hiring data into an LLM or RAG pipeline

### Notes

- Reads Wellfound's own search data rather than parsing rendered HTML, so
  pagination works properly — the `/jobs` landing feed ignores `?page=` entirely
  and returns the same 50 listings however many pages you ask for
- \~46 jobs per page, roughly 28 pages deep for a broad role+location
- Adjacent pages overlap slightly on a live feed; listings are deduplicated by
  `jobId` across pages, roles and locations, so you are never charged twice for
  the same row
- `payMin` is null where a listing publishes no salary (roughly 1 in 16)
- `atsSource` is null where the company posts directly rather than through an ATS
- Public search pages only; no login is used

### Related

Part of **Vaulted** — hiring and reputation data APIs.

# Actor input Schema

## `roles` (type: `array`):

Wellfound role slugs, e.g. "software-engineer", "product-manager", "data-scientist", "designer". Each is searched separately.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Wellfound location slugs, e.g. "united-states", "san-francisco", "new-york", "remote". Every role is searched in every location.

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

Wellfound returns about 46 jobs per page.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on pages per role+location. Wellfound paginates about 28 pages deep for a broad search.

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

Residential proxies recommended. Wellfound serves plain HTTP fine, but sustained volume from one address will eventually be throttled.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "roles": [
    "software-engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "united-states"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 500,
  "maxPages": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

No description

## `csv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runStats` (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 = {
    "roles": [
        "software-engineer"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "united-states"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-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 = {
    "roles": ["software-engineer"],
    "locations": ["united-states"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-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 '{
  "roles": [
    "software-engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "united-states"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,vaulted-apis/wellfound-jobs-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/Ebks5Z8QpuSWWdjDd/builds/218cITr5sUBB3rpKf/openapi.json