Y Combinator Jobs Scraper: startup jobs with salary and equity

Scrape startup jobs from Y Combinator's job board (Work at a Startup on ycombinator.com/jobs): every open role at YC companies with the salary range, equity range, YC batch, location, remote flag, job type, role and specialty, minimum experience, visa policy and skills. Turn on Include full details to add the full job description, interview process, exact posting date and the company profile (website, team size, year founded, tags, LinkedIn, X). Search by role and location, filter by keyword, minimum salary, job type, batch and visa sponsorship, get all matching jobs with Complete results, and schedule it with Only new jobs. No login, no cookies, no account.

What you get

Job	Title, ycombinator.com job URL, apply link, job ID, job type (full-time, internship, contract, part-time), role (Engineering, Design, Product, Sales …) and specialty (Full stack, Backend, Machine learning …), minimum experience, skills
Pay	Salary range as written plus min / max, currency, period (year, month, hour) and the yearly equivalent; equity range plus min / max percent
Place	Location as written, each location separately, country codes, remote yes / no
Company	Name, YC batch (W24, S25, F25 …), one-liner, logo, YC company page; with company pages or full details also website, team size, year founded, HQ, tags, status, LinkedIn and X links, long description
Details (optional)	Full job description, interview process, exact posting date
Visa	The company's visa policy ("Will sponsor", "US citizen/visa only" …)

How to use it

1. Pick one or more Roles (Engineering, Design, Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations …) and one or more Locations (Remote, San Francisco, New York, London, Bengaluru, Toronto, United States, Europe …). Each role × location is one search. Leave both empty for every job on the board.
2. Optionally add a Keyword (founding engineer, machine learning, rust), a Minimum yearly salary, Job types, YC batches or Visa sponsorship only.
3. Set Max jobs and run.

You can also list Companies (airbnb, https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe) to get every open job at each one, or paste Y Combinator job, company or job-list URLs.

The top 40 or everything

Y Combinator's own job pages show the 40–50 most active jobs for each role or city; that's what a run returns first, in seconds. When your search needs more, Complete results (on by default) checks the jobs page of every hiring YC company (about 1,750) and keeps the jobs that match, so you get all open jobs for your search. A full check of the board takes about 5–10 minutes. With Only new jobs on, later runs skip jobs they already saved and don't even open companies with nothing new, so a daily scheduled run is quick and cheap.

Input examples

10 remote engineering jobs with the full description (the default example):

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "locations": ["Remote"],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Every sales and marketing job in New York or San Francisco paying at least $120K a year:

{
  "roles": ["sales-manager", "marketing"],
  "locations": ["New York", "San Francisco"],
  "minSalary": 120000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "maxItems": 0
}

New founding-engineer roles at W25–F25 companies that sponsor visas, every day (schedule it daily):

{
  "keyword": "founding engineer",
  "batches": ["W25", "P25", "S25", "F25"],
  "visaSponsorship": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Every open job at a few companies:

{
  "companies": ["airbnb", "stripe", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accord"]
}

Output example

One row per job (trimmed; with Include full details):

{
  "jobId": "94311",
  "jobKey": "nova-credit/I1dQrYC",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nova-credit/jobs/I1dQrYC-senior-software-engineer",
  "companyName": "Nova Credit",
  "companyBatch": "S16",
  "companyOneLiner": "Bridging a world of consumer-permissioned credit data",
  "location": "Remote / New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (New York, NY, US; San Francisco, CA, US; …)",
  "countries": ["US", "CA"],
  "isRemote": true,
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "roleSpecialty": "Full stack",
  "salaryRange": "$184K - $219K",
  "salaryMin": 184000,
  "salaryMax": 219000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryMinAnnual": 184000,
  "salaryMaxAnnual": 219000,
  "equityRange": null,
  "minExperience": "6+ years",
  "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
  "skills": ["Python"],
  "postedAgo": "6 months",
  "lastActiveAgo": "1 day",
  "postedAt": "2026-05-05T23:56:54.000Z",
  "description": "**WHO WE ARE**\n\nAt Nova Credit, we're on a mission to power financial inclusion globally …",
  "interviewProcess": "1. First Screen with a Recruiter - 30 minutes \n2. Coding Challenge - 60 minutes …",
  "companyWebsite": "http://www.novacredit.com/",
  "companyLinkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nova-credit-inc./",
  "companyTeamSize": 100,
  "companyYearFounded": 2016,
  "companyLocation": "New York City, NY",
  "companyTags": ["Fintech", "Data Science"],
  "detailsIncluded": true,
  "searchQuery": "Engineering jobs in Remote",
  "source": "listing",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T13:40:13.714Z"
}

Every row has the same columns; a value the job doesn't state is null.

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription:

• $1.00 per 1,000 jobs saved ($0.001 per job).
• +$0.50 per 1,000 jobs with Include full details ($0.0005 per job whose own page was read: description, interview process, posting date, company profile). A pasted job URL always comes with details.
• $0.05 per 1,000 pages checked that gave no new matching job ($0.00005 per page). This only adds up with Complete results on a narrow search: checking all ~1,750 company pages without a single match costs about $0.09.
• $0.002 per run (start fee).

So the default example (10 jobs with details) costs about $0.017, and 1,000 jobs without details about $1.00. Jobs skipped by Only new jobs, pages that could not be read and jobs taken down mid-run are never charged. You never pay more than the max charge you set for the run.

Use cases

• Startup job search and alerts: a daily run with Only new jobs for your role, city and salary floor.
• Recruiting and talent sourcing: see which YC companies are hiring for which roles, at what pay and equity.
• Sales prospecting with hiring signals: companies hiring sales, support or engineering leaders are buying; the company profile gives website, size and LinkedIn.
• VC and market research: hiring volume, salary bands and equity by batch, role and location.
• Job boards and newsletters: feed YC startup jobs into your own site.

Tips

• Locations: YC has pages for ~145 places; any other place (e.g. Nairobi) still works with Complete results, by matching each job's location text. Remote means jobs that can be done remotely.
• City pages mix roles: YC pads a city page with other roles; the scraper re-checks role and location on every job, so you only get what you asked for.
• Salaries in other currencies (INR, GBP, EUR, CAD …) keep their currency; the minimum salary filter compares in the currency you choose and converts monthly / hourly pay to yearly.
• Fast and cheap: leave Include full details off when the listing fields are enough.

FAQ

Do I need a Y Combinator or Work at a Startup account? No. The scraper reads the same public pages any visitor sees. It never logs in and never applies to anything.

Why did a run return fewer jobs than I asked for? That's every open job matching your search and filters. With Complete results off you get only what YC's own page for that role or city shows (the 40–50 most active jobs); the status message tells you when turning it on would find more.

How fresh is the data? Live: every run reads the board at that moment. postedAgo and lastActiveAgo are as YC shows them; postedAt (with full details) is the exact posting date.

Which proxy should I use? Keep the default (Apify Proxy, datacenter). It comes with every Apify plan, including the free one.

Is it legal to scrape Y Combinator? This Actor only collects publicly available data: job postings and company profiles that anyone can see on ycombinator.com without an account, such as the title, company, location, salary and equity range and the job description. Collecting publicly available data is generally legal, but you're responsible for how you use it. Job postings describe roles and companies, not people; the scraper never collects founder or hiring-manager profiles, and it removes personal e-mail addresses and phone numbers from job descriptions (company addresses like jobs@ are kept). You must follow privacy laws such as GDPR, PIPEDA and CCPA, as well as Y Combinator's terms. If you're unsure, check with a lawyer. More on this: Is web scraping legal?

Does it access any private data? No. Everything comes from pages Y Combinator shows to any visitor without logging in. It never touches accounts, applications or messages, and it follows the site's robots.txt.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Y Combinator.