Indeed Scraper

Scrape Indeed job listings by keyword and location. Returns structured job card data extracted directly from Indeed's internal page state — no secondary page loads required.

What you get

Each record contains:

Field	Description
jobKey	Indeed internal job ID
jobUrl	Direct link to the job posting
title	Job title
company	Hiring company name
companyRating	Company star rating on Indeed
location	City, state, or "Remote"
salary	Pay range if shown on the listing
jobType	Full-time, Part-time, Contract, etc.
remoteWorkModel	Remote / Hybrid / On-site label
isSponsored	Whether the listing is a sponsored ad
postedAt	Posting date or recency label
description	Full job description as plain text
query	Search keyword used
searchLocation	Location filter used
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of when the record was scraped

Note: description carries the full job description as plain text (one batched request per ~15 records). Set includeDescription: false for a faster, cards-only run.

How it works

Indeed is bot-protected, which is why most scrapers pointed at it come back empty. This one reads the structured job-card state Indeed embeds in its own results page, so records are clean and fully typed rather than scraped from brittle selectors.

Indeed only serves the first page of a search to anonymous visitors, so instead of paging the actor widens the search across filter variants — date posted, job type, radius, experience level — de-duplicating by job key until maxItems is reached or the variants run out.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	Yes	Search keywords (e.g. software engineer, registered nurse)
location	string	Yes	Location (e.g. New York, NY, Remote, London)
maxItems	integer	Yes	Maximum number of job listings to return
includeDescription	boolean	No	Fetch the full description text for each record (default true)

Example:

{
  "query": "data analyst",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Limits and best practices

• Keep maxItems at 15 or below for test runs to stay within free-tier limits.
• Each search variant yields roughly 15–50 cards; a single query typically reaches 150–200 unique jobs across all variants. For more, run additional queries or locations.
• Sponsored listings are included and flagged with isSponsored: true.
• Results reflect Indeed's current live index — the same search run twice may return different ordering due to Indeed's personalization and freshness ranking.

Use cases

• Job market research — track salary ranges and demand for specific roles across cities
• Recruiting intelligence — monitor competitor hiring activity
• Hiring trend analysis — compare job volume across industries and locations over time
• Lead generation — identify companies actively hiring in a given domain