RemoteOK Jobs Scraper

Extract remote job listings from RemoteOK's public API. Collect job title, company, tags, salary range, location, apply URL, and posting date. Supports tag-based filtering for targeted job market research.

What it does

This actor fetches remote job listings directly from RemoteOK's public JSON API (https://remoteok.com/api). Each run returns up to 100 of the most recent jobs across all categories, or a filtered subset when you specify tags.

For each job listing, it extracts:

• Job ID & slug — unique identifier and URL slug
• Title — job position name
• Company — hiring company name and logo URL
• Tags — required skills and job category tags (JSON array)
• Description — full job description (may contain HTML)
• Location — remote region or geographic requirement
• Apply URL — direct link to apply
• Salary — min/max USD range (0 if not disclosed)
• Date — posting date (ISO 8601) and Unix epoch timestamp
• Scraped at — collection timestamp

Usage

Basic — all recent jobs

Run with the default settings to fetch the 10 most recent remote jobs across all categories:

{
  "maxItems": 10
}

Tag filter — specific skills

Supply one or more tags to narrow results. Each tag generates a separate API request, and results are combined (up to maxItems total):

{
  "tags": ["javascript", "python"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Common tags: javascript, python, devops, react, node, go, rust, design, marketing, sales, customer support.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	—	Maximum number of job listings to return (required)
tags	string[]	[]	Filter by skill/category tags. Empty = all recent jobs

Output

Each dataset record contains:

Field	Type	Description
job_id	string	Unique job ID from RemoteOK
slug	string	URL slug for the job listing
url	string	Full URL to the job on RemoteOK
title	string	Job position title
company	string	Hiring company name
company_logo	string	Company logo image URL
tags	string	JSON array of skill/category tags
description	string	Full job description (may contain HTML)
location	string	Location or remote region requirement
apply_url	string	Direct URL to apply
salary_min	integer	Minimum salary in USD (0 = not disclosed)
salary_max	integer	Maximum salary in USD (0 = not disclosed)
date	string	Job posting date (ISO 8601)
epoch	integer	Job posting timestamp (Unix epoch seconds)
scraped_at	string	Timestamp when record was scraped (ISO 8601)

Notes

• RemoteOK's API returns up to ~100 of the most recent jobs per endpoint call. This is a full snapshot — there is no pagination to older jobs.
• Attribution: Per RemoteOK's API Terms of Service, any display of this data must link back to the source URL on RemoteOK.
• No proxy required — the API is fully public.