Indeed & ZipRecruiter Scraper — Jobs, Hiring Signals & Company Profiles

Scrape Indeed and ZipRecruiter job postings, company hiring signals and company profiles in one run for $0.50 per 1,000 records. No API key, no login, no browser extension: give it a list of companies or keywords and get back fresh jobs with salaries and exact posting timestamps, live job totals per employer, and CSV-ready rows. Built for recruiting outreach, sales lead scoring, talent-market research and AI agent pipelines.

Who uses this Indeed & ZipRecruiter scraper

• Recruiters and staffing agencies who want to know which target accounts started hiring in the last 24 to 48 hours, with the actual job titles and pay.
• Sales and RevOps teams using hiring velocity as a buying signal to score and prioritise accounts.
• Talent-market and compensation analysts pulling posting volume and salary ranges per role, per region, per board.
• Data and CRM teams enriching company records with industry, headcount, revenue, HQ, founding year and employee rating.
• AI agent builders who need a structured Indeed API or ZipRecruiter API substitute that an LLM can call through MCP.

Three scan modes in one actor

Mode	You provide	You get
Companies (default)	A list of company names (optionally with websites)	Hiring signal per company (active-posting counts per board plus the ZipRecruiter live job total), full company profile, and the latest jobs posted in the last N hours or the latest 10
Keywords	Up to 10 search terms	Fresh job postings matching each keyword across both boards, with salary, location, remote flag and exact posting timestamps
Profiles	A list of company names	Company profiles only: industry, size, revenue, HQ, founding year, rating, live job count. Fast and lightweight

Why this scraper

• Two job boards, one dataset. Indeed and ZipRecruiter results are merged, deduplicated and labeled per source.
• Real posting timestamps. ZipRecruiter jobs carry exact hour-precise posted_at timestamps taken from the page itself. Repost and refresh bumps are detected and reported separately as reposted_at, so a "fresh" job is genuinely fresh.
• True 24h / 48h recency filtering. Filtering is done by timestamp, which is more accurate than the boards' own date filters.
• Employer-verified matching. Jobs are matched to the target company by website domain plus normalized name, so common names ("Kelly", "Volt") do not pull in unrelated employers.
• Live job totals. The company's real ZipRecruiter posting count, not a page-limited sample, which is a direct hiring-volume signal.
• Company profiles from both boards. Industry, employee count, revenue, description, logo, HQ, founding year, employee rating, socials and website.
• CSV-ready output. Every job also lands as a flat one-row-per-job record, so exports open clean in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Resilient by design. Automatic retries, browser crash recovery, IP rotation and per-site timeouts. Partial results are saved incrementally.

What you get: output fields

Company record (record_type: "company", modes: companies / profiles)

Field	What it tells you
company_query / matched_company_name	The name you searched and the canonical employer name found on the boards
has_active_postings	The core hiring signal: is this company hiring right now?
active_jobs_found / active_jobs_by_site	Employer-verified postings returned this run, in total and split per board
active_jobs_total_by_site.zip_recruiter	The company's real total of open ZipRecruiter postings, hiring volume at a glance
posted_last_48h / posted_last_48h_count	Whether, and how many, postings fall inside your recency window
profile.*	Industry, employee count, revenue, description, logo, HQ, founding year, employee rating, website, socials (Indeed company_* keys and ZipRecruiter zr_* keys side by side)
latest_jobs	The returned jobs, nested (also emitted as flat rows)
sites_with_errors	Which board, if any, failed for this company so you can retry selectively
scraped_at	Run timestamp (UTC)

Job record (record_type: "job", all modes)

Field	What it tells you
title, company, location	The posting basics
date_posted / posted_at	Original posting date, plus the exact UTC timestamp where the board exposes one
reposted_at	Present when the employer bumped or refreshed an older ad. A re-engagement signal, never disguised as a new posting
salary_min, salary_max, salary_interval, salary_currency	Structured pay data (direct or parsed from the posting)
job_type, is_remote, job_level	Employment type, remote flag and seniority where the board provides them
job_url	Direct employer application link when available, board link otherwise
site	Which board the row came from: indeed or zip_recruiter
description	Full job description in Markdown or HTML (only when includeDescription is on)

Keyword summary (record_type: "keyword", keyword mode): jobs_found, jobs_by_site and jobs_returned per search term, so you can see posting volume per board and how many matches fell inside the window.

Sample JSON output

One company record per target (companies / profiles mode):

{
  "record_type": "company",
  "company_query": "Paychex",
  "matched_company_name": "Paychex",
  "has_active_postings": true,
  "active_jobs_found": 38,
  "active_jobs_by_site": { "indeed": 17, "zip_recruiter": 21 },
  "active_jobs_total_by_site": { "zip_recruiter": 593, "indeed": null },
  "posted_last_48h": true,
  "posted_last_48h_count": 17,
  "profile": {
    "company_industry": "Human Resources",
    "company_num_employees": "10,000+",
    "company_revenue": "$1B to $5B (USD)",
    "zr_total_jobs": 593,
    "zr_rating": 7.27,
    "zr_headquarters": "Rochester, NY, US",
    "zr_year_founded": "1971"
  },
  "latest_jobs": [ { "title": "Payroll Specialist", "posted_at": "2026-07-07T06:55:00Z", "job_url": "https://..." } ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-08T09:12:44Z"
}

One flat job record per posting (all modes, when emitJobRecords is on):

{
  "record_type": "job",
  "company_query": "Paychex",
  "title": "Payroll Specialist",
  "company": "Paychex",
  "location": "Rochester, NY, US",
  "date_posted": "2026-07-07",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-07T06:55:00Z",
  "site": "zip_recruiter",
  "job_type": "fulltime",
  "is_remote": false,
  "salary_min": 45000,
  "salary_max": 58000,
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_interval": "yearly",
  "job_url": "https://..."
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
scanMode	companies | keywords | profiles	companies	See modes above.
companies	array	none	Company names; add the website for precise matching: "Kelly Services | kellyservices.com". Via the API you may also pass {name, website} objects.
keywords	array	none	Search terms (keyword mode, max 10). Indeed operators supported: "exact phrase", -exclude, (a OR b).
location	string	United States	Search location (ZipRecruiter covers the US and Canada).
recencyMode	last48h | latest10	last48h	Jobs in the recency window, or the 10 most recent regardless of age.
hoursOld	integer	48	Recency window in hours (1 to 720).
maxJobsPerCompany	integer	50	Per company or keyword, per site cap (max 200).
sites	array	both	indeed, zip_recruiter.
includeDescription	boolean	false	Attach full job descriptions (adds latency on Indeed).
descriptionFormat	markdown | html	markdown	Format of the description when included.
emitJobRecords	boolean	true	Also push each job as its own flat row for clean CSV export.
countryIndeed	string	usa	Indeed country domain (usa, uk, canada, ...).
matchThreshold	number	0.82	Fuzzy-match strictness (0.5 to 1) for employer-name matching.
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential	Residential proxy strongly recommended; ZipRecruiter rate-limits datacenter IPs.

Data freshness notes

• ZipRecruiter rows are filtered by their exact posting timestamp (hour-precise). Indeed reports dates, so its rows are day-precise.
• ZipRecruiter ingests new postings in daily batches, so its freshest jobs are typically 12 to 48 hours old. For guaranteed two-board coverage use a 48-hour window; a 24-hour window is primarily driven by Indeed.
• Job counts per run are bounded by maxJobsPerCompany. active_jobs_total_by_site.zip_recruiter is the company's real total from its ZipRecruiter page; Indeed does not expose a total, so its value is null.

How much does it cost to scrape 1,000 Indeed or ZipRecruiter records?

Pricing is pay-per-event, so you only pay for what lands in your dataset:

Event	Price
Result (one company record or one job record)	$0.0005
Actor start (per GB of memory, minimum one)	$0.00005

Worked example: 1,000 records. A run that returns 20 company records and 980 job rows costs 1,000 x $0.0005 = $0.50 in results, plus $0.0002 for the actor start at 4 GB. Apify platform usage (compute units and residential proxy traffic) is billed separately at your plan's rates and is typically a few cents for a run of this size. Every Apify account includes free monthly platform credit, so small daily monitoring runs are often close to free.

Tips to keep cost predictable: use profiles mode when you only need company data (one record per company, no job rows), lower maxJobsPerCompany, and turn off emitJobRecords if you only want the nested latest_jobs inside each company record.

Use with AI agents and MCP

This scraper is exposed as a tool over the Model Context Protocol, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-capable agent can look up hiring signals and fresh jobs without you writing glue code. Connect to:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,openclawai/indeed-ziprecruiter-scraper

Once connected, prompts like "Which of these 20 companies posted new jobs in the last 48 hours, and what are they paying?" run the actor and return structured rows the agent can reason over. A step-by-step setup guide with agent examples is at datapika.com/actors/indeed-ziprecruiter-scraper.

The actor also supports X402 and MPP pay-per-call flows for agents that pay per request instead of holding an Apify subscription.

Integrations: API, Python, JavaScript, Zapier, Make

• REST API. Start a run with POST /v2/acts/openclawai~indeed-ziprecruiter-scraper/runs and read the dataset from /v2/datasets/{datasetId}/items?format=csv (or json, xlsx). Use the jobs and companies dataset views for pre-flattened tables.
• Python client. pip install apify-client, then ApifyClient(token).actor("openclawai/indeed-ziprecruiter-scraper").call(run_input={...}).
• JavaScript client. npm i apify-client, then new ApifyClient({ token }).actor("openclawai/indeed-ziprecruiter-scraper").call({...}).
• Schedules and webhooks. Run it every morning after the boards refresh and fire a webhook when the run finishes.
• No-code. Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Airtable and Slack integrations are available from the actor's Integrations tab on Apify.

Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel directly from the dataset. The flat job rows are designed to open clean in a spreadsheet with zero rework.

What teams build with it

• Recruiting and staffing outreach. Run your target-account list daily; when posted_last_48h_count goes positive, that account enters your campaign with the actual job titles and salaries in the first line.
• Candidate-matching pipelines. Feed the flat job rows (title, salary, location, remote flag, timestamps) straight into an AI matching engine and email the shortlist while the posting is hours old.
• Sales lead scoring. Hiring velocity is one of the strongest buying signals; score accounts by live job totals and fresh-posting counts.
• Talent-market and compensation research. Keyword mode across regions gives posting volume and salary ranges per role, per board.
• CRM enrichment. Profiles mode fills industry, size, revenue, HQ, founding year and rating for thousands of records without touching the job feed.

FAQ

Does Indeed have an official API for job postings?

Indeed retired its public Job Search API and the current Publisher and Indeed Apply programs are limited to approved partners, so there is no self-serve official Indeed API for pulling job listings or employer data. This scraper reads the public job search and company pages instead and returns the same information as structured JSON, without an API key or partner agreement.

Does ZipRecruiter have an official API?

ZipRecruiter's API is for partner job boards and publishers that syndicate listings, not for querying jobs or company pages on demand. This actor gives you a ZipRecruiter data feed with salaries, exact posting timestamps and the employer's live job total, which the partner API does not expose.

How much does it cost to scrape 1,000 jobs?

$0.50 in result events, plus a fraction of a cent for the actor start and standard Apify platform usage. See the pricing section above for the full breakdown and cost-saving tips.

How fast is it and are there limits?

A companies-mode run on 10 companies with the default 48-hour window usually finishes in a few minutes; profiles mode is faster because it skips the job feed. Keyword mode accepts up to 10 terms per run and maxJobsPerCompany caps each company or keyword at 200 postings per board. There is no cap on the number of companies per run, but very large lists are best split across scheduled runs so each one finishes inside the default 60-minute timeout.

Is it legal to scrape Indeed and ZipRecruiter?

The actor only reads publicly visible pages and never logs in, bypasses paywalls, or collects personal data about candidates. Job postings and company profiles are public business information. You are responsible for using the output in line with the boards' terms, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA) and your own outreach regulations. See the legal note below.

What output formats are available?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS and HTML straight from the Apify dataset. Two dataset views (jobs and companies) give you pre-flattened tables, and emitJobRecords guarantees one clean row per job for spreadsheet exports.

How accurate is the company matching?

Jobs are matched by the employer's website domain first (when you supply Name | website), with a normalized-name fallback controlled by matchThreshold. Generic names ("Kelly", "Volt") will not pull in unrelated employers.

Why do the two boards show different freshness?

Indeed timestamps postings same-day; ZipRecruiter ingests in daily batches, so its newest postings are typically 12 to 48 hours old. A 48-hour window gives full two-board coverage.

What is a repost and why does it matter?

Boards let employers "bump" old ads to the top. This actor reports the original posting date (what the job page itself shows) and surfaces the bump separately as reposted_at, so your "posted in the last 24 hours" list contains only genuinely new jobs.

Can I search jobs without a company list?

Yes. scanMode: "keywords" searches both boards by term, with the same recency filtering and flat output.

What locations are covered?

Indeed supports country selection via countryIndeed (for example usa, uk, canada). ZipRecruiter covers the US and Canada.

Legal and ethical use

This actor collects publicly available job postings and company information for business intelligence, recruiting and research purposes. It does not access private accounts, candidate profiles or any data behind a login. Respect the job boards' terms of service and robots directives, rate-limit your schedules to what you actually need, and make sure any outreach you build on this data complies with CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CCPA and similar regulations in your jurisdiction.

Support

Open an issue from the actor's Issues tab on Apify or use the Console chat if a board changes its layout or you need a new field. Update notes are published with each build on the actor's page.