Dice Tech Jobs Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Dice is a dedicated tech-job board listing developer, DevOps, data, and IT-contract roles that general job boards often miss. This Actor searches Dice's own listings and writes one structured row per posting: title, company, location, employment type, a remote flag, and (optionally) the skill tags Dice attaches to each role. Filter by keyword, location + radius, skill, or employment type — or leave everything blank to pull the newest postings site-wide.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation (Chrome / Firefox / Safari) so the target sees real-browser TLS, not Python.
• 🌐 We rotate residential proxies through Apify Proxy on every block — fresh session ID, fresh exit IP.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx and honour Retry-After — up to 5 attempts per page.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean — Pydantic-validated rows, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Tech recruiting pipelines — pull fresh Dice postings that match a role profile into your ATS or sourcing sheet.
• Market-rate research — aggregate published salary/rate text by skill and location to benchmark comp bands.
• Contract/DevOps sourcing — filter by Employment type to isolate Contract and Third Party roles Dice specializes in.
• Remote-role monitoring — track newly posted remote tech jobs across a keyword or skill on a schedule.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

🔌 Integrate it

Pull results straight into a script with the Apify Python client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("DevilScrapes/dice-tech-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={"keyword": "python developer", "location": "Austin, TX"}
)
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["title"], job["company"], job["apply_url"])

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
keyword	string	no	'Python Developer'	Free-text search term matched against job titles and descriptions. Leave empty to browse all postings.
location	string	no	'Austin, TX'	City, state, or ZIP to center the search on, e.g. 'Austin, TX'. Leave empty to search nationwide.
skill	string	no	'—'	Single skill or technology to filter by, e.g. 'Kubernetes'. Leave empty to skip skill filtering.
radius	integer	no	30	Search radius in miles around Location. Ignored when Location is empty.
includeRemote	boolean	no	True	Include postings Dice tags as remote-eligible in addition to the Location + Radius match.
employmentType	string	no	'—'	Filter by employment type. Leave empty to include all types.
fetchSkills	boolean	no	False	When enabled, fetch each job's full skill-tag list from its detail page. Adds one extra request per job.
maxResults	integer	no	100	Hard cap on dataset rows for this run.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Apify Proxy configuration. Standard (non-residential) group by default — override here if you need a different group.

Example input

{
  "keyword": "python developer",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "radius": 30,
  "includeRemote": true,
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
job_id	string	Dice internal job ID — stable across runs.
title	string	Job title.
company	string	Hiring company name.
location_display	string	Raw location string as shown on the listing.
is_remote	boolean	True when Dice tags the posting as remote-eligible.
workplace_types	array	e.g. ["On-Site"], ["Remote"], ["Hybrid"].
employment_type	['string', 'null']	'Full-time' / 'Contract' / 'Third Party' as tagged by Dice; null if not shown.
employer_type	['string', 'null']	e.g. 'Direct Hire' / 'Recruiter'; null if not shown.
easy_apply	boolean	True when Dice's one-click Easy Apply is available.
skills	array	Skill tags; populated only when Fetch skill tags is enabled, else [].
posted_date	string	ISO-8601 posting timestamp as tagged by Dice.
modified_date	['string', 'null']	ISO-8601 last-modified timestamp; null if not shown.
summary	['string', 'null']	Truncated job summary snippet.
description_full	['string', 'null']	Full description; populated only when Fetch skill tags is enabled.
apply_type	['string', 'null']	e.g. 'External'; populated only when Fetch skill tags is enabled.
salary_text	['string', 'null']	Raw salary/rate string as published; null when Dice doesn't show one.
apply_url	string	Canonical Dice job-detail URL.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC row-construction timestamp.

Example output

{
  "job_id": "b4b1e2f7c9",
  "title": "Senior Python Developer",
  "company": "Example Tech Inc.",
  "location_display": "Austin, TX",
  "is_remote": true,
  "workplace_types": ["On-Site"],
  "employment_type": "Full-time",
  "employer_type": "Direct Hire",
  "easy_apply": true,
  "skills": [
    "Python",
    "Django",
    "AWS"
  ],
  "posted_date": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00",
  "salary_text": "$120,000 - $150,000",
  "apply_url": "https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b4b1e2f7c9",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-01T14:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.01	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.002	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.01. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

v1 covers Dice.com's US tech-job listings surface only — the DHI-owned ClearanceJobs/eFinancialCareers properties are separate sites and out of scope. Skill tags, full descriptions, and apply_type require Fetch skill tags (one extra request per job). posted_date and modified_date are the raw ISO-8601 values Dice itself publishes at list level — we don't infer or estimate a date when Dice doesn't supply one.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Dice account or API key?

No. This Actor scrapes Dice's own publicly listed job postings — no login, no API key.

What happens if I leave every filter blank?

The Actor pulls the newest postings site-wide, up to Max results.

Does skills always populate?

Only when Fetch skill tags is enabled; each job then costs one extra detail-page request. Otherwise skills is an empty list.

Why is salary_text sometimes null?

Dice doesn't require employers to publish a salary or rate — we surface the raw text only when the listing shows one, never an estimate.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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