# Remote.co Job Scraper (`ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper`) Actor

Extract remote job listings from Remote.co with title, company, location, job type, posted date, description, and job URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GhostGrid](https://apify.com/ghostgrid) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 6 total users, 5 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Remote.co Job Scraper

Extracts public job listings from [Remote.co](https://remote.co) without an API key or login. Supports category pages such as developer, customer-service, marketing, and sales, with pagination when the public page exposes a next-page link.

### What it extracts

- Job title
- Company name
- Location
- Job type (Full-Time, Part-Time, etc.)
- Listing summary
- Posted date
- Job URL
- Salary range (when available)
- Work model and employment type

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| startUrls | array | yes | developer jobs | Public Remote.co category or search URLs |
| maxPages | integer | no | 0 | Maximum public listing pages per URL; `0` follows available next-page links |
| proxyConfiguration | object | none | Optional Apify Proxy configuration. A public Residential proxy may be needed when Remote.co returns an Akamai challenge. |

### Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per run start and $0.002 per job record. For example, 25 jobs costs about $0.052.

### How it works

The actor first supports the legacy `__NEXT_DATA__` payload and then falls back to the current server-rendered HTML job cards. It reports a structured `status` record instead of silently claiming success when the public page contains no parseable jobs.

Remote.co may return an Akamai challenge to ordinary datacenter requests. If the output says `Powered and protected by Akamai`, enable the Apify Proxy input with the public `RESIDENTIAL` group. This requires no Remote.co login or private API credential, but residential proxy usage may add platform cost.

### Output

Each job is saved as a dataset record. Example:

```json
{
  "title": "Senior Full Stack Engineer",
  "company": "Knock - Knockaway, Inc.",
  "location": "US National",
  "job_type": "Full-Time",
  "description": "Senior Engineer Acme Labs 100% Remote Work Full-Time Employee...",
  "posted_date": "2025-01-08T03:09:02Z",
  "url": "https://remote.co/job-details/senior-engineer-abc",
  "salary": "$120,000 - $150,000 Annually",
  "work_model": "100% Remote Work",
  "parser": "html-card"
}
```

The listing page does not always include the full job description. In that case `description` is the normalized card summary; the URL links to the public detail page.

### Running locally

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m src
```

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Remote.co category or search URLs to scrape. Examples: https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/developer/, https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/customer-service/

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of public listing pages to scrape per category. 0 follows available next-page links until the site stops returning them.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Remote.co may return an Akamai challenge to datacenter requests; use a public Apify Residential group when needed. No private API key is required.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/developer/"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/developer/"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/developer/" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.remote.co/remote-jobs/developer/"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ghostgrid/remoteco-job-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/R46KvAVkACsg2TOqZ/builds/GaEKWYvl4Yx1IOKas/openapi.json