Instahyre Jobs Scraper: India Tech Job Search Feed

Scrape Instahyre's public India tech job-search feed — title, company profile, skills and location. No login, no cookies, pay per job. Full job descriptions require an Instahyre account (see Coverage below — this actor is honest about that boundary rather than pretending around it). Use it as an MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT & AI agents.

💸 You are only charged for delivered results — empty searches, failed pages and duplicates are never billed.

What it does

Instahyre is one of India's larger tech-recruiting platforms, built for both job seekers and employers looking for candidate/hiring signal. Its website is aggressively bot-managed: the homepage, the job-search page and every individual job page sit behind a Cloudflare browser-integrity challenge that returns 403 "Just a moment..." to plain HTTP requests and even to a Googlebot user agent. That looked, at first, like a fully login-walled target.

It isn't. Instahyre's own front-end calls a public, unauthenticated JSON API to populate its job-search page — GET https://www.instahyre.com/api/v1/job_search/ — and that endpoint answers with a clean 200 and zero cookies from a plain datacenter IP, no browser and no challenge-solving required. This actor reads that endpoint directly. It does not touch the HTML site, does not attempt to bypass Cloudflare, and does not use a browser.

This is a real, verified finding, not an assumption: every filter and boundary documented below was tested live against the endpoint before being written into the code.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
jobFunctionSlugs	array	no	["backend-development"]	Instahyre job-function slugs to filter by, e.g. backend-development, full-stack-development, data-science-machine-learning. Resolved to Instahyre's own numeric ids via its public job-function list; unknown slugs are skipped with a warning. Leave empty to walk the unfiltered feed.
jobType	string	no	any	any, full_time, or internship. A real server-side filter.
companySize	string	no	any	any, small, medium, or large. A real server-side filter.
maxJobs	integer	no	100	Maximum jobs to return across all pages/functions. Capped at 5000 per run.
monitorMode	boolean	no	false	When on, this and every later scheduled run of the same actor for you delivers only jobs not seen before — built for a daily/hourly schedule.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Apify auto	Datacenter is sufficient; Instahyre's JSON API is not behind the Cloudflare challenge that gates its HTML pages.

Example input

{
  "jobFunctionSlugs": ["backend-development"],
  "jobType": "any",
  "companySize": "any",
  "maxJobs": 10
}

Output

One record per job, taken from a real run against the live API.

Field	Type	Example
job_id	integer	435844
title	string	"Senior Software Engineer - Backend"
candidate_title	string	(present only when it differs from title)
company_name	string	"Paytm"
company_tagline	string	"India's largest mobile payment and commerce platform"
company_founded	integer	2000
employee_count	integer	1000
company_about	string	"Paytm is a platform for an e-commerce marketplace..."
locations	array	["Bangalore"]
locations_raw	string	"Bangalore"
skills	array	["Data Structures", "Golang", "Java", "Node.js", "Hibernate", "J2EE", "Spring"]
accept_outstation	boolean	true
public_url	string	"https://www.instahyre.com/job-435844-senior-software-engineer-backend-at-paytm-bangalore/"
resource_uri	string	"/api/v1/job_search/435844"
scraped_at	string	"2026-07-31T18:22:11.000Z"

Example output

{
  "job_id": 435844,
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer - Backend",
  "company_name": "Paytm",
  "company_tagline": "India’s largest mobile payment and commerce platform",
  "company_founded": 2000,
  "employee_count": 1000,
  "company_about": "Paytm is a platform for an e-commerce marketplace, mobile recharge, bill payments, peer-to-peer funds transfer, etc. Also operates a payment bank. Investors include Alibaba, SAIF Partners, Mediatek and more.",
  "locations": ["Bangalore"],
  "locations_raw": "Bangalore",
  "skills": ["Data Structures", "Golang", "Java", "Node.js", "Hibernate", "J2EE", "Spring"],
  "accept_outstation": true,
  "public_url": "https://www.instahyre.com/job-435844-senior-software-engineer-backend-at-paytm-bangalore/",
  "resource_uri": "/api/v1/job_search/435844",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-31T18:22:11.000Z"
}

Each run also pushes one non-billable _type: "market_snapshot" row built from Instahyre's own live facet counts for your query (total jobs indexed, job-type/company-size/experience-level breakdowns, and top locations/companies/functions) — real numbers straight from the source, useful as a standalone India tech-hiring signal even before you look at individual listings.

Coverage — what this actor does NOT cover, and why

Be clear-eyed about the boundary. This actor's public surface is Instahyre's job-search feed, which returns per-job: title, employer profile, a free-text locations string, a skills/keywords array and the public job URL.

It does not return, and cannot return without an Instahyre account:

• Full job descriptions — these render only on the individual job page, which sits behind the same Cloudflare browser-integrity challenge as the rest of the HTML site (verified: 403 "Just a moment..." even with a Googlebot user agent).
• Salary and per-job experience range — not present anywhere in the public API response; these are Instahyre's own aggregate facet stats (total counts across the whole index), not per-listing fields.
• Candidate-visibility / recruiter-side data — Instahyre's core recruiter product (searching and viewing candidate profiles) is entirely behind a logged-in dashboard and is out of scope for a public scraper by design; we do not attempt to log in or emulate a recruiter session.
• Free-text keyword or location search — plausible-looking parameters (keywords, search, q, location, city, experience) are silently accepted by the API but ignored (verified: identical total_count with or without them). Only job_functions, job_type and company_size are genuine server-side filters, confirmed against the API's own facet counts — so those are the only filters this actor exposes. We do not document a capability the code doesn't actually have.
• Beyond ~10,000 results per filter combination — Instahyre's own search index caps offset pagination at offset + 35 <= 10,000 (Elasticsearch's default result window); requesting further returns a server error. Narrow with jobFunctionSlugs/jobType/companySize to reach deeper into a large category.

If your use case needs full descriptions or salary bands, that data genuinely requires an Instahyre account and is not something any public scraper can honestly deliver.

Use cases

• India tech hiring-demand tracking — the skills array and job-function facets give a structured read on what's actively being hired for, without NLP over free text.
• Company hiring-signal monitoring — track which employers are posting roles in a given function, paired with employee_count for company-size segmentation.
• Recruiter sourcing lists — filter by function/type/size to build a target list of companies actively hiring in a niche.
• Market-intelligence snapshots — the built-in market_snapshot row gives top locations, top companies and function/experience-level distribution for free on every run.
• Scheduled new-postings monitor — enable monitorMode and run this on an Apify schedule to get only newly-posted jobs each time, without re-paying for the whole feed.

FAQ

Is this scraping HTML?

No. It reads the same public JSON endpoint Instahyre's own job-search page calls. No browser, no Cloudflare challenge to solve.

Why don't I get salary or a full job description?

Instahyre doesn't publish either in its public search feed. Salary/description only render on the individual job page, which requires passing the same Cloudflare check that blocks a plain scraper from that page entirely. We chose not to build a fragile challenge-solving path around that — see Coverage.

Can I search by keyword or city?

Not server-side — Instahyre's API silently ignores those parameters. You can filter client-side on the skills/locations fields in the returned dataset, or use jobFunctionSlugs for a genuine server-side narrow.

How do I find valid jobFunctionSlugs values?

The actor resolves slugs against Instahyre's own live list at https://www.instahyre.com/api/v1/job_function/ and warns on anything unrecognized, so a typo never fails silently.

Billing

Pay per event: one job-scraped event per delivered record, charged only after the record is validated and stored. Empty results, blocked pages and duplicates are never charged. Store discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans.

Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent

This actor runs as an MCP server, so an AI agent can call it directly:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/instahyre-jobs-scraper

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("themineworks/instahyre-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={"jobFunctionSlugs": ["backend-development"], "maxJobs": 10}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Legal and compliance

This actor collects only publicly available information — the same data Instahyre's own job-search page serves to any visitor, via the same public JSON endpoint its front-end calls. It does not access private or authenticated areas, does not attempt to bypass Cloudflare's protections on the site's HTML pages, and collects no personal data beyond what the source already publishes openly. You are responsible for using the output in line with the source site's terms and with the data protection law that applies to you.

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