Jobs, backfill feeds

A job-board backfill feed from employers' own career sites

Backfill your job board with postings straight from employers' career sites: one schema across 12 applicant tracking systems, the employer's own apply link on every job, and a daily refresh so closed jobs drop out. Export it as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML with the tag names your importer expects. $1.50 per 1,000 jobs.

• $1.50 per 1,000 jobs
• Employer apply links
• JSON, CSV, Excel, XML
• Daily refresh

Why first-party jobs make a better backfill

Feeds resold from other job boards arrive late, carry tracking redirects and keep jobs after the employer closed them. A career-site feed has the employer's own jobUrl and applyUrl, posting dates from the employer's system, and a job leaves the feed when it leaves the employer's board.

Build the company list

• Companies you choose. Names, board URLs or careers pages in companies, on Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Workday, Phenom, Workable, Recruitee, BambooHR, Jobvite, Breezy HR, Personio and Rippling.
• The directory, for volume. searchDirectory adds small and mid-size employers from the built-in directory on BambooHR, Recruitee, Jobvite, Workable, Breezy HR, Personio and Rippling (not Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby), biggest boards first. maxDirectoryCompanies (default 200), directoryAts and directoryCompanyKeywords shape it, and countries keeps employers that hire there.
• Your niche. keywords, locations, workplaceTypes and postedWithinDays keep only the jobs your board is about. Filtered jobs are never charged.

One schema

Salary is filled where employers publish pay: structured ranges on Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Recruitee and Rippling, and pay text on BambooHR and Breezy. salaryOnly keeps only jobs that have it, which suits pay-transparency boards.

Export in the format your board imports

Every run's rows sit in an Apify dataset that exports as json, jsonl, csv, xlsx, xml, html or rss (Apify's dataset API, read October 6, 2026). For XML, xmlRoot and xmlRow name the wrapper tags, fields picks the columns and outputFields renames them in the same order, so the feed can match your importer without code. Save the input as a task, schedule it, and point your importer at the task's last successful run:

https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<taskId>/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=xml&xmlRoot=source&xmlRow=job&fields=title,company,location,jobUrl,applyUrl,createdAt,descriptionHtml&outputFields=title,company,city,url,apply_url,date,description

The dataset is private to your Apify account, so the request needs your API token (an Authorization: Bearer header). If your importer only accepts a URL, create a separate token for it.

Keep it fresh

Two ways, depending on your importer. Full refresh: run the whole list daily and replace the feed; simplest, and it costs every open job each day. Delta: monitorMode turns a scheduled run into a change feed: the first run saves every current job as new (the baseline), and later runs save only jobs that appeared (new, with firstSeenAt) or closed (removed, with removedDetectedAt). A job is reported as removed only after its board was read completely and the job itself is gone, so a temporary outage never looks like a wave of closed jobs. Apply the changes to your own database instead of re-importing everything.

What it can't feed

• Employers on Oracle, SuccessFactors, iCIMS, Taleo and Avature, or on their own sites (Amazon, Google, Apple): named in the run, free.
• Jobs that exist only on job boards, such as agency postings: this reads employers' career sites only.
• Every job in a country: coverage is the employers you list or the directory you search.

What it costs

$0.0015 per job on every Apify plan, no start fee. Five hundred employers with about 40 open jobs each is 20,000 jobs: $30.00 per full refresh. With monitor mode and an assumed 2% of jobs changing per day (an assumption; your niche will differ), the daily delta is about 400 rows, $0.60.

Ask for it from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor

The ATS Jobs Scraper works as a tool in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code through Apify's hosted MCP server. Add this URL as a custom connector and sign in with your Apify account; runs bill to that account. Then ask in plain English, for example "find remote data analyst jobs in Canada at small companies from the directory and give me a CSV".

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yugenox/ats-jobs-scraper

claude mcp add --transport http yugenox-jobs "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yugenox/ats-jobs-scraper"

The AI setup guide walks through each client.

Run it from code

Remote and hybrid data jobs in Canada from up to 200 directory employers, posted in the last 30 days: billed only for the jobs that match.

// Save as run.mjs, then: npm i apify-client && APIFY_TOKEN=... node run.mjs
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('yugenox/ats-jobs-scraper').call({
  searchDirectory: true,
  keywords: [
    "data"
  ],
  countries: [
    "CA"
  ],
  workplaceTypes: [
    "remote",
    "hybrid"
  ],
  postedWithinDays: 30,
  maxDirectoryCompanies: 200,
  includeDescription: "html"
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) console.log(item.company, item.title, item.applyUrl);

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient  # pip install apify-client

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("yugenox/ats-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchDirectory": True,
    "keywords": ["data"],
    "countries": ["CA"],
    "workplaceTypes": ["remote", "hybrid"],
    "postedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxDirectoryCompanies": 200,
    "includeDescription": "html",
})
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("Run did not finish")

for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("company"), item.get("title"), item.get("applyUrl"))

# Small jobs: runs the Actor and returns the rows in one call (up to 5 minutes).
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/yugenox~ats-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchDirectory":true,"keywords":["data"],"countries":["CA"],"workplaceTypes":["remote","hybrid"],"postedWithinDays":30,"maxDirectoryCompanies":200,"includeDescription":"html"}'

Not affiliated with Workday, Inc., Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or any other applicant tracking system vendor, or with any employer named on this page. Workday is a trademark of Workday, Inc.

Last updated 2026-10-06.