Remote Jobs Scraper - Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely

Remote Jobs Scraper: work-from-home jobs from Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely and more

Work-from-home job scraper: collect remote jobs from 6 job boards in one run (Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow and Jobicy). Filter by title, required skills, country, seniority, salary, visa sponsorship or application email, and get one deduplicated list with full descriptions. It reads the boards' official public APIs and RSS feeds (no browser, no login). $0.80 per 1,000 jobs; filtered, duplicate and already-seen jobs are free.

What you get from the Remote Jobs Scraper

• 6 boards, one clean schema: title, company, logo, location, employment type, seniority, categories, tags, posted/expiry dates, job URL, apply URL, application email when the ad publishes one, and the full description as plain text.
• Who can actually apply: locationRestrictions and timezoneRestrictions for every job, a candidate-country filter (e.g. Germany, US, Canada) and a switch to keep or drop "worldwide" jobs. Salary min/max/currency/period when the board publishes it.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation flags: every job is tagged visaSponsorship and relocationSupport (yes / no / not mentioned) with the exact sentence from the ad as proof, plus a remoteScope (worldwide, regional, one country, hybrid, on-site). Filter to only jobs that sponsor visas, drop jobs that refuse sponsorship or only jobs with relocation support.
• Skills / tech stack on every job: a normalised skills list (Python, React, AWS, Kubernetes, Salesforce, Figma, SEO and ~110 more) read from the title, tags and ad text, and a Required skills filter (any or all) with aliases like golang, k8s or react.js. Filtered jobs are free.
• Exclude keywords: drop jobs whose title, company, tags or categories contain terms you do not want (e.g. intern, unpaid). Case-insensitive; filtered jobs are free.
• Exclude companies / only with company: drop specific employers by name, or keep only jobs that publish a company name. Filtered jobs are free.
• A daily remote-jobs feed: cross-board duplicates removed, and Only new jobs returns just the jobs you haven't seen yet on each scheduled run. Hundreds of jobs in under 30 seconds at 256 MB. If one board is slow or down, it is skipped after a short per-board timeout and the run still returns jobs from the others.

Sample output (JSON)

{
  "source": "himalayas",
  "sourceName": "Himalayas",
  "jobId": "senior-python-engineer-1234",
  "title": "Senior Python Engineer",
  "company": "Acme",
  "location": "Germany, Austria",
  "locationRestrictions": ["Germany", "Austria"],
  "timezoneRestrictions": [0, 1, 2],
  "employmentType": "fulltime",
  "seniority": ["Senior"],
  "tags": ["python", "django"],
  "skills": ["Python", "Django", "PostgreSQL", "AWS", "Docker"],
  "salary": { "min": 90000, "max": 120000, "currency": "USD", "period": "year" },
  "postedAt": "2026-10-06T19:35:42.000Z",
  "url": "https://himalayas.app/companies/acme/jobs/senior-python-engineer-1234",
  "applyUrl": "https://acme.com/careers/123",
  "applicationEmail": "jobs@acme.com",
  "remoteScope": "regional",
  "visaSponsorship": true,
  "visaSponsorshipEvidence": "We offer visa sponsorship for candidates moving to Germany.",
  "relocationSupport": null,
  "relocationSupportEvidence": null,
  "descriptionText": "About the role ..."
}

Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or send it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, webhooks or the Apify API. Each run also saves a SEARCHES report (jobs fetched and saved per board and keyword, plus any error) and a SUMMARY record (fetched, filtered, duplicates, already seen, saved).

How to configure the Remote Jobs Scraper

1. Add job titles / keywords (e.g. python, react developer, customer support). A job matches when every word appears in its title, company, tags or categories, or choose title only / anywhere. Leave empty for the newest remote jobs.
2. Pick the job boards (Himalayas and Remote OK by default; add We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow and Jobicy for more coverage).
3. Optional filters: required skills (e.g. Python + AWS), exclude keywords (drop titles/companies/tags that match), candidate countries, remote scope, visa sponsorship, relocation support, employment type, seniority, posted within N days, only jobs with a salary. Then run, or schedule it daily with Only new jobs on.

Example input: remote Python and support jobs open to candidates in Germany

{
  "keywords": ["python", "customer support"],
  "sources": ["himalayas", "remoteok", "weworkremotely", "workingnomads", "arbeitnow"],
  "countries": ["Germany"],
  "includeWorldwide": true,
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 200
}

Setting	Default	Notes
keywords / matchIn	python / title and tags	Every word must match; empty = newest jobs
excludeKeywords	empty (off)	Drop jobs whose title, company, tags or categories contain any term; filtered jobs are free
excludeCompanies	empty (off)	Drop jobs whose company name contains any term; filtered jobs are free
onlyWithCompany	false	Keep only jobs with a non-empty company name; filtered jobs are free
sources	Himalayas, Remote OK	Six boards available
maxResultsPerSearch	50	Per keyword and board; counts already-seen jobs too
countries / includeWorldwide	any / true	Candidate location rules
publishedWithinDays	0 (any)	e.g. 7 for the last week
onlyWithSalary	false	Keep only jobs with a published salary
remoteScopes	all	worldwide, regional, country, hybrid, onsite
visaSponsorship	any	offered = only jobs that sponsor visas, notRefused = drop jobs that refuse sponsorship
onlyRelocationSupport	false	Keep only jobs that offer relocation help
onlyWithApplicationEmail	false	Keep only jobs that publish a hiring/application email; filtered jobs are free
requiredSkills / skillsMatch	empty (off) / any	Keep jobs that ask for any (or all) of these skills, e.g. golang, kubernetes, terraform; filtered jobs are free
onlyNewJobs / stateKey	false / default	Monitoring mode; the first run is the baseline

Common use cases

• Job seekers and career coaches: one daily work-from-home list of remote roles you can legally take from your country, with salary where published.
• Remote job boards and newsletters: fill a niche board or weekly newsletter (keep the board attribution, see Limitations).
• Recruiting and sales research: which companies hire remotely for which skills right now, with application emails when the ad publishes one; enrich them with the Tech Stack Detector.
• Labour-market analysis: track remote demand and salary ranges by skill over time.

Pricing (pay per job, filtered = free)

• Job (job): $0.0008 per job saved to your dataset ($0.80 per 1,000), full description included.
• Free: jobs removed by your filters, cross-board duplicates and already-seen jobs in monitoring mode.

Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops gracefully when it is reached. See the Pricing tab for tier discounts.

Limitations

• Himalayas is searched on its server; Remote OK (about 100 newest jobs), We Work Remotely (newest jobs feed), Working Nomads (newest jobs), Arbeitnow (newest pages) and Jobicy (newest jobs of the last 7 days) are read as feeds and filtered locally, so they add the freshest jobs rather than full history.
• Salary and timezone data depend on what each board publishes. Seniority is the board's own level where it publishes one, otherwise inferred from the title or the years of experience asked for, so some jobs stay null.
• No recruiter names, emails or phone numbers are extracted. Only the job ad itself.
• Attribution: the boards ask that you link back to the job URL and mention them as the source if you republish their jobs (url and sourceName are included for that). Himalayas and Remote OK do not allow resubmitting their jobs to aggregators such as Google Jobs, LinkedIn or Jooble.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, n8n or any MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tinyrex/remote-jobs-scraper and ask, for example: "Find remote senior React jobs open to candidates in Germany, posted this week, with salary". Results come back as structured JSON at the same pay-per-job price.

📘 Step-by-step guide with Python, JavaScript, curl and MCP examples: How to scrape remote jobs from Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely and more in one run

FAQ

Is scraping remote job boards legal? The Actor reads public job ads through the official public APIs and RSS feeds these boards provide for sharing their jobs. It does not log in and does not collect candidate or recruiter data. Follow each board's attribution terms when you republish jobs.

Does Remote OK or Himalayas have an API? Yes, both publish public job APIs, and We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Arbeitnow and Jobicy publish feeds or APIs. This Actor combines all six, normalizes the fields and removes duplicates so you don't have to maintain six integrations.

How do I find remote jobs I can apply to from my country? Put your country in Candidate countries. Jobs restricted to other countries are dropped; turn off Include worldwide jobs if you only want jobs that explicitly list your country.

How do I get new remote job alerts? Turn on Only new jobs, schedule the Actor daily, and connect an Apify integration (email, Slack, Google Sheets). Each run then returns only jobs you haven't seen.

How do I find remote jobs with visa sponsorship? Set Visa sponsorship to Only jobs that offer visa sponsorship. The Actor reads each ad and keeps only those that say they sponsor visas or work permits; visaSponsorshipEvidence shows the sentence it relied on. Choose Drop jobs that refuse sponsorship to keep everything except ads that say sponsorship is not available.

How do I find only senior (or junior) remote jobs? Pick the levels in Seniority. Himalayas filters by its own levels; on the other boards the Actor uses seniorityLevel, taken from the board, the job title or the years of experience in the ad.

Can I get all remote jobs, not only a keyword? Yes. Leave keywords empty and raise Max jobs per keyword and board.

How do I exclude internships or unpaid roles? Add terms to Exclude keywords (e.g. intern, unpaid). Any job whose title, company, tags or categories contain one of those terms is dropped for free. Descriptions are not searched.

How do I find remote jobs for a specific tech stack? Add the skills to Required skills (e.g. react, typescript, aws) and choose Any or All. Every job carries a skills list read from its title, tags and ad text, so you can also chart demand by skill. A skill outside the built-in list (e.g. ClickHouse) is searched as a whole word in the title, tags and description. Filtered jobs are free.

How do I skip specific companies? Add names to Exclude companies (e.g. a staffing firm). Only the company field is matched, so the job title is left alone. Turn on Only jobs with a company name to drop anonymous listings. Filtered jobs are free.

How fast is it? Usually a few hundred jobs in under 30 seconds. The default input (Python jobs on Himalayas and Remote OK) typically finishes well under a minute.

What if a job board is down or the run times out? Each board has its own request timeout and a 45-second budget. A board that is slow or down is skipped, and jobs from the other boards are still saved. If the Actor run timeout is close, the run stops early, writes the jobs found so far (and the Only-new state), and finishes successfully. Increase the run timeout if you want more boards or more pages.

Related actors

• Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby Jobs Scraper: jobs straight from company career sites on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Personio, Teamtailor or Recruitee.
• Workday Jobs Scraper: all jobs from companies that hire on Workday, with full descriptions.
• Tech Stack Detector: enrich hiring companies with their tech stack, email provider and DMARC.
• RSS Feed Scraper: any RSS, Atom or JSON feed as clean JSON/CSV, with monitoring.

Yearly salary

Every job with a salary also gets salaryYearly: min and max converted to a yearly amount in the original currency (hourly x2080, daily x260, weekly x52, monthly x12), so you can sort jobs from different boards on one scale. salaryYearlyUsd also converts that yearly amount to US dollars with the European Central Bank's daily reference rates, and Minimum yearly salary (USD) keeps only jobs at or above your threshold (filtered jobs are free).

Visa sponsorship, relocation and remote scope

Many remote ads are only open to people who already have the right to work in one country. Every job therefore gets:

• visaSponsorship: true when the ad says the company sponsors visas or work permits, false when it says sponsorship is not available (for example "must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship"), null when the ad does not mention it. visaSponsorshipEvidence holds the sentence that decided it, so you can check every flag.
• relocationSupport / relocationSupportEvidence: the same for relocation packages, assistance or help moving.
• remoteScope: worldwide (anywhere, or no restriction published), regional (several countries, a continent or a time-zone band), country (one country, state or city), hybrid or onsite (Arbeitnow lists on-site jobs too).

The flags come from the job ad text and the board's location data, with no extra requests and no extra cost. Jobs removed by the visa, relocation or remote-scope filters are free. Most ads don't mention sponsorship at all, so expect a small share of true values.

Seniority on every board

Only Himalayas and Jobicy publish a seniority level, so every job also gets seniorityLevel (entry, mid, senior, manager, director or executive) and senioritySource:

• board: the level the board itself publishes.
• title: read from the job title, for example Junior, Intern, Senior, Lead, Staff, Principal, Engineering Manager, Head of, Director, VP, CTO. Titles such as Product Manager or Account Manager are not treated as people-manager roles.
• description: from the minimum years of experience the ad asks for (0-2 years entry, 3-4 mid, 5+ senior).

The Seniority filter now works on all 6 boards with this level (it used to apply to Himalayas only). Jobs whose level can't be determined are kept by default; turn off Keep jobs with unknown seniority for a strict filter. Filtered jobs are free, and there are no extra requests or costs.

Skills and tech stack on every job

Board tags are inconsistent (free-text on some boards, auto-generated on others, missing on several), so every job also gets skills: canonical names for about 110 languages, frameworks, cloud and data tools and business tools (for example Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Snowflake, Salesforce, HubSpot, Figma, SEO, Excel). Skills from the title and board tags come first, then the ones the ad text mentions.

• Short or ambiguous words need context: Go counts as the language only as Golang or Go developer/engineer, so "go to market" is ignored; Excel counts only as Microsoft/advanced Excel or Excel skills, not "excel at".
• Lines that list a dozen technologies at once (agency boilerplate such as "we hire React, Vue, Unity, Unreal...") are skipped, so skills reflects the role, not the whole catalogue. Remote OK's auto-generated tags are ignored for the same reason.
• Required skills matches the canonical names with aliases (golang, k8s, react.js, postgres); Skills match chooses any or all. No extra requests and no extra cost; filtered jobs are free.

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