Indeed Scraper: How to Extract Job Data & Top Scraping Services
Indeed offers APIs primarily for job posting and applicant tracking; however, obtaining large-scale job data often requires a robust Indeed scraper or a specialized scraping service.
We’ll cover the tools and techniques for extracting valuable job postings, discuss ethical considerations like Indeed’s robots.txt policy, and review the best Indeed scraper services available today:
Vendor | Solution Type | Minimum package price | Price per 1K records | Pay-as-You-Go | Free Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dedicated API | $500 | $1.27 | $1.5 per 1,000 records | 7 days | |
General-purpose API | $29 | $0.29 | ❌ | 7 days | |
General-purpose API | $50 | $2 | ❌ | 7 days | |
Nimble | General-purpose API | $150 | $1 | $3/CPM | ✅ |
Apify | Dedicated API | N/A | $5 | ❌ | $5 free credit for a month |
The Best Indeed Scrapers
Bright Data
Bright Data provides dedicated tools to extract data from Indeed (“job listings”, “company pages”, etc.) via APIs / no-code scrapers / managed scraping infrastructure. They include anti-blocking, CAPTCHA management, proxies, and dynamic content rendering to deal with Indeed’s protections.
- Indeed Scraper / Indeed Jobs Scraper: Services dedicated to extracting job-related data (titles, descriptions, companies, salary, etc.) from Indeed.
- Jobs Scraper API: A more general job-site scraper, but supports Indeed among others.
- Indeed, MCP Server: More advanced / enterprise-grade scraping, handling scale, dynamic content, anti-bot, and region-specific crawling.
- No-Code Scraper / Web Unlocker: For users who don’t want to build their own scraper or worry about proxies, blocking, or rendering JavaScript.
Pricing:
Bright Data offers Indeed scraping on a pay-as-you-go basis at approximately $1.50 per 1,000 records.
However, costs drop significantly with monthly plans, ranging from $0.98 per 1,000 on the Growth plan to $0.83 on the Business plan and $0.75 on the Premium plan.
For those who don’t require live scraping, Bright Data also offers pre-collected Indeed datasets at approximately $250 for 100,000 records.
Oxylabs
Oxylabs’ Indeed Scraper is part of their Web Scraper API. The Web Scraper API has a more general scope. It handles anti-bot mechanisms, JavaScript rendering, and IP rotation.
You send it Indeed-URLs, such as job listings or company pages, and it returns HTML (or parsed content) from those pages. For example, “other targets” (non-Amazon, non-Google) without JS rendering have better results per plan.
Pricing:
The base subscription for Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API starts at $49/month. Pricing is feature-based: the cost depends on which “target” you scrape, whether JavaScript rendering is required, and geographic and localization requirements.
Decodo
Decodo provides an Indeed Scraper as part of its Web Scraping API that includes a built-in parser, so you don’t just get raw HTML. They implement browser fingerprinting, rate limiting, and automatic retries.
You can choose between the “Core” and “Advanced” plans, and view the features enabled under each plan (e.g., whether JS rendering is available, the proxy pool you receive, and geotargeting options).
You can try sending requests, see the responses (in HTML / JSON format), and experiment with different parameters (target URL, geographic location, and whether JS rendering is enabled).
Pricing:
Pricing is based on the number of successful requests, the volume of requests, and the plan tiers. For smaller plans: about $0.32 per 1,000 requests for 90,000 requests in a “Core / entry-level” plan. Larger volume plans reduce the cost to $0.14 per 1,000 for ~700,000 requests.
Apify
Apify has a marketplace with multiple ready-made Actors that scrape Indeed job listings. The Indeed web scraper submits search queries or Indeed search URLs (or company job pages) to define what jobs to fetch.
You can use proxy / anti-blocking measures (depending on the Actor) to reduce the risk of request failures. Examples of different Actors/versions:
- Indeed Scraper – Global Job Listings & Career Insights (agentx/indeed-scraper): more enterprise-/volume-oriented, with advanced filtering and options for “mass hiring intelligence”.
- Indeed jobs scraper [PPR] by borderline: “pay per result”, $5 per 1,000 jobs.
- Fast Indeed Jobs Scraper (Pay Per Result): You can set concurrency and limit the number of items.
Pricing:
Many of these actors are pay-per-result (you pay per number of job listings/results you get). The price per 1,000 results varies depending on how much metadata the scraper extracts, how many filters, and quality of those results.
Some are rental/subscription models with usage fees: you pay a fixed monthly fee plus per-use / result fees. For example, Apify Store pricing plus underlying “platform usage” credits.
Nimble
Nimbleway offers an Indeed Scraper API via their “Web / Indeed Scraper” product. It utilizes managed infrastructure, including residential IPs, smart proxy selection, and backconnect gateways, to minimize the risk of being blocked and support high-throughput scraping.
You send API requests with search parameters (job title/keyword, location/country) and receive structured JSON results. The API handles parsing fields like job title, company, or salary.
Pricing:
Beginner plan: 150 credits, cost ~$150. Nimbleway charges in credits (sometimes $ per credit or “CPM” = cost per thousand) for using the Indeed Scraper.
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