Wellfound Jobs Scraper (AngelList)

Wellfound Jobs Scraper: startup jobs with the full description, by role or city

Give it a Wellfound role like software-engineer, add a city or switch on remote, and every listing comes back as a row. The whole job description in Markdown, not a teaser. The salary and the equity as separate fields. The company with its size, its tagline and its Wellfound badges. And the exact minute the job went live.

The description arriving with the listing is what makes this cheap to run: one page request carries roughly 40 to 49 complete jobs, so 200 jobs is five requests rather than 205. What it cannot reach is a company's own jobs page on Wellfound, which needs a login.

💼 What Wellfound Jobs Scraper does

It walks Wellfound's role pages. wellfound.com/role/software-engineer on its own, or wellfound.com/role/l/software-engineer/san-francisco when you add a city, or the remote pages when you switch Remote only on.

Each page is read in full and turned into one row per job. A listing that appears under two of your roles is written once and billed once.

Six filters run on your side after the rows arrive, and anything they drop is not billed: job type, a substring match on location, a substring match on keywords, senior roles only, a minimum salary in US dollars, and companies to leave out. One warning about the keyword filter. It looks at the title, the company and the whole description, so a short needle like go or ai keeps nearly every row. Use a phrase.

📥 What you give it

{
  "roleSlugs": ["software-engineer", "product-manager"],
  "locationSlugs": ["san-francisco"],
  "jobTypes": ["full-time"],
  "keywords": ["python"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 5
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run, with the description cut short. The real one runs to several thousand characters:

{
  "ok": true,
  "_sample": false,
  "jobId": "4639821",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "jobUrl": "https://wellfound.com/jobs/4639821-software-engineer",
  "companyName": "Checkr",
  "companyUrl": "https://wellfound.com/company/checkr",
  "companySlug": "checkr",
  "companyTagline": "The only background check company using artificial intelligence and machine learning",
  "companySize": "SIZE_501_1000",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://photos.wellfound.com/startups/i/395014-2a2164ef6a8cd5954eb970228e62ce15-medium_jpg.jpg?buster=1692326450",
  "companyBadges": ["Actively Hiring", "Responds within two weeks", "B2B", "Scale Stage", "Top Investors", "YC Funded", "Valuation $1B+", "Highly rated"],
  "primaryRoleTitle": "Software Engineer",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "remote": false,
  "remoteKind": null,
  "locations": ["Denver", "San Francisco"],
  "remoteLocations": [],
  "compensation": "$150k – $176k",
  "salaryText": "$150k – $176k",
  "equityText": null,
  "yearsExperienceMin": null,
  "description": "As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high-impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. ...",
  "postedAt": "2026-08-27T20:06:24.000Z",
  "autoPosted": false,
  "atsSource": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://wellfound.com/role/software-engineer",
  "page": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:47:49.550Z"
}

How often each field was filled, measured on a 200-row run on 10 August 2026 across two roles and 83 companies:

Those move with the roles you pick. Equity is the one to watch: most posters leave it blank, and it is left blank here rather than guessed.

🧾 Reading the output

Run it with no role and you get the sample row. It is a real-looking listing, and in the Console's table view it sits there looking like data, so filter on _sample rather than trusting your eyes.

A page that fails is one uncharged row, and the run carries on with the rest.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Wellfound Jobs Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put one or more role slugs into Role slugs. 3. Add Location slugs, or switch on Remote only, if you want to narrow it. 4. Set Maximum jobs, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.085 per 1,000 jobs. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

One charge per unique job row. The same listing found under two roles is billed once, rows dropped by your filters are not billed, and neither is the sample row or a diagnostic row. There is no second charge for the description, because it arrives with the listing.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching who is hiring in a role and a city, on a schedule, and diffing on jobId.
• Building a list of startups that are actively hiring, using companyBadges and companySize.
• Salary research on a role, from the raw salaryText across a few hundred listings.
• Feeding whole descriptions into a model to pull out the stack, the seniority or the benefits.
• Finding remote roles that accept your country, using remoteLocations.

🚧 What it does not do

• No company jobs pages. wellfound.com/company/<slug>/jobs needs a Wellfound login, so that

input is not offered rather than offered and broken.

• No recruiter contacts and no candidate profiles. It does not apply to anything either.
• No salary normalisation. Wellfound publishes a string and you get the string, plus its salary

and equity halves.

• The location and keyword filters are plain substring matches, so short keywords keep nearly

everything.

• Only what a role page lists. There is no search box behind this, so a job with an unusual

title may sit under a role you did not think to ask for.

• Rows are a snapshot. A listing can be filled or pulled after it was read, and postedAt tells

you how old it already was.

🧭 Which job scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

What is a role slug? The last part of a Wellfound role URL. wellfound.com/role/software-engineer gives you software-engineer. Pasting the whole URL works.

Do I really get the full description? Yes, in Markdown, on every job row. The median in the measured run was 4,663 characters.

How many jobs are on a page? Roughly 40 to 49. Maximum pages per role decides how deep it goes, and deep paging works: page 20 and page 60 both returned jobs in testing.

Can I filter to remote jobs? Switch on Remote only. It uses Wellfound's remote pages and drops anything not flagged remote. Not every role has one, and a role without it comes back as one uncharged BAD_INPUT row.

Why did I get fewer jobs than I asked for? Either the role ran out of pages, or your filters dropped rows. Neither costs you anything. A strict mix of filters can use up Maximum pages per role before it finds enough, so raise that to look deeper.

Is the sample row charged? No, and nor is any diagnostic row.

Is this legal? These are public job listings. They name companies rather than people, but treat anything personal in a description with the same care. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good start, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the role slug you used and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.