# Remote.co Jobs Scraper (`unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes remote job listings from Remote.co across all job categories. Returns title, company, category, location, salary (min, max, currency, period), job type, remote type and date posted. Filter by category, keyword, job type and remote type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Unfenced Group](https://apify.com/unfenced-group) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation, Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 74 total users, 12 monthly users, 92.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.49 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Remote.co Jobs Scraper

![Remote.co Jobs Scraper](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/ClElVyZWvQgPQIuDL/records/remote-co-scraper)

Extract job listings from remote.co at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

***

### Why this scraper?

#### 🎯 Built for remote-first companies worldwide

A dedicated remote-work scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (USD) are tuned for remote.co.

#### 📄 Clean job records

Job title, direct listing URL and publish date for every record, in a consistent structure.

#### 📝 Full job details on request

Turn on **Fetch detail pages** to add the full job description (HTML, plain text and Markdown), the employer's apply link, exact posting and closing dates, career level, travel and education requirements, and the countries applicants must live in.

#### 💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in USD. Missing salaries are returned as `null`, never guessed.

#### 🏢 Company details

Hiring company name on every record. With detail pages on, also the company's own website and its remote.co company page.

#### 📍 Location fields

Structured location data for every listing, ready for filtering and analysis.

***

### Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `categories` | array | (empty) | Category slugs to scrape (e.g. developer, marketing, sales). Leave empty to scrape all ~70 categories. |
| `maxPages` | integer | `20` | Maximum number of pagination pages to scrape per category. ~30 jobs per page. |
| `maxResults` | integer | `100` | Stop after this many total jobs. Use a small number such as 20 for a quick test; raise it or set 0 for full runs. |
| `searchQuery` | string | (empty) | Only return jobs where title or company name contains this text (case-insensitive). |
| `remoteTypeFilter` | string | (empty) | Only return jobs with this remote type: `100% Remote Work`, `Hybrid Remote Work` or `Option for Remote`. |
| `jobTypeFilter` | string | (empty) | Only return jobs with this schedule: `Full-Time`, `Part-Time` or `Alternative Schedule`. |
| `fetchDetails` | boolean | `false` | Also open each job's own page for the full description and the extra fields listed below. Adds about one second per job. |

***

### Output schema

#### Always present

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `jobId` | string | UUID from the job URL — unique across all runs |
| `title` | string | Job title |
| `url` | string | Full job detail URL |
| `company` | string | Company name (may be null on aggregated pages) |
| `category` | string | Category slug used to find this job |
| `isNew` | boolean | Whether job was tagged NEW |
| `datePosted` | string | Human-readable: `Today`, `Yesterday`, `3 days ago` |
| `datePostedIso` | string | Resolved ISO date `YYYY-MM-DD` |
| `remoteType` | string | `100% Remote Work`, `Hybrid Remote Work`, `Option for Remote` |
| `jobType` | string | `Full-Time`, `Part-Time`, `Alternative Schedule`, etc. |
| `employmentType` | string | `Employee`, `Freelance`, `Temporary`, `Contract` |
| `location` | string | Location string as shown on listing |
| `salaryMin` | number | Min salary (null if not listed) |
| `salaryMax` | number | Max salary |
| `salaryCurrency` | string | `USD`, `EUR`, `CAD`, `GBP`, `AUD` |
| `salaryPeriod` | string | `Hourly`, `Annually`, `Monthly`, `Weekly` |
| `salaryRaw` | string | Raw salary string from the page |

Salary fields appear only on jobs where the employer publishes a salary.

#### With `fetchDetails: true`

These fields are on every record. They are filled when **Fetch detail pages** is on and `null` when it is off, or when a job's page is no longer available.

remote.co shows some listings in full only to its paying members. For those jobs `membersOnly` is `true`, and the site publishes only `categories`, `careerLevel` and `travelRequired`; the description, company links, apply link and dates stay `null`.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `membersOnly` | boolean | `true` when remote.co shows this listing in full to members only |
| `descriptionHtml` | string | Full job description as HTML |
| `descriptionText` | string | Full job description as plain text |
| `descriptionMarkdown` | string | Full job description as Markdown |
| `publishedAt` | string | Exact posting time, ISO 8601 |
| `validThrough` | string | Date the listing closes, ISO 8601 (null if not published) |
| `applyUrl` | string | Employer's application link |
| `companyWebsite` | string | Hiring company's own website (null if not published) |
| `companyProfileUrl` | string | Company page on remote.co |
| `categories` | array | Every category the job is listed under, e.g. `["Accounting", "Legal"]` |
| `careerLevel` | string | E.g. `Entry-Level`, `Experienced`, `Manager` |
| `travelRequired` | string | Travel requirement as published, e.g. `No Specification`, `Yes` |
| `educationLevel` | string | Required education (null if the employer did not specify one) |
| `applicantCountries` | array | Countries applicants must be based in, as country codes, e.g. `["US"]` |

#### Example record (with `fetchDetails: true`)

```json
{
  "jobId": "3cff0b2b-e0d9-484a-b31e-55d106135ad1",
  "title": "Estate Administration Paralegal",
  "url": "https://remote.co/job-details/estate-administration-paralegal-3cff0b2b-e0d9-484a-b31e-55d106135ad1",
  "company": "Scion Staffing",
  "category": "accounting",
  "isNew": true,
  "datePosted": "Today",
  "datePostedIso": "2026-11-14",
  "remoteType": "Hybrid Remote Work",
  "jobType": "Full-Time",
  "employmentType": "Employee",
  "location": "Hybrid Remote in Uniondale, NY",
  "salaryMin": 80000,
  "salaryMax": 120000,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "Annually",
  "salaryRaw": "$80,000 - $120,000 Annually",
  "membersOnly": false,
  "descriptionHtml": "<p><strong>Estate Administration Paralegal</strong></p><p>Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for an Estate Administration Paralegal...</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Estate Administration Paralegal Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for an Estate Administration Paralegal...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "**Estate Administration Paralegal**\n\nScion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for an Estate Administration Paralegal...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-13T06:09:12.000Z",
  "validThrough": "2027-01-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "applyUrl": "https://scionstaffing.com/job/15967/estate-administration-paralegal-uniondale-ny/",
  "companyWebsite": "https://www.scionstaffing.com/",
  "companyProfileUrl": "https://remote.co/company/scion_staffing",
  "categories": ["Accounting", "Administrative", "Legal"],
  "careerLevel": "Experienced",
  "travelRequired": "No Specification",
  "educationLevel": null,
  "applicantCountries": ["US"]
}
```

***

### Examples

**Search for customer support roles:**

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "customer support",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

**Fully remote, full-time developer jobs:**

```json
{
  "categories": ["developer", "back-end-developer", "front-end-developer"],
  "remoteTypeFilter": "100% Remote Work",
  "jobTypeFilter": "Full-Time",
  "maxResults": 200
}
```

**Marketing jobs with full descriptions and apply links:**

```json
{
  "categories": ["marketing"],
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

**Daily feed (run on a schedule):**

```json
{
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxResults": 0
}
```

Page 1 of each category holds its newest jobs. Schedule this input in the Apify Scheduler (for example daily at 07:00) to keep an always-fresh feed of the newest listings across all categories.

***

### 💰 Pricing

**$1.49 per 1,000 results** — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

| Results | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 | ~$0.15 |
| 1,000 | ~$1.49 |
| 10,000 | ~$14.9 |
| 100,000 | ~$149 |

> Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $1.49 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the **Max results** cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

***

### Performance

| Run size | Typical time |
|---|---|
| 100 results | under 1 minute |
| 1,000 results | 2–4 minutes |
| 10,000 results | 20–35 minutes |

***

### Known limitations

- Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry `null` salary fields.
- Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
- Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
- Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping. When a job's page is gone, its detail fields are `null`.
- Detail pages add about one second per job, so runs with **Fetch detail pages** on take longer.
- remote.co shows part of its listings in full to paying members only. For those jobs (`membersOnly: true`) the description, apply link and company links are not public, so they are returned as `null`.

***

### Technical details

- **Source:** remote.co — remote-first companies worldwide job listings
- **Coverage:** everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
- **Retry:** automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Category slugs to scrape (e.g. developer, marketing, sales). Leave empty to scrape all ~70 categories.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pagination pages to scrape per category. ~30 jobs per page.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many total jobs. Use a small number such as 20 for a quick test; raise it or set 0 for full runs.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Only return jobs where title or company name contains this text (case-insensitive).

## `remoteTypeFilter` (type: `string`):

Only return jobs matching this remote type exactly.

## `jobTypeFilter` (type: `string`):

Only return jobs matching this job type exactly.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open each job's own page to add the full description (HTML, plain text and Markdown), apply link, exact posting and closing dates, company website, all categories, career level, travel and education requirements, and the countries applicants must live in. Adds about one second per job.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [],
  "maxPages": 20,
  "maxResults": 20,
  "searchQuery": "",
  "fetchDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxResults": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxResults": 20 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxResults": 20
}' |
apify call unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,unfenced-group/remote-co-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/agN5E1nK04tGNtH7t/builds/uWLxLpj6oG09eIUkz/openapi.json