JobSpy is a simple, yet comprehensive, job scraping library.
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- Scrapes job postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Google, & ZipRecruiter simultaneously
- Aggregates the job postings in a dataframe
- Proxies support to bypass blocking
pip install -U python-jobspy
Python version >= 3.10 required
import csv
from jobspy import scrape_jobs
jobs = scrape_jobs(
site_name=["indeed", "linkedin", "zip_recruiter", "glassdoor", "google"],
search_term="software engineer",
google_search_term="software engineer jobs near San Francisco, CA since yesterday",
location="San Francisco, CA",
results_wanted=20,
hours_old=72,
country_indeed='USA',
# linkedin_fetch_description=True # gets more info such as description, direct job url (slower)
# proxies=["208.195.175.46:65095", "208.195.175.45:65095", "localhost"],
)
print(f"Found {len(jobs)} jobs")
print(jobs.head())
jobs.to_csv("jobs.csv", quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, escapechar="\\", index=False) # to_excelSITE TITLE COMPANY CITY STATE JOB_TYPE INTERVAL MIN_AMOUNT MAX_AMOUNT JOB_URL DESCRIPTION
indeed Software Engineer AMERICAN SYSTEMS Arlington VA None yearly 200000 150000 https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5e409e577046... THIS POSITION COMES WITH A 10K SIGNING BONUS!...
indeed Senior Software Engineer TherapyNotes.com Philadelphia PA fulltime yearly 135000 110000 https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=da39574a40cb... About Us TherapyNotes is the national leader i...
linkedin Software Engineer - Early Career Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale CA fulltime yearly None None https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3693012711 Description:By bringing together people that u...
linkedin Full-Stack Software Engineer Rain New York NY fulltime yearly None None https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3696158877 Rain’s mission is to create the fastest and ea...
zip_recruiter Software Engineer - New Grad ZipRecruiter Santa Monica CA fulltime yearly 130000 150000 https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/ziprecruiter... We offer a hybrid work environment. Most US-ba...
zip_recruiter Software Developer TEKsystems Phoenix AZ fulltime hourly 65 75 https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/teksystems-0... Top Skills' Details• 6 years of Java developme...
Optional
├── site_name (list|str):
| linkedin, zip_recruiter, indeed, glassdoor, google
| (default is all)
│
├── search_term (str)
|
├── google_search_term (str)
| search term for google jobs. This is the only param for filtering google jobs.
│
├── location (str)
│
├── distance (int):
| in miles, default 50
│
├── job_type (str):
| fulltime, parttime, internship, contract
│
├── proxies (list):
| in format ['user:pass@host:port', 'localhost']
| each job board scraper will round robin through the proxies
|
├── is_remote (bool)
│
├── results_wanted (int):
| number of job results to retrieve for each site specified in 'site_name'
│
├── easy_apply (bool):
| filters for jobs that are hosted on the job board site
│
├── description_format (str):
| markdown, html (Format type of the job descriptions. Default is markdown.)
│
├── offset (int):
| starts the search from an offset (e.g. 25 will start the search from the 25th result)
│
├── hours_old (int):
| filters jobs by the number of hours since the job was posted
| (ZipRecruiter and Glassdoor round up to next day.)
│
├── verbose (int) {0, 1, 2}:
| Controls the verbosity of the runtime printouts
| (0 prints only errors, 1 is errors+warnings, 2 is all logs. Default is 2.)
├── linkedin_fetch_description (bool):
| fetches full description and direct job url for LinkedIn (Increases requests by O(n))
│
├── linkedin_company_ids (list[int]):
| searches for linkedin jobs with specific company ids
|
├── country_indeed (str):
| filters the country on Indeed & Glassdoor (see below for correct spelling)
|
├── enforce_annual_salary (bool):
| converts wages to annual salary
|
├── ca_cert (str)
| path to CA Certificate file for proxies
├── Indeed limitations:
| Only one from this list can be used in a search:
| - hours_old
| - job_type & is_remote
| - easy_apply
│
└── LinkedIn limitations:
| Only one from this list can be used in a search:
| - hours_old
| - easy_apply
JobPost
├── title
├── company
├── company_url
├── job_url
├── location
│ ├── country
│ ├── city
│ ├── state
├── description
├── job_type: fulltime, parttime, internship, contract
├── job_function
│ ├── interval: yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly
│ ├── min_amount
│ ├── max_amount
│ ├── currency
│ └── salary_source: direct_data, description (parsed from posting)
├── date_posted
├── emails
└── is_remote
Linkedin specific
└── job_level
Linkedin & Indeed specific
└── company_industry
Indeed specific
├── company_country
├── company_addresses
├── company_employees_label
├── company_revenue_label
├── company_description
└── company_logo
LinkedIn searches globally & uses only the location parameter.
ZipRecruiter searches for jobs in US/Canada & uses only the location parameter.
Indeed & Glassdoor supports most countries, but the country_indeed parameter is required. Additionally, use the location
parameter to narrow down the location, e.g. city & state if necessary.
You can specify the following countries when searching on Indeed (use the exact name, * indicates support for Glassdoor):
| Argentina | Australia* | Austria* | Bahrain |
| Belgium* | Brazil* | Canada* | Chile |
| China | Colombia | Costa Rica | Czech Republic |
| Denmark | Ecuador | Egypt | Finland |
| France* | Germany* | Greece | Hong Kong* |
| Hungary | India* | Indonesia | Ireland* |
| Israel | Italy* | Japan | Kuwait |
| Luxembourg | Malaysia | Mexico* | Morocco |
| Netherlands* | New Zealand* | Nigeria | Norway |
| Oman | Pakistan | Panama | Peru |
| Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Qatar |
| Romania | Saudi Arabia | Singapore* | South Africa |
| South Korea | Spain* | Sweden | Switzerland* |
| Taiwan | Thailand | Turkey | Ukraine |
| United Arab Emirates | UK* | USA* | Uruguay |
| Venezuela | Vietnam* |
- Indeed is the best scraper currently with no rate limiting.
- All the job board endpoints are capped at around 1000 jobs on a given search.
- LinkedIn is the most restrictive and usually rate limits around the 10th page with one ip. Proxies are a must basically.
Q: Why is Indeed giving unrelated roles?
A: Indeed searches the description too.
- use - to remove words
- "" for exact match
Example of a good Indeed query
search_term='"engineering intern" software summer (java OR python OR c++) 2025 -tax -marketing'This searches the description/title and must include software, summer, 2025, one of the languages, engineering intern exactly, no tax, no marketing.
Q: Received a response code 429?
A: This indicates that you have been blocked by the job board site for sending too many requests. All of the job board sites are aggressive with blocking. We recommend:
- Wait some time between scrapes (site-dependent).
- Try using the proxies param to change your IP address.
Q: Encountering issues with your queries?
A: Try reducing the number of results_wanted and/or broadening the filters. If problems
persist, submit an issue.