India Job Alerts: new IIMJobs, Hirist, Foundit, Instahyre, Apna, Shine and Unstop jobs every morning

Get the new jobs from India's recruiter job boards, IIMJobs (MBA, finance, consulting, management), Hirist.tech (tech), Foundit (formerly Monster India), Instahyre (startups and product companies), Apna (entry-level and frontline jobs with salaries), Shine.com and Unstop (fresher jobs and internships), every morning as a GitHub issue, Slack, Discord or Telegram message and a growing CSV file, without writing or maintaining a scraper. You pick the keywords, cities and experience range; a GitHub Actions workflow in your copy of this repository does the rest, and every job reaches you once.

It is built for job seekers who follow a few searches, recruiters and staffing agencies tracking new mandates, and anyone building an India job feed. Put * as the keyword to follow every job on a board (IIMJobs posts about 170 a day, Hirist about 140, Foundit about 2,800, Apna about 2,000).

What you get

Every run adds the new jobs to data/jobs.csv, rewrites data/latest.md and sends the alerts you switched on. Real runs on 26 October 2026 with the default config.json searches (capped at 10 jobs each) returned 39 jobs; one row per board:

Board	Posted	Job	Company	Location	Experience
iimjobs	2026-10-24	Product Manager - Payments & Core Ledger Systems - FinTech	HiringBlaze	Bangalore	4-8 yrs
hirist	2026-10-24	Data Engineer - BigQuery/Python	Trident Automobiles	Bangalore	4-8 yrs
foundit	2026-10-25	Senior Data Analyst	tally solutions pvt ltd	Bengaluru, India	2-4 yrs
instahyre	2026-10-19	Product Software Engineer II - 476	Amazon	Bangalore	2-5 yrs

Each CSV row has the board, posting date, title, company, locations, experience range, salary in lakh per year (LPA) when the employer discloses it (Apna and Unstop monthly pay is converted, ×12), applicant count (IIMJobs, Hirist, Foundit), up to eight skills, the job URL and a stable ID such as iimjobs:1741760.

Set it up in five minutes

1. Click Use this template → Create a new repository (public or private, your choice).
2. Create a free Apify account and copy your API token from Console → Settings → Integrations. In your new repository open Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → New repository secret, name it APIFY_TOKEN and paste the token.
3. Add the workflow: in your repository click Add file → Create new file, name it .github/workflows/job-alerts.yml, paste the contents of setup/job-alerts.yml and commit.
4. Edit config.json with your searches, then open Actions → India job alerts → Run workflow once to test it. From then on it runs every day at 08:00 IST.

The first run delivers the jobs posted in the last three days (seven for the Instahyre example); every later run delivers only the jobs it has not delivered before.

Choose your searches

{
  "searches": [
    {"board": "iimjobs", "keywords": ["product manager"], "locations": ["Bangalore"]},
    {"board": "hirist", "keywords": ["data engineer"]},
    {"board": "foundit", "keywords": ["data analyst"]},
    {"board": "instahyre", "keywords": ["python"], "locations": ["Bangalore"], "postedWithinDays": 7, "maxJobs": 20}
  ],
  "defaults": {"postedWithinDays": 3, "maxJobs": 50, "descriptions": false},
  "maxCostPerSearchUsd": 0.5,
  "notify": {"githubIssue": true, "maxJobsPerMessage": 20}
}

Field	What it does
board	iimjobs, hirist, foundit, instahyre, apna, shine or unstop.
keywords	Role or skill words, one board search each. ["*"] means every job on the board in the window.
locations	Optional cities as the board lists them: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Gurgaon, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Remote.
minExperience, maxExperience	Optional experience range in years. On Shine minExperience keeps jobs whose range covers that many years; Apna and Unstop ignore both.
types	Unstop only: listing types, default ["jobs", "internships"] (also hackathons, competitions).
postedWithinDays	Only jobs posted in the last N days (default 3; IIMJobs and Hirist count calendar days in India time). Instahyre has no date filter on the site, so it is not sent there unless you set it; when you do, the Actor reads each job's page to check the date (slower, and skipped jobs are not charged).
maxJobs	Cap per search and run (default 50).
descriptions	true adds the full job description to the Actor output (more expensive on IIMJobs and Hirist until 2 November 2026).
maxCostPerSearchUsd	Hard spending cap per search and run; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Searches for the other boards (tested on 29 October 2026):

{"board": "apna", "keywords": ["telecaller"], "locations": ["Mumbai"], "postedWithinDays": 1},
{"board": "shine", "keywords": ["data analyst"], "locations": ["Bangalore"], "minExperience": 2},
{"board": "unstop", "keywords": ["marketing"], "postedWithinDays": 7}

Apna only offers 1-, 3- and 7-day windows, so postedWithinDays is rounded up to one of them, and its window counts jobs the employer posted or refreshed (a refreshed job keeps its original posting date). Apna stores 31 as the maximum experience when the employer set only a minimum; the CSV shows such jobs as 2+ yrs.

Notifications

• GitHub issue (on by default): each run with new jobs opens an issue in your repository, and GitHub emails you about it if you watch the repository.
• Slack: add an incoming webhook URL as the secret SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL.
• Discord: add a channel webhook URL as DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL.
• Telegram: create a bot with @BotFather, then add TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and your chat ID as TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID.

A channel that fails is reported in the log; the jobs are still saved.

What it costs

The searches run on Apify Actors that charge per job saved; there is no subscription, and Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month. Prices on 29 October 2026 (free plan):

Board	Price
IIMJobs Jobs Scraper	$0.002 per job (+$0.002 with descriptions); from 2 Nov 2026 $0.002 per job with the description included + $0.001 per run
Hirist.tech Jobs Scraper	same as IIMJobs
Foundit Jobs Scraper	$0.0008 per job, description included, + $0.001 per run
Instahyre Jobs Scraper	$0.0008 per job, description included, + $0.001 per run
Apna Jobs Scraper	$0.0008 per job, description included, + $0.001 per run
Shine Jobs Scraper	$0.0008 per job, description included, + $0.001 per run
Unstop Scraper	$0.0015 per listing, description included, + $0.001 per run

The default four searches with about 25 new jobs each per day cost roughly $0.13 a day, about $4 a month, inside the free credit. Jobs skipped because you already received them are never charged. Check each Actor's pricing tab for current prices.

How "only new jobs" works

Each search is sent with the Actor's only new jobs since the last run mode and a memory name unique to your repository and search. The Actor remembers the job IDs it delivered (in a key-value store in your own Apify account, for 120 days) and skips them before fetching anything, so repeats are neither returned nor charged. Changing a search's settings starts a new memory for it. The script also de-duplicates the CSV by job ID.

Run it without GitHub Actions

export APIFY_TOKEN=...
python job_alerts.py --dry-run   # shows what would be sent to each board, runs nothing
python job_alerts.py             # runs the searches, writes data/, sends alerts (Slack/Discord/Telegram from env vars)

Python 3.9+ and the standard library only; schedule it with cron or Windows Task Scheduler if you prefer.

Follow a whole job board

"keywords": ["*"] uses the Actors' All jobs on the board mode: every listing posted in the window instead of a keyword search. Measured on 26 October 2026: IIMJobs 1,199 jobs in the last 7 days, Hirist 959, Foundit 2,815 in the last day, Instahyre 12,724 open jobs. Raise maxJobs accordingly and keep an eye on the cost; the guide Export every IIMJobs and Hirist job daily covers it in detail.

FAQ

Is there an official IIMJobs, Hirist, Foundit, Instahyre, Apna, Shine or Unstop API? No public one. The Actors read the same public JSON the job boards' own websites load, without logins or cookies, and return it as clean rows.

Can I get the full job description? Yes, set "descriptions": true. The Actors return the description as HTML and plain text; this script keeps the CSV compact and links to the job page instead.

Will GitHub stop my scheduled workflow? GitHub disables schedules in public repositories after 60 days without activity. The workflow commits new jobs to data/, which counts as activity on days with new jobs; if your searches are very narrow, run it manually once in a while.

Does it collect personal data? No. It stores job postings and company names; recruiter names and contact details are not collected.

Can I use the data from another tool? Yes. Read data/jobs.csv from Google Sheets (=IMPORTDATA on the raw file URL of a public repository), or call the Actors directly from Python, Node.js, n8n, Make or Zapier: see apify-data-actors-examples.

Related

• apify-data-actors-examples: Python, Node.js, curl and n8n examples for the same Actors.
• One day of Indian job postings: 5,600 new jobs on five boards, and how many show the salary: daily volumes, salary disclosure and applicant counts on Apna, foundit, IIMJobs, Hirist and Instahyre (28 October 2026).
• Daemon Data on Apify: IIMJobs, Hirist, Foundit, Instahyre, Oracle HCM career sites, India IPO GMP and more as pay-per-result APIs.

More templates by Daemon Data

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• india-ipo-gmp-tracker: daily IPO GMP table, GMP history and Telegram alerts.

Not affiliated with IIMJobs, Hirist, Foundit, Instahyre, Apna, Shine or Unstop. Use the data in line with each site's terms.