How to Scrape RemoteOK: Remote Jobs, Salaries and Tags

Run it now, no code: remoteok-jobs-scraper on the Apify Store  |  $1.20 per 1,000 job postings  |  no browser, no proxy

RemoteOK is one of the largest boards for fully remote jobs, but it has no official export for third parties. This guide shows how to get its postings as clean structured data: title, company, tags, location restriction, salary range and full description, read straight from the site's own public API, with a free Apify Actor, from the console or from code.

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What you get from the RemoteOK scraper

• Every remote job posting, newest first, with title, company and the site's own role/seniority/stack tags.
• Salary range (salaryMin, salaryMax) kept as numbers whenever a posting publishes one.
• The applicant-location restriction the employer set (often empty, meaning worldwide).
• Full description as plain text, with the site's double-escaping and mis-encoded accents already repaired.

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API. A real sample (five results, personal data removed, long texts truncated) is in sample-output.json.

Output fields

Field	What it is
id, slug, url	RemoteOK posting id, slug and public link
title, company, companyLogoUrl	Job title, hiring company and its logo
tags	Array of role, seniority and tech-stack tags as RemoteOK publishes them
location, remote	Applicant-location restriction (often empty) and the always-true remote flag
salaryMin, salaryMax	Salary range when the posting publishes one, otherwise null
datePosted	ISO publication timestamp
description	Full posting text, double-escaping and mis-encoded accents repaired

Use cases

• Monitor new remote openings. Run it on a schedule and get the newest postings first, filtered by keyword.
• Benchmark remote salaries. Group salaryMin/salaryMax by tag to see what a given role or stack pays remotely.
• Feed a remote-jobs newsletter or board. Structured fields and the canonical url make it easy to republish or dedupe on id.
• Track which companies hire remote. company and tags for every posting, aggregated over time.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Keep only the postings whose title, tags or description contain this text, for example python or designer. Empty means every posting.
maxItems	The run stops once this many postings are saved (default 50). RemoteOK's feed never carries more than about 100 at a time.

Example input:

{
  "keywords": "python",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Three ways to use it

1. Apify console, no code

1. Open the Actor page and click Try for free (a free Apify account is enough).
2. Fill in optional keywords and the maximum number of results, then click Start.
3. When the run finishes, open the Output tab, check the table, then Export as CSV, Excel or JSON.
4. For a daily alert, open Schedules, create a daily schedule for the Actor and, optionally, add an integration that sends new results to Slack, e-mail or Google Sheets.

2. Apify API with JavaScript

npm install apify-client
export APIFY_TOKEN="your token from Apify console, Settings, Integrations"
node examples/run.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('bibian/remoteok-jobs-scraper').call({
    "keywords": "python",
    "maxItems": 50
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) {
    console.log(`${item.title} | ${item.company} | ${item.location ?? 'worldwide'} | ${item.salaryMin ?? '-'}-${item.salaryMax ?? '-'}`);
}

The complete file is examples/run.js (ES module, Node 18 or later).

3. Apify API with Python

pip install apify-client
export APIFY_TOKEN="your token from Apify console, Settings, Integrations"
python examples/run.py

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("bibian/remoteok-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keywords": "python",
    "maxItems": 50,
})

for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['title']} | {item.get('company')} | {item.get('location') or 'worldwide'} | {item.get('salaryMin')}-{item.get('salaryMax')}")

The complete file is examples/run.py. Never put your token in the code: read it from the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable as above.

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.20 per 1,000 job postings, plus a tiny start fee of $0.00005 per run. You pay only for the results saved to the dataset. Apify's free plan includes monthly credits, enough to try it on a few hundred results. Prices are those shown on the Store page when this guide was written; the Store page is the reference.

Limits and honest notes

• RemoteOK's feed has no pagination: it always answers with the same ~100 most recent postings. maxItems above 100 is accepted but never produces more than the feed currently holds.
• Every posting on RemoteOK is remote by construction, so remote is always true. location is whatever applicant-location restriction the employer published (often empty, meaning worldwide).
• salaryMin/salaryMax stay empty on the roughly 4 out of 5 postings that do not publish a range; nothing is guessed.
• The dataset contains job postings only. Recruiter and candidate contact details are never exported.
• A few postings embed a hidden anti-spam phrase in their description, asking anyone applying to repeat a code word. It is RemoteOK's own anti-bot trick aimed at job applicants, kept as-is since it is part of the published text; it has no effect on this Actor, which only reads and saves postings.
• This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with RemoteOK. Check the site's terms and the data protection rules that apply to your use.

FAQ

Does it need a browser or a proxy?
No. The Actor reads RemoteOK's own public API directly, so runs are fast and cheap.

How do I get only the new postings every day?
Schedule the Actor daily with Apify Schedules. Postings come newest first, so dedupe on id if you keep your own copy.

Can I get the data in Excel or Google Sheets?
Yes. Export the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON from the Apify console, or connect the Apify Google Sheets integration.

Why is salaryMin/salaryMax empty on most postings?
RemoteOK does not require a salary range at posting time; most employers skip it. Nothing is guessed when it is missing.

Try it

Open remoteok-jobs-scraper on the Apify Store

The code in examples/ is released under the MIT license (see LICENSE). The data belongs to its original publishers.