BambooHR API: the HRIS API vs the job postings you actually want

BambooHR powers HR for tens of thousands of small and mid-size companies, so BambooHR API is a common developer search. The catch is the same one SAP SuccessFactors has: the API you find first is HRIS - employee records - not the public job postings you probably came for.

The BambooHR API surfaces

• The BambooHR API (HRIS) - api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php/<company>/v1/. Employees, time-off, reports, and custom tables, authenticated with an API key sent as the Basic-auth username and scoped to one company’s account. Built for HRIS sync, not for reading public jobs. Most bamboohr api searches land here and hit a wall.
• BambooHR Hiring / the careers widget - the public careers page and embeddable job widget on a company’s <company>.bamboohr.com/careers subdomain. This is where public postings actually live - but the widget’s underlying JSON URL and field names change without notice, so any scraper you build against it is a scraper you maintain forever.

The API you find is not the job feed

The api.bamboohr.com key returns one company’s employee data, gated to that company. For public postings you are back to the fragile careers widget, and every employer runs a separate subdomain. The API that would have made this easy is exactly the one you are locked out of.

Every BambooHR careers site through one jobs API

JobsPipe indexes public BambooHR careers pages and serves the postings through one normalized jobs API, in the same schema as Workday, Greenhouse, and 30+ other sources:

curl https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer jp_live_your_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "source_or": ["bamboohr"], "job_title_or": ["office manager"], "posted_at_max_age_days": 14 }'

No per-company HRIS credentials, no widget to babysit. Scope to one employer with company_name_partial_match_or. Deeper reference on our BambooHR jobs API guide and BambooHR source page, and the full cross-source comparison in the best jobs APIs of 2026.