--- title: "Does Glassdoor Have an API?" description: "Does Glassdoor have an API? Not a public one: it was retired years ago and access is partner-only. Here is how to reach the same employers' postings." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/does-glassdoor-have-an-api date_published: 2026-09-09 date_modified: 2026-09-09 author: Dvir Atias --- # Does Glassdoor Have an API? Does Glassdoor have an API? Not a public one: it was retired years ago and access is partner-only. Here is how to reach the same employers' postings. Does Glassdoor have an API? Not one a developer can sign up for. Glassdoor retired its public API several years ago and now shares data only with approved partners, and what remains on its help pages describes a B2B insights product. JobsPipe does not collect Glassdoor either, but the same employers post on boards it does collect. ## What to do when Glassdoor has no API 1. **Separate the three things people mean.** Glassdoor holds job listings, company reviews and self-reported salaries. Job listings are the easiest to replace, because employers post the same role elsewhere. Reviews have no substitute outside Glassdoor. Self-reported pay can be approximated with the ranges employers now print on postings. 2. **Do not expect a partner key.** The partner programme is aimed at established platforms and is granted case by case; there is no self-serve tier, no pricing page and no sandbox. Tutorials that describe a working Glassdoor jobs API predate the shutdown. 3. **Do not scrape it.** Glassdoor’s terms prohibit automated access, most content sits behind a login wall and bot detection is aggressive. The legal picture for scraping logged-in content is worse than for public pages. A scraper here costs more than the data is worth. 4. **Find the same postings on collected boards.** Glassdoor and Indeed share a parent company, and much of the job inventory overlaps. Most employers also publish through an applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workday or Ashby, and cross-post to LinkedIn. Querying those sources by company name returns the role you saw on Glassdoor, with dates and a status attached. 5. **Take salary from the posting.** A share of employers state a range on the posting itself. On Indeed, 36.8% of active postings carry one; on Y Combinator the figure is 67.7%. Filter with `min_salary_usd` and every row that returns has a stated floor. The full status of Glassdoor’s data access, and what its remaining products offer, is on the [Glassdoor source page](https://jobspipe.dev/sources/glassdoor). Indeed is a different story with a similar answer: see [does Indeed have an API](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/does-indeed-have-an-api). If reviews are the reason you wanted the API, the honest answer is that no third-party feed replaces them; the reviews are the part Glassdoor guards most closely. Try it without a key ``` curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search ``` Only `/v1/sandbox/*` needs no key. ## Where JobsPipe fits JobsPipe is a jobs data API that collects live postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Y Combinator, Workday, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Lever and Paylocity, returns them as one schema with closure tracking and a ghost score, and includes a free tier of 1,000 jobs to start. It does not collect Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Monster or CareerBuilder. To reach the employers you would have looked up on Glassdoor, query by company: ``` curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "company_name_or": ["Shopify", "Datadog"], "status": "any", "limit": 50 }' ``` Each result carries `sources[0].provider`, so you can see which board the posting came from, plus `status`, `closed_at` and `ghost_score`. Add `posted_at_max_age_days` to keep only recent requisitions, or set `status` to `closed` to see what the employer filled or withdrew in the same window. The full reference is on the [jobs API page](https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is there a Glassdoor jobs API? No public one. Glassdoor's developer API was retired several years ago and its remaining programmes are partner-only, with no self-serve keys, pricing or sandbox. The page still labelled API on Glassdoor's help site describes a B2B employer-insights product rather than a developer endpoint. ### Can I scrape Glassdoor? It is technically possible and a poor idea. Glassdoor's terms prohibit automated access, most pages sit behind a login wall, and bot detection is aggressive. Scraping content behind a login carries more legal exposure than public pages. For job postings, query the boards where the same employers publish instead. ### What does JobsPipe return instead of Glassdoor data? JobsPipe does not collect Glassdoor. It returns the same employers' postings from LinkedIn, Indeed and the collected ATS boards, filtered with company\_name\_or, each with a posting date, discovery date, status, closed date and ghost score. Salary comes from the range stated on the posting, not from self-reported data, and company reviews are not covered. 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