--- title: "Job posting API: one endpoint for every job on the web" description: "If you've ever shopped around for a job-posting API and ended up with three vendors, four scrapers, and a deduplication script - this post is for you." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-posting-api date_published: 2026-01-18 date_modified: 2026-09-26 author: Dvir Atias --- # Job posting API: one endpoint for every job on the web If you've ever shopped around for a job-posting API and ended up with three vendors, four scrapers, and a deduplication script - this post is for you. If you’ve ever shopped for a “**job posting API**” and ended up with three vendors, four scrapers, and a Python script to dedupe the overlap - this post is for you. A single normalized job-posting endpoint is the foundation for any product that touches hiring data, and it’s harder to build well than it looks. ## Why three vendors Most jobs-data products end up multi-vendor because no single vendor covers everything. JSearch has Indeed but not Workday. Coresignal has historical bulk but no real-time webhooks. ScrapingDog is great for one site but you maintain the normalization yourself. So you glue them together, write a dedup script, and add monitoring for each one. Try it without a key ``` curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search ``` Only `/v1/sandbox/*` needs no key. ## What “unified” actually means A real unified job-posting API needs four things at minimum: - **Source breadth** - at least 20+ ATSs and the major boards. Anything less means you still need a second vendor. - **One JSON schema** - same fields, same types, regardless of source. Otherwise your application code branches per source and you’ve gained nothing. - **Cross-source dedup** - the same job posted to a Greenhouse board and mirrored to Indeed must collapse into one record. Without this, you ship duplicates to your downstream UI. - **Parsed structured fields** - salary, location, remote flag, all extracted from free text into machine-readable types. Otherwise “structured data” is a marketing claim, not a feature. ## JobsPipe’s endpoint ``` curl https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer jp_live_your_key_here" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "job_title_or": ["staff engineer"], "posted_at_max_age_days": 1 }' ``` Returns every matching job across every source we index, deduped, with parsed comp, in one paginated response. Add `source_or` to scope to one source or `source_not` to exclude aggregator listings. The [job posting API](https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api) page lists every source, the filters and the share of postings that carry each field. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is a job posting API? A job posting API is a single endpoint that returns job listings from many sources in one normalized shape. A genuinely unified one needs four things: source breadth covering at least 20 ATSs plus the major boards, one JSON schema with the same fields and types regardless of source, cross-source dedup so a job posted to Greenhouse and mirrored to Indeed collapses into one record, and parsed structured fields for salary, location, and remote status. ### Why do teams end up using multiple job data vendors? Because no single vendor covers everything, most jobs-data products end up multi-vendor. JSearch has Indeed but not Workday. Coresignal has historical bulk but no real-time webhooks. ScrapingDog is great for one site but you maintain the normalization yourself. So teams glue them together, write a dedup script, and add monitoring for each one, which is exactly the overhead a unified endpoint is meant to remove. ### How do I query every job source with one API call? Send one request to a unified endpoint and filter within it, rather than calling each vendor separately. With JobsPipe you post to /v1/jobs/search with fields like job\_title\_or and posted\_at\_max\_age\_days, and it returns every matching job across every source it indexes, deduped, with parsed compensation, in one paginated response. Add source\_or to scope to a single source, or source\_not to exclude aggregator listings. Related ## Keep reading - [Reference · Jul 25, 2026Monster job posting API: the SOAP gateway, the search API, and who can actually use them](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/monster-job-posting-api) - [Product · Jul 28, 2026Every job posting, classified: ISCO-08 occupations, ISIC industries and skills, live on the API](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/classified-job-postings-api) - [Guide · Sep 9, 2026What Does It Mean When a Job Posting Is Reposted?](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/what-does-it-mean-when-a-job-posting-is-reposted) - [Guide · Aug 25, 2026Recruitee API: the careers-site endpoint that needs no key at all](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/recruitee-api-jobs) - [Guide · Sep 9, 2026How to Web Scrape?](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/how-to-web-scrape) ## Further reading - [JSearch alternative: a unified jobs API with better coverage](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jsearch-alternative) - [JobsPipe vs JSearch](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/jsearch) - [Where to get job posting data in 2026: 7 sources compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/where-to-get-job-posting-data) - [Fantastic.jobs vs JobsPipe: ATS job feeds compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/fantastic-jobs-alternative) - [Job data API: how to evaluate one before you build on it](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-data-api) --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, MCP server, pricing. Free key (1,000 jobs to start): https://jobspipe.dev/signup