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Guide·Jul 31, 2026·7 min read

# Naukri API: what exists, what doesn't, and how to get Indian jobs data

Naukri is India's dominant hiring platform, and it publishes no public developer API. What "Naukri API integration" actually means in vendor language, the unofficial JSON endpoints and scrapers people fall back on and where they break, and the honest API path to tens of thousands of live, India-located job postings.

![Dvir Atias](/authors/dvir-atias.jpg)

Dvir Atias

Founder, JobsPipe

Search for the **Naukri API** and you are one of three people. A developer building a job search product, a sourcing tool or an agent that needs Indian job postings. An ATS or HR-tech vendor whose customers want their openings pushed to Naukri and the applies pulled back. Or an analyst who wants Indian hiring data in rows and columns rather than a search box. Naukri.com - operated by Info Edge, and the dominant hiring platform in India - matters to all three. Which is why the first discovery stings: there is no developer portal, no self-serve key, no public API documentation. This post covers what actually exists, what the phrase “Naukri API integration” really refers to, and the working paths for each of those three people.

## The short answer

Naukri does not offer a public API. There is no page where a developer can register, get a key and query job postings. Like most large job boards, Naukri sells outcomes to employers and attention to job seekers; the listings database is the moat, and opening a read API on it would hand that moat to every competitor with a cron job. The same logic drove [Indeed to retire its public keys](/blog/indeed-api-key) and keeps LinkedIn’s jobs behind partner agreements. Naukri simply never opened one to begin with.

What does exist is employer-side. When recruiting software vendors advertise “Naukri API integration”, they mean commercial integrations arranged with Naukri’s team: posting a customer’s openings onto Naukri from an ATS, pulling applications and resume-database results back into it. Those integrations are real, but they are negotiated business arrangements between vendors and Naukri, not self-serve infrastructure - there is no public documentation, and no path to them that starts with an API key form. If that is what you need, the route is Naukri’s sales and partnership channel, not this post.

## The unofficial routes, and what they cost

Because the demand is real, an ecosystem has grown in the gap. It has two layers, and it is worth being clear-eyed about both.

-   **Reverse-engineered endpoints.** GitHub hosts several “free Naukri JSON API” projects that hit the internal endpoints Naukri’s own site and app use. They work until they don’t: internal endpoints carry no compatibility promise, change without notice, and increasingly sit behind anti-bot challenges. Fine for a weekend experiment, unbuildable-on for a product.
-   **Scraping services.** Vendors like Apify and ScrapingBee sell Naukri scrapers: they render listing pages, absorb the anti-bot arms race, and return structured JSON per page. This is the most reliable way to get Naukri-specific listings - and it has real costs. You pay per page at search-result density, Naukri’s terms prohibit automated access (a compliance question your counsel, not a blog post, should answer), and you inherit the classic scraper-output problems: duplicates across postings, expired jobs that still render, and no signal for when a role actually closed. Our [build-vs-buy guide for job scrapers](/blog/job-scraper-build-vs-buy) walks through that total cost honestly.

## What about aggregator APIs?

A few jobs-data vendors resell Naukri-sourced postings as part of a larger corpus, at data-contract prices. So the honest disclosure first: JobsPipe does not index Naukri today. Our India coverage comes from sources that publish postings openly - LinkedIn, public Workday tenants, SmartRecruiters, Lever boards, Y Combinator - collected directly, deduplicated into one record per vacancy, and liveness-checked so closed roles leave the corpus instead of haunting it.

Measured against the live database on the day this post published: 41,599 active job postings located in India, 19,623 of them posted in the last 30 days. Bengaluru leads with 5,840 live postings, then Mumbai (2,401), Hyderabad (2,104), Gurugram (1,879), Chennai (1,546), Noida (1,160), Pune (1,134) and Delhi (930). Two things follow from how that corpus is collected. It skews toward multinationals, tech companies and startups hiring through global ATSs and LinkedIn - Naukri’s long tail of local and SME listings is broader. And every posting in it is verified open, carries an [ISCO-08 occupation code, an industry code and extracted skills](/blog/classified-job-postings-api), and states salary where the employer did - which is what you want when the goal is a product or an analysis rather than a mirror of one board.

## Querying Indian postings in one request

The whole thing is one authenticated POST. Country, city, skills and freshness are filters, not scraping projects:

```
curl -X POST "https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer jp_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "job_country_code_or": ["IN"],
    "job_location_or": ["Bengaluru"],
    "skills_or": ["python", "aws"],
    "posted_at_max_age_days": 30,
    "limit": 25
  }'
```

Swap `job_location_or` for any city or region string, add `job_title_or` for title matching, or `"occupation_code_or": ["25"]` to sweep every ICT-professional role regardless of how the title is phrased. Responses return company, location, posting date, lifecycle status, salary fields where stated, and the classification layer on every record. The free tier is 100 requests a month, no card and no sales call.

## Which path to take

Three searches, three answers. If you need to _post_ jobs to Naukri from recruiting software, talk to Naukri’s partnership team; that door only opens commercially. If your product specifically requires _Naukri’s own listings_, budget for a scraping vendor, a dedup-and-liveness pipeline on top of it, and a legal review. And if what you actually need is _live Indian job postings data_ - for a job board, an agent, a sourcing tool or a market analysis - that is a jobs API problem, and the [2026 comparison of jobs APIs](/blog/best-jobs-api-2026) will get you shipping this week instead of maintaining scrapers this quarter.

41,599 live India-located postings behind one endpoint - free tier, key in 30 seconds.

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