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Posts about indexing public job postings at scale, salary parsing, and the systems that keep one universal JSON schema feeling small even as the source list keeps growing.
Job market datasets: 7 real sources for job postings data (2026)
Kaggle snapshots, the USAJOBS archive, Adzuna aggregates, commercial bulk vendors, and API-built datasets - where to actually get a job postings dataset, what each contains, and when a static file is the wrong tool.
Best job scraping tools in 2026: 8 options honestly compared
JobSpy, Apify, Bright Data, ScrapingDog, Octoparse, PhantomBuster and more - what each job scraper is actually good at, what it costs at real volume, and when the right answer is not a scraper at all.
Jooble API: what you get, the limits, and the alternatives
Jooble offers one of the few genuinely free job-search APIs - a simple POST endpoint over listings in 60+ countries. What it returns, where it runs out, and how it compares to JobsPipe's free tier and no-key sandbox.
Ashby API: pulling job postings from any Ashby-hosted careers page
Ashby runs hiring for Linear, Ramp, Notion, Vercel, and thousands of other startups. Its public Job Board endpoint is free but covers one company per call. Here is how each Ashby API surface works and how to query every Ashby customer at once.
Labor market data: 9 sources and APIs compared (2026)
BLS, JOLTS, FRED, Indeed Hiring Lab, Lightcast, LinkUp, Revelio, and raw job-postings APIs - what each labor market data source actually measures, how fresh it is, what it costs, and which one fits your use case.
JobSpy review: the Python job scraper tested, and where it breaks
JobSpy scrapes Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and Google with one Python call - until it gets blocked. An honest review, and the no-scraper path: JobsPipe's free tier and keyless sandbox for normalized postings.
What is a SERP API? How they work and when to use one
A SERP API returns search-engine results as structured JSON - including the Google for Jobs widget. How SERP APIs work under the hood, what they cost, where they break, and when reading data at the source beats scraping the results page.
Indeed API: how to pull job postings from Indeed without scraping
Indeed's Publisher API is gone and the official replacements are employer-side only. What the Indeed API actually is in 2026, why there is no self-serve API key, and how to query Indeed job postings through a normalized JSON endpoint instead.
How to scrape Google Jobs in Python (and the no-scrape alternative)
A working Python walkthrough for scraping Google Jobs results with requests and Playwright, the anti-bot and legal caveats nobody mentions, and how to skip all of it with one normalized API call.