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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.
Free job APIs in 2026: what's actually free, what's free-tier, and what's a trap
Free means four different things in the jobs API market, and the difference is what burns people. A verified comparison of 11 options, with the real limits, the key requirements, and the redistribution terms nobody reads.
Bright Data competitors: 8 alternatives compared for web data and job postings
Bright Data is the biggest general-purpose web data platform, and for some jobs it is the wrong shape. Eight alternatives compared on category, pricing model and fit, including when a narrow vertical API beats a scraping platform.
An API for job search: the architecture behind a search box that returns real jobs
What has to happen between a user typing into a box and getting good jobs back: query understanding, filters, ranking, cursor pagination, caching, and the empty state everyone gets wrong.
Indeed jobs API: a build guide with working code
A hands-on guide to getting Indeed job postings into your product: first authenticated request, cursor pagination in Python, a Node equivalent, deduplication, incremental sync, and the schema to store it in.
Job data API: how to evaluate one before you build on it
Every job data API claims millions of postings, real-time updates, and clean structured fields. None of that is falsifiable from a landing page. Here are the seven dimensions job posting data actually varies on - coverage, latency, dedup, normalization, ID stability, status tracking, and provenance - and a test you can run for each one inside a two-week trial.
AI sourcing tools for recruiting: what they do, where the candidate data comes from, and what breaks
Sourcing is the only part of recruiting whose ceiling is set by a database rather than a model. A breakdown of the five categories of AI sourcing tool, the five places their candidate data actually comes from, what each source rests on legally after the LinkedIn scraping rulings, and the evaluation checklist that separates a real coverage claim from a number on a homepage.
Monster job posting API: the SOAP gateway, the search API, and who can actually use them
Two different products share the name. One posts jobs into Monster over a SOAP gateway on port 8443; the other reads postings out through a partner-issued token API. Every Monster developer surface, which way it moves data, how access works, and what the 2025 bankruptcy and sale to Bold changed.
Posting jobs to LinkedIn via API: what access actually requires in 2026
LinkedIn has a real job posting API. It is gated behind a Talent Solutions partnership, and the docs currently say new partnerships are closed. Here is the endpoint, the auth model, the quotas, and what to do if you actually wanted to read job data instead.
What happened to the Indeed Publisher API
For a decade the Indeed Publisher API was every developer's first stop for jobs data - free, public, XML. Indeed shut it down in 2023. What it was, why the strategic logic reversed, what replaced it (a display widget and a six-figure enterprise program), and what former users read Indeed postings with now.