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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.
TheirStack pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and the cheaper piece
TheirStack is one of the few jobs-data vendors with a public rate card: one-time credit packs from $109 and API subscriptions from $59 a month. The list price tells you less than the meter - every job an API response returns consumes a credit, company reveals expire after 90 days, and exports cap at 200 jobs per company. The full price list, the consumption rules that actually set your bill, and when a flat per-request postings API is the cheaper piece.
ISCO-08: the occupation codes behind global labour market data
An ISCO-08 code is a four-digit identifier from the ILO's International Standard Classification of Occupations - the occupation axis behind ILOSTAT, Eurostat and ESCO. How the four-level hierarchy works, the codes for common tech roles, where data scientist and DevOps actually land, how ISCO maps to SOC and O*NET, and how to filter half a million live job postings by ISCO code.
Introducing the Labour Market Pulse: free monthly hiring and salary data from live postings
Free monthly aggregates from the JobsPipe corpus: hiring demand by occupation and industry, advertised-salary percentiles with visible sample sizes, and the AI pay premium. Computed from real postings, never surveys - with suppressed thin cells, a published disclosure rate, and permanently archived snapshots you can cite.
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.
Paylocity API: the payroll API vs the job postings you can actually read
The Paylocity API you find first is payroll and HR - partner-gated, customer-sponsored, scoped to one tenant. But every Paylocity recruiting customer also runs a public careers board that embeds its complete job list as JSON, one GET per board. Where that surface lives, why discovering boards is the real problem, and how to query Paylocity postings through one jobs API.
Labour market intelligence: what it is, who sells it, and how to get it (2026)
Labour market intelligence is the analysis layer over jobs data: what occupations are in demand, which skills are rising, what work pays, where the talent is. What LMI actually is, the data it is built from, the vendor landscape from government-grade platforms to self-serve APIs, and how measured postings data changed the field.
Lightcast pricing: what it costs, what drives the quote, and the cheaper unbundled pieces
Lightcast publishes no rate card - contracts are quoted through sales and billed annually. What is publicly knowable about how its pricing works, the questions that shape a quote, what buyers commonly report, and what each unbundled piece of the platform costs from other sources, down to free.
BuiltWith alternatives: 7 tech-detection options compared (2026)
BuiltWith is the incumbent for technology profiling - and most people shopping for an alternative were only using one slice of it. Seven options compared by what you were actually buying: lead lists, one-off lookups, an enrichment API, or hiring-based technographics.
Wappalyzer alternatives: what to use for tech detection in 2026
Wappalyzer went closed-source and its API is metered - which is why people shop for alternatives. The realistic options by use case: browser extensions, open-source forks you can self-host, lookup APIs, and technographics built from hiring data.