JobSpy

JobSpy is a job scraping library that aggregates jobs from popular job boards with one tool:

• Scrapes job postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Bayt, Naukri, BDJobs & HelloWork concurrently
• Aggregates the job postings in a dataframe
• Proxy support to bypass blocking

Installation

pip install -U python-jobspy

_Python version >= 3.10 required_

Usage

from jobspy import scrape_jobs

jobs = scrape_jobs( site_name=["indeed", "linkedin", "zip_recruiter", "glassdoor"], # also "bayt", "naukri", "bdjobs", "hellowork" search_term="software engineer", location="San Francisco, CA", results_wanted=20, hours_old=72, country_indeed="USA",

fetch_description=True, # read each job's page on boards whose search results have no description (slower)

proxies=["user:pass@host:port", "localhost"],

) print(f"Found {len(jobs)} jobs") print(jobs.head()) jobs.to_csv("jobs.csv", index=False)

Output

SITE           TITLE                             COMPANY           LOCATION                JOB_TYPE  INTERVAL  MIN_AMOUNT  MAX_AMOUNT  JOB_URL                                            DESCRIPTION

indeed Software Engineer AMERICAN SYSTEMS Arlington, VA, USA None yearly 150000 200000 https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5e409e577046... THIS POSITION COMES WITH A 10K SIGNING BONUS!... indeed Senior Software Engineer TherapyNotes.com Philadelphia, PA, USA fulltime yearly 110000 135000 https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=da39574a40cb... About Us TherapyNotes is the national leader i... linkedin Software Engineer - Early Career Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale, CA, USA fulltime yearly None None https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3693012711 Description:By bringing together people that u... linkedin Full-Stack Software Engineer Rain New York, NY, USA fulltime yearly None None https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3696158877 Rain’s mission is to create the fastest and ea... zip_recruiter Software Engineer - New Grad ZipRecruiter Santa Monica, CA, USA fulltime yearly 130000 150000 https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/ziprecruiter... We offer a hybrid work environment. Most US-ba... zip_recruiter Software Developer TEKsystems Phoenix, AZ, USA fulltime hourly 65 75 https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/teksystems-0... Top Skills' Details• 6 years of Java developme...

Command line

The package installs a jobspy command whose options mirror the scrape_jobs() parameters below; jobspy -h lists them, the output fields and exit codes.

uv tool install python-jobspy

jobspy "software engineer" --site indeed,linkedin --location Chicago -n 20 jobspy nurse --site indeed,linkedin --hours-old 24 -o jobs.jsonl jobspy "data analyst" --remote --fields title,company,job_url

MCP server

mcp-jobspy is an MCP server that runs with uvx mcp-jobspy@latest. See mcp/README.md for setup, tools and proxies.

Standard config works for most clients:

{

"mcpServers": { "jobspy": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-jobspy@latest"] } } }

Parameters for scrape_jobs()

Optional

├── site_name (list|str): | linkedin, zip_recruiter, indeed, glassdoor, google, bayt, bdjobs, naukri, hellowork | (default is all) │ ├── search_term (str) | ├── google_search_term (str) | search term for google jobs. This is the only param for filtering google jobs. │ ├── location (str) │ ├── distance (int): | in miles, default 50 │ ├── job_type (str): | fulltime, parttime, contract, temporary, internship, perdiem, other, volunteer │ ├── proxies (list|str): | in format ['user:pass@host:port', 'localhost'], or a single proxy as a string | each job board scraper will round robin through the proxies | socks proxies on LinkedIn, Indeed and BDJobs need pip install "requests[socks]" | ├── is_remote (bool) │ ├── results_wanted (int): | number of job results to retrieve for each site specified in 'site_name' │ ├── easy_apply (bool): | filters for jobs that are hosted on the job board site | ├── user_agent (str): | override the default user agent which may be outdated │ ├── description_format (str): | markdown, html, plain (Format type of the job descriptions. Default is markdown.) │ ├── offset (int): | skips that many results (e.g. 25 skips the first 25 and starts from the 26th) │ ├── hours_old (int): | filters jobs by the number of hours since the job was posted | (Glassdoor filters by whole days, so it rounds up to the next day.) │ ├── verbose (int) {0, 1, 2}: | Controls the verbosity of the runtime printouts | (0 prints only errors, 1 is errors+warnings, 2 is all logs. Default is 1.) │ ├── fetch_description (bool): | for boards whose search results don't include the job description: fetches each job's | page for the description and other details (e.g. job type). Without it these are empty | for those boards. Adds one request per job, so use proxies for larger searches │ ├── linkedin_fetch_description (bool): | deprecated, use fetch_description (still works; removed in 2.0) │ ├── linkedin_company_ids (list[int]): | searches for linkedin jobs with specific company ids | ├── country_indeed (str): | filters the country on Indeed & Glassdoor (default is usa; see below for the names) | ├── enforce_annual_salary (bool): | converts wages to annual salary | ├── ca_cert (str) | path to CA Certificate file for proxies

Supported Countries for Job Searching

LinkedIn

LinkedIn searches globally & uses only the location parameter.

ZipRecruiter

ZipRecruiter searches for jobs in US/Canada & uses only the location parameter.

Indeed / Glassdoor

Indeed & Glassdoor support most countries, chosen with the country_indeed parameter (default usa). Additionally, use the location parameter to narrow down the location, e.g. city & state if necessary.

You can specify the following countries when searching on Indeed (use the exact name, * indicates support for Glassdoor):

Bayt

Bayt searches all countries unless location names one it covers, e.g. "Dubai, UAE" or "Saudi Arabia".

BDJobs

BDJobs searches Bangladesh. location takes a division or district, e.g. "Dhaka" or "Chattogram Division".

Naukri

Naukri searches India. location takes a city, e.g. "Pune".

HelloWork

HelloWork searches France. location takes a French city, postcode or region, e.g. "Lyon". Most jobs are posted in French, so French search terms find more.

Notes

• Indeed is the best scraper currently with no rate limiting.
• Indeed's date_posted is the day a job was added to Indeed, the same date hours_old filters on.
• Most job board endpoints are capped at around 1000 jobs on a given search.
• LinkedIn rate limits bursts of requests with a 429, which clears within about a minute. Use proxies for larger searches.
• Glassdoor rate limits above about 2 requests a second.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I tell a blocked board from one with no jobs? A: Failures and ignored options are logged as they happen, and the result's attrs carry the same messages so your code can read them:

jobs.attrs["errors"]    # {"linkedin": "response status code 429 (blocked: use a proxy)"}

jobs.attrs["warnings"] # {"bdjobs": ["job_type internship isn't supported, ignoring it"]}

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Q: Why is Indeed giving unrelated roles? A: Indeed searches the description too.

• use - to remove words
• "" for exact match

Example of a good Indeed query

search_term='"engineering intern" software summer (java OR python OR c++) 2025 -tax -marketing'

This searches the description/title and must include software, summer, 2025, one of the languages, engineering intern exactly, no tax, no marketing.

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Q: No results when using "google"? A: Google Jobs is currently unavailable.

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Q: Received a response code 429? A: The board blocked you for sending too many requests. All of the job board sites are aggressive with blocking. We recommend:

• Wait some time between scrapes (site-dependent).
• Try using the proxies param to change your IP address.

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JobPost Schema

JobPost

├── id ├── site ├── job_url ├── job_url_direct ├── title ├── company ├── location ├── date_posted ├── job_type: fulltime, parttime, internship, contract, temporary, ... ├── salary_source: direct_data, description (parsed from posting) ├── interval: yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly ├── min_amount ├── max_amount ├── currency ├── is_remote ├── job_level ├── job_function ├── listing_type ├── emails ├── description ├── company_industry ├── company_url ├── company_logo ├── company_url_direct ├── company_addresses ├── company_num_employees ├── company_revenue ├── company_description ├── skills ├── experience_range ├── company_rating ├── company_reviews_count ├── vacancy_count