Job scraping · Residential · Mobile
Collect public job postings from job boards and career sites
Job scraping proxies from ProxyEmpire give your job scraper a residential or 4G mobile IP per request, in the country or city you choose. Scrape job postings, titles, salaries, locations and skills from public job boards and company career pages as local job seekers see them, and manage your proxies through the ProxyEmpire API.
Residential from $1.50/GB, mobile from $2.00/GB. No concurrent session limit, and unused bandwidth rolls over.
Job scraper API: coming soon. ProxyEmpire doesn’t sell a ready-made job scraper or scraping API yet. Today, we provide the proxies and proxy management API that job scrapers run on. Contact us to hear when our Scraping API launches.
What is job scraping?
Public job data, collected at scale
Job scraping is collecting publicly available job postings from job boards, aggregators and company career pages, such as job titles, employers, locations, salaries, skills and posting dates, with a job scraper instead of by hand. Job scraping proxies are the IP addresses that scraper sends its requests through, so each request comes from a different residential or mobile IP in the market you choose. ProxyEmpire’s network has residential IPs in 179 countries and territories and 4G mobile IPs in 174.
Scraping job postings at scale runs into three limits: job boards cap how many requests one IP can make, challenge server IPs quickly, and show different jobs, salaries and currencies by location. A large pool of residential IPs spreads the load, and country, city and ZIP targeting shows you each local job market the way candidates there see it.
Official job data APIs to check first
Use an API where one covers what you need
Some job data comes with an official, free API, and it is usually more reliable than scraping the same pages. Check these before you build a job scraper:
| Source | What it covers | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse Job Board API | Published jobs on career sites run on Greenhouse | Public, no authentication for reading jobs |
| Lever Postings API | Published jobs on career sites run on Lever | Public, no authentication for reading jobs |
| USAJOBS API | US federal government jobs | Free API key |
| Adzuna API | Aggregated job listings and salary data in its markets | Free developer key, usage limits |
| LinkedIn Job Posting API | Posting and syncing jobs to LinkedIn | Approved partners only, not for job search |
Large job boards such as Indeed and LinkedIn don’t offer a public job search API today. For those, and for career pages without a public feed, teams collect the public pages with a job scraper and residential proxies.
Sources: Greenhouse Job Board API and Lever Postings API documentation, developer.usajobs.gov, developer.adzuna.com and LinkedIn’s Job Posting API overview on Microsoft Learn, read 28 September 2026.
What teams use job scraping proxies for
Public job data for research, recruiting and sales
Labour market research
Track job volumes, titles and locations over time to see which roles and regions are growing.
Salary benchmarking
Collect advertised salary ranges by role, seniority and city to price your own offers.
Skills demand analysis
Count the skills, tools and certifications employers ask for, market by market.
Competitor hiring signals
Follow which teams competitors are hiring for, as an early sign of new products and markets.
Staffing & sales prospecting
Find companies that are hiring for the roles you place or the problems your product solves.
HR tech & job search tools
Feed job alerts, analytics dashboards and matching tools with fresh public postings, under each source’s terms.
Best proxies for job scraping: which type to choose
Residential first, with city-level targeting
Rotating residential
Real home broadband IPs that rotate on every request. The standard choice for job boards and career sites, with city, ZIP and ISP targeting for local job searches.
- Country, region, city, ZIP, ISP and ASN targeting
- New IP per request, sticky or custom session length
- OS fingerprint targeting at no extra charge
- Residential IPs in 179 countries and territories
Rotating mobile (4G)
IPs on real mobile carrier networks, shared by many ordinary phone users. The most trusted IP type, for job apps and the pages that challenge residential traffic.
- Country, region, city, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting
- Rotate on demand or keep a sticky session
- OS fingerprint targeting at no extra charge
- Mobile IPs in 174 countries and territories
Rotating datacenter
Low-cost server IPs. Large job boards challenge them quickly, so they suit only lightly protected sites, such as small company career pages.
- Datacenter IPs in 62 countries
- New IP per request or sticky sessions
- Country-level targeting
- The lowest cost per GB
Manage it all by code: the ProxyEmpire API generates proxy lists with location targeting, rotates sessions and reports bandwidth. See the web scraping hub and the API documentation.
How to scrape job postings responsibly and reliably
Five habits for clean job data
Use official feeds first. Where a job board API or career-site feed covers what you need, use it. Scrape only the public pages it doesn’t cover.
Collect job facts, not people. Titles, employers, locations, salaries and skills are job data. Recruiter names and contact details are personal data, so leave them out.
Target the market you study. Job boards rank and show jobs by location. Set the proxy’s country, city or ZIP code to the area you are researching.
Pace your requests. Spread collection over time, cache postings you already have and back off on errors. Job boards react fast to bursts.
Don’t republish postings wholesale. Job descriptions belong to the employer or the board. Link to the original posting and keep your own fields and analysis.
Follow each site’s terms and the privacy laws that apply to you, such as the GDPR and the CCPA. ProxyEmpire doesn’t support scraping private data, candidate profiles behind logins, spam or any illegal activity.
Set up job scraping proxies in three steps
From sign-up to your first request in minutes
- Open the dashboardStart the $1.97 trial, then choose rotating residential or mobile, or create an API token.
- Generate your proxiesPick the country, city or ZIP code, rotation and output format, in the dashboard or through the API.
- Plug them into your job scraperAdd the proxies to your job scraper, headless browser or data pipeline over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5.
Job scraping proxy pricing
Rotating residential — all targeting included
Try the network for $1.97, pay as you go from a single GB at $3.50, or take a larger plan for as little as $1.50/GB. Job postings are mostly text, so a gigabyte goes a long way when you skip images and scripts. Plans are billed in US dollars (USD), targeting costs nothing extra, and unused bandwidth rolls over.
| Plan | Data | Price per GB | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | 1 GB | $3.50 | Buy | |
| Starter | 7 GB | $20 | Buy | |
| Hobby | 28 GB | $75 | Buy | |
| Startup | 60 GB | $150 | Buy | |
| Business | 135 GB | $300 | Buy | |
| Company — best value | 315 GB | $625 | Buy | |
| Corporation | 500 GB | $875 | Buy | |
| Enterprise | 1,000 GB | $1,500 | Buy | |
| Custom | 5 TB+ | From $0.75 | — | Contact us |
Discounted prices use code EMPIRE50 (limited time, rotating residential and mobile only). Rotating mobile starts at $4.50 for 1 GB and goes down to $2.00/GB on larger plans. Static residential costs $3.50 for a single IP, down to $2.00 per IP a month on larger bundles. All mobile, static and datacenter plans are on the full pricing page.
Residential, mobile or datacenter: the right proxy for the job
Match the proxy to the target
| Rotating residential | Rotating mobile | Rotating datacenter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP source | Real home broadband | 4G mobile carrier networks | Server data centres |
| Block rate | Low on protected sites | Lowest | Higher on protected sites |
| Rotation | Per request, sticky or custom | On demand or sticky | Per request or sticky |
| Targeting | Country to ZIP, ISP, ASN | Country to ZIP, carrier, ASN | Country (62 countries) |
| Best for | Job boards and aggregators | Job apps, heavily protected boards | Small company career pages |
| Price from | $1.50/GB | $2.00/GB | $0.35/GB |
Job scraping FAQ
Straight answers
Is there a ProxyEmpire job scraper API?
Not yet. Our Scraping API is coming soon. Today, ProxyEmpire provides job scraping proxies and a proxy management API for running your own job scraper. Contact us to hear when the API launches.
What is a job scraper?
A job scraper, or job posting scraper, is a program that collects public job postings from job boards and career sites, such as titles, employers, locations, salaries and skills. Proxies give it many residential or mobile IPs, so its requests look like ordinary job seekers in the locations you choose.
Is job scraping legal?
Collecting publicly available job facts is legal in many countries, but job boards set their own terms, job descriptions are usually protected by copyright, and recruiter and candidate details are personal data under laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA. Check with your legal adviser for your use case.
Do Indeed or LinkedIn have a job search API?
Not a public one. LinkedIn’s Job Posting API is for approved partners that post and sync jobs, and Indeed doesn’t offer a public job search API. Their public job pages are what job scrapers collect.
Can I get job postings from company career pages?
Yes. Many career sites run on applicant tracking systems such as Greenhouse or Lever, which publish job board APIs you can read without authentication. For other career pages, collect the public pages with a job scraper.
What are the best proxies for job scraping?
Rotating residential proxies for most job boards, with city or ZIP targeting for local searches. 4G mobile proxies suit job apps and heavily protected boards, and datacenter proxies only small career sites.
Can I scrape job postings for a specific city?
Yes. Rotating residential and mobile proxies can be targeted by country, region, city and ZIP code, so you see the jobs, salaries and search results candidates in that area get.
How much do job scraping proxies cost?
Rotating residential starts at $3.50 for 1 GB and goes down to $1.50/GB, and 4G mobile goes down to $2.00/GB. A $1.97 trial lets you test first.
Which protocols and tools are supported?
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. They work with headless browsers, scraping frameworks, data pipelines and any HTTP client, with no concurrent session limit.
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