A free API for daily open-role counts at software companies, with one day of history

Description and use

The API offers daily open role counts for several hundred software companies by scraping public job boards. It returns a single number per company per day, is free, but has limited history and potential inaccuracies due to board caps.

Problem

Need a lightweight, free way to track daily open role counts for software companies without storing sensitive data.

Outcome

The API delivers daily open role counts for a limited set of companies, with one day of history available. Accuracy is high (12/13 boards matched), but some boards cap displayed counts, leading to discrepancies.

Workflow

• 1. Request a free API key by POSTing email to /v1/key.
• 2. Receive a one-time key via email.
• 3. Use the key in the x-api-key header to query company data at /v1/company/{company}.
• 4. Optionally query changes for a specific day at /v1/changes?day=YYYY-MM-DD.
• 5. Remove a company from the dataset by POSTing to /v1/removal.

Evidence

Every day a scheduled job reads the public Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job boards of a few hundred software companies and stores one number per company: how many roles are open.

Source

I checked 13 boards by hand against the live pages: 12 matched, and one showed 50 roles on its embedded page against 72 from the API because the page caps its list.

Source

Ask for a free key with your email address. A link comes back that shows the key once. Send it as an x-api-key header.

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