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Wellfound Jobs API in Python

Startup jobs from Wellfound by role, city or remote — with salary ranges and company badges. One POST from Python with role, rows back as JSON with 24 fields, $0.001 per delivered job. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

Get an API key See the collector

A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the wellfound_jobs collector returns one dict per job, at $0.001 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "role": "software engineer",
        "location": "Austin",
        "max_results": 50,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("id"), row.get("title"), row.get("company"), row.get("company_slug"))

Python: one Wellfound startup jobs run (Software engineers in Austin), printing id, title, company, company_slug

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Wellfound startup jobs collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`role`	string	yes	Job family, e.g. "software engineer", "product manager", "data engineer". Matched against Wellfound's own role pages — a role it does not publish is reported rather than silently widened.
`location`	string	no	City, state or country, e.g. "Austin", "New York", "United States". Omit to search every location.
`remote`	boolean	no (default false)	Search Wellfound's remote listings for the role. Ignored when a location is given — Wellfound has no remote page scoped to a city; read the per-row remote field instead.
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 25)	How many jobs to deliver at most (1–300). You pay only for delivered jobs.

Response fields

24 fields per job.

Fields of each row (job)
Field	Type	What it holds
`id`	string	Wellfound job listing id — stable, and the de-duplication key.
`title`	string	Job title as the listing states it.
`company`	string, nullable	Company name.
`company_slug`	string, nullable	Company handle in Wellfound URLs.
`company_description`	string, nullable	The company's one-line pitch.
`company_size`	string, nullable	Headcount band as shown, e.g. "501-1000", "5000+".
`actively_hiring`	boolean	True when the card carries Wellfound's "Actively Hiring" marker.
`salary`	string, nullable	Compensation exactly as posted, e.g. "$150k – $215k" or "$85k – $105k • No equity". Null when the listing states none.
`location`	string, nullable	Primary location, e.g. "Austin", "Everywhere".
`extra_locations`	integer, nullable	Additional locations the listing accepts, from its "+N" chip. Null when it shows none.
`workplace`	string, nullable	Workplace model as labelled: "In office", "Remote", "Remote only", "Onsite or remote". Null when unlabelled.
`remote`	boolean	True when the workplace model allows remote work.
`job_type`	string, nullable	Employment type, e.g. "Full-time".
`experience`	string, nullable	Required experience as shown, e.g. "5 years of exp". Null when unstated.
`posted`	string, nullable	Posting age as shown, e.g. "yesterday", "3 weeks ago".
`tags`	string[]	Company badges the card renders, e.g. "B2B", "Scale Stage", "Top Investors".
`tags_hidden`	integer, nullable	Badges collapsed behind the card's "+N" chip. Null when none were collapsed.
`url`	string	Listing URL on wellfound.com.
`company_url`	string, nullable	Company profile URL on wellfound.com.
`salary_min`	number, nullable	Lower end of the salary range as a number (120000 for "$120k").
`salary_max`	number, nullable	Upper end of the salary range as a number.
`salary_currency`	string, nullable	Currency of the salary (USD, EUR, GBP, INR…).
`equity_min`	number, nullable	Lower end of the equity range, in percent (0.01 for "0.01%").
`equity_max`	number, nullable	Upper end of the equity range, in percent.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"role":"software engineer","location":"Austin","max_results":50}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.001 per delivered job.

What Wellfound startup jobs rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.001
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Up to 300 jobs per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,000 jobs. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Wellfound startup jobs API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 jobs of this collector at $0.001 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 300 jobs per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.001 per delivered job, no subscription.

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