Indeed Jobs API - Job Search and Full Posting Detail

Indeed via Scavio

Search Indeed job postings, read one posting in full, and pull an employer's profile and employee reviews. All endpoints return structured JSON.

When to trigger

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Find job postings by keyword, location, radius, job type, posting age or remote status
• List every posting in a metro, with or without a keyword
• Read one posting in full - description text and HTML, structured salary, benefits, geocoded address, applicant count, the original ATS link
• Look up an employer's profile - industry, HQ, size, revenue, CEO approval, ratings, reported salaries, open roles
• Read employee reviews with per-category ratings, pros and cons
• Build hiring-signal, talent-intelligence or labour-market pipelines

Setup

Get a free API key at scavio.dev (50 free credits to get started, no card required):

export SCAVIO_API_KEY=sk_live_your_key

Every request is a POST with a JSON body and:

Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY

Endpoints

Base URL: https://api.scavio.dev. Every Indeed endpoint costs 2 credits.

Workflow

1. Find postings: call /indeed/search with query, location, or both. A location-only search is valid - it returns every posting in that metro.
2. One posting: call /indeed/job with job_id - the 16-hex job key, or any indeed.com URL carrying jk= (/viewjob, /rc/clk, /pagead/clk).
3. The employer: call /indeed/company with the indeed.com/cmp/ slug or a full profile URL. Slugs are untidy - Tata-Consultancy-Services-(tcs) is a real one, so copy it rather than constructing it.
4. Employee reviews: call /indeed/company/reviews with the same company value.

The three closed filters, and why they matter

Indeed does not reject a filter value it does not recognise - it ignores it and serves the unfiltered set under a 200, which you still pay for.

• radius is one of 0, 5, 10, 15, 25, 35, 50, 100 miles. Ask for 7 miles and Indeed bills you for a search covering fifty. Indeed's own default is 50.
• max_age_days is one of 1, 3, 7, 14.
• min_salary filters on Indeed's own ESTIMATE for the role, not on a posted figure. Postings that publish no salary at all still match. Never tell the user a result set is "jobs paying at least $X" - it is "roles Indeed estimates at $X or more".

Pagination

• /search takes a 1-based page that steps in Indeed's ten-result offsets (page 2 starts at result 10). Read count for what the page actually returned, total_results for Indeed's headline count, and unique_results for its de-duplicated figure.
• /company/reviews takes a 1-based page at 20 reviews per page.
• /job and /company return a single object and take no paging parameter.

Parameters

Search (/search)

query or location is required.

Job (/job)

Company (/company) and company reviews (/company/reviews)

Examples

import requests

BASE = "https://api.scavio.dev"
# Your key from https://scavio.dev. Load it from your environment or secret
# store in real code - keep it out of source control.
API_KEY = "sk_your_key_here"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Keyword + location, inside a radius Indeed actually honours
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/indeed/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "data engineer", "location": "Austin, TX",
          "radius": 25, "max_age_days": 7, "job_type": "full_time"}).json()

job_key = found["data"]["jobs"][0]["job_key"]

# 2. One posting in full, including the original ATS link
job = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/indeed/job", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"job_id": job_key}).json()

print(job["data"]["title"], job["data"]["original_job_url"])

# 3. Everything hiring in a metro - no query at all
metro = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/indeed/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"location": "Austin, TX", "remote": False}).json()

# 4. The employer, then its reviews (copy the slug, do not build it)
company = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/indeed/company", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"company": job["data"]["company_slug"]}).json()

reviews = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/indeed/company/reviews", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"company": job["data"]["company_slug"], "page": 1}).json()

Response shapes

Every response uses the envelope { data, response_time, credits_used, credits_remaining }. Key data fields:

• search — query, location, url, page, total_results, unique_results, radius, count, jobs[], related_queries. A job row: pos, job_key, title, url, company, company_url, company_reviews_url, company_rating, company_review_count, company_logo, location, city, state, postal_code, country, remote, location_count, salary_text, salary_min, salary_max, salary_period, salary_currency, salary_source, job_types, shifts, schedules, benefits, remote_types, attributes, posted_at, posted_relative, is_new, urgently_hiring, hiring_event, indeed_apply, third_party_apply, expired, snippet, sponsored, featured_employer, top_rated_employer, apply_count.
• job — job_key, title, url, description, description_html, company, company_url, company_slug, company_reviews_url, company_rating, company_review_count, location, street_address, latitude, longitude, city, state, postal_code, country, remote, salary_text, salary_min, salary_max, salary_currency, salary_period, salary_source, job_types, employment_types, benefits, highlighted_attributes, posted_at, valid_through, posted_relative, applicant_count, urgently_hiring, indeed_apply, expired, source, original_job_url, phone, related_links.
• company — company, name, url, logo, website, description, industry, sectors, headquarters, founded, employee_range, revenue, ceo_name, ceo_approval_percent, rating, review_count, reviews_url, rating_categories, ratings_by_year, happiness_score, happiness_ratings, total_jobs, jobs_url, job_locations, jobs, job_titles, locations, salaries, reviews, interview_difficulty, interview_duration, faqs, questions, similar_companies.
• company/reviews — company, name, url, page, count, total_results, total_ratings, rating, rating_categories, pros, cons, topics, locations, job_titles, reviews[] (review_id, title, text, pros, cons, rating, rating_categories, job_title, location, country, current_employee, submitted_on, helpful_count, unhelpful_count, url).

{
  "data": {
    "query": "data engineer",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "page": 1,
    "radius": 25,
    "total_results": 1237,
    "unique_results": 1198,
    "count": 15,
    "jobs": [
      {
        "pos": 1,
        "job_key": "a1b2c3d4e5f60718",
        "title": "Senior Data Engineer",
        "company": "Example Corp",
        "company_rating": 3.8,
        "location": "Austin, TX",
        "salary_min": 135000,
        "salary_max": 165000,
        "salary_period": "YEARLY",
        "salary_source": "ESTIMATED",
        "job_types": ["Full-time"],
        "posted_relative": "3 days ago",
        "url": "https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a1b2c3d4e5f60718"
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 2,
  "credits_remaining": 998
}

Guardrails

• Every call is 2 credits, including one that comes back empty. Search pages and review pages are 2 credits each - cap any loop and state the spend first.
• Never send a radius or max_age_days outside the closed sets. Round the user's number to the nearest allowed value and tell them you rounded; the alternative is a billed search that quietly ignored the filter.
• When min_salary is in play, describe results as roles Indeed estimates at that level. Check salary_source on each row before quoting a figure as the employer's.
• /job is a per-posting call. Do not loop it over a whole search page - search already returns title, employer, location, salary range, job type and posting age.
• Copy company slugs from company_slug or a profile URL. Hand-built slugs 404, and that 404 is billed.
• Reviews are self-reported by employees. Attribute them and do not present aggregate sentiment as fact about the employer.
• Never fabricate job titles, employers, salaries, postings or review text. Only return what the API returned.
• Always include the posting url (or original_job_url) so the user can apply through a real link.

Failure handling

• 400 means an invalid or missing parameter - neither query nor location, or a radius / max_age_days / job_type outside its set. Fix and retry.
• 401 means the API key is invalid or missing. Check SCAVIO_API_KEY.
• 404 means the job key or company slug does not exist. It is a real billed 404 - re-derive the id from a search result rather than retrying it.
• 429 means rate or usage limit exceeded. Wait before retrying. See rate limits.
• 502 / 503 mean upstream is temporarily unavailable - wait a few seconds and retry, up to a few times.
• An empty search is usually the filters: widen radius, drop max_age_days, or remove min_salary.
• If SCAVIO_API_KEY is not set, prompt the user to export it before continuing.

SDKs

pip install scavio==0.15.0

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient()  # reads SCAVIO_API_KEY

found = client.indeed.search(query="data engineer", location="Austin, TX", radius=25)
job = client.indeed.job(found["data"]["jobs"][0]["job_key"])
company = client.indeed.company(job["data"]["company_slug"])
reviews = client.indeed.company_reviews(job["data"]["company_slug"], page=1)

npm install scavio@0.15.0

import { Scavio } from "scavio";

const client = new Scavio(); // reads SCAVIO_API_KEY
const found = await client.indeed.search({ query: "data engineer", location: "Austin, TX", radius: 25 });
const reviews = await client.indeed.companyReviews({ company: "example-corp", page: 1 });