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Wellfound Jobs API

A startup jobs API for Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent). Search by role, location, and remote status, and get the full job description, salary and equity parsed into numbers, and the hiring startup's signals including Y Combinator backing, top investors, and funding stage. Pay per job, MCP-ready for Claude and AI agents.

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LAST MODIFIED2026-08-18

PUBLISHED2026-08

Input parameters

PARAMETER	TYPE	REQ	DEFAULT	DESCRIPTION
roles	string[]	no	—	Role categories to search. Wellfound slugs such as software-engineer, or plain words that are mapped for you ('software' becomes software-engineer).
locations	string[]	no	—	Location slugs such as san-francisco, new-york, london, india.
remoteOnly	boolean	no	False	Return only jobs flagged as remote.
keyword	string	no	—	Narrow results to jobs containing this phrase across title, description, company and location.
minSalary	integer	no	—	Drop jobs whose maximum salary is below this, in USD per year.
minEquity	integer	no	—	Drop jobs whose maximum equity grant is below this percent.
ycOnly	boolean	no	False	Keep only jobs at Y Combinator-backed startups.
topInvestorsOnly	boolean	no	False	Keep only startups flagged as backed by top investors.
companyStage	string	no	—	Keep only companies at this funding stage, for example early_stage.
includeDescription	boolean	no	True	Include the full markdown job description in each row.
fetchJobDetails	boolean	no	False	Fetch each job's detail page for benefits, industry, company website, geo and structured salary.
maxItems	integer	no	50	Maximum number of jobs to return across all searches.

Worked examples

Basic — one role, a small cheap run

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "maxItems": 25
}

Remote startup jobs — remote roles above a pay floor

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "minSalary": 150000
}

YC startup jobs — Y Combinator companies only

{
  "roles": ["software-engineer"],
  "ycOnly": true
}

Coverage

startup signals — Y Combinator top investors actively hiring funding stage

job type — full-time part-time contract internship

Tasks

Saved runs with the inputs already filled in — each one a standalone page and a working configuration example.

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Code

curl

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/johnvc~wellfound-jobs-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"roles": ["software-engineer"], "maxItems": 25}'

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("johnvc/wellfound-jobs-api").call(
    run_input={'roles': ['software-engineer'], 'maxItems': 25}
)
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)