Six major ATS platforms expose public JSON job board APIs requiring no keys or proxies
Six widely used applicant tracking systems — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee, and SmartRecruiters — publish their job board data as publicly accessible JSON endpoints by design, not by accident. Companies that use these platforms automatically receive a hosted job board with an open API, making job data one of the few remaining areas of the web where scraping is both legal and officially supported. A developer documented all six live endpoints in August 2026, noting practical pitfalls such as Greenhouse omitting department data from its main jobs response and SmartRecruiters returning HTTP 200 with empty results for incorrect company identifiers. Ashby stands out as the only platform that optionally exposes published salary ranges via a query parameter, while SmartRecruiters requires manual offset-based pagination to retrieve full result sets. The article also provides utility code for normalising raw company URLs into the board slugs these APIs require, along with a fault-tolerant parsing pattern to handle unexpected or malformed response data.
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