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RUN * 112 active pipelines * careerbuilder.com live

Careerbuilder data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract job listings, company profiles, salary estimates, and skill requirements from Careerbuilder. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Jobs extracted
312K /day
Salary updates
84K /24h
Company profiles
12K /run
Active pipelines
112
Uptime
99.95%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from careerbuilder.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Job Postings objects from careerbuilder.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

job_idtitlecompany_namelocationemployment_typeremote_flagsalary_minsalary_maxcurrencyposted_datedescriptionapply_url
job_postings
● 200 OK
"job_id": "J3V1D86H8Z8N9Y2P",
"title": "Senior Data Engineer",
"company_name": "TechLogix Solutions",
"location": "Chicago, IL",
"remote_flag": true,
"salary_min": 130000,
"salary_max": 160000,
"posted_date": "2026-05-10T08:30:00Z"
# job_idtitlecompany_namelocationemployment_typeremote_flag
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Complete list of extractable fields for Company Profiles objects from careerbuilder.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

company_idnameindustrycompany_sizewebsite_urlheadquartersdescriptionlogo_urlactive_jobs_countfounded_year
company_profiles
● 200 OK
"company_id": "C8B9X2M4Q1L7",
"name": "TechLogix Solutions",
"industry": "Information Technology",
"company_size": "501 to 1000",
"headquarters": "Chicago, IL",
"active_jobs_count": 42,
"founded_year": 2012
# company_idnameindustrycompany_sizewebsite_urlheadquarters
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Complete list of extractable fields for Salary Data objects from careerbuilder.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

job_titlelocationcompany_namebase_salarybonustotal_compensationcurrencypay_perioddata_sourceconfidence_score
salary_data
● 200 OK
"job_title": "Senior Data Engineer",
"location": "Chicago, IL",
"base_salary": 145000,
"bonus": 15000,
"total_compensation": 160000,
"currency": "USD",
"pay_period": "ANNUAL",
"confidence_score": 0.88
# job_titlelocationcompany_namebase_salarybonustotal_compensation
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Complete list of extractable fields for Skill Requirements objects from careerbuilder.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

job_idskill_namerequired_flagexperience_yearscategorycertification_neededprioritycontext_snippet
skill_requirements
● 200 OK
"job_id": "J3V1D86H8Z8N9Y2P",
"skill_name": "Apache Airflow",
"required_flag": true,
"experience_years": 3,
"category": "Orchestration",
"certification_needed": false,
"priority": "HIGH"
# job_idskill_namerequired_flagexperience_yearscategorycertification_needed
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from careerbuilder.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordlocation_querypositionjob_idtitlecompany_namesnippetposted_time_agosponsored_flagscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "data engineer",
"location_query": "Chicago, IL",
"position": 1,
"job_id": "J3V1D86H8Z8N9Y2P",
"sponsored_flag": false,
"posted_time_ago": "2 hours ago",
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:14:33Z"
# keywordlocation_querypositionjob_idtitlecompany_name
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Capabilities

Targeted job market extraction

Our Careerbuilder scraper extracts structured job details, employer profiles, and salary estimates while handling pagination, dynamic content loading, and bot protection mechanisms.

Full Job Listing Extraction

Title, description, location, employment type, and salary bands extracted at the individual job posting level.

Company Profile Aggregation

Capture employer details including industry category, headcount estimates, headquarters location, and active job counts.

Salary Estimate Parsing

Extract posted salary ranges, hourly rates, and compensation types directly from search results and job details.

Skill & Certification Mapping

Parse unstructured job descriptions to isolate specific technical skills, required certifications, and experience levels.

Remote & Hybrid Work Flags

Identify workplace policies accurately by checking metadata and parsing the job description text for remote indicators.

SERP Position Tracking

Track organic versus sponsored job placements for specific keywords and locations over time.

Cross-Regional Support

Scrape jobs across multiple city and state combinations using a unified location configuration.

Daily Delta Updates

Run continuous pipelines that detect new job postings and flag closed or expired listings automatically.

ATS Redirect Resolution

Follow outbound application links to identify the underlying Applicant Tracking System used by the employer.

// engagement pipeline

From search parameters to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide keywords, location lists, or specific company names. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for careerbuilder.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and location parsing accuracy validation before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

Handling job board scraping complexity

Job boards deploy strict rate limits and dynamic rendering. Here is how we maintain stable extraction pipelines.

pipeline-monitor · careerbuilder.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint spoofing

Careerbuilder uses advanced bot detection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management trained on human browsing patterns.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Job search results and pagination rely heavily on JavaScript. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy-loading and capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors for unstructured text

Job descriptions vary wildly by employer. Our extraction logic uses fallback chains and regex pattern matching to reliably isolate salaries, skills, and remote work policies from free-text fields.

Change detection
Track new and expired listings

We maintain a hash index of active job IDs. Subsequent runs identify newly posted jobs and flag missing IDs as closed listings, reducing downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health checks

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes or sudden drops in job counts to ensure data continuity.

Applications

Who uses Careerbuilder data

Teams across industries use careerbuilder.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Labour Market Analytics

Economists and research firms track hiring volume, salary trends, and skill demand across specific regions and industries.

02
Competitor Hiring Intelligence

Corporate strategy teams monitor competitor job postings to infer strategic shifts, new product developments, or expansion plans.

03
Salary Benchmarking

HR departments aggregate compensation data to ensure their internal salary bands remain competitive in local markets.

04
Job Board Aggregation

Niche job boards and career portals backfill their platforms with targeted listings filtered by specific industries or remote status.

05
Skill Gap Analysis

EdTech companies analyse required skills in emerging job categories to design relevant curriculum and certification programs.

06
Lead Generation for B2B

Sales teams identify companies actively hiring for specific roles to time their outreach for software or recruitment services.

Why DataFlirt

"Careerbuilder holds a massive repository of active hiring intent and salary benchmarking data, but accessing it systematically requires a dedicated pipeline."

Extracting job market data at volume requires navigating anti-bot protections, standardising unstructured job descriptions, and mapping complex location hierarchies. DataFlirt manages the extraction infrastructure so your data science team can focus on labour market analysis rather than proxy rotation.

Technical Spec

Careerbuilder scraper technical specifications

Everything supported by our careerbuilder.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for search pagination and dynamic job loads
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated solver integration for bot challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs to prevent rate limiting
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Identify new postings and flag closed jobs automatically
Supported
ATS URL resolution
Follow application links to capture the final destination URL
Supported
Historical job tracking
Maintain records of job duration from posting to removal
Supported
Candidate resumes
Access to the resume database requires an authenticated employer account
Partial
Saved job lists
Accessing a user's saved jobs or application history requires user login credentials
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required to prevent IP bans.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state is stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested format
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time processing
API
REST endpoint for querying extracted data
PostgreSQL
Direct database insertion
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About careerbuilder.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Careerbuilder legal?

Scraping publicly available job postings is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated job and company data. We do not extract personal candidate data or circumvent employer authentication walls.

How do you handle bot protections?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions, and request timing modelled on human behaviour to maintain stable access and bypass rate limits.

Can you track jobs across different regions?

Yes. We configure pipelines to iterate through specific city, state, or postal code lists to ensure comprehensive geographic coverage.

How fresh is the data?

Pipelines can be configured for daily or sub-daily runs to capture new job postings quickly and accurately reflect the current active market.

Do you track when a job is closed?

Yes. By maintaining an index of active job IDs, we can emit a status update when a previously active job no longer appears in search results or returns a closed status page.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 500 job listings based on your target keywords and locations to validate schema fit before contracting.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=careerbuilder.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off export of industry salaries or a continuous feed of competitor job postings, we build and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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