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Shine data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract job postings, company intelligence, skill requirements, and salary brackets from Shine. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Jobs extracted
312K /day
Company updates
18.4K /24h
Stale jobs flagged
42K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from shine.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 shine.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

job_idtitlecompany_namelocationexperience_reqsalary_rangeskillsposted_datedescriptionwork_modelemployment_type
job_postings
● 200 OK
"job_id": "SH928174",
"title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
"company_name": "TechCorp India",
"location": "Bengaluru",
"experience_req": "5-8 Years",
"salary_range": "18-25 LPA",
"posted_date": "2026-05-10",
"work_model": "Hybrid"
# job_idtitlecompany_namelocationexperience_reqsalary_range
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Complete list of extractable fields for Company Profiles objects from shine.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

company_idnameindustryemployee_counthq_locationwebsiteaboutactive_jobs_countratingfounded_year
company_profiles
● 200 OK
"company_id": "C48291",
"name": "TechCorp India",
"industry": "IT Services",
"employee_count": "1000-5000",
"hq_location": "Mumbai",
"active_jobs_count": 42,
"rating": 4.1,
"founded_year": 2012
# company_idnameindustryemployee_counthq_locationwebsite
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from shine.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordlocation_filterpositionjob_idtitlecompany_nameposted_agois_promotedscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "Python Developer",
"location_filter": "Delhi NCR",
"position": 3,
"job_id": "SH883120",
"is_promoted": true,
"posted_ago": "2 days ago",
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z"
# keywordlocation_filterpositionjob_idtitlecompany_name
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Complete list of extractable fields for Skill & Salary Data objects from shine.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

job_idprimary_skillssecondary_skillsmin_salarymax_salarycurrencyexperience_minexperience_maxeducation_req
skill_& salary data
● 200 OK
"job_id": "SH928174",
"primary_skills": "['Python', 'Django', 'PostgreSQL']",
"secondary_skills": "['AWS', 'Docker']",
"min_salary": 1800000,
"max_salary": 2500000,
"currency": "INR",
"experience_min": 5,
"experience_max": 8
# job_idprimary_skillssecondary_skillsmin_salarymax_salarycurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Recruiter Insights objects from shine.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

recruiter_idnamedesignationcompany_nameactive_postingshiring_forlocationprofile_urllast_active
recruiter_insights
● 200 OK
"recruiter_id": "R99210",
"name": "Priya Sharma",
"designation": "Technical Sourcer",
"company_name": "TechCorp India",
"active_postings": 14,
"location": "Bengaluru",
"last_active": "2026-05-11",
"hiring_for": "['Engineering', 'Product']"
# recruiter_idnamedesignationcompany_nameactive_postingshiring_for
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Capabilities

Complete job market visibility from Shine

Our Shine scraper navigates dynamic search filters, pagination limits, and bot detection to extract structured employment data with JavaScript rendering and session management built in.

Full Job Description Extraction

Title, responsibilities, requirements, and raw HTML descriptions scraped at the job ID level.

Salary Bracket Normalisation

Extract and parse min/max salary ranges, converting LPA or Thousands into standard numeric formats.

Skill Tag Parsing

Capture primary and secondary skill requirements exactly as tagged by the recruiter.

Company Intelligence

Extract hiring volume, industry classification, and company descriptions across all active employer profiles.

Search Pagination Bypass

Navigate deep search results past standard UI limits using backend API endpoints and parameter manipulation.

Promoted Listing Detection

Identify organic vs sponsored job placements to track employer advertising spend.

Location & Remote Tracking

Categorise roles by specific city, state, or work-from-home status.

Recruiter Profile Data

Extract hiring manager names, designations, and active posting counts where public.

Stale Job Filtering

Track posting dates and application deadlines to flag or filter inactive listings.

Scheduled Updates

Run daily or weekly pipelines to track new openings and closed roles with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From search parameters to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target keywords, locations, industries, or company names. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

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

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, salary outlier detection, and sample jobs before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Shine pipeline handles the hard parts

Job boards aggressively protect their listings. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction without triggering rate limits or IP bans.

pipeline-monitor · shine.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

Shine uses standard WAF and rate limiting. We route requests through Indian residential IPs with rotated TLS fingerprints to blend with regular job seeker traffic.

Dynamic content
Next.js hydration extraction

Shine relies heavily on client-side rendering. We intercept the backend API calls and hydrate the Next.js state directly, bypassing fragile DOM parsing for core job data.

Pagination limits
Parameter manipulation

The UI restricts users to a limited number of search result pages. We manipulate search parameters, date filters, and location bounds to extract the full corpus without hitting pagination walls.

Schema stability
Fallback selector chains

Job descriptions vary wildly depending on the recruiter's formatting. We use multiple fallback chains and regex patterns to reliably extract salary and skill data from unstructured text blocks.

Change detection
Hash-based diffing

To track hiring velocity, we maintain a hash index of active jobs. Subsequent runs only push new listings or status changes, reducing downstream compute costs.

Applications

Who uses Shine data and how

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

01
Labour Market Analytics

Economic researchers and government bodies track hiring trends, skill demand, and salary inflation across specific Indian states and industries.

02
Competitor Intelligence

Enterprises monitor rival hiring velocity to identify strategic shifts, new department formations, or geographic expansion plans.

03
EdTech Curriculum Development

Bootcamps and universities analyse skill frequency in job postings to align their training programs with current market demand.

04
Lead Generation for B2B

Recruitment agencies and HR software vendors identify companies actively hiring to target their sales outreach.

05
Salary Benchmarking

HR departments aggregate compensation data across roles and cities to ensure their offers remain competitive in the current market.

06
Investment Research

Private equity firms use job posting volume as a proxy for company growth and financial health during due diligence.

Why DataFlirt

"Shine holds critical signals about the Indian labour market, but extracting structured intelligence from unstructured job descriptions requires dedicated infrastructure."

Building a reliable job board scraper means dealing with inconsistent formatting, aggressive rate limits, and deep pagination walls. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity, delivering clean, normalised employment data so your team can focus on analysis rather than proxy rotation.

Technical Spec

Shine scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions for dynamic search filters and Next.js hydration
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from IN pools rotated per request
Supported
Salary normalisation
Regex extraction of LPA and standard numeric ranges
Supported
Skill tag extraction
Primary and secondary skills captured as JSON arrays
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit new or closed jobs since last run
Supported
Promoted job detection
Distinguishes organic vs sponsored placements
Supported
Recruiter contact details
Publicly visible recruiter names and profile URLs
Supported
Resume database access
Gated candidate resumes and contact details requiring employer login
Partial
Direct application submission
Automated job application workflows
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Shine 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 retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and API interception for Next.js payloads.

Indian Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies specifically located in India to ensure high success rates and low latency against regional WAF rules.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

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

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays for skill tags
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time alerting
API
REST endpoints for querying recent job hashes
XLS
Excel compatible format for HR teams
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Shine legal?

Scraping publicly available job postings is generally permissible under Indian law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated job and company data. We do not extract candidate resumes or bypass employer login walls.

How do you handle Shine's WAF and rate limiting?

We use Indian residential ISP proxies and realistic request timing. We also intercept backend API calls directly to minimize the number of requests required per job posting.

Can you extract salary data if it is hidden in the description?

Yes. When standard salary fields are empty, we use regex patterns to parse the raw HTML description for common Indian salary formats like LPA or CTC.

How fresh is the job data?

We can configure pipelines to run hourly for specific keywords or companies. Full category refreshes typically run on a daily or weekly cadence depending on volume.

Can you track when a job is closed or removed?

Yes. By maintaining a hash index of active jobs, we can flag listings that disappear from search results or return 404s, emitting a closed status in the diff payload.

Do you extract candidate profiles or resumes?

No. Candidate profiles and resumes are gated behind employer login walls and contain PII. We strictly scrape public job postings and company intelligence.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined set of target companies or search keywords with weekly delivery. Contact us for a scoped quote based on your exact data volume.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=shine.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 dump of tech jobs in Bengaluru or a continuous feed of competitor hiring activity, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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