# 10 things to build with Indeed data.

> Ideas to build with public Indeed data: hiring-signal lead lists, salary benchmarks, job alert agents and skills reports, mapped to the operations used.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/ideas/indeed-data · Updated 2026-10-21

Indeed data is good for reading who is hiring, for what, where and at what pay, across 23 countries. Each idea below names the operations it calls, so you can quote it and run it.

- Operations: 2
- Price: from $0.000045 per record
- Free to start: $0.10

## The ideas

- **[A hiring-signal lead list](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For vendors whose product fits a growing team. It searches new postings for a role and lists the employers posting them. Uses search.
- **[A salary benchmark](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For HR teams and job seekers. It reads postings for a role in a place and summarises the salaries they list. Uses search.
- **[A job alert agent](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For job seekers. It runs a search for postings from the last day, newest first, and sends the matches each morning. Uses search.
- **[A skills demand report](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For training providers and students. It reads postings for a role and counts the skills they ask for. Uses search.
- **[A competitor hiring tracker](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For strategy teams. It searches by a competitor's name each week to see which roles they open. Uses search.
- **[A remote job board](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For niche job sites. It searches remote postings for a field in chosen countries and lists them. Uses search.
- **[A labour market dataset](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For researchers and journalists. It keeps postings by role and country in a table for later study. Uses search.
- **[A posting detail refresher](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/job-details-api).** For job aggregators. It re-reads full postings by job key to keep stored details current. Uses jobs.
- **[A staffing agency lead feed](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For staffing firms. It searches contract and temporary postings and lists the employers behind them. Uses search.
- **[A career coach assistant](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api).** For career coaches and their clients. An agent reads postings for a target role and lists the common requirements. Uses search and jobs.

## Each idea and what it calls

| Idea | Operations | One call returns | Main operation price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A hiring-signal lead list | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A salary benchmark | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A job alert agent | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A skills demand report | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A competitor hiring tracker | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A remote job board | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A labour market dataset | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A posting detail refresher | jobs | Up to 10 postings | jobs: $0.000045 per record |
| A staffing agency lead feed | search | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |
| A career coach assistant | search, jobs | Up to 100 postings | search: $0.000045 per record |

## How to start

1. Sign up. An agent registers itself with one POST and starts with $0.10 of free credit; a person can sign up on the site instead.
2. Quote the first call for free: send the search request with "estimateOnly": true and read the price before anything is spent.
3. Run the same call with "maxUsd" set as a ceiling, and keep the rows it returns.
4. Schedule it: repeat the call daily or weekly and compare each run with the last one you kept.

## Operations used

- [Indeed Jobs API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/jobs-api): $0.000045 per record. Search Indeed the way a seeker would.
- [Indeed Job Details API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/indeed/job-details-api): $0.000045 per record. Full postings for up to ten Indeed job keys or job URLs.

## Questions

### Which countries can I search?

US, GB, CA, AU, IN, DE, FR, JP, BR, MX, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SG, HK, IE, NZ, AR, CL and CO.

### Do I need a Indeed account to build these?

No. The API reads public data and never asks for your login, password or cookie.

### What does a run cost?

Indeed records are priced from $0.000045 per record. A call can carry a minimum, so send it first with "estimateOnly": true. The quote is free and is the most the call can cost.

### Can an AI agent build and run these on its own?

Yes. It signs itself up with one call and gets $0.10 free, quotes each call before it spends, and pays from a prepaid balance. "maxUsd" caps every call, and only a person can add money.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md