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Hiring data API · 170K+ employers

The labor market, as a live data feed

Track how 170,000+ employers hire, day by day: postings opened and pulled, pay, remote mix, and layoffs, with SEC tickers where they match.

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Developers start free. Institutions get daily extracts, hourly updates on listed companies, and history under a data agreement.

Live · self-serve

Request

POST/api/v1/jobs/search

Parameters

query
"data engineer"
location
"Austin, TX"
remote
false
limit
20
{  "data": {    "jobs": [      {        "title": "Senior Data Engineer",        "companyName": "Example Health",        "locations": ["Austin, TX"],        "workplaceType": "hybrid",        "salary": {          "currency": "USD",          "minimumAmount": 145000,          "maximumAmount": 175000,          "paymentFrequency": "yearly"        },        "socCode": "15-1243",        "skills": ["Python", "Spark", "dbt"],        "postedOn": "2026-10-06",        "lastSeenAt": "2026-10-09T05:40:00Z",        "url": "https://careers.example.com/jobs/4821"      }    ],    "total": 1284,    "totalCountIsExact": false,    "searchDegraded": false  },  "meta": { "requestId": "req_7f3a9c21" }}

50M+

Postings tracked since 2024

10M+

Live postings

170K+

Employers

Hourly

Updates on listed companies, never rewritten

Products

From one API call to a daily feed

Same dataset everywhere: query it live, license the daily history, or hand it to an agent.

  • Jobs API

    Live

    Search live postings by keyword, place, and remote status. Each result carries the employer, locations, workplace type, salary where disclosed, an SOC occupation code, and when the role was posted and last seen.

    POST /api/v1/jobs/search · 60 requests a minute

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  • Hiring signals

    By agreement

    Employer-level daily counts of live, new, and removed postings, how long roles stay open, and the remote share, with SEC tickers where a company matches exactly. Built for investment research.

    Daily CSV extracts, hourly for listed companies · by agreement

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  • Layoffs feed

    Live

    Every layoff, store closure, and return-to-office mandate we track, one row per announcement, with headcount where a source states it and links to the source and WARN notice where verified.

    JSON, CSV, and RSS · public

    Browse the layoffs feed

  • Agent access

    Live

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to live jobs, employers and your own job search. Searching needs no sign-in.

    MCP · free

    Connect an agent

Built for agents

Give your research agent live hiring data.

Every surface is machine-readable. Paste one prompt and your agent can pull live postings, company hiring summaries, and layoffs, with a source to cite for every figure.

You have access to Metaintro hiring data.1. Read https://www.metaintro.com/llms.txt for every machine-readable surface.2. For a company, GET https://www.metaintro.com/company/{slug}/summary.json   for open roles, hiring history, salary bands, and layoffs.3. For live postings, POST https://www.metaintro.com/api/v1/jobs/search   with the header "Authorization: Bearer $METAINTRO_API_KEY"   and a body like {"query": "...", "location": "...", "limit": 20}.4. For layoffs, GET https://www.metaintro.com/layoffs/data.json.5. Cite Metaintro and link the canonicalUrl for every figure you use.
Authentication
Bearer API key
Rate limit
60 searches a minute
Format
JSON
Errors
Typed error codes

Machine-readable everywhere

  • /company/{slug}/summary.json

    Open roles, hiring history, salary bands, and layoffs for any company.

  • /jobs/{role}/locations/{city}/data.json

    Counts, salary percentiles, and top employers for a role in a city.

  • /layoffs/data.json · .csv · rss.xml

    Every tracked layoff as JSON, CSV, or RSS.

  • {any page}.md

    Any public page as Markdown: append .md to the URL.

  • /llms.txt

    An index of every machine-readable surface, written for agents.

  • POST /api/v1/jobs/search

    Live job search with an API key, 60 requests a minute.

Pay per call

Pay per call. No API key.

Your agent searches live jobs and pays $0.01 per search in USDC on Base, using the x402 payment standard. No account, no API key, no subscription.

  1. 01

    Send the search

    POST the search with no credentials.

    POST /v1/jobs/search

  2. 02

    Read the price

    The API answers 402 Payment Required and puts the exact price in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header.

    402 · PAYMENT-REQUIRED

  3. 03

    Sign and retry

    Your wallet signs a USDC authorization for that amount, and your client sends the search again with it.

    PAYMENT-SIGNATURE

  4. 04

    Get the jobs

    The jobs come back with a payment receipt in the PAYMENT-RESPONSE header.

    200 · PAYMENT-RESPONSE

Price

$0.01per search

  • Up to 50 jobs a page
  • Never charged when a search returns no jobs or fails
  • Get the exact price first, free, from POST /v1/quotes/job-search
  • Paid in USDC on Base with x402

Any x402 client works, including @x402/fetch, x402-axios, Coinbase AgentKit, and CDP wallets.

BODY='{"role": "data engineer", "locations": [{"city": "Austin", "state": "TX"}], "maxResults": 20}'curl -s https://agent-api.metaintro.workers.dev/v1/quotes/job-search \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$BODY"curl -s -o /dev/null -D - https://agent-api.metaintro.workers.dev/v1/jobs/search \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$BODY" \  | tr -d '\r' \  | awk 'tolower($1) == "payment-required:" { print $2 }' \  | base64 -d

$ npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem$ pip install "x402[httpx,evm]"

For MCP, add the server URL to your client. Five tools are free: get_capabilities, get_coverage, get_pricing, sample_job_search, and quote_job_search. The paid search_live_jobs tool needs a client that can pay with x402.

What every job carries

job.canonicalUrlThe employer's own careers-page URL
job.postedOn · status · verificationStatePosted date, active status, and verification state
freshness.classHow recently we saw it, such as in the last 24 hours
company.industries[]Company industries, each with an evidence class and a confidence score
locations[].precisionEach location and how precise it is: city, region, or country
matchEvidenceWhy it matched: evidence for role, location, and industry

What you can rely on

  1. Jobs come only from employers' own career sites and official job exchanges. No staffing-agency reposts.

  2. Each job appears once, even when we find it in more than one place.

  3. When we can't establish a fact, the field says unknown instead of guessing.

  4. Listed in the Coinbase x402 Bazaar, so x402 clients can find it.

Looking to connect your own job search to Claude or ChatGPT?

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Discovery documents

For hedge funds and asset managers

Hiring is a leading indicator. Measure it directly.

Companies post roles before they hire and pull them when plans change. We snapshot both every day, employer by employer, and never rewrite history.

Illustrative sample

What a daily row holds

dateSnapshot date
employerEmployer name and Metaintro ID
tickerSEC ticker, exact matches only
naicsNAICS industry
liveLive postings
new_24hNew in the last 24 hours
removed_24hRemoved in the last 24 hours
median_days_openMedian days open
remote_shareRemote share
soc_mixMix by SOC occupation

Point-in-time by design

  1. Each day is stored once and never rewritten, so a backtest sees only what was known that day.

  2. Posting history goes back to 2024, and daily point-in-time snapshots start in September 2025.

  3. A posting is a plan, not a hire. We report removals and time open so you can tell short-lived roles from evergreen ones.

  4. Postings come from employer career sites, public employment services, and job boards, and each one links back to where we found it.

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FAQ

Questions from developers and data teams

What can I use without talking to sales?

The jobs API and the layoffs feed. Create a free key under Settings, then API Keys, and search live postings at up to 60 requests a minute. The layoffs feed is public JSON, CSV, and RSS.

How do we license the hiring signals?

Under a data agreement. We start with a sample for the employers or sectors you cover, then deliver daily extracts, plus an hourly file of the postings opened and closed at listed companies.

How far back does the data go?

Posting history goes back to 2024. Daily point-in-time snapshots start in September 2025, and each day is stored as it was captured and never revised.

Where does the data come from?

Employer career sites, public employment services, and job boards, refreshed daily. Every posting links back to where we found it.

Which formats do you deliver?

JSON from the API; JSON, CSV, and RSS for the layoffs feed; and CSV extracts for hiring signals and bulk history.

Can we redistribute the data?

Redistribution and display rights are set in each data agreement. Tell us how you plan to use the data and we'll scope it with you.

Do you have an MCP server?

Yes, and it is free. Point any MCP client at https://www.metaintro.com/api/mcp/public to search jobs and employers with no sign-in, or at https://www.metaintro.com/api/mcp to sign in and work on your own job search. Setup and every tool are on the MCP page.

What is x402?

An open payment standard built on HTTP 402 Payment Required. The API answers an unpaid request with its price, your client signs a USDC payment with its wallet, and the retried request returns the results. Any x402 client works, such as @x402/fetch, x402-axios, Coinbase AgentKit, or a CDP wallet.

What wallet do I need?

Any Ethereum-compatible wallet that holds USDC on Base, such as a private key loaded with viem or eth-account, a Coinbase CDP wallet, or AgentKit. Your wallet signs a payment authorization; you never send a transaction yourself.

When am I charged?

Only when a search returns at least one job. A search that returns no jobs or fails costs nothing. Each page of up to 50 jobs costs $0.01, and the free quote endpoint tells you the exact price before you pay.

For investors and data teams

Backtest it on the companies you cover.

Tell us the tickers, sectors, or markets you cover. We'll send a sample of daily hiring data you can backtest before you commit.

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