Build with Applystead's job data

Applystead publishes open jobs from employers' own career sites. You can reach the same jobs from an AI assistant through the MCP server, from your own code through the developer API, or in Slack, Discord, Teams, feed readers and your website through free feeds and embeds.

MCP server

The endpoint is https://applystead.com/mcp: a public, read-only Model Context Protocol server over the Streamable HTTP transport. Send one JSON-RPC 2.0 message per POST and get one JSON response back. It supports protocol versions 2025-11-25 (the default) and 2025-06-18. No sign-in or API key is needed, and it allows 60 requests a minute from one address.

Three tools, all read-only. Every job links its Applystead job page and the employer's posting.

search_jobs: newest jobs first. Optional query, remote_country (2-letter country code), company (name or slug), kind (internship or new-grad), pay_listed, posted_within_hours (1-720) and limit (1-20, default 10).
get_company_jobs: company (name or slug). Returns the company's name, application system, open roles, company page and its 10 newest jobs.
check_job_posting: url (an https posting URL). Says whether the posting is open, closed, unknown or unsupported; the URL is never fetched.

Claude: in Customize, open Connectors, choose Add, then Custom and Web, paste https://applystead.com/mcp and choose no sign-in (Anthropic's custom connector guide).

ChatGPT: Applystead will be available in the ChatGPT apps directory once it is listed. Until then, ChatGPT accounts with developer mode can add the URL as a custom connector with no authentication (OpenAI's developer mode guide).

Using it from a chat rather than code? Search jobs in ChatGPT and Claude has setup steps and prompts to try.

curl -s https://applystead.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_jobs","arguments":{"query":"data engineer","remote_country":"US","limit":5}}}'

Developer API

Members call Applystead from their own code with an API key: search the job catalog, read company facts, read their applications and add jobs to their queue. The public contract is GET /api/v1/openapi.json.

Every account may use the API. Create keys on the API page of your workspace (API in the sidebar), which also shows your balance, prices, usage and a quick start. Calls are paid from a prepaid balance, and Premium members pay 40% less on every call. Adding applications needs Standard or Premium, as adding a job in the app does. Keys belong on your server: the API does not answer browser cross-origin requests.

Feeds and embeds

Free, with no account: the newest jobs as RSS 2.0 at /feeds/jobs.xml and as JSON Feed 1.1 at /feeds/jobs.json, filterable by keywords, company, internships or new grad, remote country, listed pay and posting date. The /embed/jobs list adds jobs to your website in a sandboxed frame that sets no cookies. Integrations builds feed URLs and shows the embed code and setup for Slack, Discord and Microsoft Teams.

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