Y Combinator Jobs Scraper

Jobs & Hiring

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Extracts live job listings from Y Combinator startups, scraping the YC public job board to produce structured job records. The connector captures job title and direct YC listing link, company details (name, YC batch, company tagline, profile URL, and logo), posting age, employment type and category/sub-role, salary range when listed, location including remote and hybrid setups, and the direct apply URL to the company application form. It supports filtering by role and location and limiting the number of returned jobs, performs a single HTTP fetch per run, and outputs one structured record per job for downstream aggregation and analysis.

Verified Sep 28, 12:10 AM

$0.0025

per result

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Job search aggregation — feed live YC startup roles into job boards, Slack channels, or Notion
Recruiter sourcing — track which YC companies are hiring for specific roles
Market research — analyze YC hiring trends, salary bands, and remote vs onsite splits
Investor intel — monitor portfolio companies that are scaling teams
Lead generation — surface fast-growing startups by hiring activity

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"yc-jobs-scraper","params":{"maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`role`	string	optional	Job role to filter by.
`location`	string	optional	Optional location filter. Leave blank for all locations.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum number of jobs to return. 0 = all available. Capped at 100 per call.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`jobTitle`	string	Job Title
`jobUrl`	string	Job Url
`jobId`	string	Job Id
`company`	string	Company
`companyBatch`	string	Company Batch
`companyTagline`	string	Company Tagline
`companyUrl`	string	Company Url
`companyLogo`	string	Company Logo
`postedAgo`	null	Posted Ago
`employmentType`	null	Employment Type
`category`	string	Category
`role`	string	Role
`salary`	null	—
`location`	string	—
`applyUrl`	string	—
`sourceUrl`	string	—

Use Y Combinator Jobs Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Which Series A fintechs are hiring backend engineers in London right now?”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://sourcelane-amber.vercel.app/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"yc-jobs-scraper","params":{"maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "yc-jobs-scraper",
        "params": {"maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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