Backfill Your Academia Job Board
A quick example on how you can backfill your Academia job board through our quality job feed data API with just a few simple search queries.
To increase job board traffic, as a Academia Job Board owner, you can leverage our jobdata API to backfill your jobboard through a simple subscription. jobdata API provides a vast database of job listings that align with your industry focus, ensuring your job board is populated with relevant opportunities.
By using our platform, you can offer a comprehensive job feed to attract job seekers and increase engagement on your platform. Below you'll find example instructions to fetch job listings for a Academia Job Board.
Job Search Example
For a Academia Job Board you can query the API with keywords that would appear in the title of a relevant job or by job title in general.
At the moment the only text filter mechanism is via keywords or fragments of text that would appear in the title of a relevant job - here is an example of a list of keywords that could be used to backfill a Academia Job Board:
professor, postdoc, research director, faculty, lecturer
Here you can make one request for each search paramter or use the |OR| operator to filter by many all at once. Click on the keywords above to view the result from the API in JSON format.
Logo images as well as other company info and full job descriptions come with every job post. So you get all the data you need with just one API call!
Query the jobdata API
Example search request (with header auth):
curl -X GET -H \
"Authorization: Api-Key YOUR_API_KEY" \
https://jobdataapi.com/api/jobs/?title=professor
Example search request (with auth GET parameter):
curl https://jobdataapi.com/api/jobs/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&title=professor
Shown below is an example of what a combined job list could look like, filtered by the keywords from above with the most recent data from our global database:
Faculty, Nursing (Adult Health), Full-Time, Tenure Track, AY 2026-2027
United States-Massachusetts-Salem-352 Lafayette St
Full TimeFull Time Faculty - Orthopaedic, Department of Surgery
Kenya-Nairobi
Full TimeMid-level
Full Time Faculty - Orthopaedic, Department of Surgery
Kenya-Nairobi
Full TimeMid-level
Adjoint Professor
Aurora
Full TimeSenior level
Open Rank Faculty – Assistant Research Professor, Associate Research Professor or Research Professor
Aurora
Full TimeMid-level
Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice
Aurora
Full TimeInstructor, Integrated Reading/Writing (INRW) - Full time Faculty Assignment
United States
Full TimeEntry-level
Assistant Professor
Aurora
Full TimeMid-level
Advanced Imaging Section Head Open Rank (Associate-Professor)
Aurora
Full TimeExecutive level
Adjoint Professor
Aurora
Full TimeSenior level
Find out more on how to use the jobdata API in our docs.