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 job board 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. 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 parameter or use the |OR| operator to filter by all of them 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!

Need more than title keywords? access pro adds full-text search across job descriptions and access pro+ adds vector search to match jobs by meaning.

Query the jobdata API

Example search request for all keywords at once (with header auth):

curl -G -H "Authorization: Api-Key YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://jobdataapi.com/api/jobs/" \
  --data-urlencode "title=professor|OR|postdoc|OR|research director|OR|faculty|OR|lecturer"

Example search request (with auth GET parameter):

curl -G "https://jobdataapi.com/api/jobs/" \
  -d api_key=YOUR_API_KEY \
  --data-urlencode "title=professor|OR|postdoc|OR|research director|OR|faculty|OR|lecturer"

Every response contains a next URL to page through all results.

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:

Recent Academia job listings