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:
Postdoctoral Associate
US-NY-Stony Brook
Full TimeMid-level
Postdoctoral Associate
Houston, TX, US
Full TimeAnesthesiology - BSLMC (Associate Professor)
Houston, TX, US
Full TimeMid-level
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Professional Writing, College of Arts and Sciences
Cincinnati, OH, US, 45221
Full TimeMid-level
Professor & Associate Dean - SOL - Hyderabad
School of Law, Hyderabad, India
Full TimeMid-level
Associate Research Director
Toronto
Full TimeMid-level
Pool for Part-time Lecturer, Anthropology
Northern California, Sonoma
Part TimeTemporaryPostdoctoral Researcher, Zhou Lab
Palo Alto, CA
Full TimeMid-level
Part-Time Faculty - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fall 2026
Portland, ME, United States
Part TimeFaculty-Adjunct-Nutrition & Dietetics
Providence, Rhode Island
Part TimeMid-level
Find out more on how to use the jobdata API in our docs.