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:

Postdoc (f/m/x) Subject: Aquatic-terrestrial-atmospheric coupling of ecosystem processes
Leipzig
Full TimeEntry-level

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences
Astana, ASTANA, Kazakhstan
Full TimeEntry-level

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Adelaide
Full TimeMid-level

Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer for the Master of Arts in Creative Communications (several posts)
Hong Kong
Full TimePart TimeMid-level

Field Assistant (at the rank of Facilities Assistant) in the Centre for Water Technology and Policy, under the Faculty of Social Sciences (Appointment period until end of April 2026)
Hong Kong
Full TimeEntry-level

Senior Lecturer
Main campus - Malaysia
Full TimeTemporarySenior level

Part-Time Lecturer - School of Law
Belknap Campus, United States
Part Time
Postdoc RA in Military Support Chains
Newcastle, GB
Full TimeMid-level

Associate Professor, Principal Alliance Research Lead
Australia, Geelong - City
Part TimeMid-level

Lecturer, Senior Clinical Skills and Simulation Educator
Sydney, NSW
Part TimeSenior level
Find out more on how to use the jobdata API in our docs.