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Reed is one of the UK's best-known job boards, and unlike most big boards it has a public, self-serve API for its listings. The Jobseeker API has two endpoints under https://www.reed.co.uk/api/1.0/: search, and job details by ID. You register for a key on Reed's developer site and send it with HTTP Basic auth as the username, with an empty password. Search takes keywords, a location name with a distance in miles, contract and hours flags, a salary range, and flags for agency or direct-employer postings, and returns up to 100 results per call, paged with resultsToSkip. Details add yearly salary, currency, salary type, contract and job type, an expiration date and an external URL. We couldn't find a published rate limit or API-specific terms on Reed's developer pages. If you need the breadth of UK jobs Reed carries, including recruitment agency roles, Reed's API is a strong source that CleanJobData doesn't replace. CleanJobData is a global API over employer ATS platforms and company career sites, with structured location, seniority and company data.
| Feature | CleanJobData | Reed |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Self-serve key; Authorization: Bearer <key> | Self-serve key from Reed's developer site; HTTP Basic auth with the key as username and an empty password |
| Coverage | Global; employers on supported ATS platforms and company career sites | Reed's UK job board, across sectors and including recruitment agency postings — broader UK coverage than ours |
| Endpoints | Jobs search, job details, expired jobs, companies, Geo Suggest | Search (/api/1.0/search) and details (/api/1.0/jobs/{id}) |
| Filters | Title, location IDs, remote type, salary, experience level, employment type, freshness, company | keywords, locationName, distanceFromLocation (miles), employerId, permanent/contract/temp, full/part-time, minimum/maximumSalary, graduate, agency vs direct employer |
| Page size | 50 jobs per response on Starter, 100 on Pro; cursor pagination | Up to 100 results per call (resultsToTake), paged with resultsToSkip |
| Salary | salary_min, salary_max, currency and original text | Minimum and maximum salary; details add yearly min/max, currency and salary type. Hidden salaries aren't returned |
| Remote and seniority | remote_type and experience_level fields, both filterable | No remote or seniority filter documented; a graduate flag exists |
| Rate limits and terms | Published per plan; licence allows a public job board on Starter and Pro | No rate limit or API-specific terms published on the developer pages we read |
| Plan | CleanJobData | Reed |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 300 req/day — no card | Free self-serve key; no pricing published |
| Starter | $39/mo — 50,000 requests | No paid plans published |
| Pro | $99/mo — 100,000 requests | No paid plans published |
For UK-only products that need the breadth of a major UK job board, including agency roles, Reed's Jobseeker API is a real, self-serve source, and CleanJobData won't match its UK coverage. For products that span countries, need structured location, seniority and company data, or need written commercial terms, CleanJobData is the better fit. Some teams use both: Reed for UK breadth and CleanJobData for employer-sourced jobs elsewhere. Confirm Reed's terms for your use case before launch, since we couldn't find API-specific ones.
300 requests a day during the trial, no card required.
Yes. Reed's Jobseeker API offers job search and job details endpoints under https://www.reed.co.uk/api/1.0/. You register for a key on reed.co.uk/developers and authenticate with HTTP Basic auth, using the key as the username and leaving the password empty.
Search returns at most 100 results per call (resultsToTake defaults to and is capped at 100), and you page with resultsToSkip. We couldn't find a published rate limit or daily quota on Reed's developer pages, so treat it as undocumented rather than unlimited, and cache results.
We couldn't find API-specific terms on Reed's developer pages, so we can't say. Ask Reed before building a commercial product on the data. CleanJobData's Starter and Pro plans explicitly allow a public job board and syncing into your own database.
Search results include minimum and maximum salary, and job details add yearly minimum and maximum, currency and salary type. If the employer hides the salary on reed.co.uk, the API returns no salary fields for that job.
No. CleanJobData sources from employer ATS platforms and company career sites and doesn't ingest Reed or other job boards. For UK jobs, resolve a location with Geo Suggest and call GET https://api.cleanjobdata.com/jobs with a Bearer token to see whether our UK coverage fits your niche.
