LinkedIn Jobs vs Remotive API for AI agents
LinkedIn documents no public job search API; its jobs API is for approved partners (ATS systems, job distributors) to post jobs to LinkedIn, and it is closed to new partners. Remotive API is a public JSON endpoint listing active remote jobs on the Remotive job board, meant for sharing Remotive's jobs further.
The short answer
- LinkedIn Jobs: ATS vendors and job distributors that already partner with LinkedIn and need to publish jobs to it; not for finding jobs.
- Remotive API: Showing a small, curated feed of remote jobs on a site that links back to Remotive.
Side by side
| LinkedIn Jobs | Remotive API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Not a search API: it posts jobs into LinkedIn on behalf of customers. | Remotive's own remote job board only; filter by category, company_name, search and limit. |
| Returns | – | JSON jobs with id, url, title, company_name, company_logo, category, tags, job_type, publication_date, candidate_required_location, salary and HTML description. |
| Before the first call | LinkedIn approval, a signed API agreement with data restrictions, and Talent Solutions partner status; currently not accepting new partnerships (points to Apply Connect instead). | No key or sign-up documented for the public endpoint (GET https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs). |
| Free | – | Public endpoint with no stated price; more than 2 requests per minute are blocked and Remotive advises at most about 4 calls a day. |
| Paid | – | A private, paid-for API exists; no price is published (contact Remotive). |
| Acting on a result | – | url points to the job page on remotive.com. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | LinkedIn API Terms forbid caching or storing Content except as needed to run your application, and bar content obtained by scraping or crawling outside the APIs. | Must link back to the Remotive URL and name Remotive as source; jobs are delayed 24 hours; don't submit Remotive jobs to third-party sites (e.g. Google Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs); don't use them to collect signups or emails. |
| Coverage | – | Remote jobs (worldwide, each with a candidate_required_location). |
| MCP server | – | No official server listed |
Where Openpath fits
If the agent needs a job to apply for in Austin, Texas, or a remote one, Openpath returns the listings themselves, free and with no key. See Openpath vs LinkedIn Jobs and Openpath vs Remotive API.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use Remotive API?
No key or sign-up documented for the public endpoint (GET https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs).
Is Remotive API free?
Public endpoint with no stated price; more than 2 requests per minute are blocked and Remotive advises at most about 4 calls a day.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
LinkedIn Jobs, read on October 15, 2026:
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “We are currently not accepting new partnerships for LinkedIn's Job Posting API.”
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “enables authorized third parties such as clients, ATS systems, and job distributors to post jobs directly to LinkedIn”
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “The use of these APIs is restricted to those developers approved by LinkedIn.”
- linkedin.com/legal/l/api-terms-of-use: “You must not capture, copy, cache, or store any Content”
- linkedin.com/legal/l/api-terms-of-use: “scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs”
Remotive API, read on October 15, 2026:
- github.com/remotive-com/remote-jobs-api: “more than 2x per minute”
- remotive.com/remote-jobs/api: “Jobs displayed are delayed by 24 hours.”
- remotive.com/remote-jobs/api: “a private, paid-for API”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “Please do not submit Remotive jobs to third Party websites”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “API documentation and access is granted so that developers can share our jobs further.”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/sales/inside-sales-contractor-2086540”