# /adzuna/jobs/search

`POST /api/adzuna/jobs/search`

Price: 20 credits

Search Adzuna jobs across any supported country site. Returns job cards: id, url, title, company, location, snippet, salary (actual or estimated), badges and remote / closing-soon flags. Filter by keywords, exact phrase, excluded words, location and distance, salary range, contract type, hours, industry category, remote, date posted and sort order.

## How to use it

Search Adzuna jobs. Provide at least one of q (keywords), exact_phrase, location or category. Each result has id (feed to adzuna/jobs for full detail), url, title, company, location, snippet, badges, is_remote/is_closing_soon and salary (display, salary_min/salary_max, currency, period, is_estimated). An estimated salary is Adzuna's own model-based estimate shown when the employer did not state one. Narrow with location + distance, salary_min/salary_max, contract (permanent/contract), hours (full_time/part_time), category (industry), remote, date_posted and sort. Set country to choose the national site (gb, us, de, fr, au, ...).

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `q` (string, nullable) — Search keywords (matches job title, company and description).
- `exact_phrase` (string, nullable) — Match this exact phrase in the listing.
- `exclude_words` (string, nullable) — Space-separated words to exclude from results.
- `location` (string, nullable) — City, county or postcode to search near.
- `distance` (string) — Search radius around the location. (default: "only_in"; one of: "only_in", "within_5_miles", "within_10_miles", "within_25_miles", "within_50_miles", "within_100_miles")
- `salary_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum annual salary. (min: 0)
- `salary_max` (integer, nullable) — Maximum annual salary. (min: 0)
- `contract` (string, nullable) — Restrict to a contract type. (one of: "permanent", "contract")
- `hours` (string, nullable) — Restrict to full-time or part-time roles. (one of: "full_time", "part_time")
- `category` (string, nullable) — Restrict to an industry category. (one of: "accounting_finance", "it", "sales", "customer_services", "engineering", "hr_recruitment", "healthcare_nursing", "hospitality_catering", "pr_advertising_marketing", "logistics_warehouse", "teaching", "trade_construction", "admin", "legal", "creative_design", "graduate", "retail", "consultancy", "manufacturing", "scientific_qa", "social_work", "travel", "energy_oil_gas", "property", "charity_voluntary", "domestic_help_cleaning", "maintenance", "other_general")
- `remote` (boolean) — Only remote / work-from-home jobs. (default: false)
- `date_posted` (string) — How recently the job was posted. (default: "anytime"; one of: "anytime", "last_24_hours", "last_3_days", "last_7_days")
- `sort` (string) — Result ordering. (default: "relevance"; one of: "relevance", "date", "salary_high", "salary_low")
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of results to return (min: 1)
- `country` (string) — Adzuna country site to query (default: "gb"; one of: "gb", "us", "au", "at", "be", "br", "ca", "fr", "de", "in", "it", "mx", "nl", "nz", "pl", "sg", "za", "es", "ch")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "AdzunaSearchJob")
- `id` (integer, required)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `company` (string, nullable)
- `location` (string, nullable)
- `snippet` (string, nullable)
- `badges` (array) (default: [])
- `is_remote` (boolean, nullable)
- `is_closing_soon` (boolean, nullable)
- `salary` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "AdzunaJobSalary")
  - `display` (string, nullable)
  - `salary_min` (number, nullable)
  - `salary_max` (number, nullable)
  - `currency` (string, nullable)
  - `period` (string, nullable)
  - `is_estimated` (boolean, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.