Workday Jobs API: how to list every posting from any Workday career site (myworkdayjobs.com) as JSON

Every Workday career site (https://{tenant}.{wd1..wd5}.myworkdayjobs.com/{site}) is driven by a public JSON endpoint that the page itself calls. No key, no login. This repository documents that endpoint, its POST body, the offset pagination quirks, the detail endpoint, and ships a dependency-free Python example.

The endpoints

POST https://{tenant}.{wdN}.myworkdayjobs.com/wday/cxs/{tenant}/{site}/jobs
     Content-Type: application/json
     {"appliedFacets": {}, "limit": 20, "offset": 0, "searchText": ""}

GET  https://{tenant}.{wdN}.myworkdayjobs.com/wday/cxs/{tenant}/{site}{externalPath}

Example: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite → tenant nvidia, host nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, site NVIDIAExternalCareerSite. Localized sites add a language segment (/en-US/External); the cxs path uses the site name without it.

What you get back

List endpoint: {"total": 1234, "jobPostings": [...], "facets": [...]}. Each posting:

Detail endpoint (GET .../wday/cxs/{tenant}/{site}{externalPath}): jobPostingInfo with jobDescription (HTML), location, additionalLocations, startDate (ISO date), timeType, jobReqId, externalUrl, country.

Pagination quirks

• limit is capped at 20 per request.
• total is only a hint: later pages often return total: 0, and some large tenants report total: 2000 while still serving postings at offset 2,000 and beyond (verified on NVIDIA, 2026-11-03). Page until jobPostings comes back empty instead of trusting total.
• Walk offset in steps of 20 until jobPostings is empty.
• searchText and appliedFacets (e.g. {"locationCountry": ["bc33aa3152ec42d4995f4791a106ed09"]}) filter server-side; facet ids come from the facets array of the first response.

Python example (stdlib only)

import json, urllib.request

def workday_jobs(host, tenant, site):
    base = f"https://{host}/wday/cxs/{tenant}/{site}"
    offset = 0
    while True:  # "total" is unreliable on Workday, page until an empty response
        body = json.dumps({"appliedFacets": {}, "limit": 20, "offset": offset, "searchText": ""}).encode()
        req = urllib.request.Request(f"{base}/jobs", data=body, method="POST",
              headers={"Content-Type": "application/json", "Accept": "application/json",
                       "User-Agent": "your-app/1.0 (contact@example.com)"})
        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as r:
            d = json.load(r)
        page = d.get("jobPostings") or []
        if not page:
            return
        for j in page:
            yield {"id": (j.get("bulletFields") or [None])[0], "title": j["title"],
                   "location": j.get("locationsText"), "posted": j.get("postedOn"),
                   "url": f"https://{host}/{site}{j['externalPath']}"}
        offset += len(page)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    rows = list(workday_jobs("nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com", "nvidia", "NVIDIAExternalCareerSite"))
    print(len(rows), "jobs"); print(rows[0])

See example.py for the same with a diff against a previous snapshot.

Finding Workday career sites

Search site:myworkdayjobs.com. Large employers on Workday include NVIDIA, Adobe, Salesforce, Dell, Nike, Comcast, Humana and most Fortune 500 HR departments.

Common questions

Is this an official API? It is the JSON backend of the public career site (the cxs "candidate experience service"); Workday does not publish it for third parties, but it is unauthenticated and stable since 2019. Treat it respectfully and cache.

Why does the first request sometimes 404? The site name is case-sensitive and must not include the language segment.

Hosted version, pay per result

If you would rather not run and maintain this yourself, the same logic runs as a pay-per-result Apify Actor by CleanFeeds: https://apify.com/cleanfeedsapi/workday-jobs-api ($1.50 per 1,000 rows, no subscription, JSON/CSV/Excel export, API, scheduling, n8n/Make/Zapier and MCP integrations). A multi-ATS variant that mixes Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters and Recruitee boards in one run: https://apify.com/cleanfeedsapi/ats-jobs-feed

Free sample data: a daily snapshot of about 10,000 open roles at 26 tech companies from these endpoints, CC BY 4.0: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cleanfeeds/tech-jobs-daily

More feeds: https://cleanfeeds.dev

Legal note

These are public, unauthenticated endpoints that the career pages themselves load. Job postings are employer announcements and belong to the employers. Be polite: identify your client with a User-Agent, cache results, and do not hammer the endpoints. Nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by Workday.