Bordfeed vs scraping it yourself
You can scrape job boards yourself. For one source it is often the right call. The cost shows up later, in the parsers that break and the closed jobs nobody removes.
This page lays out what you take on and what Bordfeed covers, so you can decide with the whole picture.
When DIY is the right call
You need one source.
One board, one format. A single scraper you wrote and understand is hard to beat.
You want to own the schema.
If your fields are unusual, your own parser maps straight to them.
You do not want a recurring fee.
Your time is already spent. A script on a cheap server has no invoice.
Bordfeed does not cover your source.
If the jobs you need live somewhere we do not read, there is nothing to buy.
Side by side
Once you need more than one source, or a board that stays current, this is the work.
| Topic | Scraping it yourself | Bordfeed |
|---|---|---|
| Sources covered | The ones you write a scraper for, one at a time. | 17 active sources, across ATS platforms and job sites. 83,545 active jobs from 11,791 companies right now. |
| Per-ATS parsing | You read each platform's markup or API and fix it when it changes. | One scraper per source. Each parses its own format and sends the same capture shape. |
| Field normalization | You map titles, salary, location and workplace type yourself. | Salary, workplace type, location and company come back as typed fields, AI-enriched. |
| Closed-job detection | You compare today's scrape with yesterday's and decide when a miss means closed. | A job closes on a miss at least 6 hours after it was last seen in a verified sweep. Back-to-back runs inside those 6 hours never close it. |
| Cross-source duplicates | The same opening on two boards shows up twice unless you match them. | Same company, same title, same place and similar text link as one opening. A feed can exclude duplicates. Matching is strict on purpose, because a wrong merge would hide a real job. |
| Scheduling and monitoring | Cron, retries, proxies and alerts. You find out a source broke when readers tell you. | Scheduled runs per source, with a daily health check on every one of them. |
| Delivery | You build the API, the email and the export. | REST poll, signed webhooks (HMAC-SHA256, hourly, daily or weekly), an email digest, and export. |
| Cost | Your hours, servers, proxies and any model calls. No invoice, but not free. | Pro is $79.00/mo with 25,000 jobs a month included, after a 14-day trial. |
What you still own
Bordfeed is the data layer. The product on top is still yours.
The niche
Which jobs belong on your board is your call. That is the part readers come for.
The filters
You define the feed: titles, places, salary, workplace type. Bordfeed returns what matches.
Featured companies
You choose who gets the top spot and who you leave out.
The board itself
Design, brand, audience and what you charge employers stay with you.
See the feed before you decide
Try Pro free for 14 days. Define a feed and compare it with what your scraper returns.