Wellfound Public Session

PythonSocial Media

POST api.upapi.io/wellfound-public-session.post

Mint an anonymous Wellfound browsing session (DataDome cookie, Apollo signature and persisted-query map) with no credentials and no account. Returns an opaque blob for the Wellfound read operations. The blob is bound to the exit IP that minted it: pass the same proxyUrl to every call in a chain, or omit it on all of them.

wellfoundjobssessionpublic

AuthAPI key

Cost6 units

Timeout60s

CacheNone

Request schema

Field	Type	Description
`proxyUrl`		Exit to mint from (http://user:pass@host:port). Omit to send directly. The returned session is bound to whatever exit minted it, so every later call must pass the SAME value.· default: `null`
`impersonate`	string	curl_cffi browser-impersonation target used to mint the session.· default: `"chrome146"`

Response schema

Field	Type	Description
`session`req	string	Opaque anonymous session blob. Pass to wellfound-browse-jobs, wellfound-job-detail and wellfound-company-overview. Carries no account credentials.
`elapsedMs`req	integer	Wall-clock time spent minting.
`operationCount`req	integer	Persisted queries discovered in Wellfound's bundle (a health signal).

Try it

proxyUrloptional· default: null

Exit to mint from (http://user:pass@host:port). Omit to send directly. The returned session is bound to whatever exit minted it, so every later call must pass the SAME value.

impersonateoptional· default: chrome146

curl_cffi browser-impersonation target used to mint the session.

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Code examples

curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/wellfound-public-session.post \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "impersonate": "chrome146" }'

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