ai-job-search/.agents/skills/freehire-search/url-reference.md

freehire.me API reference

The endpoints, parameters, and response shapes this skill depends on. This is the file to update if the freehire API changes. Base URL defaults to https://freehire.me and is overridable via the FREEHIRE_API_URL env var.

Authentication

None for reads. GET /api/v1/jobs/* and /companies/* are public; only per-user tracking mutations (apply/save/me) require a bearer API key, and this skill does not use them.

Verified against the live API:

Endpoint	Status
GET /api/v1/agent/jobs/search	200
GET /api/v1/jobs/search	200 (the web variant; used by --no-description)
GET /api/v1/jobs/facets	200
GET /api/v1/jobs/{slug}	200
GET /api/v1/auth/me	401 (auth required — not used here)

Envelope

Every response is { "data": ..., "meta": {...}, "error": "..." }. Lists put the array in data and pagination in meta ({ total, limit, offset }); a single item puts the object in data. Errors are { "error": "<message>" } with a 4xx/5xx status (e.g. 404 → { "error": "not found" }).

GET /api/v1/agent/jobs/search

The endpoint the skill's search command uses. Full-text + facet search over open jobs, returning data: [job, …] with meta.total = the estimated match count.

It runs the same query as the web-facing /api/v1/jobs/search — same q, same facets, same ranking, same pagination guard (offset + limit ≤ 10000) — and differs in one respect: it replaces the search index's truncated description preview with the posting's full description read from the database. That is what lets a search of N roles stay one request instead of N + 1.

It always does so - there is no parameter to turn hydration off - so the skill's --no-description mode calls /api/v1/jobs/search instead. One extra parameter controls the rendering:

Param	Maps to CLI flag	Notes
description_format	--description-format	markdown (the skill's default), text, or html. An unrecognized value is not an error — the API falls back to html, so the CLI validates the flag itself.

Hydration is best-effort per hit: a result whose row has vanished from the database (the index lagging a just-removed job) keeps the preview rather than being dropped, so description is a full text in practice but never guaranteed to be.

A 404 from this path means the instance predates the endpoint (a self-hosted freehire behind FREEHIRE_API_URL), not a missing job; the CLI reports it as an error naming the path rather than as an empty result set.

GET /api/v1/jobs/search

The web variant of the same search — identical query surface, but description is always the index's truncated preview. The skill calls it for --no-description, where reading every full body from the database would be wasted work.

Query parameters used by the skill:

Param	Maps to CLI flag	Notes
q	--query / -q	Keyword full-text query. Uppercase OR separates up to 5 alternatives (more is a 400); a leading title: restricts an alternative to the title.
limit	--limit / -n	Page size. Default 25 in the CLI.
offset	(derived)	offset = (page - 1) * limit.
posted_within_days	--jobage	Restrict to postings from the last N days.
regions	--region	Repeatable; OR within the facet. Values: global, eu, uk, north_america, latam, apac, mena, africa, cis. us is a country (countries), not a region.
countries	--country	Repeatable; ISO-3166 alpha-2 (lowercased).
cities	--city	Repeatable; display-name city.
seniority	--seniority	Repeatable; junior, middle, senior, staff, …
category	--category	Repeatable; backend, frontend, fullstack, devops, ml_ai, …
skills	--skill	Repeatable; canonical skill names.
company_slug	--company	Single company.
work_mode	--remote	remote | hybrid | onsite.
any facet param	--facet key=value	Escape hatch for the long tail (e.g. salary_min, visa_sponsorship, employment_type, english_level).

Repeated params (?seniority=senior&seniority=staff) are ORed within a facet; different facets are ANDed (geography ORs into one location group). Deep paging is bounded server-side (offset + limit ≤ 10000).

Job object (the fields the skill reads)

{
  "public_slug": "golang-zensar-2bxu6dxm", // -> result.id, and detail's <slug>
  "source": "oracle",
  "external_id": "…",
  "url": "https://…",                       // the real posting URL (ATS host)
  "title": "GOLANG",
  "company": "Zensar",
  "company_slug": "zensar",
  "location": "India",                       // free-text ATS location
  "description": "- …",                      // agent search: full text in the requested
                                             // format; elsewhere HTML, stripped client-side
  "skills": ["go", "kubernetes", …],         // dictionary facet (top-level)
  "work_mode": "remote",                     // may be absent
  "regions": ["apac"],                       // dictionary/hybrid facet
  "countries": ["in"],
  "cities": [],
  "collections": [],
  "posted_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00Z",       // -> result.date (nullable)
  "created_at": "2026-07-06T15:25:…Z",
  "enrichment": {                             // nested, typed; {} when unenriched
    "seniority": "senior",
    "category": "backend",
    "employment_type": "full_time",
    "salary_min": 90000, "salary_max": 120000, "salary_currency": "EUR"
  }
}

The internal numeric id is deliberately never exposed; public_slug is the stable identifier.

GET /api/v1/jobs/{slug}

A single job by its public_slug. Returns the same job object in data. A closed posting is still served here (with a non-null closed_at); a missing slug is 404 { "error": "not found" }. The skill's detail command maps a 404 to a NOT_FOUND error on stderr.

GET /api/v1/jobs/facets

The market's facet-value distributions under an optional filter — each facet's live values with counts. data.facets is { <facet>: { <value>: <count> } }. This skill does not call it programmatically, but it is the vocabulary source the SKILL.md points users to (?q=<role> scopes the counts). Example: GET /api/v1/jobs/facets?q=react.

Parsing notes

• The response is JSON, so there is no HTML card parsing (unlike the scraping portals). The only markup handling left client-side is detail's: /jobs/{slug} serves HTML, which cleanHtml (cli/src/helpers.ts) strips into readable text. Search descriptions arrive already rendered by the API and are passed through verbatim — stripping them again would undo the Markdown structure.
• Fetch sends User-Agent: MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search/1.0 (freehire-search) (no contact URL: a host literal in cli/src makes /apply treat that host as this portal's board) and Accept: application/json, and uses exponential backoff with jitter on 429/5xx (max 6 retries). A connection error (API unreachable) fails fast with a clear message — no retry, since it is not transient server load — which is the graceful-degradation contract: an outage degrades this source quickly instead of hanging the caller.