The unofficial Bayt API — 68 fields per call

712 words ~3 min read Updated 2026-08-24

There is no public Bayt API. Getting the data means reading it from the page—and adapting whenever the layout changes.

Here is what our Bayt Actor returns, how much it costs, and where its limits are.

Calling it as an API

Start a run and wait for the dataset with one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/blackfalcondata~bayt-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -d '{"query": "..."}'

The same call from Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("blackfalcondata~bayt-scraper").call(run_input={"query": "..."})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
 print(item)

What comes back

Each record contains 68 fields, grouped roughly as follows:

salary — salaryText, salaryCurrency, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, salaryUsdCurrency, +3 more
is — isRemote, isExternal, isAggregated, isHighlighted, isBranded, isAiTranslated, +1 more
company — company, companyUrl, companyLogoUrl, companySize
description — description, descriptionHtml, descriptionMarkdown
contact — contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone

Here are the first fields from one row in a real dataset:

{
 "jobId": "12e1a563608fa344e8837e188701c9b37735b3c6ba05960667172780a1839791",
 "title": "Senior Go Developer",
 "company": "Andersen Lab",
 "companyUrl": "https://www.bayt.com/company/company/view/?lang=en&company-url=andersen-lab-2273363",
 "companyLogoUrl": "https://secure.b8cdn.com/120x120/images/logo/63/2273363_logo_1766603170_n.png",
 "location": "Dubai, UAE",
 "city": "Dubai",
 "country": "UAE",
 "distanceKm": null,
 "salaryText": null,
 "salaryCurrency": null,
 "salaryMin": null,
 "salaryMax": null,
 "salaryPeriod": null
}

What you give it

The input accepts 40 options, including query, startUrls, country, location, employmentType, careerLevel, datePosted, sortBy, searchMinSalary, easyApplyOnly, and more. Because filters run server-side, you pay only for the records you requested instead of fetching everything and filtering afterwards.

Coverage includes INTERNATIONAL, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, KW, QA, BH, JO, LB, PK, India, OM, IQ and MA. The country option accepts INTERNATIONAL, AE, SA, EG, KW, QA, BH, JO, LB, PK, IN, OM, IQ, MA and defaults to INTERNATIONAL.

Every run is limited to one market before it produces a record. Nothing outside that market is fetched or billed.

What it costs

There is no subscription. Pricing is per event:

$0.0005 per actor start
$0.00099 per result

These figures come from a measured run, not an estimate:

75 records in 8.2 seconds
cost: $0.00084 — about $0.01 per 1,000 records

The honest caveats

No endpoint remains stable forever. This endpoint is ours, not Bayt's, so changes happen when we make them—not silently.
The source sets the rate, not the API. Larger runs take longer; they do not fail faster.
Content behind a Bayt login is out of scope. Authentication on our side cannot reach it.

Questions people ask

Is there an official Bayt API?

No. Bayt publishes this data on its pages but does not provide a public API for it. Every option here therefore depends on reading those pages.

How do I authenticate?

Use an Apify API token, either through ?token= or an Authorization: Bearer header. The token belongs to you, not us, and it is the only credential involved. You do not need a separate account on the source site.

How long does one call take?

The measured run returned 75 records in 8.2 seconds. Because run-sync-get-dataset-items keeps the connection open for the entire run, large jobs are better handled by starting the run and polling the dataset.

Can I page through results?

Runs use maxResults instead of paged responses: request a number of records and receive one dataset. To read that dataset in chunks, the dataset endpoint accepts offset and limit.

What format does it return?

JSON is the default. By changing the format parameter, the same run's dataset endpoint can also serve CSV, XLSX and JSONL. No separate export step is required.

Try it

the Bayt API we keep working runs on Apify, and the endpoint above is the entire integration. New accounts receive $5 of free platform credit each month—enough to cover a real run of this size several times over.

Disclosure: we build and maintain this Actor, and the link above is an affiliate link.