Ats Boards README

@pipeworx/ats-boards

Public job-board postings across fifteen applicant-tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, BambooHR, Workday, Workable, Teamtailor, Personio, Jobvite, Breezy, Pinpoint, Rippling, iCIMS) — detect which ATS a company publishes its careers page on, then read any company's open roles without a key. This is NOT the greenhouse/ashby packs, which read the caller's OWN private hiring data with their own API key; this pack reads the same public board any browser can see, for any company.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1807+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Dover was evaluated and dropped: its public board is a client-rendered SPA behind a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge, and the underlying jobs API (app.dover.com/api/v1/jobs) answers HTTP 401 "Authentication credentials were not provided" for every query-param combination tried — there is no discoverable keyless endpoint.

Tools

• ats_detect(domain | careers_url) — find which ATS a company uses and its board token, by scraping the careers page for an ATS link and, failing that, slug-probing the domain name against each board API. Persists the discovery so a repeat lookup for the same domain is instant.
• ats_jobs(ats, board_token, filters?) — normalized job postings for a board you already have ats + board_token for. Distinguishes an unknown board (found:false, reason:"board_not_found") from a real board with zero current postings (found:true, jobs:[]) for every ATS except SmartRecruiters, which cannot tell them apart (see below) — that case is marked ambiguous:true instead of guessing.
• ats_company_jobs(domain, filters?) — ats_detect + ats_jobs in one call.
• ats_new_postings(ats, board_token, since?) — diffs current postings against the last snapshot taken for that board. The first call for a board has no prior snapshot, so it returns every current posting as new (snapshot_bootstrap:true) instead of a misleadingly empty diff.

Auth

Keyless. Every endpoint below is the same public board data a browser sees on a company's own careers page — no account, token or registration on any of the fifteen supported ATS vendors.

The one exception is Workable: its public widget is currently blocked by Cloudflare from this platform's edge (see "Data sources" below) — not an auth wall, a transport failure. ats_jobs/ats_company_jobs throw a loud error naming the HTTP 429 and Cloudflare's block when asked for ats:"workable", rather than returning an empty result.

Data sources

• https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/{board_token}/jobs?content=true — Greenhouse's public board API.
• https://api.lever.co/v0/postings/{board_token}?mode=json (https://api.eu.lever.co/... for filters.region:"eu") — Lever's public postings API.
• https://api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/{board_token}?includeCompensation=true — Ashby's public job-board API (officially documented, includes comp bands where the employer publishes them).
• https://api.smartrecruiters.com/v1/companies/{board_token}/postings — SmartRecruiters' public postings API.
• https://{board_token}.recruitee.com/api/offers/ — Recruitee's public offers API.
• https://{board_token}.bamboohr.com/careers/list — BambooHR's public careers-widget endpoint.
• https://{tenant}.wd{N}.myworkdayjobs.com/wday/cxs/{tenant}/{site}/jobs (POST) — Workday's public CXS jobs search. board_token encodes all three path parts as "{tenant}.wd{N}/{site}", e.g. "workday.wd5/Workday" (read the tenant/wd-number/site straight off the company's own myworkdayjobs.com careers URL).
• https://apply.workable.com/api/v1/widget/accounts/{board_token} — Workable's public widget API. Currently unreachable from this platform's edge, confirmed live via a throwaway wrangler dev --remote Worker on Pipeworx's production Cloudflare account: every one of 5+ attempts (two endpoint shapes — the v1 widget and the v3 /api/v3/accounts/{account}/jobs, with and without an Accept header, against several real account names, several minutes apart) returned HTTP 429 with Content-Type: text/plain and body error code: 1015 — Cloudflare's OWN bot-mitigation, not a Workable application response. That reads as apply.workable.com's Cloudflare WAF specifically rate-limiting Cloudflare-Worker-to-Cloudflare traffic. The adapter is implemented per Workable's documented widget shape and is ready the moment this changes; until then every live call throws loud, naming the 429, rather than returning an empty board.
• https://{board_token}.teamtailor.com/jobs.json — Teamtailor's keyless JSON Feed (jsonfeed.org v1.1).
• https://{board_token}.jobs.personio.com/xml?language=en, falling back to .jobs.personio.de on a 404 — Personio's public XML feed. A company lives on exactly one of the two TLDs with no redirect between them.
• https://jobs.jobvite.com/{board_token} — Jobvite's server-rendered HTML board (no JSON API; the vendor's own feed is per-customer and off by default). Parsed by regex from the table markup.

The silent-zero shape, per ATS (each measured live, not assumed from docs)

Each ATS answers "no such board" differently, and three don't distinguish it from "real board, zero jobs right now" at all:

Treating any non-200 as "zero jobs," or SmartRecruiters' totalFound:0 as a confirmed empty board, is the exact silent-zero failure this pack exists to avoid — see the header comment in src/index.ts for the full edge-probe evidence (status/length/first-400-bytes) behind every row above.

Persistence (KV, not module scope)

The gateway injects its shared KV namespace as _cacheKv (injectCacheKv in pack-manifest.json), used for three things, each dated and each degrading cleanly to a live fetch if the binding is absent:

1. A whole-board job-list cache, ~3h TTL — "poll each board no more than every few hours."
2. The domain -> {ats, board_token} discovery index ats_detect writes — "the index grows with use."
3. The job-key snapshot ats_new_postings diffs against.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ats-boards": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ats-boards/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ats-boards/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1807+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ats_detect \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"domain":"ramp.com"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ats_detect. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ats-boards": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-ats-boards"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ats-boards

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Ats Boards data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT