# JobSpy (MCP server)

> JobSpy is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Search LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor and regional job boards. It has 4,562 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx mcp-jobspy.

JobSpy is a job scraping library that aggregates jobs from popular job boards with one tool: The package installs a jobspy command whose options mirror the scrapejobs() parameters below; jobspy -h lists them, the output fields and exit codes.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/speedyapply/JobSpy |
| GitHub stars | 4,562 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: mcp-jobspy |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Web & browsing |
| Latest release | v1.4.1 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.speedyapply/jobspy |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jobspy": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-jobspy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

### Claude Code

```sh
claude mcp add --transport stdio jobspy -- uvx mcp-jobspy
```

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jobspy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-jobspy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "jobspy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-jobspy"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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