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id: himalayas
title: Himalayas Extractor
description: Public remote-jobs API pagination and client-side term filtering.
sidebar_position: 16
---

## What it is

Original site: [himalayas.app](https://himalayas.app)

The extractor lives in `extractors/himalayas/manifest.ts`. It paginates the public JSON API (`https://himalayas.app/jobs/api?limit=&offset=`), filters rows client-side by pipeline search terms (title + categories), and maps matches into `CreateJobInput`.

## Why it exists

Himalayas is a large remote-jobs index with a stable, unauthenticated API — useful for remote-first discovery without browser automation or credentials.

## How to use it

1. Enable **Himalayas** in pipeline sources.
2. Optionally set **Himalayas max jobs per term** (`himalayasMaxJobsPerTerm`, default `100`).
3. Pipeline `searchTerms` filter titles/categories client-side (substring match, case-insensitive).
4. Run the pipeline.

### Defaults and constraints

- The upstream API **silently caps `limit` at 20** per request. The extractor uses `PAGE_SIZE = 20` and paginates with `offset` (up to 10 pages / 200 rows scanned per run before the per-term cap).
- There is no server-side search — if a term is rare, early pages may not contain matches even though later pages do. Raise the page budget only by changing the extractor constants if you need deeper scans.
- No auth required.

## Common problems

### Zero jobs for a term I know exists

- The term may not appear in the first ~200 API rows (newest-first feed). Try a shorter token (`software`, `engineer`, `SDET`) or accept that Himalayas skews toward whatever is currently at the top of the feed.
- Confirm you are not hitting an old build that requested `limit=50` and stopped after one page (fixed: the API returns at most 20, which used to look like end-of-feed).

### Rate limits / HTTP errors

- Retry later; the public API is generally stable but can throttle burst traffic.

## Related pages

- [Extractors Overview](/docs/next/extractors/overview)
- [Add an Extractor](/docs/next/workflows/add-an-extractor)
