The Muse

The Muse is a careers and company-profiles platform that helps people find jobs at companies whose values match their own. Its free, documented public REST API (v2) exposes hundreds of thousands of live job openings - searchable by category, experience level, company, and location - alongside rich employer company profiles (industry, size, locations, and behind-the-scenes content). An optional api_key raises rate limits. This makes The Muse a strong source for "job openings", jobs, careers, and recruiting use cases and for building job boards, career sites, and employer-branding integrations.

The Muse publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Companies API and Jobs API. Tagged areas include Job Postings, Job, Careers, Recruiting, and Employment.

The The Muse catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

The Muse’s developer surface includes documentation and 8 more developer resources.

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25.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Job Postings Job Careers Recruiting Employment Company Profiles Job Search Hiring Human Resources

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 25.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 10.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 17.9 — up to +16.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 50.2 — up to +12.5 composite points

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

The Muse Companies API

Employer company profiles that back the job listings.

The Muse Jobs API

Live job openings, searchable by category, level, company, and location.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

The Muse Public Companies API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Muse Public Companies Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Muse Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Themuse Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Themuse Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Themuse Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

The Muse API Rules

61 rules · 59 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Themuse Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Themuse Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: themuse
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/themuse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: The Muse
kind: company
description: The Muse is a careers and company-profiles platform that helps people find jobs at companies whose values match
  their own. Its free, documented public REST API (v2) exposes hundreds of thousands of live job openings - searchable by
  category, experience level, company, and location - alongside rich employer company profiles (industry, size, locations,
  and behind-the-scenes content). An optional api_key raises rate limits. This makes The Muse a strong source for "job openings",
  jobs, careers, and recruiting use cases and for building job boards, career sites, and employer-branding integrations.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/themuse.png
tags:
- Job Postings
- Job
- Careers
- Recruiting
- Employment
- Company Profiles
- Job Search
- Hiring
- Human Resources
tags_raw:
- Job Openings
- Jobs
- Careers
- Recruiting
- Employment
- Company Profiles
- Job Search
- Hiring
- HR Tech
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: themuse:themuse-companies-api
  name: The Muse Companies API
  description: Employer company profiles that back the job listings.
  humanURL: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  baseURL: https://www.themuse.com/api/public
  tags:
  - Companies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/themuse-companies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/themuse.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/themuse.opencollection.json
- aid: themuse:themuse-jobs-api
  name: The Muse Jobs API
  description: Live job openings, searchable by category, level, company, and location.
  humanURL: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  baseURL: https://www.themuse.com/api/public
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/themuse-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/themuse.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/themuse.opencollection.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/themuse-agentic-access.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-muse
- type: Website
  url: https://www.themuse.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.themuse.com/developers/api/v2
- type: Plans
  url: plans/themuse-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/themuse-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/themuse-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/themuse-domain-security.yml
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- the-muse

The Muse API — frequently asked questions

Does The Muse have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from The Muse, including The Muse Companies API and The Muse Jobs API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the The Muse API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for The Muse, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the The Muse API?

The Muse uses bearer-token authentication.

How much does the The Muse API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for The Muse, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the The Muse API ready for AI agents?

The Muse has a Kin Score of 25.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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