Glassdoor API
The Glassdoor API returns company reviews, interview reports and salary data as clean JSON.
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The primary employer/search endpoint returns employers with id, name, category and logo, and you can pull an employer/detail, employer/reviews, employer/interviews, employer/jobs and employer/salaries — each with a harvest variant for bulk collection. It is built for employer-intelligence, recruiting and labor-market research that need Glassdoor data without a login or a scraper. One ReefAPI key, one shared credit pool, the standard envelope.
Real request and response JSON
Captured from the indexed primary action, employer/search, on .
{
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://api.reefapi.com/glassdoor/v1/employer/search",
"headers": {
"x-api-key": "$REEF_KEY",
"content-type": "application/json"
},
"body": {
"query": "Google"
}
}{
"ok": true,
"meta": {
"api": "glassdoor",
"endpoint": "employer/search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": 637.4,
"record_count": 7,
"bytes": 0,
"cache_hit": false,
"count": 7
},
"data": {
"results": [
{
"employer_id": 9079,
"name": "Google",
"category": "company",
"logo_url": "https://media.glassdoor.com/sqlm/9079/google-squarelogo-[redacted-phone].png"
},
{
"employer_id": 3162960,
"name": "[redacted-name]",
"category": "company",
"logo_url": "https://media.glassdoor.com/sqlm/3162960/google-cloud-squarelogo-[redacted-phone].png"
},
{
"employer_id": 9079,
"name": "[redacted-name]",
"category": "multicat",
"logo_url": "https://media.glassdoor.com/sqlm/9079/google-squarelogo-[redacted-phone].png"
}
]
}
}What the Glassdoor API does
| Action | Description | Concrete use case | Key params |
|---|---|---|---|
| employer/search | Resolve a company name to its Glassdoor employer_id + basic profile. Start here — every other action needs the employer_id. | Recruiting teams call employer/search to resolve a company name to its Glassdoor employer_id + basic profile. | query |
| employer/detail | Employer profile + ratings. | Labor-market analysts call employer/detail to get employer profile + ratings.. | employer_id, dynamic_profile_id |
| employer/reviews | One page of employer reviews (rating, pros/cons, role). | Job boards call employer/reviews to get one page of employer reviews (rating, pros/cons, role).. | employer_id, page, cursor, page_size, dynamic_profile_id |
| employer/reviews-harvest | Fetch all available Glassdoor reviews across multiple pages — returns every unique review with rating, pros/cons and role. | Sales intelligence teams call employer/reviews-harvest to fetch all available Glassdoor reviews across multiple pages. | employer_id, dynamic_profile_id, page_size, max_pages, use_proxy_pool, ... |
| employer/interviews | One page of interview reports (questions, difficulty, outcome). | Recruiting teams call employer/interviews to get one page of interview reports (questions, difficulty, outcome).. | employer_id, page, cursor, items_per_page, dynamic_profile_id |
| employer/interviews-harvest | Fetch all available Glassdoor interview reports across multiple pages. | Labor-market analysts call employer/interviews-harvest to fetch all available Glassdoor interview reports across multiple pages.. | employer_id, dynamic_profile_id, items_per_page, max_pages, use_proxy_pool, ... |
| employer/jobs | Employer job listings (one page; cursor pagination). | Job boards call employer/jobs to get employer job listings (one page; cursor pagination).. | employer_id, page, cursor, page_size, page_cursor |
| employer/jobs-harvest | Fetch all available Glassdoor job listings across multiple pages. | Sales intelligence teams call employer/jobs-harvest to fetch all available Glassdoor job listings across multiple pages.. | employer_id, dynamic_profile_id, page_size, max_pages, use_proxy_pool, ... |
| employer/salaries | Glassdoor salary estimates for this employer, broken down by job title. Each title returns the full pay distribution — base pay and total pay percentiles (P10/P25/P50/P75/P90), median base/total/additional pay, plus cash bonus, stock, profit sharing, sales commission and tips bands. Titles are ordered by number of reported salaries (most-reported first). | Recruiting teams call employer/salaries to get glassdoor salary estimates for this employer, broken down by job title. | employer_id, job_title, page, cursor, page_size, ... |
| employer/salaries-harvest | Fetch salary estimates for all job titles at this employer across multiple pages — every title with its full pay distribution. | Labor-market analysts call employer/salaries-harvest to fetch salary estimates for all job titles at this employer across multiple pages. | employer_id, job_title, page_size, pay_period, max_pages, ... |
Call employer/search from your stack
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/glassdoor/v1/employer/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"Google"}'import requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/glassdoor/v1/employer/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"query": "Google"
},
)
print(r.json()["data"])const res = await fetch("https://api.reefapi.com/glassdoor/v1/employer/search", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"x-api-key": process.env.REEF_KEY,
"content-type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"query": "Google"
}),
});
const { ok, data, meta, error } = await res.json();Ask your MCP-connected assistant: call reefapi.glassdoor.employer/search with {"query":"Google"}.Who uses this API and why
- Employer-branding teams call employer/reviews to monitor their company's Glassdoor rating and feedback.
- Recruiting tools use employer/salaries and employer/interviews to prep candidates with real pay and process data.
- Labor-market researchers use employer/detail across a company list to benchmark employer reputation.
Questions developers ask before integrating
What is the Glassdoor API?
Glassdoor API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for company reviews, ratings and salary insights. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /glassdoor/v1.
Is the Glassdoor API free to try?
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Glassdoor calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a Glassdoor login or account?
No login to Glassdoor is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the Glassdoor data?
The page example is captured from a live employer/search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the Glassdoor API use?
Glassdoor actions currently cost 1 credit per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free, and all APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call Glassdoor from an AI assistant or MCP client?
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call glassdoor actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the Glassdoor API a Glassdoor scraper?
It is the managed alternative to a DIY Glassdoor scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same company reviews, ratings and salary insights back as clean JSON.
Why does my Glassdoor scraper keep getting blocked?
Most Glassdoor scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked or failed calls are free.