Showcase: ATS Zero-Browser Gateway — protocol-level scraper & MCP server on Apify

[ginugokz]

Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a project I recently published on the Apify Store that tackles one of the most frustrating parts of modern web scraping: heavy applicant tracking systems (especially Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby).

Traditionally, extracting jobs from Workday requires running headless Puppeteer/Playwright instances that consume 800MB–1.2GB of RAM, take 45–60 seconds to hydrate, and frequently break on frontend class obfuscations.

How it works:

Instead of launching a browser, ATS Zero-Browser Gateway maps and targets the underlying internal backend JSON/CXS endpoints directly (e.g. /wday/cxs/{org}/{portal}/jobs).

• Performance: Extracts 40+ jobs with full descriptions, compensation, and HTML in 8.9 seconds at ~43MB of RAM (vs 45-60s on headless browsers).

• Dual-Hash Delta Tracking: Generates deterministic hashes to identify exactly which postings are ADDED, REMOVED, or UPDATED.

• MCP Server Native: Fully compatible with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) so AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) can query company careers directly.

• n8n Template: Includes a ready-to-import JSON workflow for scheduled pipeline monitoring.

• 📦 Apify Actor: https://apify.com/ginugokz/ats-zero-browser-gateway

• 💻 Open-Source GitHub: https://github.com/ginugokz/ats-zero-browser-gateway

Would love any feedback or thoughts from fellow Crawlee & Apify creators!

Edited 17 Oct 2026: SmartRecruiters support was removed because its robots.txt disallows automated access. Supported: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby.