Wellfound Auto-Apply

Automatically applies to matching jobs on Wellfound (ex-AngelList Talent). A Playwright runner opens Chrome with your saved Wellfound session, injects the apply script into the /jobs feed, and the script:

• scrolls the infinite feed and picks jobs whose title matches your keywords (and skips a blocklist),
• opens each job's "Apply to Company" panel,
• fills the cover letter (personalized per company/role from your .env data),
• answers extra questions from a built-in Q&A bank (optionally falls back to Gemini for unknown questions),
• handles location prompts ("I can relocate to…"), dropdowns, radios and checkboxes,
• submits, logs every application to applications.csv, and respects a 50/day cap.

It starts in DRY RUN mode by default — it fills everything but never presses Send — so you can watch it work before going live.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (Task Scheduler used for automatic daily runs — manual runs work anywhere Node does)
• Node.js 18+
• Google Chrome
• A Wellfound account with your profile + resume completed

Setup

1. Clone and install:

git clone https://github.com/ankitbaghel01/wellfound_autoApply.git
cd wellfound_autoApply
npm install

2. Create your .env:

copy .env.example .env

Open .env and fill in your details — name, contact, skills, highlights, salary expectations, links, etc. Every application answer and cover letter is built from these values; nothing personal is hard-coded in the scripts. .env is git-ignored, so your data never gets pushed.

Optional: set GEMINI_KEY to a free Google Gemini API key — any application question the built-in answer bank can't match gets answered by Gemini using your CV.

3. Log in to Wellfound (one time, visible browser):

node auto-apply-runner.js wellfound login

A Chrome window opens — log in to wellfound.com, then close the window. The session is saved to .wellfound-chrome-profile/ and reused by every later run.

4. Dry run (watch it, nothing is submitted):

node auto-apply-runner.js wellfound

Chrome opens on the jobs feed, and you'll see forms being filled. The log (auto-apply-wellfound.log) shows lines like:

✍ cover letter filled
🔍 DRY_RUN — would click: Apply
==> 1/50 this run (1/50 today)

5. Go live:

node auto-apply-runner.js wellfound --live

Same flow, but Send is actually clicked. Each application is appended to applications.csv (Date, Site, Role, Company, Salary, Skills, Job Link, JD) and counted in apply-state-wellfound.json toward the daily cap.

Customizing which jobs it applies to

Edit the CONFIG block at the top of wellfound-auto-apply.js:

Locations: the script applies to whatever your Wellfound search filters show on wellfound.com/jobs — set your filters (remote / worldwide / a city) once in the browser and it follows them. Jobs in other locations are still handled: when Wellfound asks, it picks "I can relocate to…" and selects the job's offered location. Jobs the company has location-blocked are detected and skipped. Jobs posted more than 14 days ago are skipped.

Run it automatically every day (Task Scheduler)

$repo = "C:\path\to\wellfound_autoApply"
$action  = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "node.exe" -Argument "`"$repo\auto-apply-runner.js`" wellfound --live" -WorkingDirectory $repo
$trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At 12:30
Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName "WellfoundAutoApply" -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -StartWhenAvailable)

Useful commands:

Start-ScheduledTask WellfoundAutoApply       # run now
Disable-ScheduledTask WellfoundAutoApply     # pause
Enable-ScheduledTask WellfoundAutoApply      # resume
Unregister-ScheduledTask WellfoundAutoApply  # remove

Troubleshooting

Files

Disclaimer

Auto-applying may violate Wellfound's Terms of Service and can get an account rate-limited or banned. The delays are deliberately human-like and everything runs on your own machine with your own account — use at your own risk, and review the dry run before going live.