List and cross-link Candidates and Job Openings records via Zoho Recruit's REST API v2
domain: recruit.zoho.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Register a client in the Zoho API Console and run the OAuth 2.0 flow against https://accounts.zoho.com/oauth/v2/auth, requesting Recruit-specific scopes such as ZohoRecruit.modules.candidates.ALL and ZohoRecruit.modules.jobopenings.ALL (or ZohoRecruit.modules.ALL for full access).
Note the API host is recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/ — a separate host and OAuth scope namespace (ZohoRecruit.*) from Zoho CRM's zohoapis.com hosts and ZohoCRM.* scopes; CRM tokens are not valid here.
GET https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/settings/modules (or /settings/modules/{module_api_name}) to confirm which recruit-specific modules — Candidates, Job_Openings, Interviews, Assessments, etc. — are available and flagged api_supported: true for your account.
GET https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/Candidates or https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/Job_Openings to list records, sending header 'Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken {access_token}'.
Use each module's exact api_name as returned by the modules endpoint (e.g. 'Candidates', 'Job_Openings') — default module api_names cannot be renamed, only custom modules can.
Use the Associate Candidate / Get Associated Records endpoints to fetch a Candidate's linked Job Openings or a Job Opening's linked Candidates.
Known gotchas
Zoho Recruit is a distinct product/API surface from Zoho CRM: same Zoho-oauthtoken bearer scheme, but different host (recruit.zoho.com vs zohoapis.com) and different OAuth scopes — do not reuse CRM credentials or assume CRM routes apply here.
The v2 API enforces a daily credit-based rate limit (e.g., 500,000 credits on Enterprise, 1,000,000 on Ultimate); heavy polling of Candidates/Job_Openings can exhaust the daily allotment.
Not every module is API-accessible — check the api_supported flag on the modules endpoint before building against a module, since some may return false.
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