Distinguish Lever's public Postings API from the authenticated Hire/Data API when building an integration
domain: lever.co · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
For public, unauthenticated job listings, call the Postings API at https://api.lever.co/v0/postings/{site} — only published, non-confidential postings are returned.
For recruiting data (opportunities, candidates, requisitions), use the Hire/Data API at https://api.lever.co/v1/... instead.
Authenticate Hire API calls with HTTP Basic Auth, using your API key as the username and leaving the password blank.
For partner-built (multi-tenant) integrations, use OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens instead, requesting offline_access if you need refresh tokens.
Test against the sandbox (hire.sandbox.lever.co / api.sandbox.lever.co) before pointing at production.
Request confidential-data access explicitly when the API key is provisioned if your integration needs confidential postings, opportunities, or requisitions.
Known gotchas
A key without confidential-data access silently omits confidential records rather than erroring — verify your key's scope if data looks incomplete.
The Postings API and Hire API have entirely different auth models; a Postings API key does not work against v1 endpoints.
Lever enforces a roughly 10 req/sec steady-state token bucket per key (bursts to ~20/sec); build in backoff even though it's not a contractual SLA.
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