How to Query Remote Jobs, Public Tenders, and City Populations with a Single API

Frank Horan — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:12:48 +0000

Finding reliable public data for developer projects often means stitching together half a dozen brittle scrapers or signing up for multiple paid services.

I built a consolidated Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform that groups three commonly needed datasets behind a fast, single endpoint interface:

Remote Tech Jobs & Normalized Salaries: Real-time job feeds categorized by role and stack with salary benchmarks.
Government Procurement Tenders: Active public sector RFPs and contracting notices.
Global City Demographics & Radius Search: Over 48,000 cities with geographic coordinates, population metrics, and bounding-circle radius queries.

Tech Stack

Framework: FastAPI running inside Docker
Database: SQLite with compound indexes for sub-millisecond retrieval
Tunneling & Gateway: Cloudflare Tunnel routed directly to RapidAPI for auth and rate limiting

Quick Python Example


python
import requests

url = "[https://remote-tech-jobs-salary-index.p.rapidapi.com/v1/population/search](https://remote-tech-jobs-salary-index.p.rapidapi.com/v1/population/search)"

querystring = {"city": "Austin", "country": "US"}

headers = {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "remote-tech-jobs-salary-index.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
print(response.json())

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How to Query Remote Jobs, Public Tenders, and City Populations with a Single API

Tech Stack

Quick Python Example