Jobs · head-to-head
Jobs2Careers vs Reed
Jobs2Careers (J2C) is a cost-per-click job-ad aggregator: its search.php endpoint returns matching listings from thousands of employer feeds for publishers to display and earn a click-through share on. A live probe confirmed the gateway now serves over HTTPS and still requires the documented API-key parameters.
Reed's Jobseeker API searches the UK's reed.co.uk job listings by keyword, location, salary band, and contract type, returning employer and description data for each match. Access needs a free registered API key sent as the HTTP Basic-auth username, confirmed live by a genuine 401 challenge that also echoed a wildcard CORS header back.
| Jobs2Careers | Reed | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | API Key |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Reed supports CORS, while Jobs2Careers doesn't — pick Reed for direct browser calls.