I checked 900 "remote" job postings. Of the 71 that fit me, 16 were open to India.

A developer built the Worldwide Remote Jobs Scraper, an Apify-hosted tool that reads eight remote job boards and labels each posting for whether someone living in India can apply. Of 900 "remote" postings checked, 71 fit the developer's criteria and only 16 were open to applicants in India, roughly 1 in 4 of the relevant listings. The scraper uses a deterministic rule set with quoted evidence for each verdict, supports 110+ countries, and is available as an MCP tool for AI agents, with open-source code on GitHub.

"Remote" on a job board usually means "remote, inside the US". I wanted a number, so I wrote a script that reads 8 remote job boards Himalayas, RemoteOK, We Work Remotely, Remotive, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, Working Nomads and the Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread and labels every posting for one question: can someone living in India apply to this? m/w/d local hires So roughly 1 in 4 of the relevant "remote" jobs was one I could actually apply to. No AI, just reading the posting in a fixed order: A job that only says "Remote" is marked unclear , never "worldwide". Every verdict carries the quoted text it came from, so a wrong one is obvious. Two mistakes I made first, in case you build something similar: the word "global" in a description "a global company" is not a hiring statement, and two-letter country codes "in", "it", "de" match ordinary English words. It runs on Apify as the Worldwide Remote Jobs Scraper : set your country and keywords, get a JSON/CSV list with a verdict per job. It works for 110+ countries, and as an MCP tool for AI agents. https://apify.com/yash harkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator https://apify.com/yash harkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator The code is open, including the full rule list in src/eligibility.js : https://github.com/yashharkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator https://github.com/yashharkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator If a verdict looks wrong for your country, open an issue with the job URL and I will fix the rule.