IrishJobs Ireland Scraper

Search public IrishJobs.ie vacancies by role and location and export structured job listings, salaries, schedules, posting dates, descriptions, employers, and application URLs.

The IrishJobs Ireland Scraper is built for repeatable recruiting research and Irish labor-market monitoring. It accepts keywords such as software engineer or nurse, an Ireland location such as Dublin or Cork, and public IrishJobs.ie search or job URLs.

What can you do with this IrishJobs scraper?

• Search current IrishJobs vacancies by role and location.
• Export job titles, employers, locations, schedules, posting dates, and descriptions.
• Capture disclosed salary ranges and structured EUR salary bounds when available.
• Preserve stable job IDs for comparing scheduled runs.
• Process a precise IrishJobs search URL or individual public vacancy URL.
• Feed structured vacancy rows into spreadsheets, databases, dashboards, or recruiting workflows.
• Run lighter search-only exports by disabling full detail enrichment.

This Actor returns the current public source state. It does not log in, submit applications, retain historical snapshots, or send alerts by itself.

Who is this Actor for?

Recruiters and talent teams

Build a current role-and-location vacancy feed, inspect hiring companies, and compare employer demand across repeat runs.

Labor-market analysts

Track stable job IDs, posting dates, locations, employment schedules, and disclosed salary bands for Irish market analysis.

Job-data and HR product teams

Export normalized IrishJobs rows into a warehouse, matching pipeline, search index, or internal dashboard.

Researchers and consultants

Create a reproducible dataset for a city, county, occupation, or supplied IrishJobs search page without manually copying listings.

Extracted IrishJobs vacancy data

Field	Meaning
jobId	Stable numeric IrishJobs vacancy ID
harmonisedId	Cross-platform identifier when supplied by IrishJobs
title	Advertised job title
employer	Employer shown on the listing
employerId	IrishJobs employer ID
location	Displayed city or county location
region	Region from structured detail data
country	IE
latitude, longitude	Job geocoordinates when disclosed
salaryText	Displayed search-result salary text
salaryMin, salaryMax	Parsed disclosed salary bounds
salaryCurrency	Salary currency, usually EUR
salaryPeriod	Salary period when structured
schedule	Employment type such as FULL_TIME
workFromHome	Search-result work-from-home signal
postingDate	Vacancy posting timestamp
validThrough	Vacancy expiry timestamp when available
description	Full plain-text description or a search snippet
skills	Structured skills when supplied
jobUrl	Canonical IrishJobs vacancy URL
applicationUrl	Public application entry URL
employerUrl	IrishJobs employer search/profile URL
employerLogoUrl	Public employer logo URL
sourceSearchUrl	Input/search page that produced the row
scrapedAt	Actor extraction timestamp

Unavailable source values are returned as null or an empty array rather than invented.

How to scrape IrishJobs Ireland vacancies

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Enter one or more roles in Roles or keywords.
3. Optionally enter an Ireland city or county.
4. Choose the maximum number of jobs.
5. Keep Fetch full job details enabled for full descriptions, schedule, salary details, expiry dates, and geocoordinates.
6. Click Start.
7. Open the Dataset tab to inspect or download the results.

A useful first input is:

{
  "keywords": ["software engineer"],
  "location": "Dublin",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	string array	—	Roles or search phrases; up to 20
location	string	—	Optional Ireland city, county, or location
startUrls	URL array	—	Public IrishJobs.ie search or individual job URLs
maxItems	integer	25	Maximum unique vacancy rows, from 1 to 5,000
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch full detail fields using Irish residential traffic
maxRequestRetries	integer	2	Bounded transient retries, from 0 to 4

Provide at least one keyword or start URL. When keywords/location are supplied with explicit URLs, emitted records must also match those filters.

Search URLs and individual job URLs

You can pass a public search page:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/jobs/in-cork" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeDetails": true
}

You can also pass an exact /job/...-job123456789 URL. Individual job URLs are useful for refreshing known vacancies or enriching URLs stored by another workflow.

Only HTTPS IrishJobs.ie /jobs and /job URLs are accepted. Other domains and unrelated site paths fail validation.

Example output

A current enriched result has this shape:

{
  "jobId": "107764802",
  "harmonisedId": "4e6ea7ee-5636-4cb2-b857-b3f7d09a6693",
  "title": "Software Engineer III, WAN Core, Network Engineering",
  "employer": "Google Ireland Ltd",
  "location": "Dublin, County Dublin",
  "region": "Dublin",
  "country": "IE",
  "latitude": 53.33306,
  "longitude": -6.24889,
  "salaryText": null,
  "salaryMin": 100000,
  "salaryMax": 102000,
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "salaryPeriod": null,
  "schedule": "FULL_TIME",
  "postingDate": "2026-07-29T11:08:07.597Z",
  "validThrough": "2026-08-28T22:00:00Z",
  "description": "Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience...",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/job/software-engineer/google-ireland-ltd-job107764802",
  "applicationUrl": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/job/software-engineer/google-ireland-ltd-job107764802",
  "sourceSearchUrl": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/jobs/software-engineer/in-dublin",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Salary values depend on what the employer discloses. A listing may include salary text inside its full description even when the search card says “Not Disclosed”; detail enrichment parses a clear EUR range when present.

How much does it cost to scrape IrishJobs vacancies?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• a one-time Start event costs $0.005;
• each saved vacancy uses the plan-specific Item processed price;
• Apify platform usage can vary because full detail enrichment uses Irish residential proxy traffic.

Current per-item tiers are:

Plan tier	Price per saved vacancy
Free	$0.0019412
Bronze	$0.0016880
Silver	$0.0013166
Gold	$0.0010128
Platinum	$0.0006752
Diamond	$0.00047264

At Bronze, event charges are about $0.0219 for 10 jobs, $0.0472 for 25 jobs, and $0.1738 for 100 jobs, including one start event. Platform resource and proxy usage is shown separately by Apify; Console is the final estimate for a run.

Only successfully saved unique jobs trigger item events. Detail enrichment is included in the job row and does not have a separate event charge.

Monitoring new or changed IrishJobs vacancies

Use an Apify schedule with the same input, then compare datasets by jobId.

A typical monitoring workflow is:

1. Run the Actor daily or weekly.
2. Store jobId, postingDate, and fields important to your analysis.
3. Mark unseen IDs as new vacancies.
4. Compare salary, schedule, employer, location, and description fields for changes.
5. Mark previously observed IDs that disappear from the current source set as candidates for closure.

The Actor does not maintain history internally. Your dataset, database, or automation controls retention and comparison policy.

Salary and schedule analysis

Full detail mode reads structured JobPosting data and visible description text. It can return:

• search-card salary text;
• structured minimum and maximum salary;
• currency and period when available;
• clearly displayed EUR ranges in full descriptions;
• structured employment type such as FULL_TIME.

Do not treat null salary as zero. It means the source did not provide a value the Actor could safely normalize.

Export IrishJobs data to a spreadsheet or database

Open the run Dataset to download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS.

Common destinations include:

• Google Sheets through Make or Zapier;
• Airtable or a recruiting operations table;
• PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, or a data lake;
• an internal vacancy search index;
• a labor-market dashboard;
• a role taxonomy or salary-analysis pipeline.

Use stable jobId values as natural source keys and scrapedAt as extraction metadata.

Run with the Apify API

cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~irishjobs-job-listings-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords":["software engineer"],"location":"Dublin","maxItems":25,"includeDetails":true}'

Keep tokens in environment variables or a secret manager rather than source code.

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/irishjobs-job-listings-scraper').call({
  keywords: ['software engineer'],
  location: 'Dublin',
  maxItems: 25,
  includeDetails: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("automation-lab/irishjobs-job-listings-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "keywords": ["nurse"],
        "location": "Ireland",
        "maxItems": 25,
        "includeDetails": True,
    }
)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

Use IrishJobs data with MCP and AI agents

Add the Actor to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http apify \
  "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/irishjobs-job-listings-scraper"

For Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code, use:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/irishjobs-job-listings-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• “Find 20 current software engineer roles in Dublin from IrishJobs and summarize disclosed salary ranges.”
• “Export nursing vacancies across Ireland and group them by employer and county.”
• “Refresh these IrishJobs job URLs and identify records whose expiry date has passed.”

An AI-generated summary is not included in the Actor output; the MCP client or downstream model performs that step.

Reliability, retries, and limits

Search uses IrishJobs' public structured result-list endpoint over direct HTTP. Full details use an Irish residential HTTP session because ordinary detail-page delivery is protected.

The Actor:

• validates recognizable structured search and detail responses;
• keeps cookies and sticky residential identity together;
• rotates an exhausted or challenged detail session;
• retries only bounded transient failures;
• deduplicates stable job IDs;
• stops if IrishJobs repeats a pagination page;
• does not report a challenge page as an empty valid result.

If an individual detail page fails, the Actor preserves the useful search row with its exact URL, employer, location, posting date, salary text, and description snippet. Detail-only fields remain null.

IrishJobs can change its public pages or structured interfaces. Use a moderate result limit and scheduled cadence rather than creating unnecessary traffic.

Search-only mode

Set includeDetails to false when you need a lighter current-listing feed.

Search-only mode normally includes:

• IDs;
• title;
• employer;
• location;
• search salary;
• posting date;
• snippet;
• exact job URL.

It may omit full descriptions, schedule, expiry date, geocoordinates, and salary values displayed only on the detail page.

Responsible use and legality

This Actor accesses public IrishJobs.ie vacancy information without login.

You are responsible for:

• following IrishJobs.ie terms and applicable laws;
• using a reasonable schedule and result limit;
• respecting intellectual-property and database rights;
• handling employer and vacancy data lawfully;
• avoiding discriminatory employment decisions;
• securing exported datasets;
• honoring deletion, retention, and access requirements that apply to your use case.

The Actor does not bypass login, submit applications, or collect private candidate information.

Troubleshooting

Why are salary fields null?

Many employers do not disclose salary. Keep full detail enrichment enabled to capture a visible EUR range that may appear only in the description. Treat null as unavailable, not zero.

Why is the description shorter than expected?

The detail page may have failed after bounded retries, in which case the Actor returns the search snippet. Check logs for a detail-enrichment warning and retry later if the full text is essential.

Why did the run return fewer rows than maxItems?

maxItems is an upper bound. The source may have fewer current matches, filters may remove rows, listings may be duplicates, or IrishJobs may repeat a pagination page. The Actor stops repeated pages to avoid an infinite loop.

Can I search IrishJobs login-only data?

No. This Actor supports anonymous public job search and detail pages only. It does not use an IrishJobs login or candidate account.

Can I scrape another job board with startUrls?

No. Inputs are restricted to public HTTPS IrishJobs.ie search and job paths so that parsing and output semantics remain accurate.

FAQ

Does it apply for jobs?

No. applicationUrl is an entry link for the public vacancy; the Actor never submits an application.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Apify schedules can trigger recurring runs. Compare results by stable jobId in your own storage or automation.

Does it monitor new and changed jobs automatically?

It returns the current source state. A scheduled workflow can compare current rows with prior rows to identify additions, changes, and disappearances.

Are all descriptions and salaries guaranteed?

No. The Actor exports what IrishJobs and the employer publicly disclose. Detail failures degrade to useful search rows, and undisclosed fields remain null.

What location formats work?

Use common Ireland places such as Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, or Ireland. You can also supply a real IrishJobs location search URL.

Is the output available as CSV?

Yes. Apify Dataset supports CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RSS, and API access.

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This Actor is intentionally IrishJobs.ie-specific. Source-specific validation preserves clearer vacancy fields and failure behavior than pretending unrelated job boards share the same contract.