Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper

What does Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper do?

Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper extracts structured job data from tal.net — including salary data and full descriptions. It supports keyword search, so you can run the same query consistently over time. The actor also offers detail enrichment (full descriptions) where the source provides them.

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Key features

• ♻️ Incremental mode — recurring runs emit only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED records — UNCHANGED and EXPIRED are opt-in. First run builds the baseline; subsequent runs emit and charge only for the diff. Pair with notifications for daily "new jobs" alerts to your hiring team. Saves 80–95% on daily monitoring.
• 🔔 Notifications — Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp Cloud API, generic webhook — out of the box. Pair with incremental + notifyOnlyChanges for daily "new Tal jobs" pings to your hiring channel.
• 🔗 Paste-mode — paste any tal.net URL straight from your browser — single-job pages, search-results URLs, or category SEO URLs. Build the search you want in the UI, copy the URL, paste it here.
• 📋 Detail enrichment — two-stage mode: list, then enrich each job with the full description + detail-page fields (apply counts, education, etc.). One toggle, no extra orchestration.
• 📧 Email + phone extraction — every record carries extractedEmails[] and extractedPhones[] regex-pulled from the description — direct-outreach lists with no extra processing step.
• 🔗 URL + social-profile extraction — every record carries extractedUrls[] and structured socialProfiles { linkedin, twitter, github, … } parsed from the description — useful when employers drop their careers page or recruiter LinkedIn in-line.
• 📦 Compact mode — AI-agent and MCP-friendly compact payloads with core fields only — pipe straight into your ATS, salary-benchmarking tool, or LLM context without parsing extras.
• ✂️ Description truncation — cap description length with descriptionMaxLength to control LLM prompt cost and dataset size — set 0 for full descriptions, or any char-limit to trim.
• 📌 Change classification — each record carries a changeType of NEW / UPDATED / UNCHANGED / REAPPEARED / EXPIRED. Default emits NEW + UPDATED + REAPPEARED; opt into the others with emitUnchanged / emitExpired. Repost detection flags previously-expired listings that come back.
• 📤 Export anywhere — Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console, or stream live via the Apify API and integrations (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, n8n, …).

What data can you extract from tal.net?

Each result includes Core listing fields (jobId, title, organisation, location, contractType, workingPattern, salary, and advertisedDate, and more) and detail fields when enrichment is enabled (vacancyType, roleType, description, benefits, and detailFetched). In standard mode, all fields are always present — unavailable data points are returned as null, never omitted. In compact mode, only core fields are returned.

Enable detail enrichment in the input to get richer fields such as full descriptions where the source provides them.

Input

The main inputs are a search keyword. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• boards — Enter one or more board domain names from the built-in list. The scraper resolves each to its SERP URL automatically. Available: publicjobs.tal.net, csoi.tal.net, csorecruitment.tal.net, dper.tal.net, cais.tal.net, cymru-wales.tal.net, cabinetofficejobs.tal.net, fcdo.tal.net, scsrecruitment.tal.net, theroyalhousehold.tal.net, policescotland-spacareers.tal.net, btp.tal.net, asp.tal.net, wiltshirepolice.tal.net, greatermanchesterpolice.tal.net, policejobswales.tal.net, sps.tal.net, eurofound.tal.net, oleeo-jobs.tal.net
• startUrls — One or more Oleeo / TAL.net job board listing URLs to scrape. Use this for boards not in the list above. The URL typically contains /candidate/jobboard/vacancy/. You can pass the xf- session hash URL or the base URL without it; both work.
• query — Filter jobs by keyword across all selected boards. Searches vacancy title, job description, and main duties. Leave empty to return all jobs.
• maxItems — Maximum total number of job listings to return across all boards. 0 = unlimited. (default: 0)
• includeDetails — Fetch each job detail page to extract salary, full description, contract type, and other fields not shown on the listing page. Adds one request per job. (default: true)
• descriptionMaxLength — Truncate description/requirements/benefits to N characters. 0 = no truncation. (default: 0)
• compact — Return core fields only (jobId, title, organisation, location, salary, contractType, closingDate, url, sourceDomain). Ideal for AI-agent and MCP workflows. (default: false)
• incrementalMode — Only emit jobs that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run for the same state key. (default: false)
• stateKey — Optional state identifier. Leave empty to auto-derive one from startUrls/boards and query.
• emitUnchanged — When Incremental Mode is on, also emit unchanged jobs with changeType=UNCHANGED. Default false means only NEW/UPDATED jobs are pushed and charged. (default: false)
• telegramToken — Telegram bot token from @BotFather. Required for Telegram notifications.
• telegramChatId — Telegram chat or channel ID where alerts are sent (e.g. "-100123456789" for a private group, or "@yourchannel").
• ...and 11 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Targeted run scoped to a specific descriptionFormat.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "descriptionFormat": "all",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit jobs that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "descriptionFormat": "all",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "all-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "descriptionFormat": "all",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured job records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example job record

{
  "jobId": "4173",
  "title": "Senior Quantity Surveyor Grade I",
  "organisation": "Department of Education and Youth",
  "location": "Tullamore",
  "vacancyType": "publicjobs",
  "contractType": "Permanent",
  "workingPattern": null,
  "roleType": "Civil Service",
  "salary": null,
  "advertisedDate": "01/05/2026, 13:37",
  "closingDate": "28/05/2026, 15:00",
  "description": "The Department of Education and Youth are now recruiting Senior Quantity Surveyors Grade I for its Planning and Building Unit in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.These senior positions offer an exciting opportun...",
  "requirements": null,
  "benefits": null,
  "referenceNumber": "4173",
  "organisationUrl": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/",
  "organisationInfo": "The mission of the Department of Education and Youth is to ensure that all children and young people have access to a positive learning experience and to facilitate them, through learning to realise t...",
  "url": "https://publicjobs.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-4/xf-23a5840a14db/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/4173-Senior-Quantity-Surveyor-Grade-I/en-GB",
  "boardUrl": "https://publicjobs.tal.net/candidate/jobboard/vacancy/3/adv/",
  "sourceDomain": "publicjobs.tal.net",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-05-03T11:12:45.017Z"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental: true, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true to opt into the others.
• firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt — ISO-8601 timestamps tracking the listing across runs.

How to scrape tal.net

1. Go to Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter a search keyword.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Enable includeDetails if you need full descriptions.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Extract job data from tal.net for market research and competitive analysis.
• Track salary trends across regions and categories over time.
• Monitor new and changed listings on scheduled runs without processing the full dataset every time.
• Feed structured data into AI agents, MCP tools, and automated pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.

How much does it cost to scrape tal.net?

Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.0015 per run
• Per result: $0.003 per job record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.03
• 100 results: $0.3
• 500 results: $1.5

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of listings that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 results per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Event-pricing examples scale linearly with result count.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.75	$0.04	$0.71 (95%)	$1.17
15% — moderate broad query	$0.75	$0.11	$0.64 (85%)	$3.42
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.75	$0.23	$0.52 (70%)	$6.79

Full re-scrape monthly cost at daily polling: $22.54. First month with incremental costs $1.88 / $4.06 / $7.32 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage (compute and proxies) is billed separately by Apify based on actual consumption. Incremental runs consume less on result processing, though fixed per-run overhead stays the same.

FAQ

How many results can I get from tal.net?

The number of results depends on the search query and available listings on tal.net. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed listings on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Oleeo / TAL.net Job Board Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode and descriptionMaxLength to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape tal.net?

This actor extracts publicly available data from tal.net. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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