GoWork Scraper (FR, DE & ES)

Extract employer reviews and structured company profiles from GoWork's French, German, and Spanish platforms — gowork.fr, gowork.de, and es.gowork.com — in a single run.

What It Does

This actor scrapes public employer pages from GoWork and returns one row per company containing flattened company metadata, nested review threads with first-level replies, JSON-LD organization snapshots, and OpenGraph page metadata.

Features

• Three regions in one actor — feed URLs from gowork.fr, gowork.de, or es.gowork.com
• Two entry-point types — homepages (auto-discovers featured companies) or direct company profile URLs
• Rich company data — name, address, phone, website, employee count, founding year, industry, opening hours, rating histogram, logo, and cover image
• Nested review threads — every review with rating, author, date, pros, cons, position, status — plus first-level replies
• Filter text-only comments — optional toggle to return only star-rated reviews
• No nulls — every output field has a typed default; missing values become empty strings, zeros, or empty lists
• Discovery traceability — each record records how it was found (direct or homepage) and the source URL
• High reliability — uses Camoufox (anti-detect Firefox) with country-matched residential proxies (FR IPs for gowork.fr, DE IPs for gowork.de, ES IPs for es.gowork.com) to reliably bypass Cloudflare protection
• Balanced region coverage — when multiple region homepages are provided, company URLs are interleaved so tight maxItems caps yield fair coverage across regions

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array (required)	—	GoWork URLs to scrape
goworkOnlyRatedReviews	boolean	false	Exclude text-only comments; keep only rated threads
maxItems	integer	10000	Maximum company records per run
maxConcurrency	integer	100	Maximum concurrent requests
minConcurrency	integer	1	Minimum concurrent requests
maxRequestRetries	integer	100	Retries per failed request

Example Input

Recommended: Homepage discovery (all 3 regions):

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.gowork.fr/"},
    {"url": "https://www.gowork.de/"},
    {"url": "https://es.gowork.com/"}
  ],
  "goworkOnlyRatedReviews": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Each homepage exposes ~60 featured company URLs. Use this to bulk-scrape profiles across regions.

Direct company URLs:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.gowork.fr/15-production-boulogne-billancourt"},
    {"url": "https://www.gowork.de/apetito-ag"},
    {"url": "https://es.gowork.com/adsmurai-barcelona"}
  ],
  "maxItems": 3
}

Output

One record per company. Example:

{
  "url": "https://www.gowork.fr/15-production",
  "name": "15 PRODUCTION",
  "region": "fr",
  "country": "France",
  "host": "gowork.fr",
  "city": "Boulogne-Billancourt",
  "address": "12 rue de la Paix",
  "postalCode": "92100",
  "phone": "+33 1 41 41 66 33",
  "website": "https://15production.fr",
  "employeeRange": "85",
  "foundedYear": 2011,
  "industry": "Media & Entertainment",
  "description": "Leading production company …",
  "ratingAvg": 5.0,
  "ratingCount": 12,
  "ratingHistogram": {"1": 0, "2": 0, "3": 0, "4": 2, "5": 10},
  "logoUrl": "https://cdn.gowork.fr/logos/15prod.png",
  "coverUrl": "https://cdn.gowork.fr/covers/15prod.jpg",
  "openingHours": [
    {"day": "monday", "open": "09:00", "close": "18:00"}
  ],
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "rev-001",
      "author": "Jane D.",
      "rating": 5,
      "createdAt": "2026-02-14",
      "text": "Great place to work …",
      "pros": "Flexible hours",
      "cons": "Parking",
      "position": "Editor",
      "status": "current",
      "replies": [
        {"id": "rep-001", "author": "HR Team", "createdAt": "2026-02-16", "text": "Thank you!"}
      ]
    }
  ],
  "discovery": {"source": "listing", "queryUrl": "https://www.gowork.fr/entreprises/paris"}
}

Use Cases

• Employer reputation monitoring across French, German, and Spanish markets
• Sentiment analysis on review text, pros, and cons
• Competitive intelligence with firmographic enrichment (employees, founding year, industry)
• Lead generation using company contact info (phone, website, email)
• Review-trend tracking via rating histograms and timestamps

FAQ

Q: Which GoWork sites are supported? A: gowork.fr (France), gowork.de (Germany), and es.gowork.com (Spain).

Q: Do I need to configure a proxy? A: No — the actor uses Apify Residential proxy automatically.

Q: Can I scrape only reviews with star ratings? A: Yes — enable goworkOnlyRatedReviews to exclude text-only comments.

Q: What happens when I provide a homepage URL? A: The actor discovers all featured company profile URLs on that page (~60 per region) and scrapes each one.

Q: Can I mix regions in a single run? A: Yes. When you provide homepage URLs for multiple regions, company URLs from each region are interleaved so tight maxItems caps yield balanced coverage.

Q: How reliable is the scraping? A: The actor uses Camoufox (anti-detect Firefox) with country-matched residential proxies to bypass Cloudflare's bot protection. Real-world success rate is ~100% on Apify's platform.

Q: Are replies to reviews included? A: Yes — first-level replies are returned nested inside each review thread.

Q: Are any output fields null? A: No — every field has a typed default (empty string, 0, empty list, or empty object).

Q: What if a company page has no reviews? A: The reviews array will be empty, and company firmographic fields will still be extracted.