# Jobberman Scraper (`crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper`) Actor

Scrape live job listings from Jobberman.com, Nigeria's largest job board. Search by keyword, location, industry, job function, and experience level, or fetch full job details from listing URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Jobberman Scraper

Scrape live job listings from [Jobberman.com](https://www.jobberman.com), Nigeria's largest job board. Search by keyword, location, industry, job function, and experience level, or fetch full job details — description, salary, deadline, requirements — from listing URLs. No login, no cookies, no paid proxy required.

### What this actor does

- **Two modes:** `search` (keyword + filters) and `byUrls` (direct listing fetch)
- **Filters:** location, industry, job function, experience level, employment type, salary range, keyword
- **Sorting:** Latest (default), Featured, or Popular — Jobberman's own result ordering
- **Rich detail enrichment:** optionally follows each listing to pull the full job description, requirements, application deadline, and company info
- **Deduplication:** the same listing is never emitted twice, even across pages
- **Empty fields are omitted** — every record only contains data actually present on the listing

### Output per job

- `jobId` — Jobberman's internal listing ID
- `title`, `companyName`, `location`
- `employmentType` — `fullTime` / `partTime` / `contract` / `internship` / `temporary` / `volunteer`
- `category` — occupational category (e.g. "Accounting, Auditing & Finance")
- `industry` — hiring company's industry
- `experienceLevel`, `experienceMonths`
- `educationLevel` — minimum education requirement (e.g. "HND", "Bachelor's Degree", "High School (S.S.C.E)"), when the employer specified one
- `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryCurrency`, `salaryPeriod` (only when disclosed)
- `descriptionHtml`, `descriptionText` — full job description (when `includeFullDescription` is on)
- `datePosted`, `validThrough` — ISO 8601 timestamps
- `datePostedRelative` — e.g. "Today", "3 days ago" (only when the absolute date wasn't fetched)
- `isFeatured`, `isNew`, `isEasyApply`
- `addressLocality`, `addressRegion`, `addressCountry`
- `companyLogoUrl`
- `directApply`
- `sourceUrl` — canonical listing URL
- `recordType: "job"`, `scrapedAt`

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mode` | string | `search` | `search` / `byUrls` |
| `searchQuery` | string | `sales` | Free-text keyword (mode=search); leave empty to browse all listings |
| `location` | select | – | Filter to a Jobberman location region |
| `industry` | select | – | Filter to an industry |
| `jobFunction` | select | – | Filter to a job function |
| `experienceLevel` | select | – | Filter to an experience level |
| `employmentType` | select | – | Filter to an employment type (applied client-side) |
| `minSalary` / `maxSalary` | int | – | Salary bounds (NGN/month); jobs with undisclosed salary always pass through |
| `containsKeyword` | string | – | Substring filter on title/company/description |
| `sortBy` | select | `latest` | Result order: `latest` / `featured` / `popular` |
| `listingUrls` | array | – | Direct listing URLs (mode=byUrls) |
| `includeFullDescription` | bool | `true` | Fetch each listing's detail page for full description/salary/deadline |
| `maxItems` | int | `30` | Hard cap (1–1000) |

#### Example: mid-level IT jobs in Lagos

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "developer",
  "location": "lagos",
  "industry": "it-telecoms",
  "experienceLevel": "mid-level",
  "maxItems": 30
}
```

#### Example: fetch specific listings

```json
{
  "mode": "byUrls",
  "listingUrls": ["https://www.jobberman.com/listings/accountstax-senior-2k886k"]
}
```

### Use cases

- **Job seekers** — build custom alerts or dashboards for Nigerian job openings by industry/location.
- **Recruiters & staffing agencies** — monitor market rates and competitor job postings.
- **Labor-market researchers** — track hiring trends, salary bands, and in-demand skills across Nigeria.
- **HR tech products** — power a job-aggregation feature with fresh, structured listing data.

### FAQs

**Does this require a Jobberman account or API key?**
No. The actor scrapes publicly available listing pages — no login, cookies, or API key needed.

**How current is the data?**
Every run fetches live pages directly from jobberman.com; there is no caching layer.

**Why are some fields missing on some jobs?**
Jobberman listings vary — not every job discloses a salary, and some employers post anonymously. Only fields actually present on the page are included (no placeholder/sentinel values).

**Can I filter by salary?**
Yes — `minSalary`/`maxSalary` filter on disclosed salary bands (NGN/month). Jobs with an undisclosed salary always pass through so you don't miss them.

**Why does `location` only offer ~12 options instead of all 36 Nigerian states?**
Only the values in the dropdown are confirmed to actually narrow Jobberman's results server-side. Individual state-name query values outside this curated list were tested and found to be silently ignored by jobberman.com (it falls back to the unfiltered listing instead of erroring), so they were deliberately left out rather than shipped as a filter that looks like it works but doesn't. Use `containsKeyword` or `searchQuery` together with a broad `location` value to narrow further.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Free-text keyword — job title, skill, or company name. Leave empty to browse all listings.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Filter to a Jobberman location region.

## `industry` (type: `string`):

Filter to a Jobberman industry.

## `jobFunction` (type: `string`):

Filter to a Jobberman job function.

## `experienceLevel` (type: `string`):

Filter to a Jobberman experience level.

## `employmentType` (type: `string`):

Filter results to a single employment type (applied client-side against the listing's displayed job type).

## `minSalary` (type: `integer`):

Drop jobs whose disclosed salary band is entirely below this value. Jobs with no disclosed salary always pass through.

## `maxSalary` (type: `integer`):

Drop jobs whose disclosed salary band is entirely above this value. Jobs with no disclosed salary always pass through.

## `containsKeyword` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive substring filter applied to title, company name, and description.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort order for search results (mode=search). Jobberman's own "Latest" / "Featured" / "Popular" toggle.

## `listingUrls` (type: `array`):

Direct Jobberman listing URLs, e.g. https://www.jobberman.com/listings/accountstax-senior-2k886k

## `includeFullDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each listing's detail page for full description, requirements, deadline, and company info. Slower but richer. mode=byUrls always fetches the detail page.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on emitted records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "sales",
  "location": "",
  "industry": "",
  "jobFunction": "",
  "experienceLevel": "",
  "employmentType": "",
  "sortBy": "latest",
  "listingUrls": [],
  "includeFullDescription": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped Jobberman job listings.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "sales",
    "sortBy": "latest",
    "listingUrls": [],
    "includeFullDescription": true,
    "maxItems": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "sales",
    "sortBy": "latest",
    "listingUrls": [],
    "includeFullDescription": True,
    "maxItems": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "sales",
  "sortBy": "latest",
  "listingUrls": [],
  "includeFullDescription": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crawlerbros/jobberman-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/VFYSCyFc0Z0KunKmn/builds/f6iYSfFuptukLPO5N/openapi.json