# Career Page Job Change Monitor (`davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor`) Actor Extract public job postings from career pages so teams can monitor competitor hiring changes. - **URL**: https://apify.com/davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [David](https://apify.com/davidbenittah) (community) - **Categories:** Jobs, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). 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 ## Career Page Job Change Monitor Extract public job postings from career pages so startups, recruiters, and operators can monitor competitor hiring changes without checking pages manually. This Actor is intentionally narrow: it reads public career/job pages, respects `robots.txt` by default, extracts current job-posting rows, and gives each row a stable ID that can be compared between scheduled runs. ### What it extracts - JSON-LD `JobPosting` data when a page exposes structured job data. - Links to common public job-board systems such as Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Breezy, Personio, and Recruitee. - Generic career/job links on public career pages. ### Input ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://apify.com/careers" } ], "maxPagesPerSite": 5, "sameDomainOnly": true, "respectRobotsTxt": true } ```` Hard limits protect the buyer from accidental runaway runs: - `startUrls`: maximum 20 per run. - `maxPagesPerSite`: default 5, hard maximum 25. - No login, no paywalls, no private data, no browser automation. ### Output Each dataset item contains: ```json { "companyHost": "example.com", "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/careers", "jobUrl": "https://example.com/careers/software-engineer", "title": "Software Engineer", "location": "Remote", "descriptionSnippet": "Short snippet when available", "extractionMethod": "json_ld_jobposting", "confidence": 0.98, "stableId": "1d72f3...", "detectedAt": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z" } ``` ### Monitoring workflow Run this Actor on an Apify schedule with the same input. Compare `stableId` values across datasets to detect new, removed, or changed job postings. ### Boundaries This Actor only targets public pages. Keep `respectRobotsTxt` enabled unless you have verified that your use case and the target site allow crawling. Do not use it for private, authenticated, paywalled, or sensitive personal data. # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Public career/job pages to scan. Maximum 20 URLs per run. ## `maxPagesPerSite` (type: `integer`): Caps same-domain crawling from each start URL. Default 5, hard maximum 25. ## `sameDomainOnly` (type: `boolean`): Keep crawling on the same host as the start URL. Known external job-board links can still be extracted as results. ## `respectRobotsTxt` (type: `boolean`): When enabled, URLs disallowed by robots.txt are skipped. ## `includeUrlPatterns` (type: `array`): Optional case-insensitive regex patterns. If set, only matching crawl URLs are followed. ## `excludeUrlPatterns` (type: `array`): Optional case-insensitive regex patterns for crawl URLs to skip. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://apify.com/careers" } ], "maxPagesPerSite": 5, "sameDomainOnly": true, "respectRobotsTxt": true, "includeUrlPatterns": [], "excludeUrlPatterns": [] } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://apify.com/careers" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com/careers" }] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://apify.com/careers" } ] }' | apify call davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=davidbenittah/career-page-job-change-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Career Page Job Change Monitor", "description": "Extract public job postings from career pages so teams can monitor competitor hiring changes.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "UU07FL48Ts3HidPZ2" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/davidbenittah~career-page-job-change-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-davidbenittah-career-page-job-change-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/davidbenittah~career-page-job-change-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-davidbenittah-career-page-job-change-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/davidbenittah~career-page-job-change-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-davidbenittah-career-page-job-change-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "startUrls" ], "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Career or jobs page URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Public career/job pages to scan. Maximum 20 URLs per run.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxPagesPerSite": { "title": "Maximum pages per site", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 25, "type": "integer", "description": "Caps same-domain crawling from each start URL. Default 5, hard maximum 25.", "default": 5 }, "sameDomainOnly": { "title": "Stay on the same domain", "type": "boolean", "description": "Keep crawling on the same host as the start URL. Known external job-board links can still be extracted as results.", "default": true }, "respectRobotsTxt": { "title": "Respect robots.txt", "type": "boolean", "description": "When enabled, URLs disallowed by robots.txt are skipped.", "default": true }, "includeUrlPatterns": { "title": "Include URL regex patterns", "type": "array", "description": "Optional case-insensitive regex patterns. 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