# New Job Posting Monitor — USAJobs & arbeitnow Alerts (`delta_tools/job-board-new-posting-monitor`) Actor

Never miss a new job posting. Watch your USAJobs and arbeitnow searches and get alerted the moment a genuinely new posting appears. Cross-run dedup means you pay only per new posting delivered. Official APIs only, no scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delta\_tools/job-board-new-posting-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Delta Tools](https://apify.com/delta_tools) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
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## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 new job postings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Job Board New-Posting Monitor

**Be the first to know when a job is posted — not the fiftieth to scrape the same board.**

This monitor watches your searches on **USAJobs** (US federal jobs) and
**arbeitnow** (remote-friendly jobs) and reports only **genuinely new postings**.
Run it on a schedule; when nothing new appeared, it pushes nothing and
[charges](#pricing) nothing.

### Why it's different

- **Cross-run dedup built in.** Other actors dump the same postings every
  morning (and bill you for every row). This one remembers what it already
  reported and surfaces only what changed.
- **First-party APIs only.** USAJobs' official API and arbeitnow's free public
  API — no fragile HTML scraping, no LinkedIn/Indeed terms-of-service risk,
  no proxy bills.
- **Pay per new posting, not per row.** You are billed per genuinely new job
  delivered, never for re-delivering an unchanged list. A scheduled run that
  finds nothing new costs only the $0.001 start.
- **Multi-query from day one.** Add up to 20 searches in one run; every row
  is tagged with the `searchQuery` that found it.
- **Freshness filter.** `postedWithinDays` (USAJobs) ignores stale postings, so
  your first run starts clean instead of flooding you with months-old jobs.
- **Auditable runs.** Every run writes a machine-readable receipt
  (`<stateKey>-last-receipt` in the state store) with per-search fetch
  counts, new/removed counters, and any errors.
- **Separate memories.** Give each scheduled monitor its own `stateKey` and
  their baselines never mix.

**Coverage note:** the only other new-job monitor in the Store covers remote
boards only (and arbeitnow solely as an opt-in remote-rows feed). Nobody
monitors USAJobs, and nobody monitors the full arbeitnow board — this actor
does both.

### Inputs

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `searches` | Your searches. Each has a `source` (`usajobs` or `arbeitnow`), a `keyword`, and source-specific options (USAJobs: `locationName`, `resultsPerPage`, `postedWithinDays`; arbeitnow: `remoteOnly`, `location`, `maxJobs`). |
| `usajobsApiKey` | **Free** key from [data.usajobs.gov](https://data.usajobs.gov) — sign in, request API access. Required only for USAJobs searches; arbeitnow needs no key. Without it, USAJobs searches are skipped gracefully (arbeitnow still runs). |
| `stateKey` | Namespace for this monitor's memory. Use a different key per schedule. |
| `reportInitialAsNew` | First run reports everything as `new`. Turn off to build the baseline silently. |
| `detectRemoved` | Also report postings that disappeared (filled/expired). Needs 2 consecutive misses to avoid false alarms. |

Example input:

```json
{
  "searches": [
    {"source": "usajobs", "keyword": "data analyst", "locationName": "New York, New York", "postedWithinDays": 7},
    {"source": "arbeitnow", "keyword": "software engineer", "remoteOnly": true}
  ],
  "usajobsApiKey": "YOUR_FREE_KEY",
  "stateKey": "morning-alerts"
}
```

### Output

One dataset row per new posting:

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `changeType` | `new` (or `removed`) |
| `source` | `usajobs` / `arbeitnow` |
| `title` | `Data Analyst` |
| `company` | `Department of Veterans Affairs` |
| `location` | `Washington, DC` |
| `url` | direct link to the posting |
| `postedDate` | `2026-09-22` |
| `remote` | `yes`/`no` (arbeitnow) |

### Pricing

Pay-per-event:

- **Actor start:** $0.001
- **New posting delivered:** $0.0015

A scheduled run that finds nothing new costs only the $0.001 start. Compare:
per-row actors bill you for every posting they re-deliver, every run.

### Notes

- arbeitnow is a free public API — please don't abuse it; their terms ask you
  to link back to arbeitnow.com.
- USAJobs requires the free `Authorization-Key`; the monitor sends the required
  `User-Agent` and `Host` headers for you.
- `removed` rows are informational and are never billed.

# Actor input Schema

## `detectRemoved` (type: `boolean`):

Report postings that disappeared (filled/expired). Needs 2 consecutive misses to avoid false alarms.

## `reportInitialAsNew` (type: `boolean`):

On the very first run there is no baseline, so every posting is reported as 'new'. Turn off to silently build the baseline instead.

## `searches` (type: `array`):

One entry per job search you want to watch.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Namespace for this monitor's memory. Use a different key per schedule if you run several monitors.

## `usajobsApiKey` (type: `string`):

Free key from data.usajobs.gov (sign in, request API access). Required only for USAJobs searches — arbeitnow needs no key. Without it, USAJobs searches are skipped gracefully.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "detectRemoved": true,
  "reportInitialAsNew": true,
  "stateKey": "default"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `changeType` (type: `string`):

What changed: 'new' for a newly detected posting, 'removed' for one that disappeared (filled/expired).

## `company` (type: `string`):

Hiring organization.

## `descriptionSnippet` (type: `string`):

Plain-text snippet of the posting description (arbeitnow only).

## `detectedAt` (type: `string`):

When this change was detected (ISO 8601, UTC).

## `jobId` (type: `string`):

Stable posting ID (USAJobs PositionID or arbeitnow slug).

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

Posting location as shown on the board.

## `postedDate` (type: `string`):

Date the posting was published (YYYY-MM-DD) when the board provides it.

## `remote` (type: `string`):

'yes'/'no' for arbeitnow remote flag; empty for USAJobs.

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

The keyword this posting was detected from.

## `source` (type: `string`):

Which board the posting came from: 'usajobs' or 'arbeitnow'.

## `title` (type: `string`):

Posting title as shown on the board.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Direct link to the posting.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delta_tools/job-board-new-posting-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delta_tools/job-board-new-posting-monitor").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 '{}' |
apify call delta_tools/job-board-new-posting-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,delta_tools/job-board-new-posting-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/MKrFkVi0DDPJuXLnC/builds/N8cuAaWpR7VjunYqi/openapi.json