GulfTalent Jobs Scraper — stale listings flagged

Scrape GulfTalent listings and get what the result count hides: exact posting dates, how many listings are stale, and how many are the same role posted more than once.

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Why this one

"237 results" is not 237 openings. Some of those postings are months old, and some are the same job listed twice by the same employer. If you're sizing a market, tracking a competitor's hiring, or deciding where to apply, the headline number is the wrong number.

The GULFTALENT_SUMMARY record turns that into the one line people actually want: listings shown vs. distinct roles, plus the duplicate rate and the median age.

Duplicates are flagged, never deleted

Every row is returned. If repeats were dropped, you could no longer reconcile the output against GulfTalent's own count, and you'd have no way to check the grouping was right. Grouping is by company + normalised title within a single run — which is why the input takes one country at a time.

The year is inferred, and it says so

GulfTalent prints the day and month only ("12 Jul"). The year comes from the run date, with one rule: a date that would land in the future belongs to last year. Without that, a December posting read in August becomes four months in the future and every staleness figure inverts. postedText ships alongside so you can audit the parse.

Dates that cannot be read become null, never today. dateParsedRate in the summary tells you what share parsed cleanly.

Company can be null

GulfTalent puts the job title and the company in the same table cell. The company is recovered by removing the title from the front of that cell — and when that doesn't come apart cleanly, the field is null rather than a mangled string.

What you get

Per listing: job ID, title, company, location, posted date, days old, stale flag, duplicate count and repeat flag, job URL, company URL.

A GULFTALENT_SUMMARY record per run: listings shown, distinct roles, duplicate count and rate, median days old, stale count, what share of dates parsed, the oldest posting date, and the top companies and locations.

Coverage

uae, saudi-arabia, qatar, kuwait, bahrain, oman.

Reliability

Success rate was measured before this Actor was written: 5/5 through the same browser path used in production. It is monitored twice daily against a live page.

Proxy settings were measured too, not assumed: no proxy 6/6, datacenter 6/6. The default is no proxy, which is the cheapest option available. Turn it on only if you hit blocks.

Input

{
  "queries": ["data analyst", "software engineer"],
  "country": "uae",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50
}

Plain search terms become GulfTalent list URLs for the chosen country. Full list URLs work too, in which case country is ignored.

Billing

Pay per event: one job-scraped event per listing actually delivered to your dataset. Duplicate rows (the same listing fetched twice across pages) are removed before charging. Repeat postings are real listings and are charged — they're part of what you asked for. A run that returns nothing costs nothing.