# GulfTalent Jobs Scraper — stale listings flagged (`entrogix_works/gulftalent-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape GulfTalent listings and get what the result count hides: exact posting dates instead of vague labels, how many postings are stale, and how many are the same role posted more than once. The headline count is almost never the number of real openings. Unofficial; not affiliated with GulfTalent.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/entrogix\_works/gulftalent-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Entrogix Works](https://apify.com/entrogix_works) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 job scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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**.

> Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to GulfTalent.

### 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.

| Field | What it answers |
|---|---|
| `postedDate` / `daysOld` | How old is this, exactly |
| `isStale` | Older than 30 days |
| `duplicateCount` | How many times this same role appears |
| `isDuplicate` | Is this a repeat of an earlier listing |

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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Job titles to search, or full GulfTalent list URLs. Plain terms are turned into list pages for the selected country.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Ignored when you pass full URLs. Run once per country — duplicate detection compares within a run.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Capped at 300. One page returns 25.

## `minIntervalMs` (type: `integer`):

Requests are serialized with at least this gap.

## `useProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default — GulfTalent was measured to work 6/6 without a proxy. Turn on only if you hit blocks.

## `proxyType` (type: `string`):

Used only when Use Apify Proxy is on. DATACENTER costs far less than RESIDENTIAL and was measured to work here.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "data analyst",
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "country": "uae",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "minIntervalMs": 3000,
  "useProxy": false,
  "proxyType": "DATACENTER"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every row this run produced, as JSON.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Totals and medians for this run, so you can judge the rows without reading them all.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "data analyst",
        "software engineer"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("entrogix_works/gulftalent-jobs-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 = { "queries": [
        "data analyst",
        "software engineer",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("entrogix_works/gulftalent-jobs-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 '{
  "queries": [
    "data analyst",
    "software engineer"
  ]
}' |
apify call entrogix_works/gulftalent-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,entrogix_works/gulftalent-jobs-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/uhlw51C3X6Ppdtafh/builds/qjOwWlc1yJQ34T4tv/openapi.json