CareerCross Scraper: Japan Bilingual Job Listings

CareerCross job scraper and Japanese bilingual recruitment data extraction API. Extract public job vacancies, hiring companies, parsed salary ranges, required English and Japanese proficiency levels, visa statuses, industries, and full plain-text descriptions from careercross.com with this Apify Actor. Bypasses blocking without browser overhead using fast, static Cheerio code, delivering clean structured datasets in English or Japanese.

Whether you are a global recruitment agency tracking multinational hiring trends across Japan, an HR analytics platform benchmarking JPY salary scales, or a sales development team sourcing foreign companies currently expanding locally, this Actor delivers complete recruitment datasets on a scheduled basis.

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What does CareerCross Scraper do?

• Highly Optimized Performance: Connects directly to the static search results and detailed job pages, avoiding the overhead of browser-based automation like Playwright or Puppeteer.
• Stable Google Jobs Selectors: Targets explicit, hardcoded DOM identifiers (e.g., #jsonld-job-title, #jsonld-base-salary attributes) utilized by CareerCross for Google Jobs structured data, making the scraper extremely resilient to structural changes.
• Precise Salary Extraction: Normalizes salary text on-the-fly, extracting minimum and maximum bounds, currency (always JPY), and pay frequency.
• Multi-Language UI Support: Supports scraping via both English /en/ and Japanese /jp/ paths, allowing you to extract bilingual recruitment details seamlessly.

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Why use CareerCross Scraper?

CareerCross is Japan's premier job board for bilingual professionals, global corporations hiring locally, and international talent. It hosts thousands of high-paying vacancies across executive leadership, finance, marketing, technology, and engineering.

Use this Actor to:

1. Squeeze B2B Leads: Target hiring-intent global companies currently expanding their presence in Tokyo and greater Japan.
2. Benchmark Local Compensation: Extract precise JPY salary ranges by industry and career level to track localized bilingual compensation scales.
3. Populate Job Directories: Aggregate and display foreign-affiliated and multinational job vacancies on your own specialized job search portals.

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How to Scrape CareerCross Data Step-by-Step

1. Open the Input tab in Apify Console.
2. Configure Input Mode (choose from keyword search, direct URLs, or exact numeric job IDs).
3. Specify search parameters like Search Keyword (e.g., "engineer") and UI Language (English en or Japanese ja).
4. Click Start and export your clean dataset.

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Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
mode	string	search (keyword search), urls (direct URLs), or ids (numeric job IDs).	"search"
keyword	string	Filter jobs by title keywords or skills (e.g., "engineer").	"engineer"
language	string	Target interface locale ("en" or "ja").	"en"
startUrls	array	Specific careercross.com search or listing URLs.	[]
jobIds	array	List of exact numeric Job IDs to scrape directly.	[]
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on total results returned.	100
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Bypassing is unshielded, so standard proxies are recommended.	{"useApifyProxy": true}

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Output Example

Each dataset item represents a single job vacancy.

{
  "job_id": "1543051",
  "url": "https://www.careercross.com/en/job/detail-1543051?sid=76064917&page=1",
  "title": "【Senior Software Engineer】Permanent/Foreign Engineer WELCOME",
  "company_name": "Human Resocia Co.,Ltd.",
  "company_url": "https://www.careercross.com/en/company/detail-37907",
  "location": "Available across Japan",
  "employment_type": "Other",
  "salary_min": 4000000,
  "salary_max": 6000000,
  "salary_currency": "JPY",
  "english_level": "Minimum English Level: Business Level",
  "japanese_level": "Minimum Japanese Level: Business Level",
  "visa_status": "No permission to work in Japan required",
  "industry": "",
  "description_html": "<p>We are currently a global company with more than 500 foreign engineers...</p>",
  "description_text": "We are currently a global company with more than 500 foreign engineers from about 60 countries actively working. You will be working on projects by clients...",
  "date_posted": "2026-06-01T22:30:20.000Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-07T02:05:14.610Z"
}

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Data Fields Explanation

Field Name	Format	Description
job_id	text	Unique numerical ID parsed from the detail URL path.
url	link	Direct canonical link of the CareerCross job vacancy.
title	text	Job title (Japanese, English, or bilingual).
company_name	text	Hiring company display name.
company_url	link	Direct link to the company profile page on CareerCross.
location	text	Prefecture, city, or district hub in Japan.
employment_type	text	Job classification (Permanent Full-time, Contract, etc.).
salary_min	number	Minimum annual salary bound in JPY.
salary_max	number	Maximum annual salary bound in JPY.
salary_currency	text	Always JPY.
english_level	text	Minimum English proficiency required.
japanese_level	text	Minimum Japanese proficiency required.
visa_status	text	Visa requirement status for working in Japan.
industry	text	Market category of the employer.
description_html	html	Extracted, unstripped HTML job description section.
description_text	text	Plain-text job description section.
date_posted	date	ISO 8601 timestamp of listing update.
scraped_at	date	ISO 8601 scraping timestamp.

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How Much Does It Cost to Scrape CareerCross?

$1.99 per 1,000 results.

We offer high-value bilingual recruitment data at a lower price point than specialized international competitors. Because the platform loads listings natively via server-side rendered HTML, there is zero headless browser overhead or expensive residential proxy data transfer fees. A typical run for 1,000 results completes in under a minute and incurs negligible platform compute costs.

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Advanced Options & Tips

• Mode Versatility: Use search mode for keyword exploration. Use urls mode when you already have specific pagination paths. Use ids mode for refreshing previously saved listings directly.
• Locale Normalization: We recommend keeping language set to "en" (English) to ensure table fields and requirements default to English-labeled keys, making downstream database mapping much easier.

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

How does this scraper bypass bot protections?

CareerCross operates behind Cloudflare edge proxies. However, its bot management posture is highly permissive. The scraper uses advanced browser-like header fingerprinting and request rotation, allowing it to execute safely and cleanly on standard datacenter proxies without encountering JavaScript challenge walls or blocks.

Do I need a login or API Key?

No. All CareerCross job listings are fully public and require no authentication or cookies to read.

Does the scraper resolve candidate application links?

No. CareerCross loads intermediate recruiter redirections and secure application modals behind session-locked endpoints. This is a platform-level restriction, and all CareerCross scrapers share this same behavior. The scraper will output the standard apply_type (internal or external form) where applicable.

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Disclaimers & Support

This Actor is an independent web scraping tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CareerCross Co., Ltd., careercross.com, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only public, unauthenticated job listings of the CareerCross website, matching data the platform serves to any public user. Users are responsible for ensuring compliance with CareerCross Terms of Service and local data regulations (e.g., Japan's APPI).

If you encounter issues or have custom requirements, please submit a report on our repository's Issues tab. For custom scraping or dataset services, contact the author's profile.