Creative Scotland Scraper: Jobs, Grants, Residencies & Tenders

Every Creative Scotland opportunity, every time it runs Pull jobs, grants, residencies, commissions and tenders from the Opportunities board, with a 100% success rate across its last 30 days of public runs.

✅ Reliable by default 100% success rate across the last 30 days of public runs, on the Actor's own Apify stats.

🗂️ Every category covered Jobs, funding, residencies, commissions, tenders and more, all 16 board categories.

📄 Full detail, not just teasers Optional enrichment pulls the full description, pay or fee text, tags, contact email and apply link.

🎯 Filter before you scrape Narrow by category or the board's own recency filters so you only pay for what you need.

Never miss a Scottish arts opportunity, or waste a scheduled run on a scraper that quietly fails. This Actor pulls every job, grant, residency, commission and tender from Creative Scotland's Opportunities board, and it is built to actually finish the job every time.

🚀 Why use it

"I run a monthly digest for my arts organisation's newsletter." I need every open opportunity in one clean list, not a scraper that comes back empty and makes me check the site by hand anyway.

"I track funding calls for freelance clients." Deadlines matter. If a run silently fails, I lose the lead time I would otherwise have to prepare an application.

"I'm building a job alert tool for creative workers in Scotland." I need a reliable, filterable feed I can schedule and trust, not one I have to babysit.

🧭 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick your scope Choose categories, a recency filter, or leave it open to scan the whole board.

STEP 2 Run the Actor It works through the board's pages and, if enabled, opens each listing for full detail.

STEP 3 Get structured data Download clean, ready-to-use records in JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Opportunities board URL(s) to crawl. Defaults to the full board.
categories	array (enum)	No	Only fetch opportunities in these categories. Leave empty for all.
filter	enum	No	Match the board's own recency and sort buckets (recently added, upcoming deadlines, and so on).
keywords	string	No	Optional free-text search term.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Connection settings. Defaults to the setup this site needs to work reliably.
enrichDetail	boolean	No	Fetch each opportunity's full description, pay or fee text, tags, contact email and apply link.
maxItems	integer	No	Stop after this many opportunities. 0 for no limit.

📤 Output

{
  "rowType": "opportunity",
  "opportunityId": "6dd19a67-7cb4-4cc7-8c72-37c452a3b4ec",
  "title": "Library Assistant",
  "category": "Jobs",
  "tags": ["Literature and Publishing"],
  "organization": "The Royal Conservatoire",
  "location": "Glasgow City",
  "deadline": "2026-09-13T23:55:00.000Z",
  "deadlineRaw": "13 September 2026 at 23:55",
  "descriptionTeaser": "Library Assistant Information Services Permanent, Part Time...",
  "description": "Full listing description text...",
  "payRaw": "Salary Scale: £25,979 per annum",
  "contactEmail": "vacancies@rcs.ac.uk",
  "externalUrl": "https://www.rcs.ac.uk/vacancies/",
  "opportunityUrl": "https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/index/6dd19a67-7cb4-4cc7-8c72-37c452a3b4ec/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-30T00:36:03.605Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel.

🗃️ Data table

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Opportunity title
category	string	One of the board's 16 categories
tags	array	Secondary tags shown on the listing
organization	string	The organisation offering the opportunity
location	string	Geographic location
deadline	string	Application deadline, ISO format
deadlineRaw	string	Application deadline, as shown on the site
descriptionTeaser	string	Short summary shown on the board
description	string	Full listing description, enrichment mode only
payRaw	string	Pay, fee or rate, when the listing states one
contactEmail	string	Contact email, when the listing includes one
externalUrl	string	External apply link, when the listing includes one
opportunityUrl	string	Direct link to the listing

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing: you are charged per opportunity extracted, and nothing else. Empty runs cost nothing. There are no subscriptions and no minimum spend.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need to configure anything for this Actor to work reliably? No. The board can be finicky about where requests come from, so the Actor ships with the right setup as the default. Just run it.

Can I filter by category before running the Actor? Yes. Pick one or more of the board's 16 categories (Jobs, Funding and Grants, Artist Residencies, Tenders and more) in the input, or leave it empty to scan everything.

Does the output include when an opportunity was first posted? No. The source site itself does not expose a raw posting date, only an application deadline and its own coarse recency filters (recently added, last week, last month). This Actor never fabricates a posting date it does not have.

Does every listing include a pay or fee amount? No. Pay, salary and day-rate figures only appear when a listing happens to mention one in its own description text. When a listing does not state a figure, payRaw is left out rather than guessed.

Is this legal? This Actor only extracts publicly available information already shown to any visitor of the Opportunities board. Always review the target site's terms of service before using the data commercially.

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