# Creative Scotland Scraper: Arts Jobs & Grants (`getascraper/creativescotland-scraper`) Actor

Scrape every job, grant, residency, commission and tender from Creative Scotland's Opportunities board. Get organisation, location, deadline, tags, contact email and apply link for each listing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/creativescotland-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GetAScraper](https://apify.com/getascraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.31 / 1,000 opportunities

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?

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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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Creative Scotland Scraper: Arts Jobs & Grants

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<span style="font-size:23px;font-weight:800;color:#1C1917;line-height:1.3">Scrape every Creative Scotland opportunity, without the missed runs</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;color:#57534E;line-height:1.6">Pull jobs, grants, residencies, commissions and tenders from the Opportunities board, verified across multiple cloud runs at a 100% success rate.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#5B21B6">✅ Reliable by default</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Works out of the box, verified across multiple cloud runs at a 100% success rate.</span>
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<td style="padding:14px 12px;width:25%;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #DDD6FE;border-left:none;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#5B21B6">🗂️ Every category covered</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Jobs, funding, residencies, commissions, tenders and more, all 16 board categories.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#5B21B6">📄 Full detail, not just teasers</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Optional enrichment pulls the full description, pay rate, tags, contact email and apply link.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#5B21B6">🎯 Filter before you scrape</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Narrow by category or the board's own recency filters so you only pay for what you need.</span>
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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](https://opportunities.creativescotland.com), and it's built to actually finish the job every time.

### 🚀 Why use it

The only other scraper for this board fails roughly 3 out of every 10 runs, going by its own public Apify stats. That's a real problem if you're monitoring for new funding calls or job postings on a schedule: a silent failure means you miss the opportunity entirely.

**"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 half the time and makes me manually check the site anyway.

**"I track funding calls for freelance clients."** Deadlines matter. If a run silently fails, I lose the lead time I'd 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

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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#6D28D9;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 1</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Pick your scope</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Choose categories, a recency filter, or leave it open to scan the whole board.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#6D28D9;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 2</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Run the Actor</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">It crawls the board's pages and, if enabled, visits each listing for full detail.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#6D28D9;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 3</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Get structured data</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Download clean, ready-to-use records in JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab.</span>
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### 📥 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/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, tags, contact email and apply link. |
| `maxItems` | integer | No | Stop after this many opportunities. 0 for no limit. |

### 📤 Output

```json
{
  "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're charged per opportunity extracted, and nothing else. Empty runs cost nothing. There are no subscriptions and no minimum spend.

### ⭐ Enjoying Creative Scotland Scraper?

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<span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:4px">⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</span><br>
<span style="font-size:17px;font-weight:800;color:#1C1917">If this Actor caught an opportunity you would have missed, that's worth 10 seconds of your time.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;color:#57534E">A 5-star rating helps other arts organisers, funding trackers and job hunters find it. Your feedback also tells us what to build next.</span>
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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 doesn't 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 doesn't have.

**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.

### 🔗 Other actors

- [S1 Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/s1jobs-scraper) ↗ - Scotland jobs, salaries and employer data.
- [HIJOBS Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/hijobs-scraper) ↗ - Jobs across Scotland's Highlands and Islands.
- [Goodmoves Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/goodmoves-jobs-scraper) ↗ - Scottish charity and third-sector vacancies.
- [EURAXESS Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/euraxess-jobs-scraper) ↗ - European research vacancies, including arts and humanities.
- [HigherEdJobs Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/higheredjobs-com-scraper) ↗ - Academic job listings with salary and monitoring support.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Opportunities board URL(s) to crawl. Leave the default to scan the whole board, or paste a pre-filtered board search URL.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Only fetch opportunities in these categories. Leave empty for all categories.

## `filter` (type: `string`):

Match the board's own recency/sort buckets, since opportunities have no raw posting date.

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Optional free-text search term, matched against opportunity titles and descriptions.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

UK residential proxy is required: the site hard-blocks any request without a UK residential exit IP, confirmed live.

## `enrichDetail` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each opportunity's detail page for the full description, contact email, and apply link. Costs one extra page fetch per item.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many opportunities. Set to 0 for no limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [],
  "filter": "",
  "keywords": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
  },
  "enrichDetail": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `opportunities` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/"
        }
    ],
    "categories": [],
    "filter": "",
    "keywords": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
    },
    "enrichDetail": true,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("getascraper/creativescotland-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 = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/" }],
    "categories": [],
    "filter": "",
    "keywords": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "GB",
    },
    "enrichDetail": True,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("getascraper/creativescotland-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [],
  "filter": "",
  "keywords": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
  },
  "enrichDetail": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call getascraper/creativescotland-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,getascraper/creativescotland-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/ickNQKCgyTl5ZxDP5/builds/KZTPaZXo7X1gOd2Z0/openapi.json