Creative Scotland Scraper: Arts Jobs & Grants

Scrape every Creative Scotland opportunity, without the missed runs Pull jobs, grants, residencies, commissions and tenders from the Opportunities board, verified across multiple cloud runs at a 100% success rate.

✅ Reliable by default Works out of the box, verified across multiple cloud runs at a 100% success rate.

🗂️ 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 rate, 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'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

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 crawls the board's pages and, if enabled, visits 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/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

{
  "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.

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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.

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