🔬 EURAXESS Scraper: PhD, Postdoc and Research Jobs Across Europe

Scrape EURAXESS for PhD, postdoc, fellowship and research jobs across Europe, with the deadline, funding, research field, organisation and application link on every row. EURAXESS is the European Commission's researcher job portal, and this Actor turns it into a clean, filterable data feed. The common misspelling "Euroaxess" is covered too. No login or API key is needed.

See the opportunity, the deadline, and the next step in one record. Build a focused feed from EURAXESS search pages or specific job links. Keep rich details, source links, and meaningful changes together.

🧾 Rich records Capture classification, requirements, contacts, and application routes.

🔔 Change-aware Spot new postings and exact changed fields on recurring runs.

🧭 Source-safe filters Use current EURAXESS labels without silently broadening your search.

⚡ Built for volume Hundreds of jobs per run with polite pacing and clear run messages.

🎯 Who this is for

Research recruitment teams: “I need a reliable shortlist before the best deadlines pass.” Keep the source deadline, location, and application path close to the job title.

Universities and labs: “I want a recurring view of the roles relevant to our department.” Filter by country, research field, profile, funding, or organisation type.

Academic job seekers: “I do not want to reread the same posting every morning.” Use onlyNewSinceLastRun to focus on new or changed opportunities.

Research market analysts: “I need depth from one important source, not a shallow list from everywhere.” Keep public descriptions and source-labelled fields available for downstream review.

✨ What it does

This Actor is EURAXESS-first. It focuses on a dependable, high-depth view of one research opportunity source instead of blending unrelated boards together.

• Start with a public EURAXESS search URL, a public job URL, or structured filters.
• Filter on every facet EURAXESS itself exposes: offer type, country, research field, researcher profile, organisation type, funding programme, funding type, and offer category.
• Enrich listing rows with the public detail page when fetchDetails is enabled.
• Preserve source URLs, dates, classification, location, funding, application links, and contact details when published.
• Deduplicate by the EURAXESS job ID across pages and mixed inputs.
• Keep missing source fields absent. The dataset never replaces them with guesses.
• Use bounded pages, rows, retries, concurrency, and request pacing for repeatable runs.
• Keyword search, multi-country and multi-field filters, and a posted-within window all work together.
• A short run summary explains what was collected and why a run returned fewer rows than requested.

🧭 How it works

STEP 1 Choose the scope Paste a public URL or select visible EURAXESS filters. A supplied URL takes priority.

STEP 2 Read the opportunity Get the listing first, then collect the public detail page for the fields your workflow needs.

STEP 3 Monitor what changed Keep a baseline per feed and receive only NEW or UPDATED jobs on each run.

🛡️ Public-source boundaries

The Actor reads public EURAXESS search and job pages only. It does not use login flows, private profiles, or access bypasses. Review the current source terms before production use. Requests are paced politely, and a source block or rate limit is reported in the run summary instead of being hidden.

It never treats a missing page as an expired opportunity. Incomplete runs do not advance the monitoring baseline.

⚙️ Input

The Console prefill returns the 10 newest jobs posted in the last 30 days with full detail pages. Raise maxItems for bigger pulls; result pages are read automatically until the limit is reached. startUrls overrides structured filters when supplied.

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Public EURAXESS search or job URLs. They take priority over the filters.
keyword	string	No	Words matched by the EURAXESS search.
offerTypes	array of strings	No	Job Offer, Funding or Hosting. Defaults to job offers.
countries	array of strings	No	Country names as shown on EURAXESS. Several countries are combined.
researchFields	array of strings	No	Research field names, for example Chemistry or Computer science.
researcherProfiles	array of strings	No	Career stage, for example First Stage Researcher (R1).
organisationTypes	array of strings	No	Organisation type, for example Higher Education Institution.
fundingProgrammes	array of strings	No	EU funding programme names.
fundingTypes	array of strings	No	Funding type names.
offerCategories	array of strings	No	Offer category names.
sortBy	enum	No	newest, oldest, or deadline.
postedWithinDays	integer	No	Keep jobs posted within this many days. Default 30, use 0 for no limit.
fetchDetails	boolean	No	Read each job page for the full description, requirements and contacts.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	No	Return only new or changed jobs compared with the previous run of the same feed.
monitorScope	string	No	Optional name of the feed, so runs with the same name share one baseline.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum job rows per run, up to 500.
maxPages	integer	No	Optional cap on result pages (10 jobs each). 0 reads as many as needed.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Connection settings. The default is tuned for EURAXESS.
requestDelayMs	integer	No	Minimum gap between requests in milliseconds.
maxConcurrency	integer	No	Maximum simultaneous requests.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	Maximum retries for failed requests.
debug	boolean	No	Add extra detail to the run log.

Country, field and profile names must match EURAXESS. A name that does not match ends the run with a clear message listing it, and never turns into an unfiltered search. Free-plan runs are limited in size and frequency; paid plans run without these limits.

📦 Data table

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	Always job.
status	string	success, or partial when only the search card was read.
event	string	CURRENT, NEW, or UPDATED for job monitoring.
job_id	string	Stable EURAXESS job identifier.
source	string	Always EURAXESS for source rows.
title	string	Published opportunity title.
url	URL	Public job page.
source_search_url	URL	Search page that discovered the record.
posted_at	date-time	Published posting date.
deadline	date-time	Published application deadline.
offer_starting_date	date-time	Published starting date.
days_until_deadline	number	Days from collection to the deadline.
first_seen_at	date-time	First observation in the monitoring scope.
last_seen_at	date-time	Most recent observation.
scraped_at	date-time	Collection timestamp.
organisation	string	Published organisation.
company_institute	string	Published company or institute.
department	string	Published department.
country	string	Published work country.
city	string	Published city.
street	string	Published street address.
postal_code	string	Published postal code.
latitude	number	Published work-location latitude.
longitude	number	Published work-location longitude.
number_of_offers	number	Number of published offers.
opportunity_type	string	Published opportunity type.
research_fields	array	Published research fields.
researcher_profiles	array	Published researcher profiles.
positions	array	Published position values.
education_levels	array	Published education levels.
languages	array	Published language values.
contract_type	string	Published contract type.
job_status	string	Published job status.
hours_per_week	number	Published weekly hours.
funding_programme	string	Published funding programme.
funding_type	string	Published funding type.
offer_category	string	Published offer category.
is_research_infrastructure	boolean	Explicit source flag for research infrastructure.
description_html	string	Published description markup.
description_text	string	Plain-text description.
requirements_text	string	Published requirements.
benefits_text	string	Published benefits.
additional_information_text	string	Published additional information.
where_to_apply_text	string	Published application guidance.
apply_url	URL	Public application link.
organisation_website	URL	Public organisation website.
contact_email	string	Public contact email.
contact_phone	string	Public contact phone.
changed_fields	array	Exact job fields changed since the prior snapshot.
reference_number	string	Reference number the employer gave the offer.
organisation_profile_url	URL	EURAXESS profile page of the organisation.
error_code	string	Reason a partial row could not be completed.
message	string	Human-readable note on a partial row.
retry_after_seconds	number	Published retry delay when available.
detail_fetched	boolean	Whether the public detail page was requested.

Example record

{
    "record_type": "job",
    "status": "success",
    "event": "NEW",
    "job_id": "461046",
    "source": "EURAXESS",
    "title": "Research Fellow",
    "url": "https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/461046",
    "source_search_url": "https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search",
    "detail_fetched": true,
    "scraped_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
}

🔔 Monitoring semantics

• Turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun and schedule the run. The first run returns everything as NEW and saves the baseline.
• Later runs return only new jobs as NEW and edited jobs as UPDATED, with the exact changed_fields.
• Unchanged jobs are skipped quickly and cost nothing.
• Give the feed a monitorScope name to run several independent feeds.
• A job missing from a run is never reported as expired.
• A partial, blocked, or aborted run does not save the new baseline.
• The run summary shows how many unchanged jobs were skipped and whether this was the first run.

💳 Pricing

Pricing is pay per job row delivered. Runs that find nothing, unchanged jobs skipped in monitor mode, and run messages are free. There are no subscriptions. Check the Pricing tab for the current rate on your plan.

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❓ FAQ

Can I scrape a specific EURAXESS search or job URL?

Yes. Add one or more public search or job URLs to startUrls. They take priority over structured filters, and mixed search and job URLs are supported.

How do I get only new PhD and postdoc jobs every week?

Set your filters, turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun, give the feed a monitorScope name and schedule the run weekly. Each run returns the jobs that are new or changed since the previous run.

Why did my run return fewer rows than maxItems?

Either fewer jobs match your filters and posted-within window, or some pages could not be read. The run summary and the final status message say which. Widen postedWithinDays or remove a filter to get more.

Does it access private researcher information?

No. It reads public search and job pages only, with no login, private profiles, or hidden access paths.

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