🎓 HigherEdJobs Scraper: Academic Jobs, Salaries, and Monitoring

Track faculty and staff openings across US colleges and universities. Published salary fields, department and institution context, and change-only monitoring for scheduled runs, pulled straight from HigherEdJobs' backend search index.
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Track faculty and staff openings across US colleges Published salary fields, department and institution context, and change-only monitoring for scheduled runs, pulled directly from HigherEdJobs, not scraped page by page.

⚡ Direct search Queries HigherEdJobs' own search system, so results come back in seconds

🎓 Discipline mapping Structured categories like computer science, nursing, and faculty

🧹 Clean descriptions Fully decoded, readable job descriptions, never raw formatting code

🔔 Change feed NEW, UPDATED, EXPIRED, and REAPPEARED events for scheduled monitoring

Get source-backed academic job listings, published salary fields, department and institution context, and optional change-only monitoring for scheduled workflows.

HigherEdJobs (higheredjobs.com) publishes academic and administrative vacancies. This Actor reads public search and detail pages, preserves source URLs and retrieval timestamps, and omits fields that are not published by the source. It does not claim complete coverage or historical depth.

🔍 What does HigherEdJobs Scraper do?

This Actor reads HigherEdJobs' own job search and detail pages directly and turns every posting into a clean, structured record:

• Searches the source directly: Queries HigherEdJobs' own search system instead of clicking through result pages, so a full matching list comes back in seconds.
• Academic discipline mapping: Captures structured categories and disciplines (computer science, nursing, faculty, and more) so you can filter and segment records cleanly.
• Clean, decoded descriptions: Job descriptions arrive fully decoded and readable right away, with no raw formatting code left behind.
• Deduplicated listings: Every run returns unique vacancy records, with organization name, logo, and application deadline included when the source publishes them.
• Change feed: With onlyNewSinceLastRun, successful scheduled runs emit NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, and cautious EXPIRED events. Unchanged records are omitted.
• Source-backed salary fields: Parses minimum, maximum, currency, and period only when the published salary text supports them.

👥 Who is this for

• I am an academic recruiter looking to source postdoctoral fellows, tenure-track faculty, and administrative candidates. I need to filter institutional listings by category, region, or public/private school status.
• I am a compensation consultant benchmarking faculty salaries and tenure requirements in the US. I need structured, normalized salary ranges across disciplines.
• I am a career dashboard founder backfilling my university job board. I need a stable JSON feed with posting links, remote options, and deduplicated listing records.
• I am a database administrator syncing higher education career profiles. I need plain-text job descriptions and application deadlines ready for my databases.

🚀 How to use

STEP 1 Configure search Enter keywords and select a category, institution type, or position type.

STEP 2 Limit results Set maxItems to restrict dataset records and manage budgets.

STEP 3 Run and download Get structured job records as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Optional list of direct search, category, or job detail URLs to crawl.
keyword	string	No	Search term for titles or disciplines (e.g. "dean", "physics"). Used when Start URLs is empty. Leave empty to get the newest jobs.
category	enum	No	Filter by role category (Faculty, Administrative, or Executive).
institutionType	enum	No	Filter by school type (Public, Private, Community College).
positionType	enum	No	Filter by Full-Time or Part-Time status.
remoteOnly	boolean	No	If enabled, only listings offering remote work options are included.
department	string	No	Optional source-published department filter.
employer	string	No	Optional institution name filter.
location	string	No	Optional city, state, or country filter.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	No	Persist successful scope state and emit change events.
monitorScope	string	No	Optional stable scope label for a recurring monitoring scope.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of job records to collect in total.
includeDescription	boolean	No	Whether to fetch detail pages for full descriptions and deadlines.
dateWithinDays	integer	No	Only include vacancies posted within the last N days (0 = any time).
maxConcurrency	integer	No	Maximum parallel page requests.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	Number of times a failed request is retried.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy routing. The source site's bot protection requires keeping proxies enabled.

At least one of Start URLs or Search Keyword is needed to find jobs.

📦 Output

Every record outputs with the canonical listing URL and company metadata.

Example row

{
  "job_id": "179424622",
  "title": "Post Doctoral Fellow 2026 Pool",
  "organization": "Auburn University",
  "url": "https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=179424622",
  "city": "Auburn University",
  "state": "AL",
  "country": "US",
  "employment_type": "FULL_TIME",
  "salary_raw": "$45,000 - $70,000 per year",
  "description_text": "Salary Range: USD $45,000.00/Yr. - USD $70,000.00/Yr. Locations: Auburn University, Alabama Job Type: Faculty Position Type: Full-Time Department: AG Administration...",
  "description_html": "<strong>Salary Range:</strong> USD $45,000.00/Yr. - USD $70,000.00/Yr.<br><br><strong>Locations:</strong> Auburn University, Alabama...",
  "post_date": "2026-04-23T09:03:15.547Z",
  "expiry_date": "2027-10-15T23:59:59.900Z",
  "logo_url": "https://images.higheredjobs.com/images/AccountImages/3170_5.jpg",
  "industries": [
    "Academic/Education",
    "Education"
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-07T07:35:56.989Z"
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console dataset tab.

🧪 Store examples

Simple academic search

{ "keyword": "computer science", "maxItems": 25 }

Batch URL review

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/advanced_action.cfm?Keyword=nursing" },
    { "url": "https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=179424622" }
  ],
  "includeDescription": true
}

Recurring new-job feed

{
  "keyword": "postdoctoral fellow",
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "monitorScope": "postdoc-fellow-search",
  "dateWithinDays": 30
}

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
job_id	string	Unique HigherEdJobs JobCode identifier.
stable_source_id	string	Listing-stage identifier that stays stable across detail-page enrichment.
title	string	Job position title.
organization	string	Hiring university or institution name.
url / sourceUrl	string	Direct link to the original posting.
city	string	City where the job is located.
state	string	State or region code.
country	string	Country name.
employment_type	string	Full-Time, Part-Time, or other employment status.
salary_raw	string	Unstructured listed salary text.
salary_min / salary_max	number	Parsed only when the published salary text supports a numeric range.
salary_currency / salary_period	string	Currency and period supported by the source salary text.
department / institution_type / remote_type / job_category	string	Source-published context when available.
description_html	string	Sanitized description HTML.
description_text	string	Plain-text job description content.
post_date	string	ISO formatted publication date.
expiry_date	string	ISO formatted application closing date.
logo_url	string	Hiring organization logo URL.
industries	array	List of disciplines and category tags.
event	string	CURRENT for a normal export, or a monitor event such as NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, UNCHANGED, or EXPIRED.
changedFields	array	Source fields that changed in a monitor comparison.
inputId / retrievedAt / status / errorCode	string	Provenance, input correlation, retrieval time, and explicit success or error state.
scraped_at	string	Scraping execution timestamp.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: you are charged only for academic job rows actually saved to your dataset. Empty or unchanged monitoring runs save no rows and cost nothing. Failed requests are reported with an error code instead of a silent gap. There is no subscription, and volume discounts apply automatically at higher Apify usage tiers.

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❓ FAQ

Does it get blocked?

HigherEdJobs is protected by Imperva / Incapsula bot protection. This Actor routes requests through Apify Proxy by default; a blocked or failed request is reported instead of silently dropping a job.

Does it extract private university contact details?

No. The scraper only extracts publicly visible academic vacancy data posted by universities, including city and state locations. It does not bypass login walls or click-walls for private recruiter personal contact information.

How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the public source at run time. Rows include retrievedAt and scraped_at; monitoring state is only committed after a healthy run.

⚖️ Legal compliance

This Actor only extracts data that is publicly visible on higheredjobs.com. Users must comply with local privacy regulations and the platform's terms of service. HigherEdJobs is a trademark of HigherEdJobs Inc. This is an independent scraping tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by HigherEdJobs Inc.

🛠️ Support

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