🎓 TargetJobs UK scraper: graduate jobs, schemes, and internships

Build a graduate-job dataset without opening TargetJobs by hand Search public TargetJobs UK graduate jobs, schemes, and internships by keyword, location, sector, or employer, then export salaries, deadlines, and application links to a spreadsheet, API, or workflow.

🔍 Targeted search Keyword, location, sector, opportunity type, and employer filters in one run.

🧾 Full job context Salaries, deadlines, descriptions, and degree requirements when published.

🔗 Direct URLs Start from a specific job link instead of a search.

📤 Clean exports Three dataset views for listings, enriched details, and sources.

Search public TargetJobs UK graduate jobs, schemes, and internships, then export source-backed titles, employers, locations, salaries, deadlines, descriptions, education fields, and application links. It uses direct public requests and runs without a browser.

🔍 What does this Actor do?

Give it a keyword, a location, or a public TargetJobs URL and it returns every matching graduate opportunity as one clean dataset row. Titles, employers, sectors, opportunity types, and application links come from the public search response.

Turn on scrapeDetails and it opens each selected public job page for fuller descriptions, structured deadlines, degree requirements, and application data.

Everything stays within TargetJobs' public search and job pages. Login, account, and internal routes are never requested, and a missing field is left out rather than guessed.

💡 Who is this for?

• I am a graduate-recruitment researcher. I need a current list of graduate schemes in a sector so that I can benchmark what competitors are offering this cycle.
• I am a careers-service advisor. I need to pull opportunities matching my students' subjects and locations so that I can share a relevant shortlist every week.
• I am building a job board or aggregator. I need salaries, deadlines, and application links in flat fields so that I can drop them straight into my own listings.
• I am a data analyst tracking the graduate market. I need comparable fields across employers and sectors so that I can spot hiring trends without reading each posting by hand.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Choose your search Enter keywords and filters, or paste public TargetJobs URLs.

STEP 2 Set your limits Bound the run with a result cap, page cap, and request delay.

STEP 3 Export your jobs Download listings, enriched details, or the sources view.

Leave startUrls empty to use the default software search, or add public TargetJobs URLs when you already know the pages you want. If startUrls is not empty, those URLs take precedence over keyword and filter fields.

Default input

{
    "startUrls": [],
    "searchTerms": ["software"],
    "locations": [],
    "opportunityTypes": [],
    "sectors": [],
    "employers": [],
    "scrapeDetails": false,
    "maxItems": 25,
    "maxPages": 3,
    "requestDelayMs": 500
}

Search with filters

{
    "startUrls": [],
    "searchTerms": ["data analyst", "business analyst"],
    "locations": ["London", "Cambridge"],
    "opportunityTypes": ["Graduate job", "Graduate scheme"],
    "sectors": ["Data", "Technology"],
    "employers": [],
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 50,
    "maxPages": 3,
    "requestDelayMs": 750
}

Start from public URLs

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://targetjobs.co.uk/search/jobs?search=actuarial" },
        { "url": "https://targetjobs.co.uk/jobs/graduate-software-engineer-robot-software-216322" }
    ],
    "scrapeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 25,
    "maxPages": 2,
    "requestDelayMs": 500
}

🧾 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Public TargetJobs search, category, browse, or job URLs. These override the other targeting fields.
searchTerms	array of strings	No	Keywords or role names matched by TargetJobs.
locations	array of strings	No	TargetJobs city filters such as London, Cambridge, or Manchester.
opportunityTypes	array of strings	No	Public opportunity types such as Graduate job, Graduate scheme, or Internship.
sectors	array of strings	No	Public TargetJobs sectors such as Technology, Data, or Finance.
employers	array of strings	No	Public employer names available in the TargetJobs index.
scrapeDetails	boolean	No	Opens each selected public job page and its public page data for fuller fields.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of unique jobs returned, from 1 to 500.
maxPages	integer	No	Maximum search pages per keyword or start URL, from 1 to 25.
requestDelayMs	integer	No	Delay between requests, from 250 to 5,000 milliseconds.

📊 Data table

Every dataset item represents one unique public TargetJobs opportunity. Missing source values are omitted rather than replaced with placeholders.

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	TargetJobs UUID or numeric opportunity ID.
title	string	Public job title.
company	string	Public employer name.
location, locations	string	Primary location and normalized city list.
sectors	string	Comma-separated public sector labels.
opportunityTypes	string	Comma-separated opportunity type labels.
salaryText, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency	string/number	Source salary text and normalized bounds when available.
employmentType, workplaceType	string	Public employment or location-type labels when available.
degreeRequirements, degreeSubjects	string	Public education or qualification text when available.
description	string	Public job description with HTML removed.
applicationUrl, applicationEmail	string	Public application destination or email when published.
jobUrl, sourceUrl	string	Public job page and discovery source URLs.
postedAt, updatedAt, startDate, applicationDeadline	string	Source-backed dates in ISO or source date format.
applicationOpen, registerInterestOnly, freeJob, scrapedJob	boolean	Public source flags when available.
sourcePlatform, searchTerm, searchLocation, scrapedAt	string	Provenance and run metadata.

Dataset views

The dataset contains exactly three views:

1. 🔍 Job listings: titles, employers, locations, filters, salaries, deadlines, and job links for discovery.
2. 🧾 Enriched details: descriptions, education, employment, workplace, salary bounds, and application fields.
3. 🔗 Sources: IDs, source URLs, application URLs, search provenance, and freshness timestamps.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay per job posting returned. Enabling scrapeDetails adds a small per-job enrichment event for the extra public page read. Empty runs do not charge result events, and there is no subscription requirement.

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🔧 Tips

• Start with the default search and maxItems at 25 to check the fields before scaling up.
• Turn on scrapeDetails only when you need descriptions, deadlines, or education fields; it adds one request per job.
• Add direct /jobs/... URLs to startUrls when you already know the opportunities you want.
• Combine sectors and opportunityTypes to narrow a broad keyword like "analyst" to graduate schemes only.
• Raise requestDelayMs on larger runs to keep pagination steady.

❓ FAQ

Does this Actor scrape every TargetJobs job?

No. It returns the jobs matched by your search terms, filters, or start URLs, within maxItems and maxPages.

Should I enable scrapeDetails?

Enable it when you need full descriptions, public application URLs, structured deadlines, or education fields. Leave it off for a faster discovery export.

Can I use direct job URLs?

Yes. Add public /jobs/... URLs to startUrls. Direct URLs are fetched as individual public opportunities and take precedence over search inputs.

Does this Actor monitor changes?

No. This is a one-shot scraper. Use Apify Schedules if you want to run the same bounded search repeatedly and compare the resulting datasets.

🛡️ Limits and data boundaries

This Actor reads public TargetJobs search responses, public job pages, and public page data on targetjobs.co.uk or www.targetjobs.co.uk. It does not log in, access private candidate data, request employer websites, solve CAPTCHAs, bypass access controls, or use browser automation. Application URLs are returned as values but are not opened.

TargetJobs occasionally changes public page fields. If a field is not present in the source response, the Actor leaves it out. A challenge page or unexpected source response is reported in the run summary and does not become a fabricated dataset item.

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