Dancers Group Audition & Job Listings Scraper

Scrape dance audition and job listings from Dancers Group — a San Francisco-based nonprofit and one of the few freely accessible, non-paywalled aggregators for performing arts opportunities. Covers auditions, teaching jobs, residencies, and calls for submissions.

What it does

This actor crawls the Dancers Group website's category archives (/category/auditions/ and /category/jobs/), follows pagination, and visits each individual posting page to extract:

• Full description text
• Posting type (audition, job, residency, call for submissions)
• Dance style / genre
• Company or choreographer name
• Location
• Remote/virtual flag
• Posting date
• Application deadline
• Audition date and location
• Compensation details
• Requirements
• Contact email
• Apply links

Use cases

• Dance agents and casting platforms — monitor open calls across the Bay Area and beyond
• Performer job boards — aggregate non-paywalled audition data
• AI talent-matching SaaS — feed structured listings into performer-job matching pipelines
• Dance researchers — track trends in audition volume, compensation, and style demand

Output

Each record represents one posting. Key fields:

Field	Description
posting_id	WordPress post ID
posting_title	Title of the listing
posting_type	audition, job, residency, or call_for_submissions
dance_style	Dance styles mentioned (e.g. ballet, contemporary)
company_or_choreographer	Submitting organization or individual
location	City / region
is_remote	true if the opportunity is virtual
posting_date	Date published (YYYY-MM-01 from URL path)
deadline	Application deadline (parsed from body text)
description	Full posting text
contact_email	Email address from the posting
external_apply_url	Application URL
source_url	Original posting URL

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of records to return

Notes

• Site is server-rendered WordPress — no JavaScript required
• Chrome user-agent is used automatically (bare requests return 403)
• No proxy needed: datacenter IPs with Chrome UA are accepted
• Pagination follows WP standard /page/N/ pattern — stops when no articles are found
• Structured fields (deadline, compensation, requirements) are extracted via regex from free-text body; null is returned when not parseable