CareersInGovernment.com Job Scraper

What does CareersInGovernment.com Scraper do?

CareersInGovernment.com Scraper will help you search and extract comprehensive job posting data from careersingovernment.com, a career platform dedicated to public-sector and government job listings across the United States.

You can extract job details such as titles, descriptions, posting dates, locations, salary ranges, job categories, hiring agencies, and employer profiles. CareersInGovernment.com Scraper supports a REST API which gives you access to the extracted dataset, enables you to download it in various formats, and use it in other applications.

It allows you to search and extract government job listings from CareersInGovernment.com, a comprehensive career platform for public-sector professionals. CareersInGovernment role pages include agency metadata, job attributes, and region-based filtering useful for public-sector recruitment monitoring. The scraper supports the REST API which gives you access to the extracted dataset, enables you to download it in various formats, and use it in other applications.

What data can I extract from CareersInGovernment.com with a web scraper?

With this web scraping tool, you can extract the following data from CareersInGovernment.com:

📰 Job titles	📝 Full descriptions
📅 Posting dates	📍 Job locations
🔗 Job URLs	💰 Base salary
🏢 Employer name & logo	🌆 Employer overview
🗺️ State/Region	🌍 Country
📮 Postal codes	📞 Employer telephone
🌐 Employer website	🏷️ Job categories
🔍 Search URLs

Why scrape CareersInGovernment.com?

CareersInGovernment.com is a comprehensive career platform providing job listings across all levels of government — federal, state, county, and municipal — as well as public universities, utilities, and other public-sector agencies. The site aggregates job postings from employers nationwide, offering detailed information on positions, requirements, and agency profiles.

• Monitor public-sector job market trends across the US
• Track compensation and salary ranges in government roles
• Analyze job requirements and qualification demands by region
• Aggregate government job listings for career portals
• Build recruitment intelligence dashboards for public-sector hiring
• Power job alert and notification systems
• Create comparative analysis across government agencies and regions
• Support talent acquisition and workforce planning in the public sector

How to use CareersInGovernment.com Scraper?

CareersInGovernment.com Scraper is designed for easy and fast start even if you've never extracted data from websites before. Here's how you can extract data from CareersInGovernment.com with this web scraping tool:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open CareersInGovernment.com Scraper on the Apify platform.
3. Click on the Try for free button.
4. Enter the start URLs for job search results or individual job detail pages.
5. Click on the Start button and wait for the data to be extracted.
6. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Input

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• startUrls (array of objects) - Required. URLs to start with. You can provide job search result URLs or individual job detail page URLs.
• maxItems (integer) - The maximum number of jobs to scrape per start URL. Default: 5
• proxyConfiguration (object) - Proxy configuration settings.

Supported URL Types (examples)

You can use job search results and individual job detail pages:

Search URL example:

• https://www.careersingovernment.com/jobs/?action=search&listing_type%5Bequal%5D=Job&keywords%5Ball_words%5D=software+engineer&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bradius%5D=20

Job Detail Pages:

• https://www.careersingovernment.com/job/829992/information-technology-analyst-principal-software-engineer/

Example:

{
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/jobs/?action=search&listing_type%5Bequal%5D=Job&keywords%5Ball_words%5D=software+engineer&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bradius%5D=20"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/job/829992/information-technology-analyst-principal-software-engineer/"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
}

Note: The startUrls field is required

Output

The scraped data will be saved as a dataset. Each item will represent a job posting. You can choose in what format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, HTML table, CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or NDJSON.

Example output structure:

{
    "url": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/job/1003871/part-time-lecturer-pool-comp-science-software-engineering-ay-26-27/",
    "startUrl": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/jobs/?action=search&listing_type%5Bequal%5D=Job&keywords%5Ball_words%5D=software&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bvalue%5D=california&GooglePlace%5Blocation%5D%5Bradius%5D=20",
    "title": "Part-Time Lecturer Pool - Comp Science & Software Engineering (AY 26/27)",
    "address": {
        "region": "California",
        "postalCode": "93405",
        "addressCountry": "United States"
    },
    "baseSalary": null,
    "categories": ["Education and Training", "Engineering", "Information Technology and Communication Services"],
    "datePosted": "Apr 02, 2026",
    "description": "APPOINTMENTS FROM THE PART-TIME POOL ARE TEMPORARY...",
    "employer": {
        "employerName": "California Polytechnic State University",
        "employerLogo": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/files/pictures/calpoly.png",
        "employerOverview": "Founded in 1901, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)...",
        "telephone": "805-756-2236",
        "website": "https://jobs.calpoly.edu/",
        "employerUrl": "https://www.careersingovernment.com/company/263944/california-polytechnic-state-university/"
    }
}

Notes and Limitations

• The actor relies on the structure of the CareersInGovernment.com website. If the website structure changes, the actor may need to be updated.
• For large-scale scraping, use Apify's proxy services to avoid IP blocking.
• When using a proxy, requests can originate from different locations, so the number of results may differ compared to non-proxy runs.

🔍 Looking to Scrape more Job & Career Websites?

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