Jobs Ireland Scraper

👋 JobsIreland is Ireland's official government job portal operated by the Department of Social Protection. It serves as the central platform for job listings across all Irish regions, covering both public and private sector opportunities. The platform provides comprehensive job search functionality with advanced filtering options, career guidance resources, and integration with Ireland's unemployment benefits system. As the primary government employment service, it contains thousands of active job postings and serves as the essential resource for employment opportunities across all Irish counties.

Introduction

The Jobs Ireland scraper crawls the public JobsIreland.ie website, extracting job listings from search results and detailed information from individual job pages. It paginates through results and saves a normalized dataset for each job.

Use Cases

• Job Market Research: Analyze roles, geographies, and employment types across Ireland.
• Recruitment Enrichment: Feed ATS/CRMs with structured postings and metadata.
• Competitor Monitoring: Track company hiring activity by location or sector.
• Data Aggregation: Build dashboards for trends by occupation, career level, or employment type.

Input 📥

Provide any of the following fields:

• startUrls (array, optional): Direct list or search URLs to start from. Example: { "url": "https://jobsireland.ie/search?query=engineer&location=dublin" }
• query (string, optional): Search keyword.
• location (string, optional): Location filter for job search.
• maxItems (integer, optional): Maximum number of jobs to extract.
• page (integer, optional): Starting page number (default: 1).
• pageSize (string, optional): Results per page (10, 20, 25, 50, 100).
• vacancyType (string, optional): Type of vacancy (Paid Position, Apprenticeship, Self Employed, etc.).
• careerLevel (string, optional): Career level filter (Student, Entry Level, Experienced, Managerial, etc.).
• sector (string, optional): Industry sector filter (Agriculture, Manufacturing, IT, etc.).
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Apify proxy configuration. Example: { "useApifyProxy": true }

Notes:

• Either startUrls or query must be provided.
• The scraper supports various filters including career level, sector, and vacancy type.
• pageSize controls how many results are processed per page.

Example input:

{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "location": "dublin",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "careerLevel": "3",
  "sector": "J",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output 📤

Each dataset item contains fields like:

{
  "title": "Footwear Sales Assistant",
  "url": "https://jobsireland.ie/en-US/job-Details?id=2416780",
  "applicationDetails": "This Work Placement Experience Programme provides Participants with an opportunity to gain meaningful work experience....",
  "jobDescription": "We are looking for a Retail Assistant to join our team at Paul Byron Shoes....",
  "roleDescription": "This is a training and work experience opportunity...",
  "careerLevel": ["Not Required"],
  "companyLogo": "https://dspazimages.blob.core.windows.net/images/1wzorqcw-930705.jpg",
  "employer": "BYRON DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED",
  "ref": "#WPEP-2416780",
  "location": "PAUL BYRON SHOES, Unit 13, Terryland House, Terryland Rtl Pk, Ga, Co. Galway, H91 XH01",
  "position": "No of positions: 1",
  "partTime": "Work Placement and Experience Programme",
  "hoursPerWeek": "As per WPEP guidelines",
  "euro": "Work Placement Experience Programme",
  "published": "17 Oct 2025",
  "closing": "12 Dec 2025"
}

The scraper paginates list results and stops when there are no more jobs or when maxItems is reached.

Why use the Jobs Ireland Scraper?

• ⚡️ Fast: Efficient crawling with Cheerio for quick data extraction.
• 🤙 Easy to use: Start from URLs or a simple query with optional filters.
• ☑️ Reliable: Built on Apify Actors and Crawlee (Cheerio).
• 🎯 Flexible: Supports multiple filters including career level, sector, and vacancy type.
• 🔍 Comprehensive: Collects key job and company fields from JobsIreland.ie.

FAQ 💬

• How many jobs can it extract?
  Set maxItems to limit results; a high value attempts to fetch all available.

• What if the website changes?
  Site changes may require updates. Please report issues or request updates.

• Does it support proxies?
  Yes. Provide proxyConfiguration (e.g., { "useApifyProxy": true }).

Need to scrape other job platforms?

Check out our other job scrapers on Apify:

• Jobs.ch Scraper
• Jobs.cz Scraper
• VDAB.be Scraper
• AMS Austria Jobs Scraper

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