BestJobs Scraper — Romanian job listings by keyword and town

Extract job postings from BestJobs.eu (Romania) by keyword and location: title, employer, place, remote flag, salary range, URL.

BestJobs is one of Romania's main job boards, with tens of thousands of live postings: over 40,000 in București alone, and thousands each in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași and Brașov. This Actor turns its search results into a clean table: the job title, the employer, the workplace, whether it is remote, the salary the employer states, and the link to the posting.

Press Start. The defaults search for contabil (accountant) across Romania, so the first run needs no configuration.

What a row looks like

{
  "title": "Contabil",
  "company": "SSANGRO CARS",
  "location": "Șoseaua Pipera 48, Sector 2, București, România; Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu 181b, București, România",
  "remote": null,
  "salary_min": 1005,
  "salary_max": 1005,
  "salary_currency": "EUR",
  "salary_period": "month",
  "apply_url": "",
  "source_url": "https://www.bestjobs.eu/loc-de-munca/contabil-4908",
  "external_id": "52070149"
}

company is the employer as the list shows it. When the employer hides its name ("Confidențial"), company is empty. Contact persons, email addresses and phone numbers are never collected. This Actor reads the search results only and never opens the job text.

location lists every workplace the posting names, joined with "; ". Often that is a town, sometimes the employer's office address. remote is true when the posting lists "Remote" as a place, and empty otherwise: a posting without it is not necessarily on-site.

salary_* is the pay the employer states, in euros a month, as BestJobs shows it. Where the employer states nothing, the columns are empty. BestJobs' own salary estimate is not reported as a salary. apply_url is filled when the employer takes applications on its own careers page.

No posting dates

BestJobs does not publish when a posting went online, either in the search results or on the job page. So posted_at is always empty, and this Actor has no "posted after" filter. It refuses one rather than pretending to apply it. To follow what is new, run on a schedule and compare external_id with the previous run's.

What people use it for

• Tracking which companies in a Romanian city are hiring, week by week.
• Salary benchmarking from the ranges employers state.
• Feeding a job board or a newsletter with Romanian openings in a niche.
• Research on the Romanian labour market that needs structured rows rather than a page of links.

Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Keywords, e.g. contabil, sofer, customer support. Each keyword is its own search. Leave empty for everything.
location	A Romanian town, with or without diacritics: București, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi. Leave empty for the whole country.
maxItems	A hard stop, so your bill is predictable.
proxyConfiguration	Off by default. Most runs do not need a proxy.

How much one run returns

BestJobs serves 24 postings per page, in its own relevance order, and the run follows the site's "load more" cursor page by page until the list ends or maxItems is reached. The site publishes no total for a search, so the run report shows the rows delivered but not "of how many". If you search several keywords, a posting that matches more than one is delivered only once per run.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 postings, falling to $0.75 per 1,000 on higher Apify plans, plus $0.005 each time a run starts. Platform usage is not passed on to you.

You are charged only for rows you actually receive. If you set a maximum charge for the run, it stops cleanly at that limit instead of going over it.

Scope and limits

The Actor reads public listings only, from the search results pages. BestJobs' robots.txt allows these for all crawlers. No API is called, and job pages are not opened.

A town that BestJobs does not recognise fails the run with a clear message. On the site, an unknown town is silently dropped and you get postings from the whole country, and this Actor will not charge you for those.

Every page is checked against what you asked for: keyword, town and page cursor. If the site answered something else, the run fails rather than return rows you did not ask for and charge you for them.

If BestJobs changes its page structure, the run goes red. It does not return zero rows and report success. A silent scraper is worse than a broken one, because you only find out weeks later.

A run that is blocked or cut short partway also goes red, even though the rows it did collect are in the dataset and yours to keep. Red here means "this is not the complete answer", not "you lost the data". On a schedule, a run that quietly came back short is the thing you most need to hear about.

Same shape, other sites

This Actor shares its output shape with:

• the Jobware Scraper (Germany)
• the jobs.ch, jobup.ch and JobScout24 Scrapers (Switzerland)
• the Jobindex Scraper (Denmark)
• the Jobs.cz Scraper (Czech Republic)

A parser you write for one keeps working on the others, and on the countries added next.

Support

Open an issue on this Actor with the run ID and your input. We answer within one business day.