# BestJobs Scraper - Romanian Job Listings · $1.5/1K (`listingworks/bestjobs-scraper`) Actor

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

- **URL**: https://apify.com/listingworks/bestjobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Yusuke Suda](https://apify.com/listingworks) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.75 / 1,000 result items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search for, e.g. contabil, sofer, customer support. Each keyword is its own search. Leave empty for all postings.

## `location` (type: `string`):

A Romanian town as written on BestJobs, with or without diacritics (e.g. București, Cluj-Napoca, Iași). Leave empty for the whole country. A town the site does not know fails the run instead of returning unfiltered results.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many postings. BestJobs publishes no posting dates, so each run returns the site's current list in its own order.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Off by default. Turn on (residential, in the site's country) only if runs start getting blocked with 403/429.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "contabil"
  ],
  "location": "București",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

All Romanian job postings from this run: what the job is, who is hiring, where, and the stated pay.

## `employers` (type: `string`):

The same postings ordered around who is hiring.

## `runReport` (type: `string`):

Pages read, records delivered, errors, and the verdict (ok, degraded or broken).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "contabil"
    ],
    "location": "București",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("listingworks/bestjobs-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchTerms": ["contabil"],
    "location": "București",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("listingworks/bestjobs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "contabil"
  ],
  "location": "București",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call listingworks/bestjobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,listingworks/bestjobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/nCCdycwM9FdWSl9eU/builds/FmHAO9Ov1JMsUTPLZ/openapi.json