CharityJob.co.uk scraper

Turn CharityJob.co.uk into structured job-market data you can actually use. Scrape full job postings — title, salary band, workplace type, employer, closing date, full HTML description — straight from search URLs or single job pages. Optional one-shot organisation enrichment adds the company website domain and "About us" copy. JSON or CSV out, no compute charge per run, just per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

Trying to track UK charity-sector hiring without paying for a recruitment SaaS? Building salary benchmarks across causes? Need a clean dataset for analysis instead of copy-pasting from job boards?

• 🎯 Two starting points. Paste a CharityJob search URL (any combination of filters supported by the site) or a direct job URL — both classified automatically.
• 📋 JSON-LD–backed accuracy. Title, salary, location, posting/closing dates, employment type, and industries come from the page's application/ld+json block — same data the site itself ships to Google for Jobs.
• 🏢 Optional org enrichment. One extra fetch per unique company adds companyDescription and companyDomain, deduplicated across the run.
• 🔁 Two HTTP pipelines. Strict impit-only mode (sliding-window concurrency, proxy rotation, parallel impit/got race on tough pages) or CheerioCrawler with ImpitHttpClient — switch via one boolean.
• 🧰 Filter-agnostic. Cause, workplace, contract type, employer type, salary band, days-since-posted — every CharityJob filter combination just works through the URL.
• 📤 Clean exports. Dataset rows are stable JSON; CSV export is generated automatically at the end of every run.

🎯 Use cases

Team	What they build
Recruitment / agencies	Daily new-vacancy feeds for direct-employer listings, sliced by cause and workplace type
Charity-sector analysts	Hiring-trend dashboards across UK third-sector causes (mental health, climate, refugee support, etc.)
Compensation & benefits	Salary benchmarks for charity roles by contract type, region, and employer size
Talent acquisition (in-house)	Competitive intelligence on what other charities are paying and how they're framing roles
Researchers / journalists	Longitudinal datasets on workforce shifts in the UK voluntary sector
Job aggregators	Source-of-truth feed of new charity vacancies to ingest into their own platform

📥 Supported inputs

You can pass two kinds of URL in startUrls. Each URL is classified automatically.

URL pattern	Behaviour
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs?<any-filters>	Search — paginates ?page=2, ?page=3, … and fans out to every job link found
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/{org-slug}/{job-slug}/{numeric-id} (with or without ?tsId=)	Detail — routed straight to the job parser, no listing crawl

Filter parameters that map to CharityJob's own URL params (multi-value where supported):

cause, workplace (on-site/hybrid/remote), contracttype (full-time/part-time/permanent/contract/temporary/internship), employerType (direct-employer/recruitment-agency), days (1/3/7/14), minsalary, maxsalary, joblevel, applytype.

Easiest workflow: apply your filters on charityjob.co.uk in the browser, copy the URL out of the address bar, paste into startUrls.

Not supported:

• Volunteer listings (/volunteer-jobs/...)
• Organisation profile URLs as a starting point (they're fetched automatically as enrichment)
• Hosts outside www.charityjob.co.uk / charityjob.co.uk

🔄 How it works

1. Classify each startUrl as a search URL or a single job URL.
2. Walk every search result page (?page=N), collecting unique job links until maxItems is reached or the last page is hit.
3. Fetch each job detail page, parse the JSON-LD JobPosting block + supplementary HTML (workplace label, apply button class, organisation slug).
4. Enrich each unique organisation once (when enrichOrganisation is on) by fetching /organisation/{slug} for company description + outbound website domain.
5. Push to dataset and export — JSON rows during the run, plus data.csv and data.json at the end.

⚙️ Input parameters

Search

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	*	—	Full charityjob.co.uk URLs (search and/or detail). When provided, filter fields below are ignored.
cause	array	*	—	One or more cause slugs (human-rights, mental-health, education, …). Used only when startUrls is empty.
workplace	array	No	—	Multi-select of on-site, hybrid, remote.
contractType	array	No	—	Multi-select: full-time, part-time, permanent, contract, temporary, internship.
employerType	string	No	—	direct-employer or recruitment-agency.
days	string	No	—	1, 3, 7, or 14 — limits posting age.
minSalary / maxSalary	integer	No	—	Salary band in GBP.

* Either startUrls or cause is required. If both are empty the actor will use the schema's default search URL.

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
enrichOrganisation	boolean	true	Fetch each unique /organisation/{slug} page once for companyDescription + companyDomain.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on jobs collected. Pagination stops when the cap is reached.
maxConcurrency / minConcurrency	integer	10 / 1	Parallel HTTP request limits.
maxRequestRetries	integer	5	Retries before a request is given up.
proxy	object	Apify residential	Apify proxy configuration.

📊 Output overview

Each scraped job is one single dataset row. When enrichOrganisation is true, organisation fields (description, domain, headquarters, banner image) are merged into the same row — no separate organisation rows, so the dataset row count equals the job count exactly. For external-apply jobs (CharityJob's "Redirect to recruiter" flow), the actual recruiter URL is captured into externalApplyUrl.

📦 Output sample

One merged row per job (organisation enrichment + external apply URL inline; trimmed to the most useful fields):

{
    "type": "job",
    "jobId": "1066939",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/crisis-uk/strengths-and-assets-coach/1066939",
    "title": "Strengths and Assets Coach",
    "companyName": "Crisis UK",
    "companyProfileUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/organisation/crisis-uk",
    "organisationSlug": "crisis-uk",
    "logoUrl": "https://downloads.charityjob.co.uk/.../crisis_logo.png",
    "location": "Edinburgh, Edinburgh",
    "postcode": "EH3",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressRegion": "Scotland",
    "country": "GB",
    "workplaceType": "Hybrid",
    "salary": { "currency": "GBP", "min": 33352, "max": 36919, "unit": "YEAR", "raw": "£33,352 - £36,919 per year" },
    "employmentType": ["FULL_TIME"],
    "contractType": "Contract (Fixed term until 31 March 2026)",
    "hours": "Full-time (35 hours per week)",
    "industry": ["Advice / Information", "Housing", "Social Welfare"],
    "tags": ["Advice / Information", "Advocacy", "Homelessness", "Mentoring / Coaching", "Social / Support Work"],
    "postedDate": "2026-05-06",
    "postedDateLabel": "06 May 2026",
    "closingDate": "2026-05-24",
    "closingDateLabel": "24 May 2026 at 23:30",
    "closingDateTime": "2026-05-24T23:30:00.000Z",
    "jobReference": null,
    "organisationType": "Registered Charity",
    "organisationSizeBand": "501 - 1000",
    "agencyContactRestriction": true,
    "description": "<p>Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness...</p> ... (full HTML)",
    "attachments": [
        {
            "name": "Strength & Assets Coach Skylight Edinburgh Job Pack May 26 (.pdf)",
            "url": "https://downloads.charityjob.co.uk/attachments/strength_asset_coach_skylight_edinburgh_job_pack_may_26_2026_05_06_11_32_00_am.pdf",
            "type": "pdf"
        }
    ],
    "applyType": "external",
    "applyUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/crisis-uk/strengths-and-assets-coach/1066939",
    "externalApplyUrl": "https://jobs.crisis.org.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=11778",
    "accreditations": ["Disability Confident"],
    "companyTagline": "Together we will end homelessness",
    "companyDescription": "Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We help people directly out of homelessness...",
    "companyWebsite": "https://www.crisis.org.uk/",
    "companyDomain": "crisis.org.uk",
    "companyHeadquarters": {
        "postcode": "E1 6LT",
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "mapEmbedUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/embed/v1/place?q=E1+6LT,United+Kingdom&key=..."
    },
    "companyBannerImage": "https://downloads.charityjob.co.uk/cdn-cgi/image/width=960,height=240,fit=cover/media/...jpg",
    "companyBenefits": [
        { "name": "Enhanced pension", "iconUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/Assets/img/benefits/pension.svg" },
        { "name": "Cycle to work scheme", "iconUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/Assets/img/benefits/cycle.svg" },
        { "name": "Mental wellbeing support", "iconUrl": "https://www.charityjob.co.uk/Assets/img/benefits/mental_wellbeing.svg" }
    ],
    "companyMedia": [
        { "type": "video", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/he8pi3nbUDk" }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-08T08:21:10.114Z"
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identifiers	type, jobId, jobReference (employer's internal ref, when present), jobUrl, scrapedAt
Role	title, description (full HTML), industry[], tags[] (job-specific, separate from industry)
Dates	postedDate (ISO date), postedDateLabel (human), closingDate (ISO date), closingDateLabel ("24 May 2026 at 23:30"), closingDateTime (precise ISO datetime including cut-off time)
Employer	companyName, companyProfileUrl, organisationSlug, organisationType (e.g. Registered Charity), organisationSizeBand (e.g. 501 - 1000), logoUrl
Location	location, postcode, addressLocality, addressRegion, country, workplaceType (On-site/Hybrid/Remote)
Compensation	salary.{currency,min,max,unit,raw}, employmentType[], contractType, hours
Application resources	attachments[] — array of {name, url, type} for PDF/Doc job descriptions, person specs, application packs
Apply flow	applyType (internal / external / unknown), applyUrl, externalApplyUrl (resolved recruiter destination for redirect-to-recruiter jobs), agencyContactRestriction (boolean — true when the employer has flagged "no contact from agencies")
Accreditations	accreditations[] — known UK employer accreditations detected in the description prose (Disability Confident, Living Wage Employer, Mindful Employer, Investors in People, Stonewall Diversity Champion, B Corp, Race at Work Charter)
Company enrichment (merged into the same row when enrichOrganisation: true)	companyTagline, companyDescription, companyWebsite, companyDomain, companyHeadquarters.{postcode,country,mapEmbedUrl}, companyBannerImage, companyBenefits[] (e.g. Cycle to work scheme, Enhanced pension, Mental wellbeing support), companyMedia[] (YouTube videos / images from the org's CharityJob profile)

❓ FAQ

Which CharityJob URLs are supported? Search URLs (/jobs?...) and single job URLs (/jobs/{org}/{slug}/{id}). Volunteer listings, organisation pages used as starting points, and any host outside www.charityjob.co.uk are skipped.

Does externalApplyUrl show the actual recruiter URL? Yes — for jobs marked applyType: "external" (CharityJob's "Redirect to recruiter" button), the actor performs a 2-step flow against CharityJob's apply endpoints to retrieve the real recruiter destination (e.g. https://jobs.crisis.org.uk/..., https://app.beapplied.com/apply/...). Internal-apply jobs return applyUrl only.

Can I scrape private pages, premium recruiter listings, or candidate profiles? No. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages — no logged-in content, no recruiter-only views, no candidate data.

How do I limit results? Set maxItems. Pagination short-circuits as soon as the cap is reached, so a maxItems: 50 run stops fetching listing pages roughly halfway through page 4 (the site shows ~15 jobs per page).

💬 Support

• For issues or feature requests, please use the Issues tab on the actor's Apify Console page.
• Author's website: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
• Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

🛠 Additional services

• Custom output shape, additional fields, or one-off datasets: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• Need this scraper customised, or want a similar scraper for TotalJobs / other UK job boards? Drop an email.
• For API access (no Apify fee, just a usage fee for the API): muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CharityJob.co.uk or any of its operators, subsidiaries, or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only publicly available job-listing and organisation-profile pages — no authenticated endpoints, recruiter-only features, candidate accounts, or content behind the charityjob.co.uk login wall. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with charityjob.co.uk's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), and any contractual obligations of their own organisation.

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