Highland Jobs (.scot) Scraper

Turn highlandjobs.scot into structured Scottish Highlands & Islands vacancy data. Scrape every job from highlandjobs.scot — title, employer, location, salary band (parsed), category & employment type taxonomies, posted date, full description HTML, featured image, and the actual apply email or external apply URL — pulled straight from the site's public WP-JSON REST API. JSON or CSV out, no compute charge per run, just per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

Tracking the Highlands & Islands labour market? Building seasonal hiring dashboards for hospitality / tourism / cleaning? Need a clean dataset of every live vacancy in the Highlands without scrolling pages?

• 🎯 Three starting points. Paste the /jobs/ archive URL, a direct /job/<slug>/ URL, or the WP-JSON endpoint itself — all classified and translated automatically.
• ⚡ WP-JSON REST API as the data source. Each vacancy comes from /wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings — every WP Job Manager field arrives in one request. No detail-page HTML re-fetching needed.
• 📦 All 204 vacancies in ~3 HTTP calls. Pages of up to 100 items each, with X-WP-TotalPages driving parallel page fetches.
• 📧 Apply email or URL captured. _application meta is detected and split into applyEmail / externalApplyUrl automatically.
• 🏷️ Taxonomies inline. Categories (Hospitality & Tourism, Cleaning & Facilities, …) and employment types (Seasonal, Full Time, …) embedded via WP-JSON _embed — no extra HTTP cost.
• 🏔️ Highlands & Islands focus. Scotland's biggest non-central-belt job board — tourism, hospitality, cleaning, healthcare, retail, public sector, fisheries.
• 📤 Clean exports. One row per vacancy with all 34 fields inline. JSON + CSV exported automatically.

🎯 Use cases

Team	What they build
Hospitality groups	Daily new-vacancy feeds for hotels, restaurants, holiday lets across the Highlands
Tourism operators	Salary intelligence for visitor attractions, distilleries, transport providers
Recruitment / agencies	Niche regional candidate sourcing — Skye, Lewis, Inverness, Caithness, Aberdeenshire
Workforce strategy	Seasonal hiring trends — when do operators start posting for Easter / summer / autumn
Charities & public sector	Cross-region benchmarking for nonprofit / council pay bands
Job aggregators	Real recruiter apply emails + external URLs for redirect-and-track use cases

📥 Supported inputs

You can pass any combination of these URL shapes in startUrls. Each URL is classified automatically.

URL pattern	Behaviour
https://highlandjobs.scot/jobs/	Full listing — defaults to every vacancy on the site
https://highlandjobs.scot/job/<slug>/	Single job — translates to a slug-filtered WP-JSON query
https://highlandjobs.scot/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings	WP-JSON endpoint — pass-through (same as the default)
https://highlandjobs.scot/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings/<id>	WP-JSON single record — translates to ?include=<id>

Easiest workflow: leave startUrls empty to scrape every live vacancy, or paste a single /job/<slug>/ URL when you want one record.

Not supported:

• Filtering by browser query-string filters (?role=…, ?job=…, etc.) — the WP-JSON endpoint returns everything; filter in your downstream consumer.
• Hosts outside highlandjobs.scot.

🔄 How it works

1. Classify each startUrl and translate it to the canonical /wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings shape.
2. Fetch page 1 — read X-WP-Total and X-WP-TotalPages from the response headers.
3. Parallel-fetch pages 2..N via a sliding window of maxConcurrency requests.
4. Parse each WP Job Manager item — title, content HTML, meta block (_job_location, _application, _company_*, _job_salary*), _embed taxonomies (category, type), featured-media URL, author.
5. Detect apply type from the _application meta — email vs external URL vs internal.
6. Push one normalised row per vacancy to the dataset.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	["https://highlandjobs.scot/jobs/"]	Browser URLs, single-job URLs, or WP-JSON endpoints. Empty array = scrape everything.
enrichTaxonomies	boolean	true	When true, embeds taxonomy term names and featured image via WP-JSON _embed. Adds zero extra HTTP calls.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on rows pushed. Set to 1000+ to scrape every job (~204 live).
maxConcurrency / minConcurrency	integer	5 / 1	Parallel WP-JSON page-fetch limits.
maxRequestRetries	integer	5	Retries before a failed WP-JSON request is given up.
proxy	object	No proxy	Site does not anti-bot — any proxy works, none is the default for speed.

📊 Output overview

Each scraped vacancy is one single dataset row of type: "job". All taxonomies, salary parsing, apply-target detection, featured media, and author info are merged into the same row — the dataset row count equals the job count exactly. No padding rows.

📦 Output sample

{
  "type": "job",
  "source": "highlandjobs.scot",
  "jobId": "15971",
  "slug": "holiday-home-cleaning-and-support-staff",
  "jobUrl": "https://highlandjobs.scot/job/holiday-home-cleaning-and-support-staff/",
  "wpJsonUrl": "https://highlandjobs.scot/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings/15971",
  "title": "Holiday Home Cleaning and Support Staff",
  "description": "<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"506\">AB Holiday Home Services is hiring cleaning and support staff…</p>",
  "descriptionText": "AB Holiday Home Services is hiring cleaning and support staff to work across holiday homes near the Glendale area on the Isle of Skye…",
  "companyName": "AB Holiday Home Services Ltd",
  "companyTagline": null,
  "companyWebsite": null,
  "companyDomain": null,
  "companyTwitter": null,
  "companyVideo": null,
  "location": "Isle of Skye",
  "remote": false,
  "salary": {
    "currency": "GBP",
    "min": 15,
    "max": 15,
    "unit": "HOUR",
    "raw": "£15.00"
  },
  "categories": ["Cleaning & Facilities", "Cleaning and Housekeeping", "Hospitality & Tourism", "Hospitality & Venues"],
  "employmentTypes": ["Seasonal"],
  "contractType": "Seasonal",
  "featured": false,
  "filled": false,
  "status": "publish",
  "postedDate": "2026-05-19T20:24:43Z",
  "modifiedDate": "2026-05-19T20:24:47Z",
  "applyType": "email",
  "applyUrl": "https://highlandjobs.scot/job/holiday-home-cleaning-and-support-staff/",
  "applyEmail": "abhhsltd@outlook.com",
  "externalApplyUrl": null,
  "featuredImageUrl": "https://highlandjobs.scot/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AB-Holiday-Homes.jpg",
  "authorId": 20,
  "authorName": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T00:13:00.000Z"
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identifiers	type, source, jobId, slug, jobUrl, wpJsonUrl, scrapedAt
Role	title, description (HTML), descriptionText (plain)
Dates	postedDate (ISO), modifiedDate (ISO)
Employer	companyName, companyWebsite, companyDomain, companyTagline, companyTwitter, companyVideo, featuredImageUrl
Location	location, remote
Compensation	salary.{currency, min, max, unit, raw}
Taxonomies	categories[], employmentTypes[], contractType
Flags	featured, filled, status
Apply flow	applyType (email / external / internal / unknown), applyUrl (the highlandjobs.scot page), applyEmail, externalApplyUrl
WordPress meta	authorId, authorName

❓ FAQ

Why no detail-page fetch? WP Job Manager exposes every meaningful field via the WP-JSON list endpoint — including the full content HTML, meta block, and embedded taxonomies. Per-vacancy detail pages are redundant.

Why are some salary min/max values weird (e.g. picks up 20% from "20% allowance")? The salary parser extracts ALL numbers from the raw string. For "£27,362 per annum plus 20% shift allowance" you may see min: 20, max: 27362. The original salary.raw is always correct — use it when the structured parse looks off.

Can I get categorisation in different languages? No. Category and type term names come from the site's own taxonomy and are HTML-entity decoded but otherwise unchanged.

Can I scrape private pages or applicant data? No. The scraper accesses only the publicly available WP-JSON REST API and renders the same data anyone can fetch with curl https://highlandjobs.scot/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings.

How do I limit results? Set maxItems. The actor stops walking pages as soon as the cap is reached.

💬 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 a similar scraper for other UK regional job boards (s1jobs, VAS Sheffield, Doing Good Leeds, ASVA, Snicket, VA Rotherham, Barnsley CVS, etc.)? 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 Highland Jobs (highlandjobs.scot), The Highland Times, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only the publicly available WP-JSON REST endpoint and public job pages on highlandjobs.scot — no authenticated endpoints, recruiter-only features, or content behind a login. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with highlandjobs.scot's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), and any contractual obligations of their own organisation.

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