York CVS Jobs Scraper

Scrape the York CVS jobs board at yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk — even though it's a Vue SPA. No browser automation needed. The actor reverse-engineered the hireful SaaS bundle and hits the public JSON API directly with a single HTTP call. Each row carries title, salary, location, full description HTML, ISO closing date, region, contract type, hours, employer brand info, and PDF attachments. JSON or CSV out, no compute charge per run, just per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

York CVS hosts its job board through hireful — a SaaS Applicant Tracking System with a Vue SPA front-end. Tracking who's hiring at York-area charities? Building a North Yorkshire voluntary-sector dashboard? Want a structured feed without firing up a headless browser?

• 🚀 No browser, no Playwright. We reverse-engineered hireful's SPA bundle and found the public JSON API: https://api.core-easywebats.com/v1/job/all. The only auth is the Origin header — the API maps Origin → company internally.
• ⚡ One HTTP call, full payload. The list endpoint returns EVERY job with EVERY field (title, salary, location, full description HTML, ISO closing date, region, contract type, hours, employer brand info, PDF attachments) — no per-job detail fetch needed.
• 🎯 Two starting points. The hireful API URL directly, or any yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk SPA URL (auto-redirected to the API).
• 🆔 Stable identifiers. Both job_number (sequential) and id (UUID) preserved per row.
• 🇬🇧 York / North Yorkshire focus. Social prescribers, support workers, project coordinators — charity-sector roles at York-area orgs.
• 📤 Clean exports. One row per vacancy with all fields inline. JSON + CSV exported automatically.

🎯 Use cases

Team	What they build
York-area CVS network	Cross-borough nonprofit hiring intelligence
Social-care recruiters	Daily new-vacancy feeds for York charity sector
Researchers	York labour-market datasets across charity / public-sector roles
Workforce strategy	Salary intelligence with structured {currency, min, max}
ATS / aggregator builders	hireful-API integration reference (any livevacancies.co.uk tenant works with the same pattern, just swap the Origin header)

📥 Supported inputs

URL pattern	Behaviour
https://api.core-easywebats.com/v1/job/all	Direct API call (default)
https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk/	SPA root — auto-routes to the API call
https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk/#/jobs/<number>	SPA detail URL — also routes to the full list (and the row matching <number> is included)

Leave startUrls empty for the default.

Not supported: other hireful tenants (the actor is wired to York CVS's Origin specifically — drop us an email if you want a different tenant).

🔄 How it works

1. Send GET to https://api.core-easywebats.com/v1/job/all with:
   • Origin: https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk
   • Referer: https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk/
2. Parse the JSON array — every job is a complete record (no pagination, no detail fetch).
3. For each item, normalise into our standard JobRecord shape:
   • Concat description[].description blocks → single HTML body
   • Parse salary string → {currency, min, max, raw}
   • Extract apply email/URL from description body via regex
4. Push one row per job to the dataset.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	["https://api.core-easywebats.com/v1/job/all"]	Hireful API URL or any yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk URL. Empty = default.
postedWithinHours	integer	(none)	Only return rows posted in the last N hours (24 = last day, 72 = last 3 days). Empty/0 = all. Ideal for daily monitoring runs that only want fresh postings.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on rows pushed.
maxConcurrency / minConcurrency	integer	5 / 1	Reserved — single-call design.
maxRequestRetries	integer	5	Retries before the API call is given up.
proxy	object	No proxy	API has no anti-bot — proxy optional.

📊 Output overview

Each scraped vacancy is one single dataset row of type: "job". No detail-page enrichment needed — the hireful list endpoint is the data source AND the detail source.

📦 Output sample

{
  "type": "job",
  "source": "yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk",
  "sourceProvider": "hireful",
  "jobId": "22",
  "jobUuid": "160de6e5-b0f9-4b21-bfbb-9c5df157283f",
  "slug": "22",
  "jobUrl": "https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk/#/jobs/22",
  "apiUrl": "https://api.core-easywebats.com/v1/job/22",
  "title": "Social Prescriber – Respiratory - COPD",
  "description": "<p><strong>Job Role: Social Prescriber</strong></p><p>…</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Job Role: Social Prescriber\nProject: Respiratory - COPD\n…",
  "companyId": "83252488-8c92-49cc-95ea-ecc0ebf13fbc",
  "companyName": null,
  "location": "York",
  "city": "York",
  "county": null,
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber",
  "internalRegion": null,
  "salary": {
    "currency": "GBP",
    "min": 29768,
    "max": 29768,
    "raw": "£29,768"
  },
  "salaryRaw": "£29,768",
  "contractType": null,
  "hours": "37",
  "department": null,
  "positions": "1",
  "categories": [],
  "employmentTypes": [],
  "status": "publish",
  "postedDate": "2026-04-12T09:00:00.000Z",
  "closingDate": "2026-06-02T17:00:00.000Z",
  "modifiedDate": "2026-05-15T14:22:00.000Z",
  "applyType": "email",
  "applyUrl": "https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk/#/jobs/22",
  "applyEmail": "socialprescribing@yorkcvs.org.uk",
  "externalApplyUrl": null,
  "customApplyUrl": null,
  "brandInfo": { },
  "jobFiles": [],
  "customFields": { "string": {}, "integer": {} },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T19:42:00.000Z"
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identifiers	type, source, sourceProvider (hireful), jobId (numeric ref), jobUuid (hireful UUID), slug, jobUrl, apiUrl, scrapedAt
Content	title, description (HTML), descriptionText (plain)
Dates	postedDate (ISO), closingDate (ISO), modifiedDate (ISO)
Employer	companyId, companyName, brandInfo (raw block), companyLogoUrl (when in jobFiles)
Location	location, addressLine1, addressLine2, city, county, country, region, internalRegion
Compensation	salary.{currency, min, max, raw}, salaryRaw, hours
Work pattern	contractType, hours, positions, department
Apply flow	applyType, applyUrl (SPA URL), applyEmail, externalApplyUrl, customApplyUrl
hireful-specific	jobFiles[] (PDF attachments), customFields.{string,integer} (recruiter-defined fields)

❓ FAQ

Wait — no browser? How? The hireful SaaS bundles a Vue SPA that talks to a public JSON API. The bundle's URL-template strings revealed the API base (api.core-easywebats.com) and the list path (v1/job/all). The API authenticates by the request's Origin header — when we send Origin: https://yorkcvs.livevacancies.co.uk, it returns York CVS's jobs.

Why is companyName sometimes null? hireful doesn't enforce company_name in brand_info — it's an optional recruiter-side label. The description HTML almost always names the employer in the body. Use companyId (UUID) as the stable join key.

Could you scrape other hireful tenants? Yes — every {tenant}.livevacancies.co.uk site uses the same API + the same Origin-based auth. Drop us an email to wire up a different tenant.

Can I scrape private pages or applicant data? No. The actor only hits the public job-listing endpoint that any visitor's browser would fetch.

How do I limit results? Set maxItems. Currently only 1 vacancy is live; the cap mostly matters for tenants with high volumes.

💬 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
• Build a similar actor for any other *.livevacancies.co.uk tenant (one-day turnaround): drop an email.
• For API access (no Apify fee, just usage): 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 York CVS, hireful, EasyWebats Ltd, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only the publicly available JSON API endpoint that the hireful SPA itself calls — no authenticated endpoints, recruiter-only features, or content behind a login. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with yorkcvs.livevacancies.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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