gumtree-jobs-monitoring

Gumtree Jobs Monitoring (UK & AU)

A production-ready monitoring Actor designed to track job listing activity on Gumtree UK and Gumtree Australia using a stability-first, monitoring-oriented approach.

This Actor is built for scheduled and recurring runs, enabling recruitment teams, agencies, and data teams to monitor hiring activity, detect new listings, and observe job market signals across UK and AU — without relying on manual checks or brittle one-off scraping.

Due to Gumtree’s anti-bot protections, the Actor prioritizes reliability, availability signals, and change detection over aggressive extraction.

🎯 Who This Is For

This Actor is intended for teams that need continuous visibility into Gumtree job listings rather than one-time scraping.

Typical users include:

Recruitment agencies monitoring new job postings

Hiring teams tracking demand for specific roles

Market researchers analyzing employment trends

Operations teams building job market datasets

Businesses monitoring competitor hiring activity

This Actor is designed for recurring monitoring, not high-volume one-off scraping.

⭐ Key Capabilities

Monitoring of Gumtree job listing activity across UK and AU

Structured, normalized job data suitable for analytics and automation

Monitoring-first architecture with URL-based deduplication

Built-in safeguards against hanging or infinite runs

Optional browser-based fallback for restricted pages

Clean output designed for CRMs, databases, and reporting pipelines

Supports scheduled and recurring executions

Optional proxy support for improved stability on frequent runs

🧩 Input

This Actor supports configurable inputs for both quick validation runs and long-term monitoring workflows.

Common inputs include:

countries – UK, AU, or both

locations – one or more locations per region

searchTerm – job keyword to monitor

maxPagesPerLocation – page depth per location

monitoringEnabled – enable change detection and deduplication

usePlaywrightFallback – enable browser fallback for restricted pages

proxy – enable Apify Proxy (optional)

See input_schema.json for full configuration details.

📤 Output

Each run produces clean, structured job listing records designed for downstream automation and reporting.

Typical fields include:

region

url

title

location

recruiter / company (when available)

posted_date (when available)

salary (when available)

description (cleaned and normalized)

timestamp

Additional metadata may be present depending on region and page availability.

See output_schema.json for full field definitions.

🚀 Example Workflow

Select regions (default: UK + AU)

Define job keyword and locations

Configure monitoring and proxy options

Run the Actor on a schedule

Consume results via API, JSON, CSV, or Excel

💼 Typical Use Cases

Daily or weekly job market monitoring

Recruitment intelligence and lead discovery

Hiring demand trend analysis

Competitor hiring activity monitoring

Automation workflows (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, APIs)

📝 Monitoring & Stability Notes

Uses lightweight requests with guarded execution limits

Includes strict runtime timeouts to prevent hanging runs

Automatically adapts to layout differences between Gumtree UK and AU

Browser-based crawling is used selectively when required

Designed to degrade gracefully when pages are restricted

Prioritizes stability and consistent signals over aggressive scraping

🔁 Built for Recurring Runs

This Actor is designed to run on a scheduled basis (daily or weekly), making it suitable for long-term job market monitoring and structured data collection.

It integrates naturally into dashboards, reporting systems, and automation pipelines where reliability matters more than volume.