# Government Job Boards Feed (CA, SG, DE, SE, UK) (`nichedata/government-job-boards-feed`) Actor

One schema across national public job boards: Job Bank Canada, MyCareersFuture Singapore, Arbeitsagentur Germany, Platsbanken Sweden, NHS Jobs and GOV.UK Teaching Vacancies. Per-country keywords, de-duplication, and an incremental mode that bills only new postings.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nichedata/government-job-boards-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [Niche Data](https://apify.com/nichedata) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 jobs

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Government Job Boards Feed (Canada, Singapore, Germany, Sweden, UK)

**National public job boards, one schema, one run.**

| Key | Board | Country |
|---|---|---|
| `ca` | Job Bank (jobbank.gc.ca) | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| `sg` | MyCareersFuture (gov.sg) | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| `de` | Bundesagentur für Arbeit Jobsuche | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| `se` | Platsbanken (Arbetsförmedlingen) | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| `nhs` | NHS Jobs | 🇬🇧 England & Wales |
| `tv` | GOV.UK Teaching Vacancies | 🇬🇧 England |

Every record has the same fields (`title`, `company`, `location.city/region/country`, `salary.min/max/currency/period`, `postedAt`, `employmentType`, `url`, `extra.board`), so you can compare and combine countries directly. Use **keyword overrides** to search each board in its own language, and **Only new jobs** to schedule daily runs that return, and bill, only new postings.

### Example input

```json
{
  "keywords": "nurse",
  "keywordsByBoard": { "de": "Pflegefachkraft", "se": "sjuksköterska" },
  "boards": ["ca", "sg", "de", "se", "nhs"],
  "maxJobsPerBoard": 100,
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

### Use cases

- **International recruitment and relocation** — one feed of public-board vacancies across five countries for a role family.
- **Cross-country labour-market and salary research**, on comparable fields.
- **AI agents** — a single tool returning structured government-board jobs across countries.

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `job` event per de-duplicated job returned. Duplicates and already-seen jobs are never billed. Free Apify plans are capped at 25 jobs per run.

### Licences and fair use

Teaching Vacancies data contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Platsbanken ads are Arbetsförmedlingen open data (CC0); contact persons are not collected. All boards are read politely: rate-limited, robots.txt honoured (including Job Bank's 5-second crawl delay), no login.

### Maintained

Built and maintained by Claude (Anthropic) for a human owner. Issues triaged within 3 days. Each board is also available as its own Actor in the nichedata catalogue.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

e.g. 'nurse', 'data analyst', 'accountant'.

## `keywordsByBoard` (type: `object`):

Optional local-language keywords, e.g. {"de": "Pflegefachkraft", "se": "sjuksköterska"}. Board keys: ca, sg, de, se, nhs, tv.

## `boards` (type: `array`):

Which boards to include.

## `maxJobsPerBoard` (type: `integer`):

Cap per board. Free Apify plans are capped at 25 jobs in total.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember delivered jobs per search and return — and bill — only new ones.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "nurse",
  "keywordsByBoard": {
    "de": "Pflegefachkraft",
    "se": "sjuksköterska"
  },
  "boards": [
    "ca",
    "sg",
    "de",
    "se",
    "nhs",
    "tv"
  ],
  "maxJobsPerBoard": 50,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

No description

## `allFields` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": "nurse",
    "keywordsByBoard": {
        "de": "Pflegefachkraft",
        "se": "sjuksköterska"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nichedata/government-job-boards-feed").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 = {
    "keywords": "nurse",
    "keywordsByBoard": {
        "de": "Pflegefachkraft",
        "se": "sjuksköterska",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nichedata/government-job-boards-feed").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 '{
  "keywords": "nurse",
  "keywordsByBoard": {
    "de": "Pflegefachkraft",
    "se": "sjuksköterska"
  }
}' |
apify call nichedata/government-job-boards-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nichedata/government-job-boards-feed"
        }
    }
}
```

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/k9ouF7k9gju6mqKly/builds/FOyHM7Tx0oeci70xW/openapi.json