Devex Jobs Scraper — International Development

Fetch international development vacancies from Devex, parsed by an AI extraction step (BYO Anthropic or Mistral key).

Bring your own key. This Actor uses either Claude (Anthropic) or Mistral for AI discovery/extraction — pick with provider. Pass anthropicApiKey (provider "anthropic", default) or mistralApiKey (provider "mistral") in the input. Without a matching key the run fails immediately with a clear error message.

AI provider: Anthropic vs Mistral

provider selects which AI does discovery + extraction:

• anthropic (default) — a Claude agent uses Anthropic's built-in web-search tool to search Devex via Google site-search and extract structured listings from the same tool loop.
• mistral — since Mistral has no built-in web-search tool, this path uses keenable (no-auth web search) to run the same Google site-searches, then ONE Mistral call extracts structured fields from the combined candidate list (title/URL/snippet — Devex blocks direct page fetches for both providers, so both work from search-result metadata only, never a page fetch).

Pick whichever provider you'd rather bring a key for; output shape and the no-guessing extraction rules (never fabricate postedAt/deadline, extract company from explicit signals only) are identical either way.

What Devex jobs data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
source	Always "devex"
id	Stable source-side identifier (job id parsed from the posting URL)
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring company / organisation
location	Location / duty station text from the search snippet (may be empty)
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date (YYYY-MM-DD), only when explicitly stated on the page or search snippet — null when unknown. Devex postings are discovered via Google search results, which frequently omit a reliable date, so null is common and expected; the actor never guesses or fabricates a date.
deadline	Application closing date (YYYY-MM-DD), only when explicitly stated — null when not stated. Also commonly null.
snippet	Short description excerpt from the search result

externalId is also present on every record, duplicating id — it is a deprecated alias kept for backward compatibility with existing integrations and will be removed in a future major version.

How to scrape Devex jobs with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run — no login to the target site, no cookies, no proxies to configure.
2. Adjust the input (keyword, filters, maxItems) or keep the defaults.
3. Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it over the API.

Run it from your own code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("nomad-agent/devex-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "—", item["company"], item["url"])

Or a single HTTP call that runs the Actor and returns items in one response:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nomad-agent~devex-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Integrations

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Apify Console, pull it over the API (including run-sync-get-dataset-items for a single-call run), wire it into Make/Zapier/n8n, or call this Actor as a tool from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
provider	string	"anthropic"	Which AI provider runs discovery + extraction: "anthropic" (Claude + built-in web search) or "mistral" (keenable web search + Mistral extraction).
anthropicApiKey	string	—	Your Anthropic API key (sk-ant-...). Required when provider is "anthropic" — your key is billed directly by Anthropic for that usage (separate from Apify's pricing). Keep this secret.
mistralApiKey	string	—	Your Mistral API key. Required when provider is "mistral" — used only for extraction (search itself goes through keenable, no key needed). Billed directly by Mistral, separate from Apify's pricing. Keep this secret.
mistralModel (Advanced)	string	"mistral-small-latest"	Mistral model for extraction (provider "mistral" only): mistral-small-latest (default — matches larger models on this small, well-scoped task), mistral-medium-latest, or mistral-large-latest.
keyword	string	""	Topic or role keyword to focus the search (e.g. "monitoring evaluation", "migration", "policy analyst"). Leave empty to surface a broad mix of international-development postings.
location	string	""	Geographic filter passed to the search (e.g. "Geneva", "remote", "Africa"). Leave empty for worldwide listings.
maxItems	integer	12	Maximum number of job postings to return (1–50). Each result is billed under this Actor's pay-per-result pricing; the Claude API calls behind every run are ALSO billed separately by Anthropic to your own account, regardless of this cap.
model (Advanced)	string	"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"	Anthropic model to use for job discovery. Must support the web_search_20250305 built-in tool (Claude 3.5 Sonnet or later recommended). The default works well for almost everyone.

Output example

postedAt and deadline are null unless Devex's search results genuinely state a date — that's the honest common case, not a bug:

{
  "source": "devex",
  "id": "889021",
  "externalId": "889021",
  "title": "Chief of Party — USAID Health",
  "company": "Chemonics",
  "location": "Nairobi, Kenya",
  "url": "https://www.devex.com/jobs/chief-of-party-889021",
  "postedAt": null,
  "deadline": null,
  "snippet": "Chemonics seeks a Chief of Party..."
}

When a date is stated on the page or in the search snippet, postedAt / deadline are populated as "YYYY-MM-DD" strings instead of null.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.05 per Actor start and $0.004 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.45. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

This is a "bring your own key" (BYOK) Actor. Every run calls the AI provider you pick (provider) using the anthropicApiKey or mistralApiKey you supply, and that usage is billed to your own Anthropic or Mistral account, separately from Apify's pricing above. Apify's PPE charges only cover the Actor's own run/result events — they do not include Anthropic's or Mistral's token costs. Check Anthropic's pricing or Mistral's pricing for the model you configure.

Use cases

• Development-sector job boards
• Proposal/recruitment teams tracking donor-funded roles
• Consultant roster building
• Aid-sector hiring analysis

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Devex jobs? This Actor reads only publicly available job postings — data any visitor can see without logging in. No personal data behind authentication is touched. Review the target site's terms and your local regulations for your specific use case.

Do I need an account on the target site? No. Postings are fetched from public pages/APIs — no login, cookies or session tokens.

How fresh is the data? Every run performs live Claude web searches against Devex's Google-indexed listings at run time — there is no caching layer, so each run reflects whatever is currently indexed.

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run at 1–50 postings.

Something broken or missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — it is monitored and reliability fixes ship fast.

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