EURAXESS Jobs Scraper — EU Research Positions

Fetch open research positions — PhD, postdoc, fellowship and faculty — from EURAXESS (also searched as "Euroaxess" or "Euraxxess"), the EU's official researcher mobility portal.

Why this scraper: up to 500 jobs per run, delta/alert mode that only bills genuinely new postings (ideal on a cron schedule), optional keyword translation across EU languages to catch local-language titles, and runs that never fail silently — an empty result always comes with an unbilled diagnostic row explaining why.

What EURAXESS jobs data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
id	Stable source-side identifier (EURAXESS node id)
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring institution / organisation
location	City + country where stated, else country only
country	Posting country (EURAXESS highlight label)
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date (YYYY-MM-DD), null if not stated
field	Research discipline tag(s), e.g. "Medical sciences » Health sciences"; multiple tags joined with ; , null if untagged
contractType	Contract type label (e.g. "Temporary", "Permanent", "To be defined"), null if the posting states none
deadline	Application deadline as an ISO 8601 timestamp, null if the posting has none
snippet	Short description excerpt
isNew	true when first seen on this run in delta mode (onlyNewSinceLastRun); absent otherwise

How to scrape EURAXESS 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/euraxess-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~euraxess-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
keyword	string	""	Free-text search across job titles and descriptions (e.g. "machine learning", "postdoc biology"). Leave empty to return all current job offers.
countryFilter	string	""	Optional case-insensitive substring match on the posting country, applied client-side. E.g. "germany", "france", "spain".
postedSince	integer	0	Only return job offers posted within this many days (client-side, applied after fetch). 0 = no freshness filter.
titleExclude	array of strings	[]	Skip listings whose title contains any of these case-insensitive terms.
companyExclude	array of strings	[]	Skip listings whose company name contains any of these case-insensitive terms.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of job offers to return. Each returned job is a billed result. 0 = no limit (the source exposes roughly 500 current offers per query).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Delta / alert mode — see below.
translateKeywords	boolean	false	Expand the keyword into EU languages (BYOK) — see below.
aiProvider	string	anthropic	Which provider runs translation: anthropic or mistral.
anthropicApiKey / mistralApiKey	string	—	Your own API key (secret); only used when translateKeywords is on.
aiModel / mistralModel	string	Haiku / Small	Model used for translation for the chosen provider.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	(Advanced) How many seconds to wait for the EURAXESS website to answer before giving up on that page.
cacheTtlSeconds	integer	1800	(Advanced) Reuse a page already fetched from EURAXESS for this many seconds instead of downloading it again on a quick re-run. 0 disables caching.

Delta mode / alerts (onlyNewSinceLastRun)

Turn on Only new since last run to make the Actor emit — and bill — only postings it hasn't seen on a previous run with the flag on. Already-seen postings are dropped before they're pushed, so a daily/weekly scheduled run pays only for genuinely new research openings, and each new row carries "isNew": true. State is tracked per Actor in a dedicated key-value store, keyed by each posting's stable EURAXESS node id — so re-titled or re-listed postings aren't re-charged.

Keyword translation (translateKeywords, bring your own key)

EURAXESS lists positions from across the EU, and many carry local-language titles — a Spanish Investigador postdoctoral, a German Postdoktorand — that an English-only keyword search misses. Turn on Translate keyword and the Actor expands your keyword into its equivalents across the major EU research languages via the Anthropic or Mistral API, then matches any of them against each listing. It's off by default and needs your own API key (billed by that provider, not by this Actor); without a key the run falls back to a normal keyword search and says so in a diagnostic row.

Output example

{
  "id": "449831",
  "title": "University Professor",
  "company": "State University of Applied Sciences in Przemyśl",
  "location": "podkarpackie, Poland",
  "country": "Poland",
  "url": "https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/449831",
  "postedAt": "2026-07-02",
  "field": "Medical sciences » Health sciences",
  "contractType": "Temporary",
  "deadline": "2026-08-18T21:05:49+00:00",
  "snippet": "State University of Applied Sciences in Przemyśl announces a competition for the position of University Professor at the Institute of Physiotherapy..."
}

Integrations

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

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per Actor start and $0.004 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.405. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Use cases

• Academic job boards and PhD-alert bots
• University career services
• Research-mobility analytics across EU countries
• Grant and fellowship deadline tracking

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape EURAXESS 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 fetches live listings. Results are cached for cacheTtlSeconds (default 30 min, set 0 to always hit the source live).

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run (set 0 where supported for no cap). Most sources paginate from newest to oldest.

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

Finding it useful? A short review on the Actor page genuinely helps other researchers and recruiters find it — and tells us which features to build next. Thank you!

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