jobs.ac.uk Scraper — UK Academic, Postdoc & Research Jobs
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from $1.50 / 1,000 job results
Extract live UK academic & research jobs from jobs.ac.uk: lectureships, postdocs, fellowships and PhD studentships. Filter by discipline, location, contract & workplace; structured salary (min/max/currency), closing dates, optional full descriptions. Delta mode returns only new postings.
List of keyword queries to fan across. Each keyword is searched separately and results are merged (deduped by URL). Leave empty to use the built-in defaults spanning both humanities/social-science and STEM/health: social science, politics, psychology, humanities, international development, research, computer science, engineering, biology, medicine.
[ "social science", "psychology", "bioinformatics"]Filter by jobs.ac.uk discipline facet (server-side). Academic slugs: agriculture-food-and-veterinary, architecture-building-and-planning, biological-sciences, business-and-management-studies, computer-sciences, creative-arts-and-design, economics, education-studies-inc-tefl, engineering-and-technology, health-and-medical, historical-and-philosophical-studies, information-management-and-librarianship, languages-literature-and-culture, law, mathematics-and-statistics, media-and-communications, physical-and-environmental-sciences, politics-and-government, psychology, social-sciences-and-social-care, sport-and-leisure. Professional-services slugs: administrative, estates-and-facilities-management, finance-and-procurement, human-resources, it-services, laboratory-clinical-and-technician, library-services-data-and-information-management, senior-management, student-services, and more (see README). Unknown values are ignored with a warning. Leave empty for all disciplines.
[ "computer-sciences", "engineering-and-technology"]Filter by jobs.ac.uk location facet slug (server-side). Use region or city slugs such as 'england', 'scotland', 'wales', 'northern-ireland', 'greater-london', 'london', 'greater-manchester', 'manchester', 'edinburgh', 'cambridge', 'oxford'. Values are lowercased/hyphenated automatically. Note: jobs.ac.uk's free-text 'within N miles' search needs Google geocoding, so this Actor filters by the region/city facet instead. An unrecognised slug returns 0 results.
[ "greater-london", "scotland"]Filter to PhD or Masters studentships (jobs.ac.uk 'Job Type' facet). Allowed values: 'phds', 'masters'. Leave empty to include all posting types (staff roles + studentships).
[ "phds"]Filter by contract type (server-side). Allowed values: 'permanent', 'fixed-term-contract', 'temporary'.
[ "permanent"]Filter by working hours (server-side). Allowed values: 'full-time', 'part-time'.
[ "full-time"]Filter by workplace type (server-side). Allowed values: 'remote', 'hybrid', 'on-site'. When a single value is set, each returned record's isRemote/workplaceType is filled from it.
[ "remote"]Filter by employer sector (server-side). Allowed values: 'universities-higher-education-institutions', 'further-education', 'science-and-research-organisations', 'public-sector', 'charity-not-for-profit', 'commercial-organisations'.
[ "universities-higher-education-institutions"]Keep only postings whose employer name contains this text (case-insensitive). Applied locally after fetching — jobs.ac.uk has no server-side employer-name filter. Example: 'Oxford' keeps University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, etc.
Maximum number of job postings to return across all keyword queries. Each job returned is billed as one result event — see the Pricing tab. Set to 0 for no limit.
How many results to request per keyword search (portal maximum is 25; higher values are clamped to 25). Increase if you are running with a large maxItems and few keywords.
Only keep postings placed within this many days. Applied locally after fetching, since jobs.ac.uk has no server-side date filter — postedAt is parsed from each listing's Date Placed text and compared here. Listings whose date can't be read are always kept, not silently dropped. Set 0 (default) to disable and return all fetched listings regardless of age.
Also fetch each posting's detail page and return the full advert text in a description field. One extra page fetch per job (slower) and each enriched job is billed as one additional detail event — see the Pricing tab. Leave off to return search-card fields only.
Return only postings not already delivered by a previous run of this Actor. Uses a named key-value store to remember posting IDs across runs, so a scheduled run pays only for genuinely-new postings. Each returned record carries isNew=true. Leave off for a full snapshot every run.