ReliefWeb Jobs Scraper — Humanitarian & NGO

Fetch current humanitarian and NGO vacancies from ReliefWeb, the UN OCHA jobs portal, as clean JSON records.

What ReliefWeb jobs data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
id	Stable source-side identifier (ReliefWeb job id)
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring organisation, or null if not tagged
country	Country as published by ReliefWeb's own Country tag, or null
location	City + country combined for display (falls back to "Worldwide" / "Remote / Worldwide")
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date/time as published in the feed, or null
deadline	Application closing date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD), or null if the posting has no closing date
snippet	Short plain-text description excerpt
source	Always "reliefweb"

How to scrape ReliefWeb 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 (search, country, postedSince, 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/reliefweb-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~reliefweb-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
search	string	""	Free-text query to filter the feed (e.g. "software engineer", "data", "IT digital"). Leave empty for all current openings.
country	string	""	Only return postings whose Country field contains this text (e.g. "Kenya"). Case-insensitive, partial match. Leave empty for all countries.
postedSince	integer	0	Only return postings published within this many days. Set 0 to disable.
maxItems	integer	20	Maximum number of job openings to return (capped at 20 — the feed always returns roughly the 20 most recent postings per fetch). Set 0 for no limit. Each result returned is billed.
proxyConfiguration	object (proxy)	Residential group	Proxy used to fetch the feed. Keep Residential selected — ReliefWeb blocks datacenter IPs. Overrides useResidentialProxy when set.
useResidentialProxy	boolean	true	Deprecated — use proxyConfiguration instead. Kept as a fallback for old callers when proxyConfiguration is not set.
cacheTtlSeconds	integer	1800	(Advanced) Reuse a previously fetched feed for this many seconds instead of re-fetching. Set 0 to always fetch fresh data.

Output example

{
  "id": "4218889",
  "title": "Protection Officer",
  "company": "Danish Refugee Council",
  "country": "Ukraine",
  "location": "Ukraine",
  "url": "https://reliefweb.int/job/4218889/protection-officer",
  "postedAt": "Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:30:09 +0000",
  "deadline": "2026-07-16",
  "snippet": "DRC is looking for a Protection Officer...",
  "source": "reliefweb"
}

Any field the source doesn't provide for a given posting (e.g. no closing date, no organisation tag) comes back as null, never an empty string.

Integrations

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Console, or pull it programmatically: works out of the box with Make, Zapier and n8n, is callable via a single run-sync-get-dataset-items HTTP call (see below), and is usable from AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

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. If you keep the default Residential proxy on, Apify also bills residential proxy bandwidth (GB) separately per your plan's proxy rates.

Use cases

• Humanitarian-sector job boards and newsletters
• Deadline-aware alert bots for aid workers
• M&E and surge-roster sourcing
• Research on humanitarian hiring by country

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape ReliefWeb 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? The ReliefWeb jobs feed returns roughly the 20 most recent postings per fetch, newest first, and does not paginate further — maxItems (capped at 20) trims that down if you want fewer.

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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