Universitat de Barcelona PhD Vacancy Scraper

Fetch PhD and doctoral-programme calls from Universitat de Barcelona, parsed into clean records by an AI extraction step (BYO Anthropic key).

Bring your own key. This Actor uses Claude (Anthropic) for AI extraction. Pass your anthropicApiKey in the input. Without a key the AI step is skipped and the run returns no items.

What Universitat de Barcelona PhD data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring company / organisation
location	Location / duty station (may include remote hints)
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date where the source provides it
salary	Salary text where the source provides it
snippet	Short description excerpt
id	Stable source-side identifier

How to scrape Universitat de Barcelona PhD 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-jobs/ub-doctoral-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-jobs~ub-doctoral-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
anthropicApiKey	string	""	Your Anthropic API key (sk-ant-...). Required. Can also be set via the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable.
model	string	"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"	Claude model to use for scraping. A fast, low-cost model is recommended.
maxItems	integer	12	Maximum number of PhD vacancies to return. Set 0 for no limit.

Output example

{
  "id": "ub-2026-014",
  "title": "PhD Position — Complex Systems",
  "company": "Universitat de Barcelona",
  "location": "Barcelona, Spain",
  "url": "https://web.ub.edu/en/doctoral-vacancies",
  "postedAt": "2026-06-18",
  "deadline": "2026-07-31",
  "snippet": "The doctoral programme in Physics invites..."
}

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.

Use cases

• PhD-alert bots for Spain/Catalonia
• Academic aggregation boards
• Doctoral-programme deadline tracking
• Research-career consulting

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Universitat de Barcelona PhD? 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.

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