# Zhaopin Scraper (`normdata/zhaopin-scraper`) Actor

Search Zhaopin (智联招聘) job listings across any Chinese city with real salary rang
es, education/experience requirements, and company data - plus full description, GPS, and a recruiter re
sponse-rate badge free on every row. Optional real-time recruiter status.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/zhaopin-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 85.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $14.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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## 💼 Zhaopin Scraper

Search **Zhaopin (智联招聘)**, one of China's largest job boards, with no login: real salary ranges, education and experience requirements, full job descriptions, GPS coordinates, and a genuine recruiter response-rate signal, in any Chinese city.

Point it at one or more keywords and cities and get export-ready data for talent market research, recruiting lead generation, and salary benchmarking.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 📈 Talent market researchers

Pull real salary ranges, education and experience requirements, and skill tags for a role across any Chinese city.

#### 📇 Recruiting & HR tech lead generation

Get recruiter names, titles, and response signals per listing to build outreach lists.

#### 🏢 Employer & competitor intelligence

Track company size, industry, ownership type, and posting activity for a target market.

#### 🗺️ Location intelligence teams

Every listing carries real GPS coordinates, ready to map job density by district.

### ✨ What it does

- **Search:** one or more keywords, in any Chinese city, by Chinese name, English name, or city code, each keyword and city combination getting its own fair share of the row cap.
- **Filters:** education level, company ownership type, company size, and salary range, each one checked against the job's own parsed fields so the filter you set is the filter you actually get.
- **Full job description and real GPS coordinates on every row**, at no extra cost.
- **A recruiter response-rate badge on every row**, at no extra cost.
- **Optional real-time recruiter status:** turn on full profile detail to add whether the recruiter is currently online or recently active.

Missing source values are returned as `null`, never invented.

### Why this scraper

- **A verified recruiter-responsiveness signal, reachable two ways, one of them free.** A response-rate badge comes on every row at no extra cost; real-time online status is one opt-in step away.
- **Full description and GPS coordinates for free**, with no slower enrichment pass needed to get these two basics right.
- **Filter values verified one by one against real results**, not copied from documentation. One of this Actor's verified findings corrects a real competitor's own published filter code for "private company."
- **A company-size filter that's honest about its own limits.** Only the company-size options confirmed to be genuine exact matches are offered; the ones confirmed to silently return a mix of sizes are left out rather than shipped broken.
- **Filters that are actually correct, not just narrower.** Every returned row is re-checked against its own real parsed fields, not just handed back from a source filter that doesn't reliably bound its own results.
- **Fair keyword and city budgeting.** Search several keywords across several cities in one run and each real combination gets its own fair share of the row cap.
- **No login required.**

### How it compares

Checked directly against the closest real competitors on Apify (their own declared input and output):

| Capability | This actor | Closest competitors |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| Full job description on every row | **yes, free** | via extra request |
| Real GPS coordinates on every row | **yes, free** | not documented |
| Recruiter response-rate badge on every row | **yes, free** | not documented |
| Real-time recruiter online status | yes (opt-in) | yes (core feature, no free option) |
| Verified company-type filter codes | **yes** | one competitor's own README has the wrong code |
| Company-size filter that's honest about its limits | **yes** | not documented |
| Reported reliability | high, tested at scale | one competitor sits at 85% success rate |

### 📦 What data you get

| Entity | Useful fields |
| --- | --- |
| Job | Title, URL, salary range and display text, education, experience, employment type, industry, company size and type, financing stage, perks, skills, openings, publish date, job number, and full description. |
| Location | City, district, business area, street, and real latitude and longitude. |
| Company | Name, URL, size, ownership type, industry, and financing stage. |
| Recruiter | Name, title, response-rate badge, real-time online status (opt-in), and a "gold medal interviewer" flag when the site sets it. |

Every record includes `query` (which keyword produced it) and `scraped_at`. Download your dataset from Apify as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

### 💡 Use cases

#### 📈 Basic keyword search in one city

```json
{ "queries": ["软件工程师"], "cities": ["上海"] }
```

#### 🏢 Multiple keywords across multiple cities, with filters

```json
{
  "queries": ["产品经理", "数据分析"],
  "cities": ["上海", "北京"],
  "education": ["bachelor"],
  "salaryMin": 15000,
  "salaryMax": 30000
}
```

#### 📇 With real-time recruiter online status

```json
{ "queries": ["软件工程师"], "cities": ["深圳"], "fetchDetails": true }
```

> **Apify Free plan:** every run is limited to a fixed 10-row sample. Upgrade your Apify plan to run your own settings.

### 🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only Zhaopin's own public search results, with no login and no key needed.

Job listing text (titles, descriptions, company and city names) is returned exactly as Zhaopin publishes it, in its own original Chinese, rather than risking a machine translation on names and descriptions.

`recruiter_online_status` is only set when full profile detail is turned on; the always-on `recruiter_response_badge` is the free alternative and is populated whenever Zhaopin itself sets it. `financing_stage` and `welfare_labels` are only set on a minority of listings since not every company discloses them; every other core field (salary, education, experience, location, description, GPS) is populated consistently.

This Actor is independent and not affiliated with Zhaopin.

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

### Local development

```bash
bun install
bun test                       # offline: parsing, normalization (real fixtures)
bun run src/main.ts             # reads storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
```

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/normdata/zhaopin-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many rows this run writes. Starts at 10 for a quick sample; raise it for a full run. Split evenly across every keyword × city combination.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One or more Zhaopin search keywords, in Chinese or English (e.g. "软件工程师", "data analyst"). Each keyword gets its own fair share of maxItems.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

One or more Chinese cities, by Chinese name, English name, or Zhaopin city code (e.g. "上海", "Shanghai", "538"). Defaults to Shanghai if left empty or nothing matches.

## `education` (type: `array`):

Only keep jobs requiring this real education level. Select more than one to combine.

## `companyType` (type: `array`):

Only keep jobs at this real company ownership type. Select more than one to combine.

## `companySize` (type: `array`):

Only keep jobs at a company this size. Smaller-company codes are confirmed unreliable on Zhaopin's own site (they return a mix of sizes) so they're intentionally left out here rather than shipped broken.

## `salaryMin` (type: `integer`):

Only keep jobs whose real salary range reaches at least this much. Checked against each job's own parsed salary, not just passed to Zhaopin's own filter (confirmed live that Zhaopin's own salary filter narrows the result count but doesn't reliably bound every returned salary).

## `salaryMax` (type: `integer`):

Only keep jobs whose real salary range starts at or below this. Same real re-check as Minimum monthly salary.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Every job already includes a full description, GPS coordinates, and a recruiter response-rate badge at no extra cost. Enabling this opens each job's own detail page for one more signal only available there: the recruiter's real-time presence (e.g. "currently online", "active yesterday"). Slower - only enable if you need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "queries": [
    "软件工程师"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "上海"
  ],
  "fetchDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

Complete dataset with all scraped rows.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Overview view with key fields displayed in a table.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "queries": [
        "软件工程师"
    ],
    "cities": [
        "上海"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/zhaopin-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "queries": ["软件工程师"],
    "cities": ["上海"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/zhaopin-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "queries": [
    "软件工程师"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "上海"
  ]
}' |
apify call normdata/zhaopin-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/zhaopin-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ehFY3PHYsJuWzyNdQ/builds/ipv0lYPrJs6jCgdyF/openapi.json