IrishJobs.ie Scraper

IrishJobs.ie Scraper

Scrape job listings from IrishJobs.ie, one of Ireland's largest job boards, into clean, structured JSON. The IrishJobs.ie Scraper searches by keyword, location, and county, pulls the job title, employer, salary, full description, and a structured company profile, and can track what changed between scheduled runs — without the IrishJobs.ie API.

Search any keyword across any Irish city or county, apply 20+ filters (contract type, salary, posting date, remote, keyword rules, custom field rules), enrich each job with its full description, company size, industry and address, and turn on monitoring to get only NEW / UPDATED / EXPIRED jobs.

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Actor: parsebird/irishjobs-scraper (Apify). Scrapes job listings from irishjobs.ie (Ireland) by keyword, location and county. Call with ApifyClient.
Input JSON fields: mode: "auto"|"lightweight"|"full" (default auto); query: string or JSON array of strings — job keywords; location: string or JSON array — city/region; county: one of dublin,cork,galway,limerick,... (overrides location); startUrls: string[] — IrishJobs.ie search or job URLs (overrides query/location); sort: "relevance"|"date"|"salary_low"|"salary_high"; age: int days (1|3|7|14); remote: bool; radius: "5".."200" km; minSalary: int EUR/year; contractType: FULL_TIME|PART_TIME|CONTRACT|TEMPORARY|INTERNSHIP|APPRENTICESHIP|FREELANCE|...; workType: FULL_TIME|PART_TIME; experience: no|required|executive; companyId: int; language: e.g. "en"; applicationMethod: INTERNAL|EXTERNAL; excludeSponsored: bool; includeKeywords/excludeKeywords: {"keywords":[...],"matchTitle":true,"matchDescription":true,"matchSkills":true}; fromDate/toDate: YYYY-MM-DD; maxAgeMinutes: int; customFilters: [{"field":"salaryMin","op":"gte","value":50000}]; includeDetails: bool (default true); descriptionFormat: text|html|markdown|all; maxResults: int (default 50, 0=unlimited); maxPages: int (default 5); compact: bool; descriptionMaxLength: int; excludeEmptyFields: bool; outputFields: string[] (dot notation ok); datasetName: string; incrementalMode: bool; stateKey: string; emitUnchanged/emitExpired/skipReposts: bool; dedupStoreName: string; dedupKey: string (default jobId); proxyConfiguration: object (Irish RESIDENTIAL preset).
Output: one item per job — jobId, harmonisedId, legacyJobId, title, company, companyId, companyLogo, companyUrl, companyEmployees, companyIndustries, companyAddress, location, description, descriptionHtml, descriptionMarkdown, descriptionLength, textSections, textSnippet, textSnippetCleaned, salaryText, salaryCurrency, salaryMin, salaryMax, locationDetail{city,region,country,postalCode,lat,lng}, workFromHome, employmentType, contractType, directApply, industry, isSponsored, isTopJob, isPartnershipJob, isAnonymous, isHighlighted, partnership, metaData{positionOnPage,positionAbsolute}, section, skills, applicationMethod, language, datePosted, postedDaysAgo, publishFromDate, publishToDate, validThrough, canonicalUrl, url, portalUrl, sourceUrl, sourceDomain, searchQuery, scrapedAt, detailFetched, contentQuality, contentHash, similarJobCount, isRepost. Incremental mode adds changeType, firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt.
Example: { "query": "software engineer", "location": "Dublin", "maxResults": 50 }
API: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parsebird~irishjobs-scraper  ·  Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What does IrishJobs.ie Scraper do?

IrishJobs.ie runs on The Stepstone Group's platform and lists tens of thousands of live vacancies across Ireland. There is no public IrishJobs.ie search API — this scraper reads the site's own search results and job pages and returns them as structured data. For every keyword, location, and county it extracts:

• 🏷️ Job identity — title, employer, location, remote flag, contract type, and a canonical irishjobs.ie/job/... link.
• 💰 Pay — the salary text as shown, plus a currency and (when the listing gives a range) parsed salaryMin / salaryMax.
• 📋 Full description (optional) — the complete job description as plain text, HTML, and Markdown, plus the structured text sections.
• 🏢 Company profile (optional) — company size, industries, head-office address, website, founding year, and the "About us" text.
• 📅 Dates — when the job was posted, how many days ago, and when the listing expires.
• 📊 Placement signals — sponsored / top-job / highlighted flags and the position the job held on the results page.

Turn on incremental mode and each run compares against the last one with the same state key, so you get only the jobs that are NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, or EXPIRED.

What data can you extract from IrishJobs.ie?

Field	Description
jobId	Stable content-hash identifier for the listing
legacyJobId / harmonisedId	IrishJobs.ie's own numeric and UUID identifiers
title	Job title
company / companyId	Employer name and numeric ID
companyEmployees / companyIndustries / companyAddress	Company profile (with includeDetails)
location / locationDetail	Display location, plus city / region / country / lat / lng
salaryText / salaryCurrency / salaryMin / salaryMax	Salary as shown and parsed where possible
description / descriptionHtml / descriptionMarkdown	Full description in three formats (with includeDetails)
employmentType / contractType	FULL_TIME / PART_TIME and the site's permanence label
workFromHome / directApply / applicationMethod	Remote flag and how to apply
skills	Skills tagged on the listing
datePosted / postedDaysAgo / validThrough	Posting and expiry timing
isSponsored / isTopJob / isHighlighted / isPartnershipJob	Placement and source signals
similarJobCount	Number of similar jobs IrishJobs.ie shows on the page
url / canonicalUrl / sourceUrl	Job link, canonical link, and the search page it came from
changeType / firstSeenAt / lastSeenAt	Added in incremental mode

Not every listing has every field — salary, company profile, and exact skills vary by posting.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string / array	No*	—	Job keyword(s). JSON array runs multiple searches.
location	string / array	No*	—	City or region. JSON array for multiple.
county	string	No	—	Irish county (overrides location).
startUrls	array	No*	—	IrishJobs.ie search or job URLs (overrides query/location).
mode	string	No	auto	auto / lightweight / full run strategy.
sort	string	No	relevance	relevance, date, salary_low, salary_high.
age	integer	No	—	Posted within N days (1/3/7/14).
remote	boolean	No	false	Remote / work-from-home only.
radius	string	No	—	Search radius in km around the location.
minSalary	integer	No	0	Minimum annual salary (EUR).
contractType / workType / experience	string	No	—	Employment-type filters (applied to each job).
companyId	integer	No	—	Restrict to one company by numeric ID.
language / applicationMethod	string	No	—	Posting language / apply method filters.
excludeSponsored	boolean	No	false	Drop promoted listings.
includeKeywords / excludeKeywords	object	No	—	Keyword rules on title / description / skills.
fromDate / toDate / maxAgeMinutes	string / integer	No	—	Date-window filters.
customFilters	array	No	—	Field-level rules (gte, includes, …).
includeDetails	boolean	No	true	Fetch each job's detail page.
descriptionFormat	string	No	all	text / html / markdown / all.
maxResults	integer	No	50	Max jobs to return (billed rows). 0 = unlimited.
maxPages	integer	No	5	Max result pages per search (25 jobs/page).
compact / descriptionMaxLength / excludeEmptyFields / outputFields	—	No	—	Output-shaping options.
datasetName	string	No	—	Push to a custom named dataset ({DATE} / {TIME} masks).
incrementalMode / stateKey / emitUnchanged / emitExpired / skipReposts	—	No	—	Change tracking across runs.
dedupStoreName / dedupKey	string	No	—	Cross-run deduplication.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Irish RESIDENTIAL	Apify Proxy settings.

* Provide at least one of query, location, county, or startUrls.

Example input

{
  "mode": "auto",
  "query": "software engineer",
  "location": "Dublin",
  "contractType": "FULL_TIME",
  "minSalary": 60000,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Incremental tracking:

{
  "query": "software engineer",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "software-engineer-tracker"
}

Output example

{
  "jobId": "c6ce4c03782bf50e39db918529ad1adcf0f0f52f68a99bd3e749748216584895",
  "harmonisedId": "709e9a8b-cd2c-480c-be9c-285f6fdf9122",
  "legacyJobId": 107179562,
  "title": "ServiceNow Developer",
  "company": "Conscia Ireland",
  "companyId": 1342289,
  "companyEmployees": "0 - 49",
  "companyIndustries": ["Technology"],
  "companyAddress": "3200 Lake Drive, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin, D24 YD63",
  "location": "Dublin, County Dublin",
  "description": "Job Description Who are we? Conscia is a leading provider of cybersecurity, networking, hybrid cloud...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "**Job Description**\n\n**Who are we?**\nConscia is a leading provider of cybersecurity...",
  "descriptionLength": 3323,
  "salaryText": "€ Not Disclosed",
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "locationDetail": { "city": "Dublin, County Dublin", "country": "IE", "lat": 53.33306, "lng": -6.24889 },
  "workFromHome": false,
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "contractType": "Permanent",
  "directApply": true,
  "industry": "IT, IT-Software Development",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "skills": [],
  "datePosted": "2026-04-24T09:26:51.327Z",
  "postedDaysAgo": 5,
  "validThrough": "2026-05-24T23:00:00Z",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/job/servicenow-developer/conscia-ireland-job107179562",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.irishjobs.ie/jobs/developer/in-Dublin",
  "sourceDomain": "irishjobs.ie",
  "searchQuery": "developer",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T20:01:12.955Z",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "contentQuality": "full",
  "similarJobCount": 10,
  "isRepost": false
}

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML from the Storage tab or the Apify API.

How to scrape IrishJobs.ie

1. Open the Input tab of the IrishJobs.ie Scraper.
2. Enter a search term — a job title or skill such as software engineer or accountant.
3. Optionally set a location or county, a contract type, a minimum salary, and a "posted within" window.
4. Set Max results — start with 25–50 to keep the first run fast and cheap.
5. Click Start. Results stream into the dataset as they are scraped.
6. Export from the Storage tab, pull the data via API, or connect an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks).

To scrape IrishJobs.ie on a schedule, use Apify Schedules and turn on incremental mode so each run returns only what changed.

Filtering and monitoring

• Server-side filters (handled by IrishJobs.ie's own search): keyword, location, county, contract prefix, posting date, minimum salary, radius.
• Client-side filters (applied to each parsed job): work type, experience, company ID, language, application method, sponsored, include/exclude keywords, date window, max age, and free-form customFilters on any output field.
• Incremental mode: set incrementalMode: true and a stateKey. The first run records a baseline; later runs emit only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED jobs (add emitUnchanged / emitExpired for the rest). Reposts of expired jobs are detected and tagged.
• Cross-run dedup: set dedupStoreName (without incremental mode) to push only jobs never seen in previous runs with that store.

How much does it cost to scrape IrishJobs.ie?

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing:

Plan	Price per 1,000 jobs
Free	$0.99
Bronze	$0.89
Silver	$0.89
Gold	$0.79

One event is charged per job row pushed to the dataset. Scraping 100 jobs with full details costs about $0.10 on the Free plan. Apify platform usage (compute + Irish residential proxy) is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• 📈 Irish job-market research — track vacancy volume and salaries for a role or sector over time.
• 🧭 Recruiting and sourcing — monitor new listings in a county and category every morning.
• 💶 Salary benchmarking — aggregate salaryMin / salaryMax by role, seniority, and location.
• 🔁 Job-board aggregation — feed IrishJobs.ie listings into your own product alongside other sources.
• 🔔 Alerting — schedule with incrementalMode + maxAgeMinutes: 60 and route new jobs to Slack or a webhook.

How it works

1. The actor builds an IrishJobs.ie search URL from your keyword, location/county, and the server-side filters, and requests it through Apify's Irish residential proxy.
2. It reads the listing data embedded in each results page and follows pagination up to maxPages (25 jobs per page), deduplicating by job ID.
3. With includeDetails on (or when a client-side filter needs it), it opens each job page for the full description, company profile, geo-coordinates, and similar-job count.
4. Client-side filters run, incremental diffing or cross-run dedup is applied, output is shaped, and each row is pushed and billed once.

FAQ

Do I need an IrishJobs.ie account? No. The scraper only reads public search results and job pages.

Why do some jobs have no salary or company profile? Many Irish listings show "€ Not Disclosed", and company profiles exist only for employers with an IrishJobs.ie company page. Every other field is still returned.

Can I scrape a whole county? Yes — set county (e.g. cork) with or without a keyword. Leave query empty to get every current vacancy in that county.

How do the advanced contract types map? IrishJobs.ie's search supports five contract prefixes (permanent, part-time, contract, temporary, work-from-home). Values like INTERNSHIP or FREELANCE are mapped to the closest prefix and then enforced against each job's parsed type.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules with incrementalMode on, and webhooks or integrations to route new jobs into your tools.

Something looks wrong or a field is missing. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and the run ID.

Is it legal to scrape IrishJobs.ie?

Scraping publicly available data is legal in most jurisdictions, and this actor only reads pages any visitor can load without logging in. It does not bypass authentication and does not collect personal data about individuals. You are responsible for how you use the data — review IrishJobs.ie's Terms of Use and Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping before large-scale or commercial use.

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