Jobbird Jobs Scraper

Jobbird Jobs Scraper

Scrape job listings from Jobbird.com — one of the largest job boards in the Netherlands — into clean, structured JSON. The Jobbird Jobs Scraper pulls the job title, employer, location, salary, weekly hours, contract type, category, education level, and the full description for any keyword and city search, with no login and no Jobbird API.

Search Jobbird by keyword, city, category, contract type, weekly hours, and education level — or paste a Jobbird search URL — and get a structured record per vacancy with salary, hours, description (HTML, text, and markdown), and incremental change monitoring across scheduled runs.

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Actor: parsebird/jobbird-jobs-scraper (Apify). Scrapes vacancies from jobbird.com (Netherlands). Call with ApifyClient.
Input JSON fields:
  query: string — job keyword, e.g. "software engineer", "verpleegkundige"
  location: string — Dutch city or region, e.g. "Amsterdam", "Rotterdam"
  radius: int — km around the location (default 30)
  category: string[] — Jobbird category slugs, e.g. ["ict"], ["zorg-medisch"], ["logistiek"]
  contractType: string[] — ["fulltime"|"parttime"|"tijdelijk-werk"|"stage"|"freelance-zzp"|"bijbaan"|...]
  recruitmentType: string[] — ["intern"|"uitzendwerk"|"detachering"|"werving-selectie"]
  workHours: string[] — ["0-8"|"9-16"|"17-24"|"25-32"|"33-36"|"37-*"]
  educationLevel: string[] — ["mbo"|"hbo"|"wo"|"phd"|...]
  sortBy: "date"|"relevance" (default "date")
  postedWithinDays: "0"|"1"|"7"|"30" (default "0" = any)
  includeDetails: bool (default true) — fetch each vacancy's full detail record
  descriptionFormat: "all"|"text"|"html"|"markdown" (default "all")
  descriptionMaxLength: int — truncate description, 0 = no truncation
  compact: bool (default false) — core fields only
  excludeEmptyFields: bool (default false) — drop null/empty fields
  maxResults: int (default 25, 0 = unlimited) — number of billed rows
  startUrls: string[] — jobbird.com search or single-vacancy URLs; overrides query/filters
  incrementalMode: bool + stateKey: string — return only changed vacancies since last run
  proxyConfiguration: { "useApifyProxy": true }
Output: one dataset item per vacancy — jobId, title, company, companyId, location, salaryMin, salaryMax,
  salaryType, employmentType, hoursMin, hoursMax, hoursType, category, educationLevel, skills, benefits,
  description (+ descriptionText, descriptionMarkdown), isPremium, url, postedDate, scrapedAt, source.
  Incremental adds changeType, firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt, isRepost.
Example: { "query": "software engineer", "location": "Amsterdam", "maxResults": 50 }
API: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parsebird~jobbird-jobs-scraper  ·  Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What does Jobbird Jobs Scraper do?

Jobbird.com aggregates tens of thousands of live vacancies from Dutch employers, temp agencies, and recruiters across every province. There is no public Jobbird API — this Jobbird scraper reads the site's own search and vacancy data instead. It extracts:

• 💼 Job — title, contract type, weekly hours, category, and the direct vacancy URL.
• 🏢 Employer — company name, company ID, and advertiser type (direct employer, temp agency, secondment, recruiter).
• 📍 Location — city or region, with the Jobbird location page URL.
• 💶 Salary — minimum and maximum, when the employer discloses it.
• 🎓 Requirements — education level, required languages, and skills.
• 🎁 Benefits — the perks the employer lists.
• 📅 Dates — when the vacancy was posted or last refreshed.
• 📄 Description — the full job description as HTML, clean text, and markdown.

Common uses: Netherlands recruitment-market research, building a jobs board or alert service, salary and working-hours analysis, and monitoring hiring in a city or sector.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes*	—	Job title, role, or skill. *Not required when startUrls, location, or category is set.
location	string	No	—	Dutch city or region (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht).
radius	integer	No	30	Search radius in km around the location.
category	array	No	—	Jobbird category slugs (ict, zorg-medisch, logistiek, …).
contractType	array	No	—	fulltime, parttime, tijdelijk-werk, stage, freelance-zzp, bijbaan, …
recruitmentType	array	No	—	intern (direct), uitzendwerk, detachering, werving-selectie.
workHours	array	No	—	Weekly-hours bands (33-36, 37-*, …).
educationLevel	array	No	—	mbo, hbo, wo, phd, …
sortBy	string	No	date	date or relevance.
postedWithinDays	string	No	0	Limit to the last 1, 7, or 30 days.
includeDetails	boolean	No	true	Fetch each vacancy's full detail record.
descriptionFormat	string	No	all	all, text, html, or markdown.
descriptionMaxLength	integer	No	0	Truncate the description to N characters.
compact	boolean	No	false	Return core fields only.
excludeEmptyFields	boolean	No	false	Drop null and empty fields from each record.
maxResults	integer	No	25	Maximum vacancies to return (0 = unlimited; billed rows).
startUrls	array	No	—	Jobbird search or single-vacancy URLs. Overrides query and filters.
incrementalMode	boolean	No	false	Return only vacancies that changed since the last run with the same stateKey.
stateKey	string	No	default	Separates one watchlist or schedule from another.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings. The automatic default works well for Jobbird.

Example inputs

Basic keyword search:

{ "query": "software engineer", "maxResults": 50 }

Filtered search — ICT, fulltime, within 25 km of Amsterdam:

{
  "query": "developer",
  "location": "Amsterdam",
  "radius": 25,
  "category": ["ict"],
  "contractType": ["fulltime"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

Incremental tracking — only emit vacancies that changed since the previous run:

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

Compact output for an AI agent or MCP data source:

{ "query": "software engineer", "maxResults": 50, "compact": true }

What data can you extract from Jobbird?

Field	Description
jobId	Stable content-based identifier
title	Job title
company / companyId	Employer name and Jobbird company ID
location / locationUrl	City or region and its Jobbird page
salaryMin / salaryMax / salaryType	Advertised salary range (in cents) and period
employmentType	Contract type (fulltime, parttime, …)
hoursMin / hoursMax / hoursType	Weekly working hours
category / categorySlug	Jobbird job category
educationLevel / education	Required education level
skills / benefits / languages	Listed skills, perks, and required languages
recruitmentType	Direct employer, temp agency, secondment, or recruiter
isPremium	Whether the listing is sponsored
description / descriptionText / descriptionMarkdown	Full job description in three formats
url / applicationUrl	Vacancy page and apply link
postedDate	Publication or last-refresh date
changeType / firstSeenAt / lastSeenAt / isRepost	Monitoring fields (with incrementalMode)
source / scrapedAt / query	Run context

Output example

{
  "jobId": "7b1da25ee66b1db9983bc5acc6ef53803e8d5dd3d9a1bf602e53801d4c710bc7",
  "title": "Business Analist",
  "company": "EIFFEL",
  "companyId": 50185,
  "location": "Hilversum",
  "locationUrl": "https://www.jobbird.com/nl/vacatures/hilversum",
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryType": null,
  "employmentType": "fulltime",
  "hoursMin": 32,
  "hoursMax": 40,
  "hoursType": "FULLTIME",
  "category": "ICT",
  "categorySlug": "ict",
  "educationLevel": "preferred",
  "education": "HBO",
  "skills": [],
  "benefits": ["Laptop van de zaak", "Flexibele werktijden"],
  "isPremium": true,
  "url": "https://www.jobbird.com/nl/vacature/25735611-business-analist",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-01T09:27:13+02:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T08:28:58.775Z",
  "source": "jobbird.com",
  "description": "<p><strong>Over de functie</strong></p><p>Als Business Analist ...</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Over de functie\nAls Business Analist ...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "**Over de functie**\n\nAls Business Analist ..."
}

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

Use cases

• Netherlands jobs board — feed an aggregator or alert service with live Jobbird vacancies.
• Recruitment-market research — measure hiring volume by role, city, category, and contract type.
• Salary and hours analysis — collect advertised salary ranges and weekly-hours bands across a sector.
• Employer monitoring — start from a company- or city-filtered URL and track everything it posts.
• AI and MCP data source — pipe compact, structured job data into agents and downstream tools.

How it works

1. Search — the scraper queries Jobbird's own search endpoint (15 vacancies per page) with your query, location, and filters.
2. Paginate — it pages through results up to maxResults or the end of the listing.
3. Detail — when includeDetails is on, each vacancy's full detail record is fetched for the complete description, salary, hours, education, skills, and benefits.
4. Monitor — in incremental mode, the run is compared against the stored state for your stateKey and only new, updated, reappeared, or expired vacancies are returned.
5. Rows stream to the dataset and stop at maxResults.

How much does it cost to scrape Jobbird?

This actor is pay per result — charged once per vacancy saved to the dataset.

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

A small platform Actor start fee also applies per run. maxResults is the exact number of billed rows. Scraping 1,000 vacancies on the Free plan costs about $0.99. Apify's monthly free platform usage covers small runs.

How to scrape Jobbird

1. Click Try for free and sign in to Apify.
2. Enter a search keyword and, optionally, a location.
3. Add filters — category, contract type, weekly hours, or education level.
4. Set max results (start low, e.g. 25).
5. Leave Fetch full job details on for complete records, or turn it off for a fast listing-only run.
6. Click Start, then watch rows appear in the Output tab.
7. Export from Storage, or pull results via the API.

Run it via API

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/jobbird-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "query": "software engineer",
    "location": "Amsterdam",
    "maxResults": 50,
})
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["title"], "-", job["company"], "-", job.get("location"))

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/jobbird-jobs-scraper').call({
    query: 'developer',
    category: ['ict'],
    contractType: ['fulltime'],
    maxResults: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Schedule recurring runs, add webhooks, or push results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, and Make with Apify integrations.

FAQ

Do I need a Jobbird account or API key? No. The scraper reads public Jobbird data only. Jobbird has no public API — this actor is the alternative.

How current is the data? Live. Each run reads Jobbird at that moment. Use Apify's scheduler to keep a dataset fresh, and incrementalMode to receive only what changed.

What does turning off includeDetails change? The scraper skips the per-vacancy detail fetch. You still get every listing field, but education, skills, benefits, and the fullest description come from the detail record — much faster for large listing-only runs.

Why are skills and benefits often empty? Most Jobbird employers do not fill in structured skills or benefits; the scraper returns them when present and an empty list otherwise.

How does incremental monitoring work? The first run with a given stateKey records a baseline. Later runs return only vacancies that are new, updated, or reappeared. Add emitUnchanged or emitExpired to widen the output, and skipReposts to drop re-advertised vacancies.

Something's not working. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and the run link — we respond quickly.

Is it legal to scrape Jobbird?

Jobbird vacancy pages are public information that any visitor can see without logging in. Scraping publicly available pages is legal in most jurisdictions, and this actor does not access private data or bypass any login. You are responsible for how you use the data — follow Jobbird's terms and the GDPR when handling any personal data, and consult a lawyer if you are unsure. See Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping.

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