Workopolis Job Scraper

Workopolis Job Scraper — Canadian Job Listings from Workopolis.com

Scrape job listings from Workopolis.com, one of Canada's longest-running job search engines. Extract job titles, companies, salaries, locations, employment type, remote/hybrid work settings, benefits, requirements, and full job descriptions. Search by keyword and location, or supply your own Workopolis search URLs. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Search Workopolis nationwide or by city, filter by posting recency, and get clean, structured job data — including full HTML and plain-text descriptions — ready for analysis, monitoring, or integration.

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Apify Actor: parsebird/workopolis-job-scraper — scrapes Workopolis.com job listings. $0.001/result on the Free plan ($1.00/1000), $0.0009/result on Bronze/Silver/Gold plans ($0.90/1000). Call via ApifyClient: client.actor("parsebird/workopolis-job-scraper").call(run_input={"keyword": "software engineer", "location": "Toronto", "posted_date": "7d", "results_wanted": 20}). Inputs: keyword (string, default "software engineer"), location (string, optional — leave empty for nationwide search), posted_date (enum: anytime|24h|7d|30d, default "anytime"), startUrls (array of {url}, optional — custom Workopolis search URLs instead of keyword/location), results_wanted (integer, default 20), max_pages (integer, default 10), proxyConfiguration (object, default Apify Proxy). Output: dataset with url, jobKey, title, company, location, salary, employmentType, workSettings, datePosted, benefits, snippet, requirements, description_html, description_text, _source, _fetchedAt. API docs: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2 Token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations

What is Workopolis Job Scraper?

Workopolis Job Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts job listings from Workopolis.com — a long-established Canadian job search engine covering employers across every province. It pulls structured data straight from Workopolis's own search results and job detail pages, including salaries, employment type, remote/hybrid work settings, benefits, requirements, and both HTML and plain-text versions of the full job description.

Think of it as a Workopolis API alternative — there is no official public API, but this scraper delivers the same structured job data programmatically. It's built for recruitment analytics, salary benchmarking, labor market research, and lead generation across the Canadian job market.

What can Workopolis Job Scraper do?

• 🔍 Keyword + location search — search any job title, skill, or phrase, nationwide or scoped to a city/province
• 📅 Recency filtering — restrict results to jobs posted in the past 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days
• 🔗 Custom search URLs — feed in your own Workopolis search URLs (with any filters already applied) instead of keyword/location
• 📄 Full job descriptions — every job's detail page is fetched and parsed into both description_html and plain-text description_text
• 💰 Salary extraction — human-readable salary ranges parsed directly from listing and detail pages
• 🏠 Work settings — remote, hybrid, and on-site flags where Workopolis exposes them
• ⏱️ Scheduling & API access — run on autopilot with Apify Schedules and pull results via the Apify API or client libraries
• 📊 Multiple export formats — download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, or RSS

What data can you extract from Workopolis.com?

Field	Description
url	Direct Workopolis job page URL
jobKey	Unique job identifier
title	Job title
company	Employer name
location	Job location
salary	Salary or compensation range, or null
employmentType	Employment type — Full-time, Contract, Part-time, etc.
workSettings	Work arrangement — Remote, Hybrid, etc.
datePosted	Date the job was posted (YYYY-MM-DD)
benefits	Benefits summary when available
snippet	Listing preview text
requirements	Required skills or qualifications
description_html	Full job description as sanitized HTML
description_text	Full job description as plain text
_source	Source hostname (workopolis.com)
_fetchedAt	ISO timestamp of extraction

How to scrape Workopolis.com

1. Go to Workopolis Job Scraper on Apify Store and click Try for free
2. Enter a keyword — e.g. "software engineer", "registered nurse", "data analyst"
3. Optionally set a location — leave empty to search all of Canada, or enter a city/province to narrow results
4. Optionally filter by posting date — anytime, past 24 hours, past 7 days, or past 30 days
5. Set results wanted — start with 20 for a quick test, increase for larger datasets
6. Run the Actor — click Start and wait for results
7. Export your data — download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or access via the Apify API

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
keyword	string	No	software engineer	Job search keyword, title, or skill phrase
location	string	No	—	Location to search. Leave empty for nationwide
posted_date	string	No	anytime	Recency filter: anytime, 24h, 7d, or 30d
startUrls	array	No	[]	Custom Workopolis search URLs to use instead of keyword and location
results_wanted	integer	No	20	Maximum number of jobs to collect
max_pages	integer	No	10	Safety limit for pagination depth
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings for stable collection

Output example

{
  "url": "https://www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/viewjob/abc123",
  "jobKey": "abc123",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "company": "Example Corp",
  "location": "Toronto, ON",
  "salary": "$95,000 - $120,000/year",
  "employmentType": "Full-time",
  "workSettings": "Hybrid",
  "datePosted": "2026-07-15",
  "benefits": "Health insurance, Paid time off",
  "snippet": "Build and maintain scalable backend services...",
  "requirements": "Node.js, TypeScript, APIs",
  "description_html": "<p>Full role description...</p>",
  "description_text": "Full role description...",
  "_source": "workopolis.com",
  "_fetchedAt": "2026-07-28T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, or RSS, or access via the Apify API.

Use cases

• 📊 Recruitment intelligence — build fresh Canadian hiring datasets by role, city, and industry
• 💰 Salary benchmarking — compare compensation ranges across Canadian cities and provinces
• 🎯 Sales prospecting — find companies actively hiring and enrich outreach lists with role context
• 📈 Labor market research — track skills demand, employment type mix, and remote/hybrid adoption
• 📅 Job market monitoring — schedule recurring runs to track new postings with the posted_date filter
• 🔌 Pipeline integration — feed job data into Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, or custom systems via Apify Integrations
• 🤖 Training data collection — build datasets of Canadian job listings for NLP, resume matching, or recommendation systems

How it works

1. The Actor builds a Workopolis search URL from your keyword and location (or uses your startUrls directly)
2. It fetches search result pages and paginates automatically up to max_pages or until results_wanted is reached
3. If posted_date is set, jobs older than the selected window are filtered out
4. Each matching job's detail page is fetched to extract the full description, salary, benefits, and requirements
5. Every job is pushed to the dataset as it's collected, so partial results are available even if a run is stopped early

How to use via API — Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("parsebird/workopolis-job-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keyword": "data analyst",
    "location": "Vancouver",
    "posted_date": "7d",
    "results_wanted": 100,
})

for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{job['title']} at {job['company']} — {job['location']} — {job.get('salary', 'N/A')}")

How to use via API — JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('parsebird/workopolis-job-scraper').call({
    keyword: 'data analyst',
    location: 'Vancouver',
    posted_date: '7d',
    results_wanted: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach(job => {
    console.log(`${job.title} at ${job.company} — ${job.location} — ${job.salary || 'N/A'}`);
});

How much does it cost to scrape Workopolis.com?

Workopolis Job Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing — you pay a fixed price per job scraped. Platform usage (compute, proxy) is not charged separately.

How much does it cost to scrape 1,000 Workopolis jobs?

$1.00 on the Free plan, or $0.90 on Bronze, Silver, and Gold Apify plans. New users get a free trial with platform credit to try the Actor before committing.

How much does it cost to scrape 100 Workopolis jobs?

$0.10 on the Free plan (or $0.09 on paid plans) — a quick export covering one keyword and city.

Pricing

Event	Price per event (Free)	Price per event (Bronze/Silver/Gold)	Price per 1,000
job-scraped	$0.001	$0.0009	$1.00 / $0.90

Each job pushed to the dataset — including its full description — counts as one event.

Is it legal to scrape Workopolis.com?

This Actor extracts publicly available data from Workopolis.com — the same job listing data any visitor can see on the search results and job detail pages. No login or authentication is used.

Web scraping of publicly available data is generally legal in the United States and the European Union, as established by the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn ruling. For more information, see Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping.

Users are responsible for ensuring their use of extracted data complies with applicable laws and Workopolis's Terms of Service in their jurisdiction.

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FAQ

Do I need to provide both a keyword and a location? No. Leave location empty to search all of Canada, or leave keyword at its default to browse broadly. You can also skip both and use startUrls with your own Workopolis search links.

How does the posted_date filter work? Workopolis doesn't expose a server-side date filter, so the Actor fetches search results and filters out jobs older than the selected window (24h, 7d, or 30d) client-side using each job's posting timestamp.

What happens if a search returns no jobs? The Actor finishes successfully with an empty dataset and logs a warning — this isn't treated as an error.

Why are some fields empty? Not every employer fills in every field on Workopolis. Empty salary, benefits, or workSettings values mean the source listing didn't provide that data.

Can I use my own search URLs? Yes. Paste one or more Workopolis search URLs (e.g. https://www.workopolis.com/search?q=full+stack+developer&l=Calgary) into startUrls and the Actor will paginate through them directly, ignoring keyword and location.

Can I schedule recurring runs? Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run daily, weekly, or at any interval, and combine with posted_date to track only new postings.

Can I access the data via API? Yes. Use the Apify API or the official Python and JavaScript client libraries to run the Actor and retrieve results programmatically.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML, and RSS. Download directly from the Apify Console or via the API.

Is there a free trial? Yes. New Apify users get free platform credit to try Workopolis Job Scraper before committing to a paid plan.

I found an issue or have a feature request. Open an issue on the Issues tab or contact ParseBird via the Apify Console.