💼 CareerBuilder Job Listings Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

The CareerBuilder Job Listings Scraper pulls detailed job data, with 30+ fields per listing, plus salary, skills, and benefits extraction.

✨ What Does It Do

This scraper collects job listings directly from CareerBuilder.com. Search by keyword, location, job type, and more - then export structured data including job titles, companies, salaries, skills, benefits, and posting dates.

Each listing comes back with over 30 fields, giving you a complete picture of the job market in your target area.

🔧 Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	String	Job title, skills, or keywords to search for
location	String	City and state (e.g. "new-york,ny") or "remote"
startUrl	String	Direct CareerBuilder search URL (overrides keywords/location)
maxItems	Number	Maximum number of jobs to collect (free users: max 100)
jobType	Select	Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Temporary, or Internship
remoteOnly	Boolean	Only show remote job listings
datePosted	Select	Filter by posting date (24h, 7d, 14d, 30d)
radius	Number	Search radius in miles (5–100, default 30)
includeDetails	Boolean	Fetch full descriptions, skills, and benefits from each job page
maxConcurrency	Number	Parallel requests (1–20, default 5)
requestDelayMs	Number	Delay between requests in milliseconds
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy settings for reliable access

📊 Output

Each job listing includes:

{
    "jobId": "4e4d26d1-6fac-467e-a6fc-37466bd2740d",
    "title": "Full Stack Software Engineer",
    "company": "Axelon Services Corporation",
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "addressLocality": "New York",
    "addressRegion": "NY",
    "addressCountry": "US",
    "postalCode": "10001",
    "latitude": 40.714,
    "longitude": -74.006,
    "jobUrl": "https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/...",
    "applyUrl": "https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/...",
    "applyType": "external",
    "datePosted": "2025-03-10",
    "dateRecency": "1 day ago",
    "validThrough": "2025-04-10",
    "employmentType": "Full-time",
    "isRemote": false,
    "isPromoted": false,
    "salary": "120000-160000",
    "salaryFormatted": "$120,000 - $160,000",
    "salaryCurrency": "USD",
    "salaryBaseType": "Yearly",
    "shortDescription": "We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer...",
    "description": "Full HTML job description...",
    "skills": ["JavaScript", "Python", "AWS"],
    "benefits": ["Health Insurance", "401k", "Remote Options"],
    "occupationalCategory": "Software Development",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-03-11T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose This Scraper

• 30+ fields per listing - far more detail than manual browsing
• Salary data extraction - get min/max salary, currency, and pay period
• Skills and benefits - toggle includeDetails to pull full job descriptions with skills and benefits lists
• Geo-coordinates - latitude and longitude for every listing with location data
• Smart filtering - narrow results by keyword, location, job type, date posted, and search radius
• Free and paid tiers - free users get up to 100 jobs, paid users can collect up to 1 million

📋 How to Use

1. Open the scraper on Apify
2. Enter your search keywords (e.g. "data analyst") and location (e.g. "chicago,il")
3. Set maxItems to control how many jobs you want
4. Toggle includeDetails if you need full descriptions, skills, and benefits
5. Click Start and wait for your data
6. Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or connect via API

🎯 Business Use Cases

• Recruitment agencies - monitor job openings across industries and regions
• Market research - analyze hiring trends, salary ranges, and in-demand skills
• Job aggregators - feed CareerBuilder listings into your own job board
• HR analytics - track competitor hiring patterns and compensation benchmarks
• Career coaching - provide clients with data-backed salary and skills insights
• Academic research - study labor market dynamics with structured job data

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ CareerBuilder Job Listings Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the CareerBuilder Job Listings Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How many jobs can I scrape? Free users can collect up to 100 jobs per run. Paid users can set maxItems up to 1,000,000.

Do I need a CareerBuilder account? No. The scraper works without any login or account.

What's the difference between basic and detailed mode? By default, the scraper collects data from search results pages (fast). When includeDetails is enabled, it visits each job's detail page to extract full descriptions, skills, and benefits (slower but more complete).

How fresh is the data? The scraper pulls live data directly from CareerBuilder.com at the time you run it.

Can I filter by salary? CareerBuilder's search doesn't support salary filters, but you can filter the output data after collection.

🔗 Integrate

Connect this scraper to your workflow:

• REST API - call the scraper programmatically and fetch results as JSON
• Webhooks - trigger actions when a run completes
• Zapier / Make - automate data flows to Google Sheets, Slack, email, and more
• Google Sheets - export results directly to a spreadsheet
• Python / Node.js - use the Apify client library in your own code

🔌 Integrate with any app

CareerBuilder Job Listings Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Click Start to begin collecting job listings from CareerBuilder. Your data will be ready in minutes.

🆘 Need Help?

Having trouble or need a custom solution? Reach out to us and we'll help you get the data you need.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This scraper is provided for educational and research purposes. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with CareerBuilder's terms of service and applicable laws. The authors are not responsible for any misuse of this tool.

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