# JobsDB Jobs Scraper (`piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-scraper`) Actor

JobsDB Jobs Scraper extracts job listings from JobsDB Hong Kong and JobsDB Thailand, past the 500-result limit: titles, companies, salaries, categories, work types and full job descriptions, for recruiting, salary benchmarking and job market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 job listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

### 🚀 JobsDB Jobs Scraper

Extract job listings from **JobsDB Hong Kong** and **JobsDB Thailand** — titles, companies, salaries, categories, work types and full job descriptions. JobsDB shows at most 500 jobs per search; this JobsDB scraper keeps going and collects the rest, so you can export a whole category or district instead of the first few pages.

### ✨ Features

- 🌏 **Both JobsDB sites**: hk.jobsdb.com and th.jobsdb.com, in one output format.
- 📦 **Beyond the 500-job limit**: large searches are automatically split by category, work type and area, then merged with every job returned once. Each run reports how many of the matching jobs were collected.
- 🗂️ **Whole-category exports**: leave the keyword empty, pick a category (Accounting, Banking & Financial Services, Information & Communication Technology, …) and get the full list for Hong Kong or Thailand.
- 💰 **Salary, category and work arrangement** on every job: salary text as advertised (HK$, ฿), category and subcategory, full-time / part-time / contract / casual, on-site / hybrid / remote.
- 📝 **Optional full details**: complete job description (plain text and HTML), expiry date, verified-advertiser flag and whether applications go to the company's own site.
- 🔔 **Only new jobs since the last run**: schedule the scraper and receive just the jobs listed since the previous run.
- 🔗 **Paste any JobsDB URL**: search pages with filters applied, category pages or single job URLs.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Choose what to search** – pick Hong Kong or Thailand, then a keyword, location and/or category. Or paste JobsDB search and job URLs.
2. **Set Max results** – up to 500 comes straight from the search; above 500 the scraper splits the search to reach the rest.
3. **Run the scraper** – download the jobs as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send them to your own tools through the API.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field                                | Description                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Country**                          | Hong Kong (default) or Thailand.                                                                  |
| **Job title or keyword**             | e.g. `accountant`, `software engineer`. Leave empty to get every job in the category or location. |
| **Location**                         | As you would type it on JobsDB: `Kowloon`, `Central and Western District`, `Bangkok`, `Chonburi`. |
| **Category**                         | One of the 30 job categories, or any.                                                             |
| **Date posted**                      | Any time, last 24 hours, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days.                                                     |
| **Sort by**                          | Relevance or newest first.                                                                        |
| **Search or job URLs**               | Optional. Replaces the fields above.                                                              |
| **Scrape full job details**          | Off by default. Adds description, expiry date and advertiser details.                             |
| **Only new jobs since the last run** | Off by default. For scheduled monitoring.                                                         |
| **Max results**                      | Default 50.                                                                                       |

#### Examples

JobsDB Hong Kong — accountant jobs in Kowloon:

```json
{ "country": "HK", "keyword": "accountant", "location": "Kowloon", "maxItems": 100 }
```

JobsDB Hong Kong — every banking & financial services job posted in the last 7 days, with full descriptions:

```json
{ "country": "HK", "category": "1203", "postedWithin": "7", "scrapeDetails": true, "maxItems": 2000 }
```

JobsDB Thailand — sales jobs in Bangkok:

```json
{ "country": "TH", "keyword": "sales", "location": "Bangkok", "maxItems": 200 }
```

JobsDB Thailand — engineer jobs from a pasted search URL:

```json
{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://th.jobsdb.com/engineer-jobs/in-Bangkok" }], "maxItems": 500 }
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay only for the jobs you get — no monthly rental.

| Event           | Price                             | What you get                                                                                                          |
| --------------- | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Job listing** | $0.0015 per job ($1.50 per 1,000) | Title, company, location, category, work type, salary, listing date, teaser, bullet points, URL                       |
| **Job detail**  | $0.0025 per job ($2.50 per 1,000) | Everything above plus full description, expiry date, advertiser verification. Charged *instead of* the listing price. |

A tiny start fee of $0.00005 per run applies. Examples: 50 listings = $0.08 · a 5,000-job category export = $7.50 · the same export with full descriptions = $12.50. A scheduled "only new jobs" run that finds nothing new costs almost nothing.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

One JobsDB Hong Kong job with full details:

```json
[
    {
        "id": "95063385",
        "url": "https://hk.jobsdb.com/job/95063385",
        "title": "Accountant - Sourcing MNC, Up to 35k",
        "companyName": "Morgan Mckinley Limited",
        "advertiserId": "61302709",
        "companyId": "22311",
        "location": "Kowloon",
        "country": "HK",
        "site": "JobsDB Hong Kong",
        "category": "Accounting",
        "subcategory": "Financial Accounting & Reporting",
        "workTypes": ["Full time"],
        "workArrangements": ["On-site"],
        "salary": "$24k - $34k p.m.",
        "datePosted": "2026-10-05T10:03:37.207Z",
        "teaser": "The role will take ownership of day-to-day accounting operations, including AR management, GL accounting, and month-end closing activities.",
        "bulletPoints": ["GL, AR, Month-end Closing", "Remote Supervision", "Attractive Benefits"],
        "isFeatured": false,
        "companyLogo": "https://bx-branding-gateway.cloud.seek.com.au/8433a131-c16c-4249-8e50-86be4214c0a9.1/jdpLogo",
        "advertiserVerified": true,
        "expiresAt": "2026-11-04T10:03:35.000Z",
        "isExpired": false,
        "appliesOnCompanySite": false,
        "description": "Responsibilities\n• Accounts Receivable: Manage invoicing, credit control, payment matching, and collection follow-ups to maintain healthy cash flow.\n\n• General Ledger: Maintain accurate ledger accounts, handle bank reconciliations, execute journal entries, and ensure proper schedule preparation.\n\n• …",
        "descriptionHtml": "<h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li><p>Accounts Receivable: Manage invoicing, credit control, payment matching, and collect…",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T12:22:15.130Z"
    }
]
```

Without **Scrape full job details** the fields `description`, `descriptionHtml`, `expiresAt`, `isExpired`, `advertiserVerified` and `appliesOnCompanySite` are left out.

### ℹ️ Good to Know

- **Coverage on large searches.** For exports without a keyword (a category, a district, a whole country) the scraper typically collects 95% or more of the jobs JobsDB reports. For keyword searches expect around 90–95%: without filters JobsDB also counts loosely related jobs that disappear as soon as any filter is applied, so that last share cannot be reached by anyone. The run log states the exact numbers.
- **Order of results.** Searches up to 500 jobs follow your chosen sort. Larger searches are returned slice by slice, newest first within each slice.
- **Promoted jobs** appear once, even when JobsDB repeats them across pages.
- **Salary** is the text the advertiser published. Many Hong Kong ads do not state one.
- **Only new jobs** remembers each search separately. The first run returns everything up to Max results and saves the baseline.
- Contact details inside job ads are not extracted.

Build your Hong Kong and Thailand jobs dataset with the **JobsDB Jobs Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

Which JobsDB site to search.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

What to search for, e.g. `accountant`, `software engineer`, `admin assistant`. Leave empty to get every job in the category or location.

## `location` (type: `string`):

District or region as you would type it on JobsDB, e.g. `Kowloon`, `Central and Western District`, `Kwun Tong District` (Hong Kong), `Bangkok`, `Chonburi` (Thailand). Leave empty for the whole country.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Limit the search to one job category. Combine with an empty keyword to export a whole category.

## `postedWithin` (type: `string`):

Only jobs listed within this period.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order of the results. With a Max results limit this decides which jobs you get. Searches larger than 500 jobs are returned newest first within each category.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste URLs instead of using the fields above: a JobsDB search page with any filters applied (`https://hk.jobsdb.com/accountant-jobs/in-Kowloon`, `https://hk.jobsdb.com/jobs-in-information-communication-technology`, `https://th.jobsdb.com/jobs?keywords=engineer`) or a single job (`https://hk.jobsdb.com/job/12345678`). When set, the fields above are ignored.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open every job and add the full description (text and HTML), expiry date, whether the advertiser is verified and whether applications go to the company site. Charged as a job detail instead of a job listing.

## `onlyNewJobs` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs: remember what this search returned and only output jobs listed since the previous run. The first run saves the baseline.

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

Maximum number of jobs to save. JobsDB shows at most 500 jobs per search; set this above 500 and the scraper splits the search by category, work type and area to collect the rest.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used to reach JobsDB. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "HK",
  "keyword": "accountant",
  "location": "Kowloon",
  "category": "any",
  "postedWithin": "any",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "onlyNewJobs": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keyword": "accountant",
    "location": "Kowloon",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-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 = {
    "keyword": "accountant",
    "location": "Kowloon",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-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 '{
  "keyword": "accountant",
  "location": "Kowloon",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/jobsdb-jobs-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/kKjwRjRhTiJwL7stv/builds/nBDx5KmAUN0LfnF8Z/openapi.json