Reed.co.uk Job Listing Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape job listings from Reed.co.uk by providing a search URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive job information including job titles, employers, salaries, locations, and job types.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract job listings by providing a complete Reed.co.uk search URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically clicks through pages to load more job listings until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Job Data: Extract detailed information about each job including:
  • Job title and URL
  • Employer name and profile URL
  • Salary information
  • Location
  • Job type (contract, full-time, part-time)
  • Posted date
  • Whether the job is promoted
• Automatic Deduplication: Uses unique job ID to avoid duplicate entries

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	string	Yes	Complete Reed.co.uk job search URL to scrape
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of jobs to fetch (default: 50)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy configuration for the browser

Output

The output is a list of job objects, each containing:

• searchUrl: The original search URL used
• jobId: Unique job identifier from Reed.co.uk
• jobTitle: Title of the job
• jobUrl: URL to the job listing
• employer: Name of the employer
• employerUrl: URL to the employer's profile
• salary: Salary information (if available)
• location: Job location
• jobType: Type of employment (contract, full-time, part-time)
• postedDate: When the job was posted
• isPromoted: Whether the job is a promoted listing
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the job was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-administrator-jobs",
    "jobId": "56333960",
    "jobTitle": "Data Administrator",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-administrator/56333960",
    "employer": "SGN",
    "employerUrl": "https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/sgn-44074/p44074",
    "salary": "Salary not specified",
    "location": "Portsmouth, Hampshire",
    "jobType": "Contract, full-time or part-time",
    "postedDate": "29 January by SGN",
    "isPromoted": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-18T03:37:39.000Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Job market research and analysis
• Talent acquisition and recruitment
• Salary benchmarking
• Job trend analysis
• Building job databases

Notes

• The actor uses a real browser to render JavaScript-heavy pages
• Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
• The actor includes random delays between actions to avoid rate limiting
• Jobs are deduplicated using their unique job ID