EURAXESS Scraper - Research, PhD and Postdoc Jobs Across Europe

Pull job offers from EURAXESS, the European Commission's researcher job portal (roughly 6,400 live job offers across 60+ countries, from universities, research institutes, hospitals and companies). Every row returns the employer, location with coordinates, application deadline, research fields, researcher career stage, contract type, hours, start date, reference number, contact e-mail and phone, the apply URL and the full description as text, HTML and Markdown. No login and no API key.

What you get

Field	Description
id, job_url, apply_url	EURAXESS job number, the EURAXESS page, and where to apply (the employer or job board link when the job page has one)
title, company_name	Offer title and the hiring organisation
publisher_name, publisher_profile_url, publisher_logo_url	The EURAXESS organisation profile that posted the offer. This can be a job board such as Academic Positions rather than the employer
location, city, region, country, postal_code, street_address, latitude, longitude, work_locations	First work location, plus every work location as a list
posted_at, posted_at_datetime, posted_at_text	Posting day as ISO 8601 UTC (the site publishes the day only, so the time is 00:00:00Z)
expires_at, application_deadline, application_deadline_text	Application deadline as ISO 8601 UTC, and as printed on the site
employment_type, contract_type, contract_type_details, working_hours, hours_per_week, start_date	Full-time or Part-time, contract type, hours per week, offer start date
research_fields, category, researcher_profiles, position_level, positions	Research fields (Parent » Child), career stage R1 to R4, PhD or postdoc position type
education_required, experience_required, languages, requirements, benefits_text	Requirements as published
funding_programme, is_research_infrastructure_position, reference_number	EU funding answer, research infrastructure flag, employer reference
contact_email, contact_emails, contact_phone, contact_phones, contact_fax, contact_website, contact_address, company_website	Contact block of the job page
description_full, description_snippet, description_html, description_md	Offer description in four formats
selection_process, eligibility_criteria, additional_comments, additional_sections, attachments, additional_info_url	Extra text blocks and attached files when the employer filled them in
search_query, source, detail_fetched, scraped_at	Which keyword found the row, source tag, whether the job page was opened, scrape time

Not available on EURAXESS, so not in the output: salary, a named contact person, and remote/hybrid status. Salary or benefits sometimes appear inside the description text or in benefits_text.

Quick start

{} works: with no input the actor returns the 50 newest job offers across all countries.

{
  "countries": ["Switzerland"],
  "searchQueries": ["laboratory technician", "chemistry"],
  "researcherProfiles": ["R1", "R2"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Daily "what is new" run for one country: {"countries": ["Germany"], "sortBy": "newest", "postedWithinDays": 1, "maxResults": 200}.

Input

Input	Server-side or client-side	Notes
searchQueries	Server-side	Keyword search, one search per keyword. Rows are tagged in search_query and de-duplicated across keywords. Empty list lists everything that matches the other filters
countries	Server-side	Several countries are OR-combined. Empty means all countries
location	Server-side for a country name, otherwise client-side	A country name acts like countries. Any other text (a city such as Zurich) is matched against the location text of each search result
researcherProfiles	Server-side	R1 first stage (PhD level), R2 recognised (postdoc), R3 established, R4 leading, other (technicians and administration)
positionTypes	Server-side	phd, postdoc, master, bachelor, undergraduate, research_support, other
organisationTypes	Server-side	Higher education, public research institution, research laboratory, SME and start-up, large enterprise, and more
euFunding	Server-side	Horizon Europe (ERC, MSCA, COFUND, EIC), Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, Interreg, LIFE, or not_eu_funded
researchFields	Server-side	Names as on EURAXESS (for example Chemistry, Computer science) or numeric ids. A top-level field also matches its sub-fields
sortBy	Server-side	newest (posting date, newest first), relevance (the site's default order), deadline (soonest deadline first)
postedWithinDays, maxAgeHours	Client-side cutoff	EURAXESS has no date filter. With sortBy: newest the crawl stops at the first older job, so recent-only runs read only a page or two. With other sorts every page is read and older jobs are dropped
titleFilter	Client-side	Comma-separated terms, case-insensitive match on the title. Applied before job pages are opened, so jobs dropped by the filter are not charged
maxResults, maxResultsPerQuery	Actor	Total cap (default 50) and per-keyword cap (default: same as maxResults)
includeJobDetails	Actor	On (default): opens each job page. Off: search-result fields only (title, publisher, location text, deadline, research fields, profile, short teaser)
searchUrls, directUrls, startUrls	n/a	Paste EURAXESS search URLs (filters and sort in the URL are honoured), job URLs, or a mix
maxConcurrency	Actor	Parallel job-page fetches, 1 to 4 (default 2)

Notes on how EURAXESS behaves:

• Only job offers are returned (the site also lists funding and hosting offers, which are excluded).
• The posting date has day precision only. maxAgeHours and postedWithinDays keep a job when any part of its posting day is inside the window.
• sortBy: relevance is the site's own default order, which is close to newest-first but not strictly by date.
• Some job pages carry no description (the employer only linked out). Those rows still have title, employer, deadline and apply URL.
• Speed: about 30 jobs per minute with job pages on (a 200-job run takes roughly 6 minutes, 100 jobs about 2 to 3 minutes). Search-only runs (includeJobDetails: false) read 10 jobs per request and are faster. EURAXESS limits how fast one visitor may read it, so very large runs (thousands of jobs) take proportionally longer; the actor handles this on its own and needs no setup.

Use with AI Agents (MCP)

Connect this actor to any MCP-compatible AI client: Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents.

Configure the MCP server with EURAXESS Scraper preconfigured at mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/euraxess-scraper.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=santamaria-automations/euraxess-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

For per-tool schemas and copy-paste snippets for MCP clients, see the MCP tab.

See the auto-generated API tab for language-specific examples (cURL, JS, Python, .NET, Ruby, PHP).

Example prompt once connected:

"Use euraxess-scraper to find PhD and postdoc positions in chemistry in Switzerland posted in the last 14 days. Return employer, deadline, contact e-mail and apply URL as a table."

Why this actor

• Real server-side filtering for country, keyword, career stage, position type, organisation type, EU funding and research field, so you only pay for rows you asked for.
• Newest-first with stop-early: daily runs with postedWithinDays read only the first page or two.
• Employer, contact e-mail, phone, reference number, work-location coordinates, requirements and benefits as separate fields, not buried in a description blob.
• Detail pages that fail to load are billed as search-level rows, not as full detail rows.

Output example

{
  "id": "471116",
  "title": "Associate professor / Assistant professor pecialised in biochemistry",
  "job_url": "https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/471116",
  "company_name": "University of Ostrava",
  "company_website": "http://www.osu.cz",
  "location": "Ostrava, Czech Republic",
  "city": "Ostrava",
  "country": "Czech Republic",
  "posted_at_datetime": "2026-10-07T00:00:00Z",
  "application_deadline": "2026-11-07T22:59:59Z",
  "employment_type": "Part-time",
  "contract_type": "Temporary",
  "hours_per_week": 8,
  "start_date": "2026-11-01",
  "research_fields": ["Medical sciences"],
  "researcher_profiles": ["Recognised Researcher (R2)"],
  "languages": ["Czech (Excellent)", "English (Good)"],
  "education_required": "PhD or equivalent",
  "funding_programme": "Not funded by a EU programme",
  "contact_emails": ["personalnilf@osu.cz"],
  "description_full": "The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, announces a selection procedure for the position of: ..."
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	Price	When
Run start	$0.001	Once per run
Job Detail Result	$0.005	Each job row with the full job page (default)
Job Search Result	$0.003	Each job row from search results only (includeJobDetails: false)

A detail page that fails to load is billed as a search result, not as a detail result. Duplicates across keywords are removed before billing. 100 jobs with details cost about $0.50 plus the start fee.

Common use cases

• Weekly feed of new PhD and postdoc openings for a university research office or recruiter.
• Lab technician and research support job alerts for one country (researcherProfiles: ["other"]).
• Funding-aware search: MSCA, ERC and COFUND positions only.
• Feed company_website and contact e-mails into an outreach or CRM workflow.

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Support

• Questions or issues? Email contact@nanoscrape.com, we typically reply within 6 hours. You can also open a ticket in the Issues tab on the actor page.
• Feature request for this actor? Open a ticket in the Issues tab or email contact@nanoscrape.com with the field you need and, if possible, a URL that shows the data live.
• Need a scraper for a job board we don't cover yet? Email contact@nanoscrape.com with the target site and your rough usage volume.