# HeadHunter (hh.ru) Scraper: Russia & CIS Jobs (`santamaria-automations/hh-ru-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from HeadHunter (hh.ru, hh.kz, hh.uz, hh.by) via the official public REST API. Returns title, employer, location, RUB/USD/EUR salary, schedule, experience, key skills, and contacts. Russia's #1 job board (90M+ monthly visits) + Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus. No anti-bot.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/santamaria-automations/hh-ru-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [NanoScrape](https://apify.com/santamaria-automations) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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 usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## HeadHunter (hh.ru) Job Scraper

Extract job listings from **HeadHunter** -- Russia's #1 job board and the largest employment platform in the CIS region. Powered by the **official, MIT-licensed HeadHunter public REST API** (api.hh.ru). No browser required, no anti-bot hurdles.

A single actor covers all four HeadHunter national sites via the `hostRegion` input:

| Region | Site | Country |
|--------|------|---------|
| `ru` (default) | hh.ru | Russia (~90M monthly visits) |
| `kz` | hh.kz | Kazakhstan |
| `uz` | hh.uz | Uzbekistan |
| `by` | hh.by | Belarus |

### What you get

Each result includes:

- **Job details**: title, vacancy URL, vacancy code (employer internal reference), publication date, last-updated date
- **Employer**: name, HeadHunter employer ID, profile URL, logo, trusted-employer flag, employer category (COMPANY / PRIVATE\_INDIVIDUAL / AGENCY), company website (from SERP), IT accreditation badge, employer review rating and review count
- **Location**: city, region, region code (HeadHunter area ID), full address, nearest metro stations (Moscow / Saint-Petersburg)
- **Salary**: min/max range, currency (RUB / USD / EUR / KZT), gross/net flag, salary mode (Monthly / Per project / Hourly), salary frequency (Monthly / Twice per month / Weekly / Per project), human-readable text
- **Schedule**: fullDay / shift / flexible / remote / flyInFlyOut (normalized to English)
- **Employment type**: Full-time / Part-time / Project / Volunteer / Probation
- **Employment form**: Full-time / Part-time / Internship / Side job / Project (more granular than employment type)
- **Work schedule by days**: 5/2, 2/2, 3/3, 4/3, 6/1
- **Working hours**: 8 hours / 10 hours / 12 hours / Flexible
- **Civil-law contracts**: Self-employed, Individual entrepreneur, Individual person
- **Experience level**: No experience / 1-3 yrs / 3-6 yrs / 6+ yrs
- **Flags**: night\_shifts, is\_internship, accept\_temporary, accept\_labor\_contract, accept\_incomplete\_resumes, has\_test, response\_letter\_required
- **Full description** (plain text, HTML stripped) -- with `includeJobDetails: true`
- **Key skills**, professional roles, language requirements, driver licenses -- with `includeJobDetails: true`
- **Contact info**: name, email, phones -- from the vacancy detail endpoint
- **Company profile** (website, about, industry, open vacancy count) -- with `includeCompanyDetails: true`

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["программист", "аналитик данных"],
  "hostRegion": "ru",
  "location": "Москва",
  "experience": "between1And3",
  "schedule": "remote",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "includeCompanyDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `searchQueries` | string\[] | -- | Keywords to search. Leave empty for all vacancies. |
| `searchUrls` | string\[] | -- | Paste any hh.ru search URL to replicate exact filters. |
| `hostRegion` | string | `"ru"` | `ru` / `kz` / `uz` / `by` |
| `location` | string | -- | City or region name, e.g. `Москва`, `Санкт-Петербург`, `Алматы`. |
| `schedule` | string | -- | `fullDay` / `shift` / `flexible` / `remote` / `flyInFlyOut` |
| `employment` | string | -- | `full` / `part` / `project` / `volunteer` / `probation` |
| `experience` | string | -- | `noExperience` / `between1And3` / `between3And6` / `moreThan6` |
| `includeJobDetails` | bool | `true` | Fetch full description, skills, contacts per vacancy. |
| `includeCompanyDetails` | bool | `false` | Fetch employer profile (website, about, industry). |
| `maxResults` | int | `5` | Global results cap. |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | int | `5` | Per-query results cap. |

### Sample output

```json
{
  "_type": "job",
  "id": "98765432",
  "title": "Python-разработчик",
  "job_url": "https://hh.ru/vacancy/98765432",
  "source_platform": "hh.ru",
  "host_region": "ru",
  "company_name": "Яндекс",
  "company_id": "1740",
  "company_url": "https://hh.ru/employer/1740",
  "company_trusted": true,
  "company_category": "COMPANY",
  "company_website": "https://yandex.ru",
  "company_accredited_it": true,
  "company_rating": "4.6",
  "company_reviews_count": 234,
  "location": "Москва, ул. Льва Толстого, 16",
  "country": "RU",
  "region": "Москва",
  "region_code": "1",
  "city": "Москва",
  "address": "Москва, ул. Льва Толстого, 16",
  "metro_stations": ["Парк культуры"],
  "posted_at_datetime": "2026-08-25T07:14:18Z",
  "updated_at_datetime": "2026-08-31T07:37:16Z",
  "employment_type": "Full-time",
  "schedule": "Remote",
  "schedule_id": "remote",
  "employment": "Full-time",
  "employment_form": "Full-time",
  "experience_level": "1-3 years",
  "experience_level_id": "between1And3",
  "work_formats": ["Remote"],
  "work_schedule_by_days": ["5/2"],
  "working_hours": ["8 hours"],
  "civil_law_contracts": [],
  "salary_min": 150000,
  "salary_max": 250000,
  "salary_currency": "RUB",
  "salary_gross": true,
  "salary_mode": "Monthly",
  "salary_frequency": "Twice per month",
  "salary_text": "150000 - 250000 RUB (gross)",
  "description": "Требования:\nОпыт работы с Python от 1 года\nЗнание Django или FastAPI\nПонимание REST API\n\nУсловия:\nУдалённая работа\nГибкий график",
  "key_skills": ["Python", "Django", "PostgreSQL", "Docker", "REST API"],
  "professional_roles": ["Программист, разработчик"],
  "industries": [],
  "languages": [],
  "driver_licenses": [],
  "working_days": [],
  "working_time_modes": [],
  "accept_temporary": false,
  "accept_labor_contract": true,
  "accept_incomplete_resumes": false,
  "night_shifts": false,
  "is_internship": false,
  "has_test": false,
  "response_letter_required": false,
  "is_archived": false,
  "contact_name": "Анна Иванова",
  "contact_emails": [],
  "contact_phones": [],
  "vacancy_code": null,
  "search_query": "программист in Москва",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-25T10:00:00Z"
}
```

### Pricing (Pay Per Event)

| Event | When charged | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `actor-start` | Once per run | $0.001 |
| `job-serp-result` | Per vacancy (SERP only, `includeJobDetails: false`) | $0.003 |
| `job-detail-result` | Per vacancy (with full detail, `includeJobDetails: true`) | $0.005 |
| `company-detail-result` | Per vacancy (with company profile, `includeCompanyDetails: true`) | $0.005 |

**Example costs:**

- 1,000 SERP listings (no details): ~$3.00
- 1,000 listings with full job details: ~$5.00
- 1,000 listings with job + company details: ~$5.00 + $5.00 = ~$10.00

### Why HeadHunter?

HeadHunter (hh.ru) is the dominant job platform across Russia and the CIS, with:

- \~90 million monthly visits on hh.ru alone
- 1M+ active vacancies at any time
- Coverage across all 89 Russian federal subjects
- Official, documented, MIT-licensed public API -- no scraping workarounds needed
- Salary data in RUB, USD, and EUR with gross/net distinction
- Rich structured data: key skills, professional role taxonomy, language requirements
- IT accreditation badge (critical for Russian tech employers -- signals tax breaks and mobilization exemptions for staff)
- Employer ratings and review counts directly in SERP data

For Kazakhstan: hh.kz covers Almaty, Nur-Sultan, and 14 oblasts.

### Region coverage

The `hostRegion` input selects which HeadHunter national site to search. All regions share the same API endpoint (api.hh.ru) -- the region determines the area dictionary and the job URL domain in output.

Set `location` to a city in the correct country. For example:

- `hostRegion: "kz"` + `location: "Алматы"` for Kazakhstan jobs in Almaty
- `hostRegion: "by"` + `location: "Минск"` for Belarus jobs in Minsk

### Related Actors

- [Job Feed](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/job-feed) -- Multi-platform job aggregator
- [Career Site Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/career-site-jobs-scraper) -- Any company careers page
- [Indeed Scraper](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/indeed-scraper) -- Indeed.com
- [Seek Scraper](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/seek-scraper) -- seek.com.au / seek.co.nz (multi-region reference)
- [Trudvsem.ru Scraper](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/trudvsem-ru-scraper) -- Russia's state employment portal
- [Website Job Extractor](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/website-job-extractor) -- Any company careers page

### Issues and support

Found a bug or need a field added? Open an issue via the [Issues tab](https://apify.com/nanoscrape/hh-ru-scraper/issues).

Questions? contact@nanoscrape.com

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

One or more job keywords to search on HeadHunter. Each runs as a separate query. Examples: 'программист', 'аналитик данных', 'менеджер по продажам', 'python developer'. Leave empty to get all open vacancies.

## `searchUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste any hh.ru (or hh.kz / hh.uz / hh.by) search URL to replicate exact filters. Example: https://hh.ru/search/vacancy?text=python\&area=1\&experience=between1And3

## `hostRegion` (type: `string`):

Which HeadHunter national site to scrape. 'ru' = Russia (default), 'kz' = Kazakhstan, 'uz' = Uzbekistan, 'by' = Belarus. All share the same API and tech stack.

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

Filter by city or region. Examples: 'Москва', 'Санкт-Петербург', 'Новосибирск', 'Екатеринбург', 'Казань', 'Алматы' (for hh.kz). Leave empty to search all locations.

## `schedule` (type: `string`):

Filter by work schedule type. Leave empty for any.

## `employment` (type: `string`):

Filter by employment type. Leave empty for any.

## `experience` (type: `string`):

Filter by required experience level. Leave empty for any.

## `includeJobDetails` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, fetches the full vacancy detail page for each result — adds description, key skills, professional roles, language requirements, driver licenses, working days, and contact info. Charges job-detail-result PPE ($0.005/job) instead of job-serp-result ($0.003/job).

## `includeCompanyDetails` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, fetches the employer profile for each vacancy — adds company website, about description, industry, and open vacancy count. Charges company-detail-result PPE ($0.005/job). Requires includeJobDetails.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Total results cap across all search queries.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Maximum results returned per individual search keyword or URL.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum parallel requests to the HeadHunter API. Keep at 3-5 to respect rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "программист"
  ],
  "hostRegion": "ru",
  "location": "Москва",
  "schedule": "",
  "employment": "",
  "experience": "",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "includeCompanyDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobListings` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing scraped HeadHunter job listings. Each row includes title, employer (with IT-accreditation, rating, website), location with metro stations, salary with payment mode and frequency, employment form, work schedule by days, shift hours, civil-law contract types, key skills, professional roles, contact details, vacancy code, and optional full 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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "программист"
    ],
    "hostRegion": "ru",
    "includeJobDetails": true,
    "includeCompanyDetails": false,
    "maxResults": 5,
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
    "maxConcurrency": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("santamaria-automations/hh-ru-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 = {
    "searchQueries": ["программист"],
    "hostRegion": "ru",
    "includeJobDetails": True,
    "includeCompanyDetails": False,
    "maxResults": 5,
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
    "maxConcurrency": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("santamaria-automations/hh-ru-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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "программист"
  ],
  "hostRegion": "ru",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "includeCompanyDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}' |
apify call santamaria-automations/hh-ru-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,santamaria-automations/hh-ru-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/zeqNvRrtN79trLDbg/builds/e7xEyQo7QoNXNuATD/openapi.json