Vd.ch Etat de Vaud Scraper: Vaud Canton Public-Sector Jobs

Extract public-sector job listings from offres-emploi.vd.ch, the official recruitment portal of the Etat de Vaud (Vaud canton, French Switzerland). Covers all departments of the cantonal administration, judicial system, police, and public services. Typical inventory is about 40-100 open positions at any time.

No login required. Fast and light: a full run of the portal finishes in well under a minute.

What it does

Pulls live job listings from the Vaud canton (Etat de Vaud) government careers site. The employer is always Etat de Vaud (public administration), so instead of company diversity the actor surfaces the fields that matter for public-sector jobs: cantonal salary class (Classe salariale 1..18+), contract type (CDI Droit public, CDD Droit public, CDD Auxiliaires mensualises, Apprentissage), activity rate (taux d'activite) as a percent range with parsed min/max, work address, department (parsed from address), and category (Secteur administratif, Intervention sociale, Communication, Finance et audit, etc.).

Full French job descriptions are available in HTML, plain text, and Markdown. Missions (ExternalResponsibilitiesStr) and Profil (ExternalQualificationsStr) blocks are also exposed separately for structured consumption.

By default (sortBy="newest"), results are ordered by posting date descending, ideal for scheduled scrapes. Other options: oldest, relevance, title (alphabetical A-Z).

Use startUrls for direct job page URLs (e.g., still-alive re-checks). Use searchQueries to filter by keyword. Leave both empty to scrape the whole portal (about 40-100 jobs). An empty input {} returns a small demo of 5 jobs.

Filter by:

• Keywords: French job title terms (infirmier, comptable, juriste)
• Category: client-side filter on the Etat de Vaud job category (requires includeJobDetails=true)
• Start URLs: paste specific offres-emploi.vd.ch job detail URLs

Sample output

{
  "_type": "job",
  "id": "5802",
  "requisition_id": "300000150109973",
  "title": "Gestionnaire de dossiers - domaine judiciaire",
  "short_description": "Ordre Judiciaire Vaudois - Tribunal des mineurs - 80-100%",
  "job_url": "https://offres-emploi.vd.ch/#fr/sites/CX_1/job/5802/",
  "source_url": "https://offres-emploi.vd.ch/#fr/sites/CX_1/job/5802/",
  "source_platform": "vd.ch/emploi",
  "apply_url": "https://offres-emploi.vd.ch/#fr/sites/CX_1/job/5802/apply/email/",
  "company_name": "Etat de Vaud",
  "department": "Tribunal des mineurs",
  "location": "Lausanne, Suisse",
  "primary_city": "Lausanne",
  "country": "CH",
  "region": "Vaud",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "secondary_locations": [],
  "work_address": "Tribunal des mineurs\nChemin du Trabandan 28\n1014 Lausanne",
  "posted_at_text": "2026-09-03",
  "posted_at_datetime": "2026-09-03T05:00:00Z",
  "expires_at": "2026-09-16T21:55:00Z",
  "start_date_text": "De suite ou a convenir. CDD jusqu'au 31 decembre 2026, eventuellement renouvelable",
  "employment_type": "CDD Auxiliaires mensualises",
  "activity_rate": "80-100%",
  "activity_rate_min": 80,
  "activity_rate_max": 100,
  "salary_class": "6",
  "category": "Secteur administratif",
  "requisition_type": "Professionnels",
  "workplace_type": null,
  "description": "Le domaine judiciaire vous interesse ? Effectuer des taches administratives variees et essentielles au bon fonctionnement de la justice vous motive ?...",
  "description_full": "Le domaine judiciaire vous interesse ?\n\nEffectuer des taches administratives variees...",
  "description_html": "<p>Le domaine judiciaire vous interesse&nbsp;?</p><h3>Missions</h3><ul>...",
  "description_md": "Le domaine judiciaire vous interesse ?\n\n## Missions\n\n- Traiter le courrier du greffe...",
  "responsibilities_html": "<ul><li>Traiter le courrier du greffe et preparer diverses correspondances.</li>...</ul>",
  "qualifications_html": "<ul><li>CFC d'employe-e de commerce, ou tout titre juge equivalent</li>...</ul>",
  "corporate_description_html": "<p>L'Etat de Vaud propose une grande diversite d'emplois...</p>",
  "organization_description_html": "<div>Aux cotes des pouvoirs legislatif et executif, l'Ordre judiciaire vaudois (OJV) assure le role de troisieme pouvoir cantonal.</div>",
  "contact_emails": [],
  "contact_phones": [],
  "contact_urls": ["https://www.vd.ch/dfts/dgf"],
  "contact_name": "Natalia Bérard",
  "contact_title": "Conservatrice du registre foncier",
  "job_description_document_url": "https://partage.vd.ch/u/hKiE_HcohOOWqITr/d7fd1c62-216b-4574-968f-24ad16db14a0?l",
  "language": "fr",
  "search_query": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-03T22:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. A start charge of $0.001 applies per run (apify-actor-start). Then you are charged per job delivered: job-serp-result at $1.00 per 1,000 jobs without full details, and job-detail-result at $2.00 per 1,000 jobs with full details (the default). Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops cleanly at that limit and reports how many jobs it delivered.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	-	Optional French keywords to filter listings. Leave empty to scrape all jobs (typical: about 40-100). Each entry runs as a separate search.
startUrls	array of strings	-	Direct offres-emploi.vd.ch job detail URLs. Use for still-alive rechecks or targeted scrapes.
category	string	-	Optional Etat de Vaud category to filter client-side. Requires includeJobDetails=true (the category is part of the full job details). Examples: "Secteur administratif", "Intervention sociale", "Communication".
sortBy	enum	"newest"	Result ordering. "newest" (recommended for schedules), "oldest", "relevance" or "title" (A-Z).
includeJobDetails	boolean	true	Add the full job details for each listing: description, category, salary_class, employment_type, activity_rate, work_address, posted_at_datetime, expires_at. Recommended for most use cases.
maxResults	integer	100	Total cap across all queries (max 500). Portal typically has about 40-100 active jobs. When the whole input is empty, 5.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	100	Cap per individual keyword.
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Parallel detail-page fetches (max 10).

Output fields

Identity

• id: numeric job id on the portal (short, human-shareable)
• requisition_id: internal requisition number (long numeric)
• title: position title in French
• short_description: sub-headline from the SERP card
• job_url, source_url: canonical offres-emploi.vd.ch URL (hash-routed)
• apply_url: the "Postuler maintenant" URL for the position

Employer

• company_name: always "Etat de Vaud" (single-employer portal)
• department: department/service parsed from work address (e.g., "Ordre Judiciaire Vaudois", "Police cantonale vaudoise")

Location

• location: primary location display string (city + country)
• primary_city: parsed primary city (e.g., "Lausanne")
• country: always "CH"
• region: always "Vaud"
• latitude, longitude: coordinates when the portal publishes them (some jobs return blank)
• secondary_locations: additional work cities (rare on Vaud canton)
• work_address: full multi-line postal address (department + street + postal code)

Contract and schedule (requires includeJobDetails=true)

• employment_type: "CDI Droit public", "CDD Droit public", "CDD Auxiliaires mensualises", "Apprentissage", etc.
• activity_rate: taux d'activite as written (e.g. "80-100%", "50%")
• activity_rate_min, activity_rate_max: parsed integer percent bounds (80, 100)
• salary_class: Etat de Vaud Classe salariale (integer 1..18+ under the cantonal salary grid; not a numeric salary)
• start_date_text: free-form start date as written by the employer

Category and type (requires includeJobDetails=true)

• category: Etat de Vaud category (Secteur administratif, Intervention sociale, Communication, Finance et audit, Projet-recherche-statistique, etc.)
• requisition_type: "Professionnels", "Apprentissage", "Stage"
• workplace_type: Onsite/Hybrid/Remote when tagged (rare for public sector)

Dates

• posted_at_text: ISO date posted (YYYY-MM-DD)
• posted_at_datetime: ISO 8601 UTC datetime (ExternalPostedStartDate)
• expires_at: ISO 8601 UTC posting end date (ExternalPostedEndDate)

Description (requires includeJobDetails=true)

• description: ~500 character plain-text snippet
• description_full: full plain text with line breaks preserved
• description_html: composite HTML (intro + Missions + Profil + Organisation)
• description_md: Markdown rendering
• responsibilities_html: HTML block for Missions
• qualifications_html: HTML block for Profil / competences
• corporate_description_html: about Etat de Vaud as employer
• organization_description_html: about the specific hiring service/office

Contacts (extracted from description + address)

• contact_emails: email addresses found (text and mailto links)
• contact_phones: Swiss phone numbers found
• contact_urls: external links found in the description sections (for example the department site)
• contact_name, contact_title: the contact person named in the posting and their function; null when no single person is clearly named
• job_description_document_url: link to the job description document (cahier des charges) when the posting has one; null otherwise

Meta

• language: content language code (usually "F" or "fr")
• search_query: keyword that produced this row (null when unfiltered)
• scraped_at: RFC 3339 UTC scrape timestamp

Common use cases

Daily monitoring of new Etat de Vaud jobs (recommended)

Run on a schedule with sortBy="newest" (default). Newest postings appear first so incremental scrapes always pick them up.

{
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

Full inventory snapshot (all active jobs)

The portal typically has about 40-100 open positions. A single unfiltered run captures the whole market:

{
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

Targeted role search

{
  "searchQueries": ["infirmier", "comptable"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

Still-alive re-check of tracked postings

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://offres-emploi.vd.ch/#fr/sites/CX_1/job/5802/",
    "https://offres-emploi.vd.ch/#fr/sites/CX_1/job/5817/"
  ],
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

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