# Bayt Scraper - MENA Jobs, Salaries & Companies (`scrapesage/bayt-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Bayt.com jobs across the Middle East and North Africa with title, company, city, posted date and summary, plus optional full detail including salary, career level and required experience.

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

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 job scrapeds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Bayt Scraper - MENA Jobs, Salaries & Companies

Scrape **Bayt.com**, the largest job site in the Middle East and North Africa, across **16 country sites** - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and more. **No login, no cookies.**

Built for recruitment agencies, MENA market research, hiring-intent lead lists and job aggregators.

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### What you get

One row per job:

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `title` | Job title |
| `company` | Hiring company |
| `city`, `country`, `location` | Where the role sits |
| `postedText`, `postedAt` | "3 hours ago", plus a real ISO timestamp |
| `summary` | Bayt's own role summary |
| `jobUrl`, `jobId` | Canonical link and id |
| `searchCountry`, `searchKeyword`, `page`, `rank` | Which search found it, and where it ranked |

Turn on **`includeDetail`** and each row also gets:

`salary` · `careerLevel` · `yearsExperience` · `educationLevel` · `employmentType` · `jobRole` · `numberOfVacancies` · `companyIndustry` · `companyType` · `residenceLocation` · `skills` · full `description`

Every row carries every field, so your CSV never has ragged columns.

### Ways to search

- **By country** - pick any of the 16 Bayt country sites
- **By keyword** - `["accountant", "software engineer"]`, combined with any countries
- **By URL** - paste a bayt.com search URL for filters this actor doesn't expose

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### Example input

```json
{
  "countries": ["uae", "saudi-arabia"],
  "keywords": ["accountant"],
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 3,
  "maxResults": 150,
  "proxyCountry": "AE",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "type": "job",
  "jobId": "5474925",
  "title": "Senior Sales Consultant",
  "company": "Paul Newstone",
  "city": "Dubai",
  "country": "United Arab Emirates",
  "postedText": "2 hours ago",
  "postedAt": "2026-08-07T13:52:00.000Z",
  "summary": "A leading Dubai consultancy is seeking a Senior Sales Consultant...",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.bayt.com/en/uae/jobs/senior-sales-consultant-5474925/"
}
```

***

### Pricing

**$0.004 per job.** You are charged only for rows actually delivered to your dataset. A search that matches nothing costs **$0** and says so.

### Honest limits

Please read these before buying:

- **Bayt sits behind Cloudflare, so this actor runs a real browser.** That makes it slower and more memory-hungry than a plain HTTP scraper - it needs **2 GB** and a run timeout with room to breathe. It is also why the residential proxy is required, not optional.
- **Deep pagination is not guaranteed.** Bayt serves page 1 reliably; deeper pages are sometimes challenged, and when that happens the run stops that search cleanly and keeps what it already has rather than burning your budget retrying. Expect ~30 jobs per page.
- **`includeDetail` is much slower** - every job page is a separate browser navigation past Cloudflare. Use it on small, targeted runs, not on a 1,000-job sweep.
- **Keyword search uses Bayt's own `<keyword>-jobs` slug**, so short terms ("accountant", "sales") work; long sentences return nothing.

### Tips

- A Gulf proxy exit (`AE`, `SA`, `QA`) clears Cloudflare most reliably.
- Run country-by-country on a schedule and dedupe on `jobId` to build a MENA hiring dataset over time.
- `postedAt` is a real timestamp parsed from Bayt's relative text, so you can filter "posted in the last 24h" downstream.

### Related actors

- **Naukri Scraper** - India and Gulf jobs with salaries and recruiter leads
- **Foundit Scraper** - jobs, salaries, skills and recruiter leads
- **LinkedIn Jobs Scraper** - filter-based, no login

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Which Bayt country sites to search.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Job titles or skills to search for. Leave empty to take the country's latest jobs. Bayt builds its search URL from a '<keyword>-jobs' slug, so short phrases like 'accountant' or 'software engineer' work best.

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

Paste bayt.com search URLs directly - use this for filters this actor does not expose.

## `includeDetail` (type: `boolean`):

Open each job page for salary, career level, years of experience, education, employment type and the full description. Much slower - Bayt is behind Cloudflare so every page needs the browser.

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Bayt lists about 30 jobs per page.

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

Total cap across every country and keyword. Set 0 for no limit (explicit opt-in).

## `proxyCountry` (type: `string`):

Which country to browse from. A Gulf exit tends to clear Cloudflare most reliably.

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

A residential proxy is required - Bayt is behind Cloudflare.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "uae",
    "saudi-arabia"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "accountant",
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "includeDetail": false,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 3,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyCountry": "AE",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Every scraped job as a JSON item in the default dataset.

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "uae"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapesage/bayt-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 = { "countries": ["uae"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapesage/bayt-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 '{
  "countries": [
    "uae"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapesage/bayt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapesage/bayt-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/iVGeHEg1A2zepS3ad/builds/5vH94Ldj8GnOCNiTe/openapi.json