APEC Jobs Scraper: Extract Executive Job Listings from France's Premier Job Board

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What Is APEC.fr?

APEC (Association pour l'emploi des cadres) is France's leading job platform specializing in professional and executive positions. It hosts thousands of active listings across industries, targeting managers, engineers, consultants, and skilled professionals. Manually extracting job data from APEC is tedious and inefficient — the APEC Jobs Search Scraper automates this process, delivering structured, multilingual job records ready for analysis or integration.

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Overview

The APEC Jobs Search Scraper extracts comprehensive job listings from APEC.fr search results, converting HTML pages into clean, structured records with 25+ fields. It is designed for:

• Recruiters monitoring French professional job markets
• HR analysts benchmarking salaries and roles by sector
• Market researchers tracking hiring trends in executive segments
• Career aggregators integrating French job data into multi-country platforms
• Talent intelligence platforms feeding market insights

Key strengths include configurable item limits, robust URL failure handling, and rich geographic data with latitude/longitude coordinates for mapping and location-based analysis.

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Input Format

The scraper accepts a JSON configuration object:

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apec.fr/candidat/recherche-emploi.html/emploi?motsCles=ingenieur&page=1"
  ],
  "ignore_url_failures": true,
  "max_items_per_url": 200
}

Field	Description	Example
urls	APEC job search results pages to scrape	Search by keyword, location, or advanced filters
max_items_per_url	Maximum records per URL (up to 200)	200 for comprehensive collection
ignore_url_failures	If true, continues if URLs fail	Ensures long-running jobs complete despite timeouts

Tips for building URLs:

• Use the APEC search form to build URLs with filters: ?motsCles= (keywords), &page= (pagination)
• Example: motsCles=ingenieur (engineer), motsCles=data%20scientist (data scientist)
• Adjust max_items_per_url based on expected result count per search

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Output Format

Sample output

{
  "id": 178886600,
  "numero_offre": "178886600W",
  "intitule": "Ingénieur de Recherche F/H",
  "intitule_surbrillance": "Ingénieur de Recherche F/H",
  "nom_commercial": "ECOLE D INGENIEURS DE PURPAN",
  "lieu_texte": "Toulouse - 31",
  "salaire_texte": "35 - 35 k€ brut annuel",
  "texte_offre": "L'Ecole d'Ingénieurs de PURPAN a développé une activité de recherche sur l’étude de solutions alternatives aux produits phytosanitaires utilisant les technologies oxydatives pour l’agriculture et l’agro-Alimentaire et s’appuie pour cela sur la plateforme mutualisée de recherche T...",
  "date_validation": "2026-06-16T12:30:44.000+0000",
  "date_publication": "2026-06-16T12:30:44.000+0000",
  "indicateur_oqa": true,
  "latitude": "43.596013",
  "longitude": "1.4321019",
  "localisable": true,
  "score": 27.5133,
  "offre_confidentielle": false,
  "secteur_activite": 101675,
  "secteur_activite_parent": 101767,
  "client_reel": true,
  "contract_duration": 28,
  "type_contrat": 101887,
  "origine_code": 101859,
  "id_nom_teletravail": 20766,
  "indicateur_faible_candidature": false,
  "from_url": "https://www.apec.fr/candidat/recherche-emploi.html/emploi?motsCles=ingenieur"
}

Each scraped job returns a detailed record with 25 fields:

Job Identification & Metadata

Field	Meaning	Example
ID	Unique APEC internal identifier	Auto-generated UUID
Numéro Offre	Official APEC job posting number	"2024001234"
Intitulé	Job title as displayed	"Ingénieur Data Senior"
Intitulé Surbrillance	Highlighted/emphasized job title variant	Title with keyword emphasis
Nom Commercial	Company display name	"TechCorp France"

Location & Geography

Field	Meaning	Example
Lieu Texte	Job location as plain text	"Paris (75), Île-de-France"
Latitude	Geographic latitude for mapping	"48.8566"
Longitude	Geographic longitude for mapping	"2.3522"
Localisable	Whether location is mappable	true or false

Compensation & Contract

Field	Meaning	Example
Salaire Texte	Salary range as text	"45 000 - 55 000 €/an"
Type Contrat	Employment contract type	"CDI" (permanent), "CDD" (fixed-term)
Contract Duration	Expected contract length	"12 months", "Indefinite"
ID Nom Télétravail	Remote work availability indicator	"Télétravail possible", "100% remote"

Content & Description

Field	Meaning
Texte Offre	Full job description in HTML/text format
Secteur Activité	Primary industry/sector classification
Secteur Activité Parent	Broader sector parent category
Client Réel	Actual hiring company (vs. recruitment agency)

Publication & Quality Indicators

Field	Meaning
Date Publication	When the listing was published on APEC
Date Validation	When the listing was last validated/updated
Indicateur OQA	Quality assurance flag (APEC's internal QA metric)
Offre Confidentielle	Whether the listing is confidential/restricted
Indicateur Faible Candidature	Flag if listing has unusually low applications
Score	Internal ranking/relevance score
Origine Code	Listing source code (recruiter type, channel)

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How to Use

1. Build your search URL — Use APEC's search form to filter by keywords, location, sector, and salary. Copy the resulting URL (e.g., motsCles=ingenieur&page=1).

2. Configure pagination — For large result sets, add multiple URLs with different page parameters:

"urls": [
     "https://www.apec.fr/candidat/recherche-emploi.html/emploi?motsCles=ingenieur&page=1",
     "https://www.apec.fr/candidat/recherche-emploi.html/emploi?motsCles=ingenieur&page=2"
   ]

3. Set item limits — Adjust max_items_per_url based on your needs (200 is maximum and recommended for bulk collection).

4. Enable failure handling — Keep ignore_url_failures: true to prevent interruptions if a page is temporarily unavailable.

5. Run and export — Start the scraper and download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Best practices:

• Use multiple focused searches rather than one broad search to organize data by skill level or sector.
• Latitude/longitude fields enable map visualizations and geographic filtering.
• The Indicateur OQA and Score fields help identify high-quality, recent listings.

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Use Cases & Business Value

• Executive recruitment: Build candidate pools aligned with current market demand
• Salary benchmarking: Analyze compensation trends by role, sector, and location
• Market intelligence: Track hiring volume and skill demand in French professional sectors
• Career planning: Identify skill gaps and emerging opportunities in your field
• Data science: Build datasets for predictive hiring models and labor market analysis

The APEC Jobs Search Scraper transforms France's job market into actionable data, eliminating hours of manual research and enabling data-driven recruitment and business strategy.

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Conclusion

The APEC Jobs Search Scraper is the fastest way to extract structured executive job data from France's largest professional job board. With 25 detailed fields, geographic coordinates, and robust configuration options, it delivers reliable data for recruitment, research, and market analysis. Start scraping APEC today and unlock French executive talent market insights.