Jobat.be Scraper

Pull job listings from Jobat.be — one of Belgium's largest job boards — across all 11 Belgian provinces, in both Dutch (Flanders) and French (Wallonia). Get clean, structured records for every posting: title, company, location, province, contract type, full description, benefits, salary where it's published, and the apply link — plus any contact details the employer put in the ad. Built for Belgian recruiters, labor-market analysts, and relocation and staffing teams who need fresh, structured Jobat.be data without copying postings one tab at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• All 11 Belgian provinces — filter to Antwerp, East/West Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg, Namur, or the Brussels-Capital Region with a clean dropdown — no need to guess URL parameters.
• Both languages, both regions — switch between Dutch (Flanders) and French (Wallonia) listings; the scraper follows Jobat.be's localized site path so you capture region-specific jobs that only appear in one language.
• Five contract-type filters — permanent, temporary, freelance, internship, and student jobs, each as a single-click option instead of a wire value you have to look up.
• Contact details lifted out of the ad body — an apply email on roughly 1 in 4 Jobat listings and a contact phone on about 1 in 13, plus any outbound links the employer published, each as its own field next to the apply URL.
• Full job descriptions in plain text and HTML, plus itemised benefits — the complete ad text on 99% of rows, a ready-to-display snippet, an HTML version that keeps the employer's own bullet lists intact, and the listed perks (company car, meal vouchers, hospitalisation cover, home-office days) on about half of ads.
• Posting date, job category, Jobat region and employment type on 99% of rows — plus the province on 99.7%, read from each posting's own address rather than from your search, so you can sort by freshness or slice by sector or province without a second pass.
• Salary parsed into minimum, maximum, currency and period on roughly 4 in 10 ads — taken from the posting's own structured pay block first, so a €3,200 monthly wage is never published as an annual figure and meal-voucher or eco-cheque amounts never land in a salary field.
• Four freshness windows — Posted today, last 3 days, last 7 days, or last 30 days. Jobat.be counts whole calendar days, so "Posted today" covers everything put online since midnight Belgian time — ideal for a daily monitoring run scheduled late in the day.
• Paste any Jobat.be search or job URL — drop in a search you've already dialed in on the site (with its facets) or individual job pages, and they're collected exactly as-is.

Use Cases

Recruitment & Sourcing

• Build live feeds of new openings in a target city, province, or contract type
• Monitor competitor and agency postings across Flanders and Wallonia
• Track which roles a specific company is hiring for over time
• Pull student and internship listings for early-career pipelines

Labor-Market Research

• Map hiring demand by province, sector, and contract type across Belgium
• Measure how many roles appear in Dutch vs. French markets
• Track posting volume week over week with the "posted within" filter
• Analyze which job categories are growing in each region

Lead Generation

• Extract apply emails (about 1 in 4 ads) and phone numbers straight out of the ad body
• Build outreach lists of companies actively hiring in your sector
• Identify employers posting freelance or contractor roles to pitch services
• Capture the Jobat company profile link and the employer's own website alongside each opening

Relocation & Staffing

• Surface roles in a candidate's target Belgian city or province
• Filter to the language region (Flanders/Wallonia) a candidate can work in
• Match candidates to permanent vs. temporary vs. freelance openings
• Feed structured listings into placement and ATS workflows

Competitive & Salary Benchmarking

• Collect openings for a job title across regions to compare demand
• Pull salary ranges from the roughly 4 in 10 ads that publish them
• Compare benefits and perks offered across competing employers
• Track contract-type mix (permanent vs. temporary) by sector

Getting Started

Search by Keyword

The simplest way to start — one keyword, default settings:

{
    "searchQueries": ["Software Developer"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Filter by Region and Contract Type

Permanent jobs in Antwerp, posted in the last week:

{
    "searchQueries": ["Verpleegkundige"],
    "province": "antwerpen",
    "contractType": "permanent",
    "datePosted": "7",
    "maxResults": 200
}

French (Wallonia) Search

Switch the language to capture Wallonia-only listings:

{
    "searchQueries": ["Comptable"],
    "language": "fr",
    "location": "Liège",
    "maxResults": 150
}

Paste Jobat.be URLs

Reuse a search you've already filtered on the site, or target specific job pages:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/results/developer" },
        { "url": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/it-consultant/job_12345678" }
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Full-Featured Example

{
    "searchQueries": ["Data Engineer", "Software Developer"],
    "location": "Brussels",
    "province": "brussel",
    "contractType": "freelance",
    "datePosted": "30",
    "language": "nl",
    "maxResults": 500,
    "includeJobDetails": true
}

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	["Software Developer"]	Job titles or keywords to search for (e.g. "Software Developer", "Verpleegkundige", "Comptable"). Each keyword runs a separate search; results are merged and de-duplicated. Up to 50 keywords per run.
location	string	""	A city or municipality in Belgium (e.g. "Brussels", "Antwerpen", "Gent", "Liège"). Leave empty to search all of Belgium.
startUrls	array	[]	Full Jobat.be search-result URLs and/or individual job-page URLs. Any filters baked into a search URL are collected exactly as-is. Up to 100 URLs per run.

Filters & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Total number of jobs to collect in this run, across all your keywords and pasted URLs combined, up to 2,000. It's also exactly what you're billed for. Several keywords share the total in turns, and whenever one runs out of jobs its unused share goes back to the ones that still have results, so you get the number you asked for. Use 50 for a quick scan or a higher number for deep research.
province	select	Any	Restrict results to one Belgian province (or the Brussels-Capital Region): Antwerp, East Flanders, West Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg, Brussels-Capital Region, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg, or Namur.
contractType	select	Any	Filter by contract type: Permanent, Temporary, Freelance, Internship, or Student job.
datePosted	select	Any time	Only show jobs published recently: Posted today, Last 3 days, Last 7 days, or Last 30 days. Jobat.be counts whole days, so "Posted today" means everything put online since midnight Belgian time.

Localization

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
language	select	Dutch (Flanders)	Result language and regional version of Jobat.be: Dutch (Flanders) or French (Wallonia).

Advanced

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeJobDetails	boolean	true (on)	On by default, including for runs started through the API that leave it out. Opens each job's own page to fill in the description, posting date, category, region, employment and contract type, benefits, salary and contact fields. Turn it off only for a fast headcount-style scan: rows then carry just the title, company, location, benefits and links, and the fields marked needs full details below come back empty.

Output

Each job is a single flat record. Here's a real row from a default run — one of 1,089 rows measured across eight recent runs, which is also where every coverage figure below comes from. No province filter was set on this search and the province still comes back, because it is read from the posting's own address rather than from your search. This employer published no apply email or phone, which is the usual case on Jobat. The description is shortened here, and the matching descriptionHtml is left out for readability.

{
    "jobId": "5639258",
    "title": "Boekhouder",
    "company": "Robert Half",
    "location": "Gent",
    "province": "East Flanders",
    "region": "Ghent",
    "contractType": "Permanent",
    "employmentType": "Full Time",
    "category": "Finance, insurance & law",
    "salaryText": "Van € 3.200 tot € 4.500 per maand",
    "salaryMin": 3200,
    "salaryMax": 4500,
    "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod": "month",
    "postedAt": "2026-04-05T08:10:29Z",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Jouw takenpakket als Boekhouder:Aan - & verkoopfacturen inboeken;Financiële verrichtingen inboeken;Voorbereide...",
    "description": "Jouw takenpakket als Boekhouder: Aan- & verkoopfacturen inboeken; Financiele verrichtingen inboeken; Voorbereiden van de betalingen; BTW aangiftes; Maandafsluitingen voorbereiden...",
    "benefits": [
        "Van € 3.200 tot € 4.500 per maand",
        "Groepsverzekering",
        "Bedrijfswagen",
        "Tankkaart / Laadpas",
        "Maaltijdcheques",
        "Individuele hospitalisatieverzekering",
        "Eco Cheque",
        "Extra-legale vakantiedagen",
        "Thuiswerk"
    ],
    "applyUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/boekhouder/job_5639258",
    "applyEmail": null,
    "contactPhone": null,
    "extractedEmails": [],
    "extractedPhones": [],
    "extractedUrls": [
        "https://www.roberthalf.com/be/nl/privacy"
    ],
    "companyUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/bedrijven/robert-half/20993",
    "companyWebsite": "http://www.roberthalf.be",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/boekhouder/job_5639258",
    "language": "nl",
    "searchQuery": "Boekhouder",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T01:31:18Z"
}

Core Fields

Fields marked needs full details are filled from each job's own page, so they populate on a default run and come back empty if you switch includeJobDetails off.

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Jobat.be internal job identifier — on 100% of rows
title	string	Job title — 100%
company	string	Hiring company / employer name — 100%
location	string	Job location (city or municipality) — 100%
province	string	One of Belgium's 11 provinces, or the Brussels-Capital Region, read from the posting's own address — filled on 99.7% of rows whether or not you use the province filter — needs full details
region	string	Jobat's job region label (e.g. "Ghent", "Antwerp & Port of Antwerp") — 99% — needs full details
contractType	string	Contract the ad offers, in one vocabulary: Permanent, Temporary, Interim, Freelance, Internship, Student job, Starter or Flexi-job — on about 8 in 10 ads (some employers state no contract)
employmentType	string	Full-time or part-time — 99% — needs full details
category	string	Job function category / sector — 99% — needs full details
postedAt	string	Publication date and time — 99% — needs full details
jobUrl	string	Canonical Jobat.be job-posting URL, in the language you ran — 100%

Description & Benefits

Field	Type	Description
descriptionSnippet	string	Short description teaser, ready to display in a list — 99% — needs full details
description	string	Full job description as plain text — 99% — needs full details
descriptionHtml	string	The same description as HTML, keeping the employer's headings and bullet lists — 99% — needs full details
benefits	array	Listed benefits and perks (company car, meal vouchers, hospitalisation cover, home-office days), on about half of ads — it exists only where the employer published a benefits block, so expect roughly 1 in 10 to 6 in 10 depending on the search

Salary

Most Belgian employers omit pay on Jobat. These fields need full details on, and even then they fill on roughly 4 in 10 listings — treat them as a bonus, not a guarantee. Where a salary is present, the period is stated on about 9 in 10 of those rows and is read from the same wage sentence as the amount, so a monthly figure is never relabelled as annual.

Field	Type	Description
salaryText	string	Raw salary text as shown on the ad — on ~39% of rows
salaryMin	number	Parsed minimum salary — ~39%
salaryMax	number	Parsed maximum salary, where the ad states a range — ~32%
salaryCurrency	string	Salary currency (EUR) — ~39%
salaryPeriod	string	Salary period: month, year, or hour — ~35%

Contact & Company

These come out of the ad body and the employer's Jobat.be company page, so they all need full details on. Coverage depends entirely on how much the employer chose to publish.

Field	Type	Description
applyUrl	string	Public job-posting URL to apply through — 100%
applyEmail	string	Apply / contact email, on roughly 1 in 4 ads
contactPhone	string	Contact phone number, on about 1 in 13 ads
extractedEmails	array	Every email found in the ad — same ~1 in 4 coverage
extractedPhones	array	Every phone number found in the ad — about 1 in 13
extractedUrls	array	Outbound links found in the ad — on a small share of ads (~3%)
companyUrl	string	Jobat.be company profile URL — on about 9 in 10 rows
companyWebsite	string	Employer's own careers or corporate website, read from their Jobat company page, on about half of ads (needs full details)

Metadata

Field	Type	Description
language	string	Result language (nl or fr)
searchQuery	string	The search keyword that produced this row
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp when the row was collected

Tips for Best Results

• Start small — set maxResults to 50 on your first run to confirm the data matches your needs, then scale up for deep research. It's the total for the whole run, not a number per keyword, so what you set is what you get back and what you pay for.
• Switch language to French to capture Wallonia-only listings — many French-language jobs in Wallonia never appear on the Dutch site, so run both nl and fr to cover all of Belgium.
• Paste a filtered Jobat.be search URL to reuse facets we don't expose as inputs — dial in any advanced filter on the website, copy the URL into startUrls, and it's collected exactly as you set it.
• Leave full details on unless you only need a headcount — it's on by default and it's what fills the posting date, category, region, description, and contact fields. Switch it off only when titles, companies, and locations are genuinely all you want; those runs finish in seconds instead of minutes.
• Schedule "Posted today" runs for the late afternoon or evening — Jobat.be counts whole days, so "Posted today" covers everything put online since midnight Belgian time. A run at 06:00 catches the first few jobs of the day; the same run at 19:00 catches the whole day. For a steady daily count whatever time you run, use Last 3 days and de-duplicate on jobId between runs.
• Combine multiple keywords in one run — list several job titles in searchQueries; each is searched separately and overlapping results are de-duplicated automatically. They share the one maxResults total in turns, and a keyword that runs dry hands its unused share back to the ones that still have jobs, so a second or third keyword broadens your coverage at no extra cost and you still get the full number you asked for. If you'd rather one keyword go deep, give it a run of its own.
• Don't plan a run around salary — about 6 in 10 Jobat ads carry no pay figure at all, so treat salaryMin/salaryMax as a bonus. When they are there they're dependable: the amount and its period come from the ad's own wage sentence, so filtering on salaryPeriod == "month" gives you directly comparable monthly figures.

Pricing

From $0.95 per 1,000 results — among the lowest-priced Belgian job-board scrapers on the platform. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.11	$0.105	$0.10	$0.095
1,000	$1.10	$1.05	$1.00	$0.95
10,000	$11.00	$10.50	$10.00	$9.50
100,000	$110.00	$105.00	$100.00	$95.00

A "result" is any job row in the output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a fixed $0.01 start fee per run.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate recruitment research, labor-market analysis, and lead generation. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws — including GDPR and Belgian data-protection rules — and with Jobat.be's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and handle any personal data (such as contact details) lawfully and responsibly.