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, contract type, full description, benefits, apply link, and recruiter contact details pulled straight from 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.
• Recruiter emails and phone numbers per listing — emails, phone numbers, and apply URLs are extracted from each job ad, turning a posting into a ready-to-use contact.
• Full job descriptions plus benefits lists — the complete ad text, the snippet, and the listed perks and benefits — not just the title and a teaser.
• Structured salary fields where Jobat exposes them — parsed minimum, maximum, currency, and period (Jobat hides salary on most Belgian ads, so this fills in whenever it's available).
• "Posted within" freshness filter — last 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, or 30 days, so daily monitoring runs only pick up new postings.
• 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.
• Automatic de-duplication — the same job is never returned twice, even when multiple keyword searches overlap.

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 recruiter and company contact emails and phone numbers from ads
• Build outreach lists of companies actively hiring in your sector
• Identify employers posting freelance or contractor roles to pitch services
• Capture company profile and website links 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 figures wherever Jobat exposes them for benchmarking
• 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	Maximum number of jobs to collect per search keyword, up to 2,000. 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: Last 24 hours, Last 3 days, Last 7 days, or Last 30 days.

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	Fetch the full description, contact details, and company profile from each job's detail page. Turn off for faster, lighter scans — the description, contact, and company-profile fields will then be empty.

Output

Each job is a single flat record. Here's a representative result with full details enabled:

{
    "jobId": "12345678",
    "title": "Senior Software Developer",
    "company": "Tech Solutions NV",
    "location": "Antwerpen",
    "province": "Antwerp",
    "region": "Flanders",
    "contractType": "permanent",
    "employmentType": "Full-time",
    "category": "IT & Telecom",
    "salaryText": "€3,500 - €4,500 per month",
    "salaryMin": 3500,
    "salaryMax": 4500,
    "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod": "month",
    "postedAt": "2026-06-08",
    "descriptionSnippet": "We are looking for an experienced developer to join our growing team...",
    "description": "We are looking for an experienced developer to join our growing team in Antwerp. You will design and build...",
    "benefits": ["Company car", "Meal vouchers", "Hospitalization insurance", "13th month"],
    "applyUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/senior-software-developer/job_12345678",
    "applyEmail": "jobs@techsolutions.be",
    "contactPhone": "+32 3 123 45 67",
    "extractedEmails": ["jobs@techsolutions.be"],
    "extractedPhones": ["+32 3 123 45 67"],
    "extractedUrls": ["https://www.techsolutions.be/careers"],
    "companyUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/bedrijven/tech-solutions-nv",
    "companyWebsite": "https://www.techsolutions.be",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/senior-software-developer/job_12345678",
    "language": "nl",
    "searchQuery": "Software Developer",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T14:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Jobat.be internal job identifier
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company / employer name
location	string	Job location (city or municipality)
province	string	Belgian province label (e.g. "Antwerp")
region	string	Flanders, Wallonia, or Brussels
contractType	string	Permanent, temporary, freelance, internship, or student
employmentType	string	Full-time or part-time
category	string	Job function category / sector
postedAt	string	Publication date
jobUrl	string	Canonical Jobat.be job-posting URL

Description & Benefits

Field	Type	Description
descriptionSnippet	string	Short description teaser from the list
description	string	Full job description text (when details are on)
benefits	array	Listed benefits and perks (when shown)

Salary

Jobat hides salary on most Belgian ads — these fields populate whenever it's exposed.

Field	Type	Description
salaryText	string	Raw salary text as shown on the ad
salaryMin	number	Parsed minimum salary
salaryMax	number	Parsed maximum salary
salaryCurrency	string	Salary currency (EUR)
salaryPeriod	string	Salary period (month, year, or hour)

Contact & Company

Field	Type	Description
applyUrl	string	Public job-posting URL to apply through
applyEmail	string	Apply / contact email
contactPhone	string	Contact phone number (when shown)
extractedEmails	array	Emails parsed from the job ad
extractedPhones	array	Phone numbers parsed from the job ad
extractedUrls	array	URLs parsed from the job ad
companyUrl	string	Jobat.be company profile URL
companyWebsite	string	Employer's own website (when shown)

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.
• 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.
• Turn off includeJobDetails for fast counting — when you only need titles, companies, and locations, leave details off for quicker, lighter runs; turn it on for full descriptions, benefits, and contacts.
• Use the "posted within" filter for daily monitoring — set datePosted to Last 24 hours on a scheduled run to capture only brand-new openings.
• Combine multiple keywords in one run — list several job titles in searchQueries; each is searched separately and overlapping results are de-duplicated automatically.
• Don't rely on salary being present — most Belgian employers omit it on Jobat, so treat salaryMin/salaryMax as a bonus rather than a guarantee.

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 small fixed per-run start fee.

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.