Nationale Vacaturebank Scraper

Pull job listings from Nationale Vacaturebank — one of the Netherlands' largest job boards, with roughly 102,000 live vacancies — including title, company, salary range, GPS coordinates, apply links, and employer contact details where published, as clean structured rows. Search by keyword, city, province, contract type, education level, and posting date, or paste a search URL you already filtered. Built for Dutch-market recruiters, labour-market analysts, and lead-generation teams who need fresh NL vacancy data without copy-pasting postings by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• Around 102,000 live Dutch vacancies — one run reaches the full breadth of a top-tier Netherlands job board, with no per-city setup or link-building.
• GPS coordinates on every job — latitude and longitude for each posting, ready for map dashboards and radius analysis with no separate geocoding step.
• Employer contacts where published — recruiter name and email on the majority of listings, plus a direct phone number where the employer lists one; descriptions are also mined for any extra emails, phones, and links they contain.
• Three Dutch education levels — filter by MBO (vocational), HBO (university of applied sciences), or WO (university), the exact taxonomy Dutch employers hire against.
• City and province targeting — search a single city like Amsterdam, or sweep an entire province like Noord-Holland; all 12 Dutch provinces are recognised automatically.
• Parsed salary min, max, and period — a normalised euro range plus a month/year/hour period on every job that publishes pay, not just a raw text blob.
• Four contract types and two career levels — Permanent (Vast), Temporary (Tijdelijk), Internship (Stage), and Freelance/ZZP, combined with Starter or Experienced.
• Plain-text or HTML descriptions — choose clean text, the original HTML, or both; the full body is always included and never truncated.
• Up to 5,000 jobs per keyword, 50 keywords per run — batch dozens of role searches at once, globally de-duplicated on job ID so overlapping searches never repeat a listing.

Use Cases

Recruitment & Sourcing

• Build target lists of open roles by keyword, city, or province
• Track competitor hiring across MBO, HBO, and WO education levels
• Monitor fresh postings with the "Posted Within" window (last 1–30 days)
• Pull recruiter name and email for outreach, with a direct phone where the employer lists one

Labour-Market Research

• Map vacancy density across the 12 Dutch provinces using GPS coordinates
• Analyse salary ranges by sector, city, or education level
• Track hiring demand for specific skills and job titles over time
• Compare full-time vs part-time supply using the working-hours range

Lead Generation

• Build employer contact lists with recruiter name and email, plus phone where published
• Identify companies actively hiring in your niche
• Capture company website and logo when the employer publishes them
• Harvest every email, phone, and link embedded in job descriptions

Salary Benchmarking

• Compare parsed salary minimums and maximums across cities and sectors
• Normalise monthly, yearly, and hourly pay for apples-to-apples analysis
• Track compensation trends for specific job titles
• Benchmark Starter vs Experienced pay bands

Data Enrichment & Integration

• Feed live Dutch vacancy data into dashboards and applicant-tracking systems
• Power job-aggregator and comparison sites
• Enrich existing employer databases with current openings
• Trigger downstream alerts on new postings that match saved searches

Getting Started

Quick Keyword Search

The simplest way to start — one keyword and a result cap:

{
    "searchQueries": ["software developer"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

City Search with Filters

{
    "searchQueries": ["verpleegkundige"],
    "location": "Rotterdam",
    "contractType": "permanent",
    "educationLevel": "hbo",
    "maxResults": 200
}

Province Sweep, Fresh Jobs Only

{
    "searchQueries": ["projectmanager", "data analist", "recruiter"],
    "location": "Noord-Holland",
    "careerLevel": "experienced",
    "datePosted": "7",
    "descriptionFormat": "both",
    "maxResults": 1000
}

Using a Nationale Vacaturebank URL

Paste a search-results URL you already filtered in your browser — its filters are honoured as-is and pagination is automatic:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacatures?query=marketing&filters[city][]=Amsterdam" }
    ],
    "maxResults": 500
}

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	["software developer"]	Job titles or keywords, such as "verpleegkundige" or "projectmanager". Each keyword runs its own search; results are merged and de-duplicated. Up to 50 keywords.
startUrls	URL[]	[]	Paste full Nationale Vacaturebank search-result URLs. Any filters already in the URL are used exactly as-is, and pagination is handled for you. Up to 100 URLs.

Filters & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
location	string	""	A Dutch city or province, e.g. "Amsterdam", "Rotterdam", or "Noord-Holland". Names shared by a city and a province (Utrecht, Groningen, Overijssel) match the whole province — search a nearby distinct city to target just the city. Empty searches the whole of the Netherlands.
contractType	select	Any	Permanent (Vast), Temporary (Tijdelijk), Internship (Stage), or Freelance / ZZP.
educationLevel	select	Any	MBO (vocational), HBO (university of applied sciences), or WO (university).
careerLevel	select	Any	Starter or Experienced (Ervaren).
datePosted	select	Any time	Only jobs published within the last 24 hours, 3, 7, 14, or 30 days.
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum jobs to collect per keyword, up to 5,000. Returns approximately this many — a few extra rows may be added to finish the final page.

Advanced

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
descriptionFormat	select	Plain text	Return the full description as clean plain text, original HTML, or both in their own fields.

Output

Each job is returned as one flat row. Here's a representative result:

{
    "jobId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "title": "Senior Software Developer",
    "company": "Coolblue",
    "location": "Amsterdam",
    "city": "Amsterdam",
    "province": "Noord-Holland",
    "postalCode": "1011 AC",
    "latitude": 52.3702,
    "longitude": 4.8952,
    "contractType": "Permanent",
    "educationLevel": "HBO",
    "careerLevel": "Experienced",
    "workingHoursMin": 32,
    "workingHoursMax": 40,
    "sector": ["ICT", "Software Development"],
    "numberOfApplies": 14,
    "salaryText": "€3.500 - €5.848",
    "salaryMin": 3500,
    "salaryMax": 5848,
    "salaryPeriod": "month",
    "publishDate": "2026-07-08T00:00:00Z",
    "expiryDate": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Als Senior Software Developer werk je in een team aan schaalbare webapplicaties...",
    "description": "Als Senior Software Developer werk je in een team aan schaalbare webapplicaties. Je hebt ruime ervaring met moderne cloud-infrastructuur en teamwork...",
    "descriptionHtml": "<p>Als Senior Software Developer werk je in een team...</p>",
    "contactName": "Sanne de Vries",
    "contactEmail": "recruitment@coolblue.nl",
    "contactPhone": "+31 20 123 4567",
    "extractedEmails": ["recruitment@coolblue.nl"],
    "extractedPhones": ["+31 20 123 4567"],
    "extractedUrls": ["https://werkenbij.coolblue.nl"],
    "applyUrl": "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/a1b2c3d4/solliciteren",
    "companyWebsite": "https://www.coolblue.nl",
    "companyLogo": "https://cdn.nationalevacaturebank.nl/logos/coolblue-500x500.png",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/a1b2c3d4/senior-software-developer",
    "searchQuery": "software developer",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-12T14:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Unique Nationale Vacaturebank job identifier
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company / employer name
sector	string[]	Sectors, industries, and categories the job is filed under
numberOfApplies	number	Number of applicants so far, when published
publishDate	string	Date the job was posted (ISO-8601)
expiryDate	string	Application deadline / expiry date, when present
jobUrl	string	Canonical Nationale Vacaturebank job-page URL
applyUrl	string	Apply / application URL (falls back to the job page)
searchQuery	string	The keyword or URL that produced this row
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the record was collected

Location & Coordinates

Field	Type	Description
location	string	Listed location text as shown on the posting
city	string	Parsed city name
province	string	Dutch province
postalCode	string	Dutch postal code, when present
latitude	number	Latitude of the workplace
longitude	number	Longitude of the workplace

Role Details

Field	Type	Description
contractType	string	Permanent, Temporary, Internship, or Freelance
educationLevel	string	Required education level (MBO / HBO / WO)
careerLevel	string	Starter or Experienced
workingHoursMin	number	Minimum weekly hours, when stated
workingHoursMax	number	Maximum weekly hours, when stated

Compensation

Field	Type	Description
salaryText	string	Formatted euro salary range, e.g. "€3.500 - €5.848"
salaryMin	number	Parsed minimum salary
salaryMax	number	Parsed maximum salary
salaryPeriod	string	Pay period: month, year, or hour

Description

Field	Type	Description
descriptionSnippet	string	Short teaser drawn from the full description
description	string	Full description as plain text (when format includes text)
descriptionHtml	string	Full description as HTML (when format includes HTML)

Employer & Contact

Field	Type	Description
contactName	string	Recruiter / contact name, when published
contactEmail	string	Contact email, when published
contactPhone	string	Contact phone number, when published
extractedEmails	string[]	Every email address parsed from the description
extractedPhones	string[]	Every phone number parsed from the description
extractedUrls	string[]	Every link parsed from the description (assets excluded)
companyWebsite	string	Company profile / website URL, when present
companyLogo	string	Company logo image URL, when present

Tips for Best Results

• Start small — run 50 results first to confirm the data matches your needs, then raise maxResults for a full sweep.
• Sweep a whole region with the province filter — set location to a province like "Zuid-Holland" or "Noord-Brabant" to capture every city in it at once, instead of listing cities one by one.
• Combine a keyword with a city for precision — pairing "verpleegkundige" with "Rotterdam" is far tighter than either alone and cuts irrelevant rows. (Note: names shared by a city and a province — Utrecht, Groningen, Overijssel — search the whole province; pick a nearby distinct city to stay city-only.)
• Use datePosted for fresh-only monitoring — set it to 1 or 3 days on a scheduled run to capture only new vacancies and avoid re-collecting the whole board.
• Batch related keywords in one run — add several role variations (e.g. "data analist", "data engineer", "BI analist") to searchQueries; results are de-duplicated on job ID automatically.
• Choose the right description format — pick "Plain text" for analysis and search, "HTML" to preserve formatting for republishing, or "Both" when you need each.
• Mine descriptions for contacts — extractedEmails and extractedPhones occasionally surface direct hiring contacts that aren't in the structured recruiter fields; treat them as a bonus, not a primary source.

Pricing

From $1.60 per 1,000 results — cheaper than comparable Dutch job-board extractors, with no per-run start-up premium. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows the total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.19	$0.18	$0.17	$0.16
1,000	$1.90	$1.80	$1.70	$1.60
10,000	$19.00	$18.00	$17.00	$16.00
100,000	$190.00	$180.00	$170.00	$160.00

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 integrations on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate recruitment research, labour-market analysis, and lead generation. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws — including the GDPR when handling personal data such as recruiter contact details — and with Nationale Vacaturebank's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.