AcademicTransfer Scraper

Extract academic, PhD, postdoc and research vacancies from academictransfer.com, the Netherlands' national academic jobs platform. It's run cooperatively by all 14 Dutch universities and six university medical centers, so it's the single place to find PhD positions, postdoc contracts and faculty roles across the entire Dutch academic system.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor talks to the same public JSON API the AcademicTransfer website itself uses, so it is fast and stable.

What this actor does

Given a search keyword, this actor collects every matching vacancy from academictransfer.com and returns one row per position with:

• Job title and hiring organisation (university, institute or department)
• City
• Teaser summary of the role
• Monthly gross salary range in EUR
• Contracted weekly hours
• Research/skill keywords
• Publish date and application deadline
• Direct apply link and canonical listing URL

Why use it

• PhD and postdoc pipeline tracking — monitor open academic positions by field, keyword or university across the whole of the Netherlands.
• Salary benchmarking — compare gross salary ranges for PhD/postdoc/faculty roles across institutions.
• Recruitment intelligence — see which universities and departments are hiring, and how often.
• Academic career tooling — feed a personal or product job feed for researchers job-hunting in the Netherlands.

How to scrape AcademicTransfer data

1. Open the actor and set a Search Query (for example PhD, postdoc, biology, assistant professor). Leave it empty to pull the newest vacancies across all fields.
2. Set Max Results to how many listings you want.
3. Leave the proxy on the default automatic setting and click Start.

The actor first fetches the AcademicTransfer jobs page to pick up a short-lived public API token (the same token the website's own frontend uses to call its API), then pages through the vacancies API in batches of 50 until it reaches your Max Results or runs out of listings. Everything is written to the dataset, which you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search for. Leave empty for the newest vacancies across all fields. Default: PhD.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of vacancies to return. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. Default: automatic (no anti-bot on this site).

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "postdoc",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

{
    "jobTitle": "PhD kandidaat - Implementatiestrategieën voor Artificial Intelligence in zorgorganisaties",
    "organisation": "Tilburg University",
    "city": "Tilburg",
    "teaser": "Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Economics and Management is op zoek naar een PhD kandidaat...",
    "minSalary": 3059,
    "maxSalary": 3881,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "minWeeklyHours": 40,
    "maxWeeklyHours": 40,
    "keywords": ["PhD kandidaat", "Artificial Intelligence", "zorgorganisaties"],
    "startDate": "2026-07-06T15:40:16.071210+02:00",
    "endDate": "2026-08-16T23:59:15.035000+02:00",
    "applyUrl": "https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/362392/.../apply/",
    "jobId": "94064",
    "url": "https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/362392/...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-11T09:05:55.283Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
jobTitle	string	Title of the vacancy
organisation	string	Name of the hiring university, institute or department
city	string	City where the position is located
teaser	string	Short teaser summary of the vacancy
minSalary	number	Minimum monthly gross salary in EUR
maxSalary	number	Maximum monthly gross salary in EUR
currency	string	Salary currency (always EUR)
minWeeklyHours	number	Minimum contracted weekly hours
maxWeeklyHours	number	Maximum contracted weekly hours
keywords	array	Research/skill keywords associated with the vacancy
startDate	string	ISO 8601 date the vacancy was published
endDate	string	ISO 8601 application deadline
applyUrl	string	Direct application URL
jobId	string	Unique AcademicTransfer vacancy identifier
url	string	Full vacancy listing URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection

Cost estimate

This actor uses a lightweight JSON API and no browser, so runs are cheap and fast. One request returns up to 50 vacancies, so even a few thousand listings cost only a handful of requests plus a single page fetch to harvest the API token. Exact cost depends on your Apify plan and proxy usage. Usage is only charged after a run finishes with status SUCCEEDED — a failed or aborted run doesn't bill for partial results.

Limitations

• Salary and teaser are not always filled in. Some employers post vacancies without a listed salary range or a short teaser — those fields will be null or empty for that listing.
• Language varies by listing. Universities post in Dutch or English depending on the role; the actor returns whichever language the employer submitted, it does not translate.
• Full job descriptions, requirements and application procedure text are available from the API but not included in the default output — the applyUrl and url fields link to the full listing.

Related scrapers

Building a European jobs dataset? These sibling actors follow the same clean-JSON approach:

• Randstad Scraper — Netherlands' largest general job board
• AMS Scraper — Austria's national public employment service
• Jobs.ch Scraper — Switzerland's largest, nationwide job board
• Gradireland Scraper — Ireland's national graduate jobs platform
• Academics.de Scraper — Germany's academic jobs board

Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from academictransfer.com for legitimate research and aggregation use. Respect academictransfer.com's terms of service and applicable data protection law when using the output.