# AcademicTransfer Scraper — Netherlands Academic & PhD Jobs (`studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper`) Actor

Scrape academic, PhD, postdoc and research job vacancies from academictransfer.com, the Netherlands' national platform run cooperatively by all Dutch universities and university medical centers. Search by keyword and get full job details, salary ranges, contract terms and application links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## AcademicTransfer Scraper

Extract academic, PhD, postdoc and research vacancies from [academictransfer.com](https://www.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

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

### Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

```json
{
    "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword to search for (e.g. 'PhD', 'postdoc', 'biology', 'assistant professor'). Leave empty to return the newest vacancies across all fields.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job listings to return.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. academictransfer.com's public API has no anti-bot protection and is not geo-locked — the automatic Apify proxy pool works fine.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "PhD",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "PhD",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "PhD",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "PhD",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/academictransfer-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7eTRYmfnQ2Up33Nb2/builds/6F6ZiZvVTrJSQAfEC/openapi.json