Barona.fi Scraper

Extract job listings from Barona.fi, one of the largest staffing and recruitment agencies in Finland, as clean structured JSON. Search by keyword, filter by city or country, and get job titles, companies, locations, contract type and full descriptions in one run.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor reads the same JSON feed the Barona.fi website itself calls to render its job-search page, so it is fast and stable.

What this actor does

Given an optional search keyword, this actor collects the matching job listings from Barona.fi and returns one row per job with:

• Job title
• Hiring company (a Barona subsidiary like "Barona Rakennus Oy", or a named end client such as Ramirent)
• City and all covered work locations
• Country (Barona.fi mostly lists Finnish roles, but occasionally carries postings for other Barona markets)
• Industry and profession taxonomy labels
• Seniority level, job type (full-time/part-time) and contract type (permanent, fixed-term, temporary, gig, seasonal)
• Posting language, campaign start/end dates
• Full plain-text description (HTML stripped)
• The job's unique ID and direct application URL (Barona Careers / Fuzu)

Leave the search query empty and the actor returns Barona's full active catalog — no keyword is required to get data.

Why use it

• Staffing market research — track what roles Finland's largest staffing agency is placing, for whom, and where.
• Recruitment and sourcing — build a live feed of temp and permanent positions for a role or region.
• Competitive intelligence — compare Barona's open roles against TE-palvelut public listings or Duunitori's aggregated board.
• Aggregators and job boards — feed Finnish staffing-agency listings into your own product.

How to scrape Barona data

1. Open the actor and set a Search Query (for example logistiikka, myyjä, asentaja) — or leave it empty to pull the entire active job catalog.
2. Optionally set a Location filter such as Helsinki, Tampere or Jyväskylä to narrow results to that city.
3. Optionally set a Country filter (ISO code, e.g. FI) if you want to isolate Finland-only postings from the occasional cross-border listing.
4. Set Max Results.
5. Leave the proxy on the default automatic setting (Barona.fi has no anti-bot protection) and click Start.

The actor calls Barona.fi's own job-feed API for your keyword, paginates through the results, applies your location/country filters client-side, and writes everything to the dataset. You can export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search for (matched server-side against title/content). Leave empty for the full active catalog. Default (prefill): logistiikka.
location	string	Optional city filter, applied client-side (e.g. Helsinki, Tampere).
country	string	Optional ISO country code filter, applied client-side (e.g. FI, SE, NO).
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of listings to return. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. Default: automatic (no residential needed).

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "logistiikka",
    "location": "Helsinki",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this (real output from a test run):

{
    "jobId": "102544",
    "fuzuJobId": "71430",
    "title": "Rakennuslogistiikkatyöntekijöitä Uudellemaalle",
    "company": "Suomen Rakennuslogistiikka Oy",
    "companyBusinessId": "2085490-0",
    "companyLogoUrl": "https://fuzu-barona-production-public.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/employers/e903bb33-0474-45d9-b4ca-6a0dfb45f6a9.png",
    "city": "Helsinki",
    "cities": ["Helsinki", "Vantaa", "Espoo", "Kirkkonummi"],
    "country": "FI",
    "postalCode": null,
    "street": null,
    "industry": "Rakentaminen, kiinteistöt ja arkkitehtuuri",
    "profession": "Rakentaminen, kiinteistöt ja arkkitehtuuri",
    "seniorityLevel": "junior",
    "jobType": "full_time",
    "permanentPosition": "permanent",
    "postingLanguage": "fi",
    "description": "Etsimme vahvistuksia rakennuslogistiikan tiimeihin eri työmaille ympäri Uuttamaata...",
    "campaignStartDate": "2026-08-05",
    "campaignEndDate": "2026-09-19",
    "url": "https://www.baronacareers.com/fi/fi/jobs/rakennuslogistiikkatyontekijoita-uudellemaalle-suomen-rakennuslogistiikka-oy-15219a05",
    "source": "barona.fi",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-02T10:12:03.512Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Unique Barona job identifier
fuzuJobId	string	Underlying Fuzu ATS job identifier
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company as posted — a Barona subsidiary or a named end client
companyBusinessId	string	Finnish Y-tunnus (business ID) of the hiring company
companyLogoUrl	string	Hiring company's logo image URL
city	string	Primary city of the job listing
cities	array	All cities this listing applies to
country	string	ISO country code of the job location
postalCode	string	Postal code, when disclosed
street	string	Street address, when disclosed
industry	string	Barona industry taxonomy label
profession	string	Barona profession taxonomy label
seniorityLevel	string	junior, mid or high
jobType	string	full_time or part_time
permanentPosition	string	permanent, fixed_term, temporary, gig or seasonal_work
postingLanguage	string	Language the listing was written in (fi or en)
description	string	Plain-text job description (HTML stripped), truncated to 8000 characters
campaignStartDate	string	Date the listing went live (YYYY-MM-DD)
campaignEndDate	string	Application deadline (YYYY-MM-DD)
url	string	Application URL (Barona Careers / Fuzu ATS)
source	string	Source site identifier (barona.fi)
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection

Cost estimate

This actor makes one lightweight JSON API request per 100 results — no browser, no per-item detail-page fetches. A 100-result run typically finishes in a few seconds; cost is dominated by the per-result charge, not compute or proxy traffic. Usage is only charged after a run finishes with status SUCCEEDED — a failed or aborted run doesn't bill for partial results.

Limitations

• Finland-focused, not strictly Finland-only. Barona.fi's feed is ~96% Finnish listings, but occasionally carries a handful of postings for other Barona markets (Sweden, Norway, Poland, and others observed). Use the country filter to isolate Finland-only results if you need a clean single-market dataset.
• Barona.fi only — sibling country sites are a different platform. barona.se and barona.no are backed by a completely different ATS (recman.io) with an unrelated response shape; barona.ee returned no data in testing. Each would need its own recon and actor, the same way Randstad's country sites each run on a different platform under one brand.
• Location filtering is client-side. Barona's own location-taxonomy filter parameter did not reliably narrow results to the requested city in testing, so the location input matches by substring against each listing's city/cities fields instead.
• Salary is not published. Barona.fi listings don't expose structured pay-rate data.

Related scrapers

Building a Nordic staffing and public-employment dataset? These sibling actors follow the same clean-JSON approach:

• Adecco Scraper — multi-country staffing agency job listings
• Academic Work Scraper — Nordic staffing agency, Sweden listings
• Randstad Belgium Scraper — Belgian arm of the world's largest staffing agency
• Duunitori Scraper — Finnish aggregated job board with salary data
• NAV Norway Scraper — Norway's public employment service listings
• Arbetsformedlingen Scraper — Sweden's public employment service listings

Disclaimer

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