# gradireland Scraper — Ireland Graduate Job Listings (`studio-amba/gradireland-scraper`) Actor

Scrape graduate job listings from gradireland.com, Ireland's official national graduate careers platform. Search by keyword and get titles, employers, locations, application links and full job descriptions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/gradireland-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

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

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# README

## gradireland Scraper

Extract graduate job listings from [gradireland.com](https://gradireland.com), Ireland's official national graduate careers platform. It's the go-to destination for graduate programmes, entry-level roles and internships at employers across Ireland — from GE HealthCare to Verizon to local Irish companies.

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

### What this actor does

Given a search keyword, this actor collects every matching graduate job listing from gradireland.com and returns one row per position with:

- Job title
- Employer name
- Location
- Full job description (HTML stripped)
- Salary range in the listing's currency (where published)
- Whether applications are currently open
- Direct application link and canonical listing URL

### Why use it

- **Graduate recruitment tracking** — monitor which employers are hiring graduates in Ireland by keyword, sector or role.
- **Careers services and student tools** — feed a live graduate-jobs dataset into a university careers portal or student app.
- **Market research** — see which sectors and companies are most active in the Irish graduate job market.
- **Aggregators** — combine with general Irish job boards for full market coverage of the graduate segment specifically.

### How to scrape gradireland data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `engineering`, `finance`, `marketing` or `software`). Leave it empty to pull all current graduate job listings.
2. Set **Max Results** to how many listings you want.
3. Leave the proxy on the default automatic setting and click **Start**.

The actor pages through the gradireland.com search service (up to 100 listings per request) until it reaches your Max Results or runs out of listings, then 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. Leave empty for all current graduate jobs. Default: `engineering`. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `100`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Default: automatic (no anti-bot on this site). |

#### Example input

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

### Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

```json
{
    "jobTitle": "Engineering Graduate",
    "employer": "GE HealthCare",
    "location": "Cork",
    "jobDescription": "Job Description Summary We are currently seeking Engineering Graduate with Electrical, Mechanical, Process Engineering or Automation knowledge...",
    "minSalary": null,
    "maxSalary": null,
    "currency": null,
    "applicationUrl": "https://careers.gehealthcare.com/global/en/job/GEVGHLGLOBALR4038513EXTERNALENGLOBAL/Engineering-Graduate",
    "applicationOpen": false,
    "jobId": "225690",
    "url": "https://gradireland.com/jobs/engineering-graduate-225690",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-11T09:32:00.000Z"
}
```

#### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `jobTitle` | string | Title of the graduate job listing |
| `employer` | string | Name of the hiring company |
| `location` | string | City or place of work |
| `jobDescription` | string | Full job description text (HTML stripped) |
| `minSalary` | number | Minimum salary, if published |
| `maxSalary` | number | Maximum salary, if published |
| `currency` | string | Salary currency, if published |
| `applicationUrl` | string | Direct application URL (often an external ATS link) |
| `applicationOpen` | boolean | Whether the listing is currently accepting applications |
| `jobId` | string | Unique gradireland.com node identifier |
| `url` | string | Full gradireland.com 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 100 listings, so even a large search costs only a handful of requests. 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 is rarely published.** Most listings on gradireland.com don't disclose a salary range — `minSalary`/`maxSalary`/`currency` will be `null` for those, which is the site's own data, not a scraping gap.
- **`applicationUrl` often points to an external ATS** (the employer's own careers site or an applicant tracking system), not back to gradireland.com — this is how the platform itself routes applications.
- Only listings tagged as "Graduate job" opportunity type are included; internships and other opportunity types on the same platform are out of scope for this actor.

### Related scrapers

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

- **AcademicTransfer Scraper** — Netherlands' national academic jobs platform
- **KarieraWFinansach.pl Scraper** — Poland's finance-sector jobs board
- **Academics.de Scraper** — Germany's academic jobs board
- **Jobs.ac.uk Scraper** — UK's academic and research jobs board
- **AMS Scraper** — Austria's national public employment service

### Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from gradireland.com for legitimate research and aggregation use. Respect gradireland.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. 'engineering', 'finance', 'marketing', 'software'). Leave empty to return all current graduate job listings.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

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

## Actor input object example

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

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/gradireland-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": "engineering",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/gradireland-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": "engineering",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/gradireland-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/gradireland-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/9SxOLzaqOkCgXvLRn/builds/FQzDpK6tBlXiCcAbr/openapi.json