# Jobbird Scraper — Dutch Job Listings (`studio-amba/jobbird-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from jobbird.com, a major Dutch job board. Search by keyword and get titles, companies, locations, salary, hours and full descriptions. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/jobbird-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 $5.00 / 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.

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

## Jobbird Scraper

Extract job listings from [jobbird.com](https://www.jobbird.com), a major Dutch job board, as clean structured JSON. Search by keyword and get job titles, companies, locations, salary, hours, benefits and full descriptions in one run.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor reads jobbird.com's own sitemap to find listings, then parses the `JobPosting` structured data embedded on each job page — the same data Google reads to power its job search results.

### What this actor does

Given a search keyword, this actor finds matching job listings on jobbird.com and returns one row per job with:

- Job title
- Hiring company and company website
- Workplace city, region, postal code and coordinates
- Employment type (fulltime, parttime, temporary, ...) and weekly hours
- Salary range and period, when the recruiter published one
- Benefits text
- Full job description
- Posted date and expiry date
- Company logo and direct job URL

jobbird.com is one of the larger general job boards in the Netherlands, complementing government boards like Werk.nl and staffing agencies like Randstad already in this catalog.

### Why use it

- **Job market research** — track how many roles match a keyword across the Dutch market.
- **Recruitment and sourcing** — build a live feed of open positions for a role, sector or region.
- **Salary benchmarking** — the small share of listings with a published salary give a real market signal per role.
- **Aggregators and job boards** — feed Dutch listings into your own product.

### How to scrape Jobbird data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `logistiek`, `verkoop`, `software developer`, `verpleegkundige`). Dutch keywords work best since jobbird.com is a Dutch board. Multiple words are matched as an AND against the job title.
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 reads jobbird.com's XML sitemap to find job URLs whose title slug matches your search query, then fetches each matching detail page and parses the structured `JobPosting` data (the same schema.org markup jobbird.com feeds to Google for its job-search rich results) plus the full description. Results are written to the dataset as they're collected. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Leave **Search Query** empty (or use `{}` as input) and the actor falls back to a default `logistiek` search, so a run with no input still returns data. Set it to `*` to fetch listings from the sitemap with no keyword filter at all.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | string | Keyword to filter job titles by. Dutch works best. Default: `logistiek`. Use `*` for no filter. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `50`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. jobbird.com has no anti-bot protection, so the default automatic proxy is sufficient — no residential tier needed. |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "logistiek",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item looks like this (description shortened for readability):

```json
{
    "jobTitle": "Order- & Logistiek Coördinator",
    "company": "The Dutchman Duty Free B.V.",
    "companyUrl": "https://www.thedutchdf.com",
    "city": "OISTERWIJK",
    "region": "Oisterwijk",
    "postalCode": "5061KA",
    "streetAddress": "Schijfstraat 25",
    "country": "Netherlands",
    "latitude": 51.5833,
    "longitude": 5.1948,
    "employmentType": "Fulltime, Parttime",
    "workHours": "32 - 36",
    "salaryMin": 2500,
    "salaryMax": 3000,
    "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod": "Monthly",
    "jobBenefits": "Vakantiegeld",
    "jobDescription": "Over The Dutchman: The Dutchman Duty Free is een internationaal handelshuis, gespecialiseerd in het leveren van premium producten aan de sectoren Duty-Free en Hospitality. ...",
    "postedDate": "2026-08-06T15:33:24+02:00",
    "validThrough": "2026-08-13T23:59:59+02:00",
    "companyLogoUrl": "https://www.jobbird.com/images/jobbird.png",
    "jobId": "25608319",
    "url": "https://www.jobbird.com/nl/vacature/25608319-order-logistiek-coordinator",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-08T14:18:54.677Z"
}
```

#### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `jobTitle` | string | Title of the job listing |
| `company` | string | null | Name of the hiring company or recruiter |
| `companyUrl` | string | null | Hiring company's website, when provided |
| `city` | string | null | Workplace city |
| `region` | string | null | Workplace region/province |
| `postalCode` | string | null | Workplace postal code |
| `streetAddress` | string | null | Workplace street address, when provided |
| `country` | string | null | Workplace country |
| `latitude` | number | null | Workplace latitude |
| `longitude` | number | null | Workplace longitude |
| `employmentType` | string | null | Employment type(s), e.g. Fulltime, Parttime |
| `workHours` | string | null | Weekly hours range, e.g. `32 - 40` |
| `salaryMin` | number | null | Minimum salary. Null on most listings — see Limitations. |
| `salaryMax` | number | null | Maximum salary. Null on most listings — see Limitations. |
| `salaryCurrency` | string | null | Currency for the salary, when published (always EUR on jobbird.com) |
| `salaryPeriod` | string | null | Salary period, e.g. `Monthly`, `Hourly` |
| `jobBenefits` | string | null | Benefits text, when provided |
| `jobDescription` | string | null | Full job description, HTML tags stripped |
| `postedDate` | string | null | ISO 8601 date the listing was posted/refreshed |
| `validThrough` | string | null | ISO 8601 date the listing expires |
| `companyLogoUrl` | string | null | Company/recruiter logo image URL |
| `jobId` | string | Unique jobbird.com job identifier |
| `url` | string | Full job listing URL on jobbird.com |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp of collection |

### Cost estimate

This actor uses plain HTTP requests (sitemap XML + server-rendered detail pages) with no browser, so runs are cheap and fast. Each result costs one detail-page request plus a small, shared, one-time cost for the sitemap pages at the start of a run. Exact cost depends on your Apify plan and proxy usage — check your run's usage summary for the exact figure. That figure only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED; reading it mid-run shows a cost far below the eventual total.

### Limitations

- **Salary** is only populated when the recruiter filled it in on jobbird.com — most listings leave it blank, so `salaryMin`/`salaryMax`/`salaryCurrency`/`salaryPeriod` are `null` on the majority of results. This is a fact about the source data, not a scraping gap.
- **Search matches the job title slug**, not the full description — jobbird.com's own listing/search pages are disallowed by `robots.txt` (`Disallow: /nl/vacature?*`), so this actor works entirely off the sitemap and detail pages instead, which is robots-compliant but means keyword matching happens against the title rather than a full-text search index.
- Only currently **open** listings are scraped — jobbird.com's sitemap also lists a parallel set of closed/expired postings, which this actor skips since they aren't actionable.

### Related scrapers

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

- **Werk.nl Scraper** — the Dutch public employment service's job board
- **Randstad Scraper** — pan-European staffing agency listings
- **AMS Scraper** — Austria's public employment service job board
- **Jobbasel.ch Scraper** — Basel-region Swiss job board
- **Ostjob.ch Scraper** — Eastern Switzerland regional job board

### Disclaimer

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

# Actor input Schema

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

Keyword to filter job listings by (matched against the job title, e.g. 'logistiek', 'verkoop', 'software developer'). Dutch keywords work best since jobbird.com is a Dutch board. Leave empty for the default 'logistiek' feed, or use '\*' to fetch listings with no filter at all.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

Apify proxy settings. jobbird.com has no anti-bot protection, so the automatic default proxy is sufficient.

## Actor input object example

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

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/jobbird-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/XkbpwIhCAbG3NswTn/builds/lwomJJSQyvpOM3ior/openapi.json