# JobScout24.ch Scraper — Swiss Job Listings & Companies (`studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings, companies, locations and workload from JobScout24.ch, a Swiss general jobs board. Search by keyword in German, French or English. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## JobScout24.ch Scraper

Extract job listings from [JobScout24.ch](https://www.jobscout24.ch), a Swiss general jobs board, as clean structured JSON. Search by keyword and get job titles, companies, locations, workload percentages, category tags and direct links in one run.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor requests the same public search-results pages a browser would and parses the listings directly, so it is fast and stable.

### What this actor does

Given a search keyword, this actor collects every matching job listing from JobScout24.ch and returns one row per job with:

- Job title
- Hiring company
- Location / city
- Workload range (e.g. `80% - 100%`)
- Category tag, when the listing has one
- Whether it's a paid Top Listing
- Freshness (e.g. "New" or how many days ago)
- The job's unique ID and direct URL

JobScout24.ch is trilingual (German, French, English) and accepts search keywords in any of the three.

### Why use it

- **Job market research** — track how many roles match a keyword across Switzerland.
- **Recruitment and sourcing** — build a live feed of open positions for a role or company.
- **Workload benchmarking** — analyse full-time vs part-time splits across employers.
- **Aggregators and job boards** — feed Swiss listings into your own product.

### How to scrape JobScout24 data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `informatiker`, `buchhalter`, `verkäufer` or `infirmier`).
2. Set **Max Results** to how many listings you want.
3. Leave the proxy on the default Residential setting and click **Start**.

The actor pages through the JobScout24.ch search results (~25 listings per page) 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. German, French or English all work. Default: `informatiker`. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `100`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Default: Residential. |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "informatiker",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}
```

### Output

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

```json
{
    "jobTitle": "Qualitätstechniker 100% (m/w/d)",
    "company": "Studer Cables AG",
    "location": "Däniken SO",
    "workload": "100%",
    "category": "Grossunternehmen",
    "isTopListing": false,
    "freshness": "New",
    "jobId": "10226789",
    "url": "https://www.jobscout24.ch/de/job/356aa365-ce06-45b9-ac82-dd9d296e4eb9/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T14:08:01.471Z"
}
```

#### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `jobTitle` | string | Title of the job listing |
| `company` | string | Name of the hiring company |
| `location` | string | City or place of work |
| `workload` | string | Workload / employment grade, e.g. `100%` or `80% - 100%` |
| `category` | string | Category tag shown on the listing, when present |
| `isTopListing` | boolean | True if the job is a paid/pinned Top Listing |
| `freshness` | string | Raw freshness text, e.g. `New` or `1 T` (1 day ago) |
| `jobId` | string | Unique JobScout24.ch job identifier |
| `url` | string | Full job listing URL |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp of collection |

### Cost estimate

This actor makes one lightweight HTML request per ~25 listings and runs no browser, so runs are cheap and fast. A few hundred jobs cost only a handful of requests plus proxy traffic. Exact cost depends on your Apify plan and proxy usage.

### Limitations

- **Salary** is only published on the job's detail page, not on the search results page, so it is not included by default. Most listings on JobScout24.ch don't disclose salary anyway.
- The search results page returns ~25 listings per request; the actor pages through automatically up to the site's own page limit (typically 100 pages per search).
- Full job descriptions are not fetched; only the fields visible on the search results list are captured.
- `category` is only populated when the listing carries one — many listings show only the workload tag.

### Related scrapers

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

- **Jobs.ch Scraper** — Switzerland's largest job board
- **Jobs.cz Scraper** — Czech job listings
- **Jobs.bg Scraper** — Bulgarian job listings
- **eJobs Scraper** — Romania's largest job board
- **InfoJobs Scraper** — Spanish job listings

### Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from JobScout24.ch for legitimate research and aggregation use. Respect JobScout24.ch'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. 'informatiker', 'buchhalter', 'verkäufer', 'infirmier'). JobScout24.ch is trilingual, so German, French or English keywords all work.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

Proxy settings. JobScout24.ch has no bot protection; residential proxies are the most reliable default. Add country CH if you need Swiss IPs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "informatiker",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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": "informatiker",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-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": "informatiker",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-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": "informatiker",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/jobscout24-ch-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/rC72Ah4xVEmTcDSCj/builds/vvlgIxqYAA0uDmkx6/openapi.json