# Poolia.se Scraper — Swedish Staffing Agency Job Listings (`studio-amba/poolia-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from Poolia.se, one of Sweden's largest staffing and recruitment agencies. Search by keyword, filter by municipality. No login or cookies required.

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

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

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# README

## Poolia.se Scraper

Extract job listings from [Poolia.se](https://poolia.se), one of Sweden's largest staffing and recruitment agencies, as clean structured JSON. Search by keyword, filter by municipality, and get job titles, positions, locations, employment type, contact details and full descriptions in one run.

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

### What this actor does

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

- Job title and Poolia's internal position label
- Short pitch/teaser line
- Full plain-text description (HTML stripped)
- Hiring company (or "Poolia" when the client company isn't disclosed — normal for staffing-agency confidentiality)
- Municipality (or municipalities, for postings covering several work locations)
- Employment type (e.g. permanent, temporary) and extent (full-time/part-time)
- Publish date and application deadline
- Recruiter contact email
- The job's unique ID and direct application URL (Teamtailor ATS)

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

### Why use it

- **Staffing market research** — track what roles Sweden's largest staffing agencies are 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 Poolia's open roles against Arbetsförmedlingen's public listings or Academic Work's staffing feed.
- **Aggregators and job boards** — feed Swedish staffing-agency listings into your own product.

### How to scrape poolia.se data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `ekonomi`, `chef`, `säljare`) — or leave it empty to pull the entire active job catalog.
2. Optionally set a **Location filter** such as `Stockholm`, `Göteborg` or `Malmö` to narrow results to that municipality.
3. Set **Max Results**.
4. Leave the proxy switched **off** (the default — see Limitations) and click **Start**.

The actor calls Poolia.se's own job-feed API, paginates through the results, applies your search/location 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 client-side against title/pitch/description/position. Leave empty for the full active catalog. Default (prefill): `ekonomi`. |
| `location` | string | Optional municipality filter, applied client-side (e.g. `Stockholm`, `Göteborg`, `Malmö`). |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `100`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Default: **off** — poolia.se's origin server 503s every request routed through Apify's proxy pool (automatic or RESIDENTIAL); a direct connection works reliably. |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "ekonomi",
    "location": "Stockholm",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
}
```

### Output

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

```json
{
    "jobId": "7953898",
    "title": "Servicetekniker till Continental i Kiruna",
    "jobPositionTitle": "Servicetekniker",
    "pitch": "För dig som kan service, underhåll och problemlösning på riktigt. Hos Continental i Kiruna får du använda den i ett stabilt bolag, med varierande uppdrag, bra kollegor och möjlighet att växa.",
    "description": "Vill du ha ett aktivt och omväxlande arbete där din tekniska kompetens gör verklig skillnad? Continental söker nu två servicetekniker till teamet i Kiruna...",
    "company": "Poolia",
    "companyLogoUrl": "https://images.teamtailor-cdn.com/images/s3/teamtailor-production/original-v3/image_uploads/8cd1e022-39cd-478e-9cf2-5520b62ed6e7/original.jpeg",
    "headerImg": "https://images.teamtailor-cdn.com/images/s3/teamtailor-production/original-v3/image_uploads/80c92616-2f61-4422-ab6e-6898ffaf9ef7/original.png",
    "municipality": "Kiruna",
    "municipalities": ["Kiruna"],
    "employmentType": "Tillsvidareanställning",
    "employmentExtent": "Heltid",
    "pubDate": "2026-09-03T22:00:00.000Z",
    "pubDateTo": "2026-10-04T23:59:59.000Z",
    "applyUrl": "https://karriar.poolia.se/jobs/7953898-servicetekniker-till-continental-i-kiruna/applications/new",
    "contactEmail": "frida.sundelin@poolia.se",
    "source": "poolia.se",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

#### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `jobId` | string | Unique Poolia job identifier |
| `title` | string | Job title |
| `jobPositionTitle` | string | Poolia's internal position/category label, when disclosed |
| `pitch` | string | Short teaser line summarizing the role, when disclosed |
| `description` | string | Plain-text job description (HTML stripped), truncated to 8000 characters |
| `company` | string | Hiring company, or `Poolia` when the client company isn't disclosed |
| `companyLogoUrl` | string | Hiring company's or Poolia's logo image URL |
| `headerImg` | string | Listing header/banner image URL |
| `municipality` | string | Primary Swedish municipality (kommun) of the job location |
| `municipalities` | array | All municipalities this listing covers |
| `employmentType` | string | e.g. `Tillsvidareanställning` (permanent), `Visstidsanställning` (fixed-term), `Konsultuppdrag` (consulting) |
| `employmentExtent` | string | `Heltid` (full-time) or `Deltid` (part-time) |
| `pubDate` | string | ISO 8601 date the listing was published |
| `pubDateTo` | string | ISO 8601 application deadline |
| `applyUrl` | string | Application URL (Teamtailor ATS) |
| `contactEmail` | string | Recruiter contact email for the listing |
| `source` | string | Source site identifier (`poolia.se`) |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp of collection |

### Cost estimate

This actor makes one lightweight JSON API request per page of the feed — no browser, no per-item detail-page fetches. A full-catalog run (~120 jobs) 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

- **Keep the proxy off.** Poolia.se has no anti-bot protection, but its origin server returns HTTP 503 to every request that goes through Apify's proxy pool (verified for both automatic and RESIDENTIAL). A direct, unproxied connection from the Apify run container works reliably — this is the actor's default and should not be changed.
- **No server-side search filter.** Poolia's own feed ignores every query parameter tested (keyword, category, municipality) and always returns the full catalog — `searchQuery` and `location` are applied client-side against the returned data, not sent to Poolia's API.
- **Client company is rarely disclosed.** Poolia is a staffing/recruitment agency; many listings don't name the end client (confidentiality is standard in this vertical). `company` falls back to `"Poolia"` when no client name is given.
- **Salary is not published.** Poolia.se listings don't expose structured pay-rate data.
- **Catalog size is moderate.** Poolia typically runs ~100-150 active listings at any time — this is a national staffing agency, not a mass job board.

### Related scrapers

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

- **Barona.fi Scraper** — Finnish staffing agency job listings
- **Academic Work Scraper** — Nordic staffing agency, Sweden listings
- **Coople Scraper** — flexible/gig staffing marketplace
- **Tempo Team Scraper** — Belgian staffing agency job listings
- **Arbetsförmedlingen Scraper** — Sweden's public employment service listings
- **Jobzone Norway Scraper** — Norway's public employment service listings

### Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from Poolia.se for legitimate research and aggregation use. Respect Poolia'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. 'ekonomi', 'chef', 'säljare'). Matched client-side against the job title, pitch, description and position title. Leave empty to return the full active job catalog (no filter).

## `location` (type: `string`):

Optional municipality to filter results by (e.g. 'Stockholm', 'Göteborg', 'Malmö'). Applied client-side against each listing's municipality field — Poolia's feed has no server-side location filter.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

Proxy settings. Poolia.se has no anti-bot protection, but its origin server returns HTTP 503 to every request routed through Apify's proxy pool (verified for both automatic and RESIDENTIAL). Leave proxy OFF (the default) — a direct connection from the run container works reliably.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "ekonomi",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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": "ekonomi",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/poolia-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": "ekonomi",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/poolia-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": "ekonomi",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/poolia-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/poolia-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/QQYw2xyPec3ig4TgW/builds/esf2qti30IqtpOKPa/openapi.json