ProUnity Scraper

Scrape freelance missions, consulting assignments, and IT job listings from ProUnity (pro-unity.com) -- Belgium's largest freelance talent marketplace connecting 3,200+ specialists with major companies across the Benelux region every year.

How to scrape ProUnity data

ProUnity is a Vendor Management System (VMS) and freelance marketplace used by large Belgian enterprises and government agencies to source external IT consultants, business analysts, project managers, and other specialists. Missions are typically 3-12 month consulting engagements at organizations like SMALS, BNP Paribas Fortis, Belgian federal services, and major telcos.

This actor extracts structured mission data from publicly available ProUnity job listings. It discovers missions through two channels:

1. Sitemap crawling -- parses the XML sitemaps to discover all published mission URLs (5,000+ historical listings across multiple sitemap files)
2. Listing page -- scrapes the /freelance-missions/ page for the ~45 most recently posted missions

Each mission detail page is then scraped for title, company, location, duration, dates, skills with proficiency levels, language requirements, and full description text.

Use cases

• Freelance consultants tracking new missions matching their skill set
• Recruitment agencies monitoring the Belgian consulting market
• HR analytics benchmarking skill demand and contract durations
• Market researchers analyzing Benelux IT staffing trends
• Competitors tracking which companies are hiring and for what roles

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	No	""	Filter missions by keyword (e.g., "Java developer", "SAP", "project manager"). Matches against title, company, description, and skills. Leave empty to scrape all.
maxResults	Integer	No	100	Maximum number of mission listings to return. The site has 1,000+ active missions at any time.
language	String	No	"en"	Preferred site language (en, fr, nl). Note: mission content language depends on the posting itself.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Auto	Proxy settings. Belgian residential proxies recommended for reliability.

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "Java",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "BE"
    }
}

Output

Each result contains complete mission details:

Field	Type	Example
title	String	"Fullstack Java developper Senior"
referenceId	String	"K09931" or UUID
company	String	"SMALS"
location	String	"Brussels"
country	String	"Belgium"
duration	String	"6 months"
startDate	String	"2026-06-10"
endDate	String	"2026-12-31"
description	String	Full mission description text
skills	Array	[{"name": "Java", "level": "Expert"}, {"name": "Spring Boot", "level": "Confirmed"}]
languages	Array	[{"name": "French", "level": "Active knowledge"}, {"name": "Dutch", "level": "Active knowledge"}]
domain	String	"IT" or "Finance"
experienceLevel	String	"Senior"
remoteWork	String	"Hybrid", "Remote", or "On-site"
url	String	Full mission detail page URL
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp

Example output

{
    "title": "Fullstack Java developper Senior",
    "referenceId": "K09931",
    "company": "SMALS",
    "location": "Brussels",
    "country": "Belgium",
    "duration": "6 months",
    "startDate": "2026-06-10",
    "endDate": "2026-12-31",
    "description": "We are looking for a senior Java developer to modernize legacy systems within a complex technological environment combining historical applications and modern components...",
    "skills": [
        { "name": "Java", "level": "Expert" },
        { "name": "Spring Boot", "level": "Expert" },
        { "name": "Angular", "level": "Confirmed" },
        { "name": "Docker", "level": "Confirmed" },
        { "name": "REST APIs", "level": "Expert" }
    ],
    "languages": [
        { "name": "French", "level": "Active knowledge" },
        { "name": "Dutch", "level": "Active knowledge" },
        { "name": "English", "level": "Active knowledge" }
    ],
    "domain": "IT",
    "experienceLevel": "Senior",
    "remoteWork": "Hybrid",
    "url": "https://www.pro-unity.com/job/1d09b541-e62b-496f-a221-b7119fd34737/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-01T14:30:00.000Z"
}

How it works

1. Discovery phase -- The actor reads the ProUnity XML sitemap index to find all job sitemap files, plus scrapes the listing page for the latest missions
2. Deduplication -- URLs are deduplicated so each mission is only scraped once
3. Detail scraping -- Each mission detail page is fetched and parsed using CheerioCrawler (fast HTTP-only, no browser needed)
4. Filtering -- If a searchQuery is provided, missions are matched against title, company, description, location, and skills
5. Validation -- Output is validated for required fields before the actor exits

Cost estimate

This actor uses CheerioCrawler (HTTP-only, no browser), making it very efficient:

• ~50 results per $0.10 of Apify compute credits
• A full run of 100 missions typically takes 1-2 minutes
• Sitemap discovery adds minimal overhead (a few XML requests)

Tips

• Start with a small run (maxResults: 20) to verify the output matches your needs
• Use search queries to narrow results -- the filter matches against title, company, description, and skills
• Belgian residential proxies work best since ProUnity is a Belgian platform
• Schedule regular runs to track new missions as they are posted (ProUnity adds missions daily)
• Skills data is structured -- each skill includes a proficiency level (Expert, Advanced, Confirmed, Junior), making it easy to filter programmatically

Limitations

• No rate/salary data -- ProUnity does not publicly display day rates or salary information on mission pages
• Company names may not always be extracted if the posting uses a logo instead of text
• Historical missions in the sitemap may have expired or been filled; the actor scrapes whatever is publicly available
• WordPress-based -- the site uses a WordPress theme (Avada) with custom job post types; structural changes may require scraper updates
• Language mix -- mission descriptions are posted in the language chosen by the client (French, Dutch, or English), regardless of the language input setting