# Sigmar Recruitment Scraper — Ireland Job Listings (`studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from Sigmar Recruitment, one of Ireland's largest recruitment agencies — titles, salaries, locations, consultants and full descriptions. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-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
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## 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

## Sigmar Recruitment Scraper

Extract job listings from [Sigmar Recruitment](https://www.sigmarrecruitment.com), one of Ireland's largest general recruitment and staffing agencies, as clean structured JSON. Search by keyword, filter by Irish city or county, and get job titles, salaries, locations, consultant contact details and full descriptions in one run.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor reads Sigmar's own job-search API directly, so it is fast, stable and cheap to run.

### What this actor does

Given a search keyword, this actor collects the matching job listings from Sigmar Recruitment's Ireland-wide job board and returns one row per job with:

- Job title, Sigmar reference code, and internal job ID
- Full plain-text job description (optional, on by default) and sector category
- Location (city, county, country) plus latitude/longitude
- Employment type (Full Time, Part Time, Contractor)
- Salary range, currency and salary text (e.g. "Negotiable")
- The named Sigmar recruitment consultant handling the role — name, direct email and job title
- Posting date, expiry date, and the job's direct URL

Sigmar Recruitment covers roles across accountancy & finance, technology, engineering, life sciences, HR, sales and marketing, and multilingual/customer service, all across the Republic of Ireland.

### Why use it

- **Recruitment market research** — track what roles one of Ireland's biggest general agencies is placing, and where.
- **Sourcing and lead generation** — the consultant's direct email is included on every listing, so you know exactly who to contact about a role or a client.
- **Salary benchmarking** — most listings disclose a salary range or "Negotiable" text, useful for comparing compensation by role and region.
- **Aggregators and job boards** — feed Irish staffing-agency listings into your own product alongside Hays, Adecco, Randstad or Manpower.

### How to scrape Sigmar Recruitment data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `accountant`, `software engineer`, `warehouse operative`). Leave it empty to pull every current listing, most recently posted first.
2. Optionally set a **Location filter** such as `Dublin`, `Cork` or `Galway` — Sigmar's API applies this server-side with a 50-mile radius.
3. Set **Max Results** for how many listings you want.
4. Leave **Fetch full description** on (default) to also pull the complete HTML job description and sector category from each job's detail page — this adds one request per result. Turn it off for a faster run that only returns the ~500-character listing snippet.
5. Leave the proxy on the default automatic setting — Sigmar Recruitment has no bot protection — and click **Start**.

The actor mints an anonymous session with Sigmar's job-search gateway, walks the listing API page by page, and (when enabled) fetches each job's detail page for the full description. Everything is written to the dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQuery` | string | Keyword to search for. Leave empty to return all current listings. Default: `accountant`. |
| `location` | string | Optional Irish city, county or region filter (e.g. `Dublin`, `Cork`), applied server-side with a 50-mile radius. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `50`. |
| `fetchFullDescription` | boolean | Fetch the full job description and sector category per listing (one extra request per result). Default: `true`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Default: automatic (no anti-bot on this site). |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "accountant",
    "location": "Dublin",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "fetchFullDescription": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}
```

### Output

Each result contains:

| Field | Type | Example |
|-------|------|---------|
| `jobId` | Integer | `11504` |
| `reference` | String | `"PD19082026"` |
| `title` | String | `"Senior Management Accountant"` |
| `company` | String | `"Sigmar Recruitment"` |
| `descriptionSnippet` | String | 500-character plain-text excerpt |
| `description` | String | Full plain-text job description |
| `sector` | String | `"Accountancy & Finance"` |
| `locationRaw` | String | `"Dublin City Centre, Republic of Ireland"` |
| `locationParsed` | Object | `{"city": "Dublin City Centre", "region": null, "country": "Ireland"}` |
| `lat` / `lng` | Number | `53.349`, `-6.26` |
| `remoteWorking` | Boolean | `false` |
| `employmentType` | String | `"Full Time"` |
| `salaryMin` / `salaryMax` | Number | `60000`, `70000` |
| `currency` | String | `"EUR"` |
| `salaryText` | String | `"Negotiable"` |
| `consultantName` | String | `"Pat Dolan"` |
| `consultantEmail` | String | `"pdolan@sigmar.ie"` |
| `consultantPosition` | String | `"Senior Recruitment Consultant"` |
| `postedAt` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |
| `expiryDate` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |
| `url` | String | Direct listing URL |
| `source` | String | `"sigmarrecruitment.com"` |
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO 8601 timestamp |

### Example output

```json
{
    "jobId": 11504,
    "reference": "PD19082026",
    "title": "Senior Management Accountant",
    "company": "Sigmar Recruitment",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Senior Management Accountant (Hybrid | Dublin | Accountancy Jobs) About Your New Employer Join a respected accountancy firm...",
    "description": "Senior Management Accountant (Hybrid | Dublin | Accountancy Jobs) About Your New Employer Join a respected accountancy firm providing tailored accounting solutions, management accounting, and financial controller services to businesses of all sizes...",
    "sector": "Accountancy & Finance",
    "locationRaw": "Dublin City Centre, Republic of Ireland",
    "locationParsed": {
        "city": "Dublin City Centre",
        "region": null,
        "country": "Ireland"
    },
    "lat": 53.349,
    "lng": -6.26,
    "remoteWorking": false,
    "employmentType": "Full Time",
    "salaryMin": 60000,
    "salaryMax": 70000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "salaryText": "Negotiable",
    "consultantName": "Pat Dolan",
    "consultantEmail": "pdolan@sigmar.ie",
    "consultantPosition": "Senior Recruitment Consultant",
    "postedAt": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",
    "expiryDate": "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z",
    "url": "https://www.sigmarrecruitment.com/job/senior-management-accountant-11504/",
    "source": "sigmarrecruitment.com",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-01T14:30:00.000Z"
}
```

### Cost estimate

This actor uses roughly 1 request per listing (plus 1 extra request per result when `fetchFullDescription` is on) — well under **$0.002 per result** at standard Apify pricing. There is no residential proxy or browser rendering overhead, so a run of a few hundred listings typically costs a few cents in compute.

Usage cost only settles after the run reports **SUCCEEDED** — if you read the dataset mid-run, the cost shown will be incomplete.

### Limitations

- Sigmar Recruitment operates in the Republic of Ireland only — this actor does not cover other countries.
- Some listings show `salaryText: "Negotiable"` with no numeric range; `salaryMin`/`salaryMax` are then `null`, which is the site's own behaviour, not missing data.
- Data is scraped from the public job-search API and may change without notice if Sigmar changes their site or platform.
- Respect the website's terms of service and use responsibly.

### Related Scrapers

- [Hays Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/hays-scraper) — UK/Ireland recruitment agency listings
- [Adecco Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/adecco-scraper) — multi-country staffing agency listings
- [Randstad Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/randstad-scraper) — Randstad Belgium job listings
- [Manpower Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/manpower-scraper) — Manpower staffing listings
- [IrishJobs Scraper](https://apify.com/studio-amba/irishjobs-scraper) — Ireland's general job board

### Maintained by Studio Amba

We run 700+ scrapers for European websites, and the priority is keeping
every one of them working. Automated runs test this actor against the live
site and verify the output is complete. When the website changes, the
scraper usually gets repaired the same day, without you having to report
anything. Questions and issues go straight to the people who built it, and
most get an answer the same day.

### Need this data on a schedule, or a custom version?

We run this scraper as a managed service for businesses: scheduled runs,
deduplication, delta detection, and delivery to your inbox, Google Sheets,
or API, maintenance included. We can also build a custom version with your
exact fields and filters, or combine multiple sources into one feed.

See [studioamba.dev/services](https://studioamba.dev/services/) or email
<hello@studioamba.dev> for a free data sample.

# Actor input Schema

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

Keyword to search for (e.g. 'accountant', 'warehouse operative', 'software engineer'). Leave empty to return all current listings across Ireland, sorted by most recently posted.

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

Optional Irish city, county or region (e.g. 'Dublin', 'Cork', 'Galway'). Applied server-side with a 50-mile radius.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

## `fetchFullDescription` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled (default), fetches each job's detail page for the full HTML job description and sector category — one extra request per result, so large runs take proportionally longer. When off, only the ~500-character listing snippet is returned.

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

Proxy settings. Sigmar Recruitment has no bot protection, so the default automatic proxy is sufficient.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "accountant",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "fetchFullDescription": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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": "accountant",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-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": "accountant",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-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": "accountant",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/sigmar-recruitment-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/vgR2eEHIP0jNzoyRb/builds/KAfktlCbxpwrqcrKP/openapi.json