# Služby Zamestnanosti Scraper — Slovakia National Job Listings (`studio-amba/sluzbyzamestnanosti-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk, Slovakia's national public employment service portal (run by ÚPSVaR, the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family). Search by job title and get employer, location, salary and direct links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/sluzbyzamestnanosti-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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## Služby Zamestnanosti Scraper

Extract job listings from [sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk](https://www.sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk), Slovakia's national public employment service portal, run by ÚPSVaR (the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family). The portal aggregates vacancies posted directly by labour offices across the country alongside listings employers post themselves, giving broad national coverage in one place.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor reads the same server-rendered listing pages a visitor's browser would.

### What this actor does

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

- Job title
- Hiring employer
- Location (district / municipality)
- Base gross salary and period, where published
- Listing source (labour office vs. self-posted by employer)
- Last-updated indicator
- The listing's unique ID and direct URL

### Why use it

- **National labour market research** — track vacancy volume and salary levels across Slovakia by role or region.
- **Recruitment intelligence** — see which employers are actively hiring and where.
- **Public-sector data journalism** — this is the same dataset ÚPSVaR itself publishes, structured for analysis.
- **Aggregators and job boards** — feed Slovak listings into your own product.

### How to scrape Služby Zamestnanosti data

1. Open the actor and set a **Search Query** (for example `vodič`, `kuchár`, `predavač` or `programátor`). Leave it empty to pull all current listings. Slovak keywords work best.
2. Set **Max Results** to how many listings you want.
3. Leave the proxy on the default automatic setting and click **Start**.

The actor pages through the listings (20 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 | Job title / profession to search for. Slovak keywords work best. Default: `vodič`. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Maximum number of listings to return. Default: `100`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings. Default: automatic (no anti-bot on this site). |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "searchQuery": "kuchár",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

```json
{
    "jobTitle": "Vodič (muž/žena)",
    "employer": "SIBAstav, s.r.o.",
    "location": "Považská Bystrica - Považská Bystrica",
    "minSalary": 1600,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod": "mesačne",
    "source": "úrad PSVR",
    "updatedText": "aktualizované dnes",
    "jobId": "468f3f21-0ef2-46ff-8f75-52ad46c4e4c6",
    "url": "https://www.sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk/pracovne-ponuky/468f3f21-0ef2-46ff-8f75-52ad46c4e4c6",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-11T09:42:56.709Z"
}
```

#### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `jobTitle` | string | Title of the job listing |
| `employer` | string | Name of the hiring company |
| `location` | string | District/municipality of the workplace |
| `minSalary` | number | Base gross salary, if published |
| `currency` | string | Salary currency (EUR) |
| `salaryPeriod` | string | Salary period as published (e.g. `mesačne` = monthly) |
| `source` | string | Listing source: `úrad PSVR` (labour office) or `Portál SZ` (employer self-posted) |
| `updatedText` | string | Human-readable last-updated text as published |
| `jobId` | string | Unique sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk listing UUID |
| `url` | string | Full job listing URL |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 timestamp of collection |

### Cost estimate

This actor parses lightweight server-rendered HTML and no browser, so runs are cheap and fast. One request returns up to 20 listings, so even a few thousand jobs cost only a moderate number of requests. Exact cost depends on your Apify plan and proxy usage. Usage is only charged after a run finishes with status SUCCEEDED — a failed or aborted run doesn't bill for partial results.

### Limitations

- **Salary is not always published.** Some listings omit a base salary figure entirely — `minSalary`/`currency`/`salaryPeriod` will be empty for those.
- **Location is published as a free-text district string** (e.g. "Považská Bystrica - Považská Bystrica") rather than structured city/region fields, matching how ÚPSVaR itself presents it.
- Full job descriptions, requirements and application instructions are on the individual listing page, not included in the default output — use the `url` field to link to the full listing.

### Related scrapers

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

- **Jobs.ac.uk Scraper** — UK's academic and research jobs board
- **Academics.de Scraper** — Germany's academic jobs board
- **KarieraWFinansach.pl Scraper** — Poland's finance-sector jobs board
- **AcademicTransfer Scraper** — Netherlands' national academic jobs platform
- **AMS Scraper** — Austria's national public employment service

### Disclaimer

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

# Actor input Schema

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

Job title / profession to search for (e.g. 'vodič', 'kuchár', 'predavač', 'programátor'). Leave empty to return all current listings. Slovak keywords work best.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

Proxy settings. sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk has no anti-bot protection and is not geo-locked — the automatic Apify proxy pool works fine.

## Actor input object example

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

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/sluzbyzamestnanosti-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/rPdBcbnZeOXX8JNtG/builds/6Oeyk6BvvYF2uZXCN/openapi.json