Start People Netherlands Job Scraper

Scrape job listings from Start People, an RGF Staffing brand, across the Netherlands. No login, no cookies, and no browser required — the data comes straight from Start People's own public search backend.

Why use this actor?

Start People is one of the largest staffing agencies in the Netherlands, posting well over a thousand live vacancies at any time — logistics, production, administration, technical and government roles. Recruiters, market researchers, and job-board aggregators use this data to track hiring demand by region and sector, benchmark salary and contract-type mixes, or feed a meta job board without maintaining a browser-based scraper.

How to scrape Start People data

1. Open this actor on the Apify Store and click Try for free.
2. Enter a Search Query in Dutch (e.g. logistiek, productie, administratief) — or leave it blank to pull the full current listing pool.
3. Optionally set a Location filter (city or province, e.g. Amsterdam or Gelderland) and a Max Results cap.
4. Pick a Language — Dutch (default) or the smaller English-language subset.
5. Click Start and export the results dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel once the run finishes.

Each result includes the job title, full description, location, salary (when disclosed), contract type, employment type, education level, and a direct link to the live listing on Start People's own site.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Keyword in Dutch. Leave empty to browse the full current listing pool.
location	String	No	City or province to filter results by (matched against the listing's location fields).
language	String	No	nl (default) or en. Start People NL posts mostly Dutch vacancies, with a smaller English-language subset.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum number of listings to return (1–1000, default 30).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Start People's search backend shows no bot-blocking — the default Apify datacenter proxy works fine.

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
jobTitle	String	"Heftruckchauffeur 3-ploegendienst"
company	String	"Intersnack Nederland B.V." (client company, or "Start People" if undisclosed)
clientCompany	String	"Intersnack Nederland B.V." — nullable
locationRaw	String	"Doetinchem, Gelderland"
locationParsed	Object	{"city": "Doetinchem", "province": "Gelderland", "country": "Netherlands"}
language	String	"nl"
contractType	String	"Tijdelijk met uitzicht op vast" — nullable
employmentType	String	"Fulltime", "Parttime" — nullable
functionGroup	String	"Logistiek" — nullable
educationLevel	String	"VMBO", "MBO 2" — nullable
weeklyHoursMin	Number	40 — nullable
weeklyHoursMax	Number	40 — nullable
postedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the vacancy began
descriptionSnippet	String	300–400 character plain-text excerpt of the full job description
url	String	Direct link to the live job page
salaryRaw	String	"€15.87-17.36 / hour" — nullable, only when disclosed
source	String	"startpeople.nl"
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp when data was collected
jobId	String	Start People's Algolia object ID for the listing
category	String	Same as functionGroup — nullable

Example output

{
    "jobTitle": "Heftruckchauffeur 3-ploegendienst",
    "company": "Intersnack Nederland B.V.",
    "clientCompany": "Intersnack Nederland B.V.",
    "locationRaw": "Doetinchem, Gelderland",
    "locationParsed": {
        "city": "Doetinchem",
        "province": "Gelderland",
        "country": "Netherlands"
    },
    "language": "nl",
    "contractType": "Tijdelijk met uitzicht op vast",
    "employmentType": "Fulltime",
    "functionGroup": "Logistiek",
    "educationLevel": "VMBO",
    "weeklyHoursMin": 40,
    "weeklyHoursMax": null,
    "postedAt": "2025-10-15T00:00:00.000Z",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Als Heftruckchauffeur ben je een belangrijke schakel tussen het magazijn en de productie...",
    "url": "https://www.startpeople.nl/vacatures/heftruckchauffeur-3-ploegendienst-3854209",
    "salaryRaw": "€15.87-17.36 / hour",
    "source": "startpeople.nl",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-10T09:12:05.009Z",
    "jobId": "3854209",
    "category": "Logistiek"
}

Coverage

This actor covers the Netherlands only (startpeople.nl). Start People also runs a Belgian site (startpeople.be), but it operates on a completely different, unrelated backend (a first-party REST API rather than the Algolia index used in the Netherlands) with its own record shape — that is a separate scraper, not a country parameter of this one.

Cost estimate

This actor makes a small number of direct API requests per run — no per-job detail-page fetches, since the search index already includes the full job description. Expect well under 1 compute unit per 1,000 results. Usage cost only settles once a run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run will undercount what you'll actually be charged.

Limitations

• postedAt reflects the vacancy's begin date, not necessarily its first publish date.
• Salary is only returned when Start People itself discloses it — most listings omit salary.
• Data is scraped from Start People's own public search backend and may change without notice.
• Respect Start People's terms of service and use responsibly.

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