# Start People Netherlands Job Scraper (`studio-amba/startpeople-nl-scraper`) Actor

Scrape job listings from Start People (RGF Staffing) in the Netherlands — titles, locations, salary, contract type and full descriptions. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/startpeople-nl-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

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

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# README

## 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

```json
{
    "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.

### 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.
We maintain 300+ European web scrapers and answer within one business day.

# Actor input Schema

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

Keyword to search for, in Dutch (e.g. 'logistiek', 'productie', 'administratief'). Leave empty to return current listings across all vacancies.

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

Optional city or province to filter results by (e.g. 'Amsterdam', 'Gelderland'). Applied client-side against the listing's location fields.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Listing language to search. Start People NL posts mostly Dutch vacancies, with a smaller English-language subset.

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

Maximum number of job listings to return.

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

Proxy settings. Start People's Algolia search backend shows no bot-blocking (low anti-bot signal) — Apify's default datacenter proxy works fine.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "logistiek",
  "language": "nl",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "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": "logistiek",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/startpeople-nl-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/vYwiZutUUYnIcvcM9/builds/e8bnlTAG5V9LCzrbX/openapi.json