Careers24.com Scraper

Extract job listings from careers24.com at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for South Africa

A dedicated South African scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (ZAR) are tuned for careers24.com.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in ZAR. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

🏢 Company details

Hiring company name plus the profile details the source publishes, such as logo and company page.

📍 Location fields

Structured location data for every listing, ready for filtering and analysis.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost and changeStatus, so daily feeds return genuinely new jobs instead of reposted duplicates.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"developer"	Job title or keywords to search for. Leave blank to retrieve all available listings.
locationId	integer	1	Numeric location ID from Careers24. Use 1 for all of South Africa (default). See README for province IDs.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of job listings to retrieve per run.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return jobs posted within this many days. Accepted values: 1, 7, 14, 30. Leave blank for all.
contractType	string	"any"	Filter by employment contract type.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	ON: fetches full job description, salary, company info, and all details. OFF: returns basic listing info only (faster, lower cost).
skipReposts	boolean	false	Skip jobs already seen in previous runs (cross-run deduplication with 90-day TTL).
startUrls	array	(empty)	Optional list of specific Careers24 job listing URLs to scrape directly.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique listing ID from the source.
url	string	Direct link to the listing.
title	string	Job title as published.
location	string	—
region	string	Region or state of the position.
jobType	string	Job type.
company	string	Hiring company name.
companyUrl	string	Link to the company's page on the source.
descriptionHtml	string	Full job description in HTML.
descriptionText	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
salaryMin	string	Minimum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryMax	string	Maximum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryCurrency	string	Currency code of the salary.
salaryPeriod	string	Pay period the salary refers to (e.g. year, month, hour).
publishDate	string	Publish date.
publishDateISO	string	Publish date iso.
daysLeft	number	Days left.
industry	string	Industry as published.
expiryDate	string	Date the listing expires (null if not stated).
expiryDateISO	string	Expiry date iso.
contentHash	string	Stable hash of the listing content, used for repost and change detection.
source	string	Source.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this record was scraped.
isRepost	boolean	true when the listing is a repost of an earlier job (detected by content hash).
originalPublishDate	string	Original publish date.
originalUrl	string	Original url.

Example record

{
  "id": "2367878",
  "url": "https://www.careers24.com/jobs/adverts/2367878-salesperson-gauteng/",
  "title": "Salesperson",
  "location": "Gauteng",
  "region": null,
  "jobType": "Permanent",
  "company": "Pepkor Lifestyle",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.careers24.com/now-hiring/498315-pepkor-lifestyle/",
  "descriptionHtml": null,
  "descriptionText": null,
  "descriptionMarkdown": null,
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryCurrency": "ZAR",
  "salaryPeriod": null,
  "publishDate": "2026-06-15",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysLeft": 61,
  "industry": null,
  "expiryDate": null,
  "expiryDateISO": null,
  "contentHash": "5003bbaf650ffb61",
  "source": "careers24.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-15T19:25:49.364Z",
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null
}

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Examples

Search for accountant roles in Cape Town:

{
  "searchQuery": "accountant",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Filter by contract type:

{
  "searchQuery": "accountant",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "contractType": "any"
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.careers24.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "accountant",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$1.49 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.49
10,000	~$14.9
100,000	~$149

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $0.89 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: careers24.com — South Africa job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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