Eluta.ca Scraper

Extract structured job listings from Eluta.ca — Canada's official job search engine for the Canada's Top 100 Employers project, covering 70,000+ employers across all 13 provinces and territories. Returns up to 2,100+ results per search query with company, location, description, and posting date. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🍁 Full Canadian coverage

Search across all 13 provinces and territories — Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and more. Use the province dropdown for regional targeting.

🔍 Keyword + location filtering

Combine any job keyword with a city or province. Results are geocoded by Eluta and sorted by relevance, so you get the most current local postings first.

📅 Freshness control

Filter by posting age with the Max age (days) parameter. Combine with Skip reposts to get only net-new listings since your last run — ideal for daily feed workflows.

♻️ 90-day repost detection

The scraper maintains a cross-run fingerprint store. Jobs already seen within the past 90 days are flagged with isRepost: true and can be skipped automatically.

📄 Rich description snippets

Every result includes the job description excerpt from the listing, delivered in plain text, HTML, and Markdown formats.

✅ Direct employer links

Each job URL points directly to the canonical Eluta listing page, which forwards to the employer's own career site — no job board intermediaries.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	""	Keywords to search for, e.g. "software developer" or "nurse"
location	String	""	City or region, e.g. "Toronto" or "Vancouver"
province	Select	""	Province code (AB, BC, ON, QC, …). Used when Location is empty
daysOld	Integer	—	Only return jobs posted within this many days
maxResults	Integer	100	Maximum number of results to return
skipReposts	Boolean	false	Skip jobs already seen in previous runs (90-day memory)
startUrls	Array	[]	Optional list of specific Eluta.ca search or category URLs to scrape

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Output schema

Always present

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Stable 32-character hex ID derived from the job's internal Eluta hash
title	String|null	Job title as shown on the listing
company	String|null	Employer name
city	String|null	City extracted from the location field
province	String|null	Two-letter Canadian province code (e.g. ON, BC)
location	String|null	Raw location string as shown on Eluta (e.g. "Toronto, ON")
countryCode	String	Always "CA"
publishDate	String|null	Posting date in YYYY-MM-DD format, computed from relative date
publishDateISO	String|null	Same as publishDate
postedAtRaw	String|null	Raw relative date string from Eluta (e.g. "4 days ago", "1 hour ago")
url	String|null	Canonical Eluta listing URL (https://www.eluta.ca/spl/...)
descriptionHtml	String|null	Description snippet as HTML
descriptionText	String|null	Description snippet as plain text
descriptionMarkdown	String|null	Description snippet as Markdown
contentHash	String	16-character hash of title + company + location for change detection
source	String	Always "eluta.ca"
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of when this item was scraped
isRepost	Boolean	true if this job was seen in a previous run within 90 days
originalPublishDate	String|null	First date this job was seen (only populated if isRepost: true)
originalUrl	String|null	URL from first sighting (only populated if isRepost: true)
changeStatus	String	Always "NEW" on first seen; "REPOST" tracking is via isRepost
summary	null	Reserved for future use

Example output record

{
  "id": "eca1036674acc278dcff81016efd9409",
  "title": "Senior Software Developer (UI Developer)",
  "company": "Dawn InfoTek Inc.",
  "city": "Toronto",
  "province": "ON",
  "location": "Toronto, ON",
  "countryCode": "CA",
  "publishDate": "2026-04-22",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-04-22",
  "postedAtRaw": "4 days ago",
  "url": "https://www.eluta.ca/spl/senior-software-developer-ui-developer-eca1036674acc278dcff81016efd9409",
  "descriptionHtml": "Developer (UI Developer) Responsibilities. Implement high quality and well-designed systems under the direction of a supervisor or project leader...",
  "descriptionText": "Developer (UI Developer) Responsibilities. Implement high quality and well-designed systems under the direction of a supervisor or project leader...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "Developer (UI Developer) Responsibilities. Implement high quality and well-designed systems under the direction of a supervisor or project leader...",
  "contentHash": "a4f2e8b7c1d39f6e",
  "source": "eluta.ca",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-26T11:45:00.000Z",
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null,
  "changeStatus": "NEW",
  "summary": null
}

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Examples

Search for developer roles in Toronto:

{
  "searchQuery": "software developer",
  "location": "Toronto",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Nursing jobs in British Columbia, posted in the last week:

{
  "searchQuery": "nurse",
  "province": "BC",
  "daysOld": 7,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Daily feed — new jobs only, skip already-seen postings:

{
  "searchQuery": "data analyst",
  "location": "Ottawa",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Scrape a specific Eluta category or search URL directly:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.eluta.ca/Government-jobs" },
    { "url": "https://www.eluta.ca/jobs-in-Alberta" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}

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💰 Pricing

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

Results	Cost
100	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.49
10,000	~$14.90
100,000	~$149.00

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

Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Pages	Duration	Memory
25 results	3 pages	~8 sec	512 MB
100 results	10 pages	~30 sec	512 MB
1,000 results	100 pages	~5 min	512 MB
10,000 results	211 pages (max)	~10 min	512 MB

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Known limitations

• Results are description snippets from the listing card, not the full job description from the employer's website. Eluta links out to employer career pages which vary in structure.
• Pagination is bound to the geocoded location resolved by Eluta on page 1. Searches for very broad terms (e.g. empty keyword) may return fewer results than the reported count.
• The daysOld filter relies on Eluta's internal d= parameter. Eluta may interpret this as an approximate filter.
• A maximum of approximately 2,110 results (211 pages × 10 per page) are accessible per search query, which is Eluta's display limit.

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Technical details

• Source: eluta.ca — Canada's official job search engine, operated by Mediacorp Canada Inc.
• Memory: 512 MB
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore eluta-ca-scraper-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff, 3 attempts per request

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Additional services

Need a custom actor, additional filters, scheduled runs, or integration support? Send an email to info@unfencedgroup.nl — we build on request.

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