Jobat.be Scraper

Scrape job listings from jobat.be — one of Belgium's largest job boards with 100,000+ active listings across Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia. Filter by keyword, city, language and contract type. No API key required. No browser needed — HTTP-only, fast and cost-efficient.

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Why this scraper?

⚡ No browser required — up to 10× cheaper per run

Most Jobat scrapers run a full Chrome browser, which costs memory, time and money. This actor uses direct HTTP requests with a Chrome-level TLS fingerprint: 256 MB memory is sufficient, and a run of 1,000 jobs typically completes in under 10 minutes. Failed requests are automatically retried — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings.

🇧🇪 Belgian market — Dutch and French in one actor

Jobat.be indexes both Dutch and French Belgian jobs on a single platform. Set language: "fr" for French listings such as "développeur Bruxelles" or "infirmier Liège".

💼 Salary and benefits as structured fields

Jobat publishes detailed employment terms as structured data — rare on Belgian job boards:

Field	Example
benefits	["Bedrijfswagen", "Maaltijdcheques", "Hospitalisatieverzekering"]
salaryMin	3500
salaryMax	5000
salaryType	"monthly"

🔄 Repost detection — unique in the market

Companies regularly republish the same job to stay visible. This scraper detects reposts automatically across runs:

• isRepost: true/false
• originalPublishDate — when the job first appeared
• originalUrl — link to the original listing

Use skipReposts: true to skip reposts entirely and only pay for genuinely new listings.

📄 Three description formats — built for AI pipelines

Field	Format	Use case
descriptionHtml	String	Full job description as raw HTML. null if not fetched.
descriptionText	String	Plain-text version of the description, HTML tags removed.
descriptionMarkdown	String	Markdown version of the job description.
descriptionText	Plain text	Search indexing, keyword matching
descriptionMarkdown	Markdown	RAG pipelines, LLM agents, embeddings

⏱️ daysOld filter — only fresh listings

Set daysOld: 1 to run daily and pick up only new postings. Ideal for recruitment automation and market monitoring.

🔗 startUrls — scrape specific listings directly

Provide individual job detail URLs or Jobat.be search page URLs to scrape without needing to configure a search query.

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Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | descriptionHtml | String | Full job description as raw HTML. null if not fetched. | | descriptionText | String | Plain-text version of the description, HTML tags removed. | | descriptionMarkdown | String | Markdown version of the job description. | |-----------|------|-------------|---------| | searchQuery | string | Job title or keyword. E.g. "developer", "verpleegkundige". Leave empty for all jobs. | — | | location | string | City or region. E.g. "Brussel", "Gent", "Liège". Leave empty for all of Belgium. | — | | language | select | nl (Dutch) or fr (French) | nl | | maxItems | number | Maximum number of results to scrape | 100 | | daysOld | number | Skip jobs older than this many days. Leave empty for all ages. | — | | skipReposts | boolean | Skip previously seen jobs (cross-run deduplication) | false | | startUrls | array | Direct job detail or search page URLs. Overrides searchQuery/location. | — |

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Output schema

{
  "url":                "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/net-developer/brussel/job_5571033",
  "jobId":              "5571033",
  "source":             "jobat.be",
  "language":           "nl",
  "title":              ".NET Developer",
  "company":            "Proximus",
  "city":               "Brussel",
  "country":            "BE",
  "contractType":       "Onbepaalde duur",
  "workSchedule":       "Voltijds",
  "salary":             "€3.500 - €5.000",
  "salaryMin":          3500,
  "salaryMax":          5000,
  "salaryType":         "monthly",
  "benefits":           ["Bedrijfswagen", "Maaltijdcheques"],
  "categories":         ["IT & Telecom"],
  "publishDate":        "2026-03-20",
  "publishDateISO":     "2026-03-20T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysOld":            5,
  "expiryDate":         null,
  "description":        "<p>Full job description in HTML...</p>",
  "descriptionText":    "Full job description as plain text...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "## Functieomschrijving\n\nFull description in Markdown...",
  "isRepost":           false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl":        null,
  "summary":            ".NET Developer — Proximus — Brussel",
  "scrapedAt":          "2026-03-26T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

Dutch IT jobs in Brussels:

{ "searchQuery": "developer", "location": "Brussel", "language": "nl" }

French nursing jobs in Liège, last 7 days only:

{ "searchQuery": "infirmier", "location": "Liège", "language": "fr", "daysOld": 7 }

All jobs in Antwerp, no reposts:

{ "searchQuery": "business analyst", "location": "Antwerpen", "skipReposts": true }

Scrape a specific search page directly:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/developer/brussel" }
  ]
}

Scrape a specific job listing directly:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.jobat.be/nl/jobs/net-developer/brussel/job_5571033" }
  ]
}

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💰 Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries and filtered reposts are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.11
1,000	~$1.12
10,000	~$11.25
100,000	~$112.50

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage. At 10,000 results/month, this scraper costs significantly less with no commitment.

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

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Pricing

This actor uses Pay Per Result pricing at $1.5 per 1,000 results.

Volume	Cost
100 results	$0.15
1,000 results	$1.5
10,000 results	$15.00

No subscription fees. Pay only for successfully scraped listings.

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Performance

Run	Time
100 listings	~2 min
1,000 listings	~12 min
5,000 listings	~60 min

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Known limitations

• City: Not always available for all listings. When present, extracted from the page title.
• Salary: Not published by all employers — will be null when unavailable.

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Technical details

• Source: jobat.be — Belgian job listings in Dutch and French
• Method: HTTP-only — curl_cffi (Chrome TLS fingerprint) for search pages + got-scraping for detail pages
• Proxy: Apify RESIDENTIAL
• Memory: 256 MB (no browser required)
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore jobat-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on proxy failures, up to 4 attempts per URL

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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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