Jobs.ch Scraper

Extract structured job data from jobs.ch, Switzerland's largest job board with over 49,000 active listings across all cantons and industries.

Features

• 🇨🇭 Full Swiss coverage — all cantons, all languages (DE/FR/EN)
• 💼 Rich job data — titles, companies, locations, workload percentages, contract types, industries
• 📄 Triple description format — HTML, plain text, and Markdown (ready for RAG and LLM pipelines)
• 🔍 Flexible search — keyword + location combinations, multiple searches in a single run
• 📅 daysOld filter — only fetch jobs published within N days, ideal for daily/weekly incremental runs
• 🔁 Repost detection — cross-run deduplication via fingerprinting (90-day TTL); isRepost field on every record
• ⭐ Employer ratings — aggregated review scores (leadership, salary, career, atmosphere) included on every job, even in listing-only mode
• ⚡ Fast and cost-efficient — HTTP-only, no browser overhead; listing-only mode available for even lower costs
• 💰 Pay-per-use — no monthly subscription, pay only for what you scrape

💰 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	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.50
10,000	~$15.00
100,000	~$150.00

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.

Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | 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. | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | keywords | string[] | [] | Search terms (e.g. ["developer", "nurse"]). Leave empty to scrape all jobs. | | locations | string[] | [] | Cities or regions (e.g. ["Zürich", "Geneva"]). Leave empty for all of Switzerland. | | language | string | "de" | Detail page language: de, fr, or en | | contractTypeFilter | string | "all" | all, permanent, temporary, or freelance | | workloadMin | integer | 0 | Minimum workload (Pensum) percentage | | workloadMax | integer | 100 | Maximum workload (Pensum) percentage | | daysOld | integer | — | Only include jobs published within this many days | | maxItems | integer | — | Stop after saving this many results | | fetchDetails | boolean | true | Fetch full description and contact info per job | | skipReposts | boolean | false | Skip jobs already seen in a previous run |

Output Fields

Each result contains:

{
  "id": "2d6b730d-bb22-4116-9f05-b8a8cc049c4e",
  "url": "https://www.jobs.ch/en/vacancies/detail/2d6b730d-.../",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "company": "Acme AG",
  "isAnonymous": false,
  "companyLogo": "https://media.jobs.ch/...",
  "companyWebsite": "https://www.acme.ch",
  "location": "Zürich",
  "country": "CH",
  "industry": "Information technology / Telecom.",
  "contractType": "permanent",
  "workload": "80-100%",
  "workloadMin": 80,
  "workloadMax": 100,
  "publishDate": "2026-03-20",
  "initialPublishDate": "2026-03-20",
  "daysOld": 4,
  "isRepost": false,
  "description": "<div>...</div>",
  "descriptionText": "We are looking for...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "## About the role\n\n...",
  "contactPhone": "+41 44 123 45 67",
  "applyUrl": "https://careers.acme.ch/apply/1234",
  "employerRating": {
    "average": 3.8,
    "totalReviews": 24,
    "leadership": 3.5,
    "salaryAndBenefits": 4.1,
    "careerOpportunities": 3.7,
    "workAtmosphere": 4.0
  },
  "contentHash": "sha256:a1b2c3d4e5f6...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-24T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Example Use Cases

Daily incremental scrape — IT jobs in Zürich, last 24 hours:

{
  "keywords": ["developer", "engineer", "architect"],
  "locations": ["Zürich"],
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true
}

Full market scan — all Swiss jobs, listing-only (cheap):

{
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 10000
}

Part-time jobs in Geneva and Lausanne (French):

{
  "locations": ["Geneva", "Lausanne"],
  "language": "fr",
  "workloadMin": 40,
  "workloadMax": 80
}

Notes

• jobs.ch returns up to ~49,000 active listings at any given time
• The daysOld filter uses jobs.ch's own age field for accurate date filtering
• Salary data is available when explicitly published by the employer
• Contact details (email/phone) depend on what employers disclose in their posting
• The skipReposts feature uses a persistent KeyValueStore (90-day TTL) shared across runs of the same actor

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Why this scraper?

🇨🇭 Switzerland's largest job board

Jobs.ch is Switzerland's leading job portal with 100,000+ active listings across all sectors and Swiss cantons. It is the primary hiring platform for Swiss employers in both German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland.

🏦 Swiss employer depth — banking, pharma, engineering

Switzerland's major employers — UBS, Credit Suisse (now UBS), Novartis, Roche, ABB, Nestlé — advertise heavily on Jobs.ch. It provides the most comprehensive access to Swiss employer hiring activity available without an official API.

💰 Swiss salary data in CHF

Jobs.ch is one of the few Swiss platforms to consistently publish salary ranges in CHF. Structured salaryMin/salaryMax fields returned where available.

📄 Three description formats

Each result includes description (HTML), descriptionText (plain text), and descriptionMarkdown.

🔁 Cross-run deduplication

90-day TTL dedup. Set skipReposts: true for clean incremental feeds.

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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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Known limitations

• Salary: Only available when explicitly published by the employer — salaryMin and salaryMax are null when not disclosed.
• Contact details: contactPhone and contactEmail depend on what employers choose to include in their listing.
• Language detection: Occasional misclassification is possible for bilingual job postings mixing German, French and English.

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Technical details

• Source: jobs.ch — Switzerland's leading job board with 80,000+ active listings across all cantons
• Memory: 1024 MB
• Proxy: Apify RESIDENTIAL
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore jobs-ch-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff

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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