Le Forem Scraper

Extract structured job listings from Le Forem — the Wallonia public employment service covering 40,000+ active vacancies across French-speaking Belgium.

Privacy notice: This scraper does not collect personal contact information such as recruiter names or email addresses. Only publicly visible, job-related data is returned.

Features

• Full-text keyword search — filter by job title, skills or any keyword
• Location filtering — search by city, arrondissement or province (fuzzy match)
• Date filtering — retrieve only recently published listings (e.g. last 7 days)
• Contract type filter — CDI, CDD, Remplacement, Salarié statutaire
• Work schedule filter — full-time or part-time
• Rich detail output — job description (HTML, plain text, Markdown), required languages, education, experience, driving licences
• Cross-run deduplication — optional 90-day fingerprint memory to skip reposts
• Direct URL scraping — scrape specific offer pages by URL

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
keywords	String	Search keywords (e.g. infirmier, développeur java)
location	String	City, arrondissement or province in Wallonia (e.g. Liège, Namur)
contractType	String	Contract type filter, partial match (e.g. Durée indéterminée, Durée déterminée)
workSchedule	String	Work schedule filter: Temps plein or Temps partiel
daysOld	Integer	Only listings published within the last N days
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of results to return
fetchDetails	Boolean	Fetch full job details (description, skills, education). Default: true
skipReposts	Boolean	Skip listings seen in a previous run (90-day memory). Default: false
startUrls	Array	Specific Le Forem offer URLs to scrape directly

Output

Each result contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
id	Number	Le Forem's unique offer ID
referenceNumber	String	Reference number
jobTitle	String	Job title
employer	String	Employer name
locations	Array	Work location(s)
contractType	String	Contract type (e.g. Durée indéterminée)
workSchedule	String	Work schedule (e.g. Temps plein)
workSchedulePrecision	String	Additional schedule detail (e.g. shift pattern)
languages	Array	Required language codes (e.g. ["FR", "EN"])
languageDetails	Array	Language requirements with proficiency level
sectors	Array	Activity sector(s)
metier	String	Occupational category
numberOfPositions	Number	Number of open positions
publishDate	String	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
publishDateISO	String	Publication date ISO 8601
expiresDate	String	Listing expiry date (YYYY-MM-DD)
isApplicationEnabled	Boolean	Whether online application is available
url	String	Direct URL to the job listing
description	String	Full job description (HTML)
descriptionText	String	Full job description (plain text)
descriptionMarkdown	String	Full job description (Markdown)
educationLevel	String	Required education level
educationRequired	Array	Education field(s) required
experienceRequired	Array	Experience requirement(s)
drivingLicenses	Array	Required driving licences
certifications	Array	Required certifications
softSkills	Array	Soft skills required
officeSkills	Array	Office/computer skills required
benefitsComments	String	Benefits description
isTravelRequired	Boolean	Whether the role requires travel
isRepost	Boolean	Whether this listing has been seen before
originalPublishDate	String	Original publication date (reposts only)
scrapedAt	String	Date this result was scraped

Example output

{
  "id": 1851670,
  "referenceNumber": "1851670",
  "jobTitle": "Project Engineer FR/ANG (H/F/X)",
  "employer": "L.I.P. Belgique",
  "locations": ["Arrondissement de Mons"],
  "contractType": "Durée indéterminée",
  "workSchedule": "Temps plein",
  "languages": ["EN"],
  "languageDetails": [
    {
      "code": "EN",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "level": "B2 - Avancé",
      "comment": "Good command of written and spoken English required"
    }
  ],
  "sectors": ["Activités des agences de placement de main-d'oeuvre"],
  "metier": "Responsable recherche-développement en industrie",
  "numberOfPositions": 1,
  "publishDate": "2026-04-04",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-04-04",
  "expiresDate": "2026-04-11",
  "isApplicationEnabled": true,
  "url": "https://www.leforem.be/recherche-offres/offre-detail/1851670",
  "description": "<p><strong>Your main tasks:</strong>...</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Your main tasks: ...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "**Your main tasks:**\n...",
  "isTravelRequired": true,
  "isRepost": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-04"
}

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing at $1.50 per 1,000 results.

Volume	Cost
1,000 results	$1.50
5,000 results	$7.50
10,000 results	$15.00
Full catalogue (~42,000)	~$63.00

Fetching details (fetchDetails: true) increases run time but not the per-result price.

Performance

Mode	Speed
List only (fetchDetails: false)	~300–400 results/min
With details (fetchDetails: true)	~60–80 results/min
startUrls (direct)	~80–100 results/min

Known limitations

• Wallonia only — Le Forem covers French-speaking Wallonia. For Flanders use the VDAB Scraper; for all of Belgium use Jobat Scraper.
• No salary data — Le Forem does not publish salary information in structured form.
• No personal contact data — recruiter names and email addresses are intentionally not collected.

Additional services

Need job data from other Belgian or European platforms?

• Jobat Scraper — Belgium's largest job board (Flanders + Brussels + Wallonia)
• VDAB Scraper — Flanders public employment service
• Stepstone Belgium Scraper — Stepstone.be

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