Nationale Vacaturebank Scraper

Extract structured job listings from Nationale Vacaturebank — the largest Dutch job board with 100,000+ active vacancies. Filter by keyword, city, radius, work mode (remote/hybrid/on-site), contract type, education level, career level, salary minimum, and more.

No API key required. No login. Runs entirely in the cloud.

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What You Get

Every scraped record contains 35 structured fields:

Category	Fields
Identity	id, referenceId, url
Job basics	title, functionTitle, dcoTitle, categories, industries
Work mode	workingPlace (Werken op afstand / Hybride / Werken op locatie)
Employer	company, companyType, companyWebsite, logoUrl
Recruiter	contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone
Location	city, municipality, zipCode, province, latitude, longitude
Salary	salary (display text), salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryType
Hours	hours (display text), hoursMin, hoursMax
Contract	contractType, employmentType, educationLevel, careerLevel
Apply	applyOption, applyUrl
Description	description (HTML), descriptionText (plain), descriptionMarkdown
Dates	publishDate, expiryDate, scrapedAt
Signals	numberOfApplies

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Sample Output

{
  "id": "16c66447-14f9-442c-ba7b-87469b45764e",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/16c66447-.../senior-software-engineer",
  "company": "TechCorp BV",
  "companyType": "direct_employer",
  "companyWebsite": "https://www.techcorp.nl",
  "workingPlace": "Hybride",
  "city": "Amsterdam",
  "municipality": "Amsterdam",
  "zipCode": "1014AB",
  "province": "Noord-Holland",
  "latitude": 52.3794,
  "longitude": 4.8975,
  "salary": "€4.500 - €6.000",
  "salaryMin": 4500,
  "salaryMax": 6000,
  "salaryType": "monthly",
  "contractType": "Vast",
  "educationLevel": "HBO",
  "careerLevel": "Ervaren",
  "applyOption": "internal",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/solliciteer/...",
  "numberOfApplies": 14,
  "publishDate": "2026-06-08",
  "expiryDate": "2026-08-08",
  "description": "<p>Wij zoeken een...</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Wij zoeken een...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "Wij zoeken een...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-10T09:00:00.000Z"
}

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	—	Job title or keyword, e.g. developer, marketing manager
city	string	—	City to search in, e.g. Amsterdam, Rotterdam
radius	select	40	Search radius around city: 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 75, 100 km
workingPlace	select	—	Werken op afstand (remote), Hybride, or Werken op locatie (on-site)
contractType	select	—	Vast / Tijdelijk / Freelance / ZZP / Bijbaan / Stage / Interim / Vrijwilliger / Vakantiewerk / Leer-werk / Thuiswerk / Franchise
educationLevel	select	—	VMBO / MBO / HBO / WO / VWO / HAVO / LBO / Lagere school / Postdoctoraal
careerLevel	select	—	Geen ervaring / Starter / Ervaren / Leidinggevend / Senior management / Directie
salaryMin	integer	—	Minimum monthly salary in €, e.g. 3000
sort	select	relevance	relevance, date, popularity, or distance
maxResults	integer	5	Maximum number of vacancies to return (1–5,000)
daysOld	integer	—	Only return vacancies posted within this many days
skipReposts	boolean	false	Skip vacancies already seen in a previous run (for incremental daily feeds)
startUrls	array	—	Scrape specific vacancy URLs instead of searching

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Use Cases

Labour Market Research

Pull vacancies across regions and sectors for salary analysis, education-level segmentation, and occupation-level supply/demand mapping using the dcoTitle canonical job title and categories/industries tags.

Recruitment Intelligence

Track competitor job postings by company. Monitor time-on-market via publishDate vs expiryDate. Gauge demand by numberOfApplies. Filter by workingPlace to compare remote-vs-office trends.

Lead Generation

Every record includes contactEmail, contactPhone, and contactName when the recruiter publishes them. companyWebsite gives you the employer's domain for further enrichment.

Daily Job Alerts

Enable skipReposts: true and schedule the actor to run daily. Only net-new vacancies are emitted on each run. Combine with daysOld: 1 for a clean daily delta.

ATS / Job Board Feeds

The applyOption field tells you whether candidates apply internally (on NVB) or are redirected externally. description, descriptionText, and descriptionMarkdown give you the full job text in whichever format your system requires.

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Code Examples

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('unfenced-group/nationale-vacaturebank-scraper').call({
    searchQuery: 'developer',
    city: 'Amsterdam',
    radius: '40',
    workingPlace: 'Hybride',
    contractType: 'vast',
    maxResults: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Daily Incremental Feed (Apify Scheduler)

await client.schedules().create({
    name: 'nvb-daily',
    cronExpression: '0 6 * * *',
    isEnabled: true,
    actions: [{
        type: 'RUN_ACTOR',
        actorId: 'unfenced-group/nationale-vacaturebank-scraper',
        runInput: {
            searchQuery: 'software engineer',
            city: 'Utrecht',
            maxResults: 500,
            skipReposts: true,
            daysOld: 2,
        },
    }],
});

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("unfenced-group/nationale-vacaturebank-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "data analyst",
    "city": "Rotterdam",
    "workingPlace": "Werken op afstand",
    "educationLevel": "hbo",
    "maxResults": 100,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "|", item["company"], "|", item.get("workingPlace"), "|", item.get("salaryMin"))

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Tips for Large-Scale Scraping

Segment by city for national coverage NVB returns up to ~5,000 results per search. For complete national coverage, run parallel searches across: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Groningen, Tilburg, Almere, Breda, Nijmegen.

Use daysOld + skipReposts for incremental pipelines Set skipReposts: true and daysOld: 2 on a daily schedule. The actor tracks seen vacancy IDs across runs and only emits new listings.

Filter workingPlace before filtering by city Remote vacancies often list a nominal HQ city but are genuinely national. Filter workingPlace: "Werken op afstand" without a city filter to capture all remote roles across the Netherlands.

Identify direct employers vs. recruitment agencies companyType distinguishes between direct_employer and intermediary (staffing/recruitment agency). Combine with contactEmail to build targeted outreach lists.

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Technical Notes

• Architecture: Direct HTTP requests to the NVB internal JSON API — no browser, no Playwright.
• Geographic precision: Haversine post-filter cross-checks API distance results using GPS coordinates, with city-name fallback for listings that omit coordinates.
• Memory: Default 1024 MB.
• Proxy: Datacenter proxies. NVB does not require residential proxies.
• Rate limits: The actor uses polite delays between page requests and backs off automatically on 429 responses.

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FAQ

Does this require a Nationale Vacaturebank account? No. All scraped data is from publicly accessible listings.

How fresh is the data? The data reflects what is live on the site at the moment of the run. Schedule the actor for up-to-date results.

Why is contactEmail sometimes null? Recruiter contact details are only published when the employer opts in. Many vacancies list only an application URL.

Can I filter by multiple contract types at once? Currently one filter value per run. For multi-filter collection, run parallel actor instances.

Why does salary say null? Salary disclosure is optional on NVB. When the employer doesn't publish a figure, all salary fields are null.

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