Nationale Vacaturebank Scraper

Scrape job listings from nationalevacaturebank.nl — the largest Dutch job board with 100,000+ active vacancies. Filter by keyword, city, radius, contract type, education level, experience level, and industry. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🔄 Repost detection — unique in the market

Companies frequently republish the same vacancy to stay at the top of search results. This scraper detects reposts automatically and flags them — so you only pay for genuinely new listings.

Each result includes:

• isRepost: true/false — is this a republished vacancy?
• originalPublishDate — when did this vacancy first appear?
• originalUrl — link to the original listing

Use skipReposts: true to automatically exclude reposts from your results.

💰 Normalized salary data

Salary data is returned as structured fields — no regex parsing required:

Field	Example
salary	"€3,500 - €5,000"
salaryMin	3500
salaryMax	5000
salaryType	"monthly"

Filter and compare salaries directly in your own database without additional processing.

🔁 Automatic retries in the background

On temporary server errors (429, 503, 504), the scraper automatically retries with exponential backoff. Failed attempts are not charged — you only pay for successfully retrieved vacancies.

📍 Full location data

Every vacancy includes city, municipality, province, zip code, and GPS coordinates — ready for map visualizations or radius calculations.

📄 Three description formats

Every vacancy description is returned in three formats out of the box:

• description — original HTML
• descriptionText — plain text
• descriptionMarkdown — Markdown (ready for RAG pipelines and LLM workflows)

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
searchQuery	string	Search term, e.g. "developer"	—
city	string	City, e.g. "Amsterdam"	—
radius	select	Search radius in km: 5/10/20/30/40/50/75/100	40
contractType	select	permanent / temporary / freelance / internship / part-time / zzp	—
educationLevel	select	vmbo / mbo / hbo / wo	—
careerLevel	select	starter / junior / medior / senior / manager / director	—
industry	string	Industry, e.g. "ICT" or "Healthcare"	—
sort	select	date / relevance	date
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of results (1–5000)	100
daysOld	integer	Only return vacancies from the last X days	—
skipReposts	boolean	Skip republished vacancies	false
debugMode	boolean	Save screenshots on errors	false

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Output schema

{
  "id":                  "uuid",
  "title":               "Senior Frontend Developer",
  "url":                 "https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/...",
  "company":             "Coolblue",
  "companyType":         "direct_employer",
  "city":                "Rotterdam",
  "municipality":        "ROTTERDAM",
  "zipCode":             "3012WZ",
  "province":            "Zuid-Holland",
  "latitude":            51.9225,
  "longitude":           4.47917,
  "salary":              "€4,000 - €5,500",
  "salaryMin":           4000,
  "salaryMax":           5500,
  "salaryType":          "monthly",
  "hours":               "32 - 40 hours",
  "hoursMin":            32,
  "hoursMax":            40,
  "contractType":        "Permanent",
  "educationLevel":      "HBO",
  "careerLevel":         "Experienced",
  "functionTitle":       "Software Developer",
  "categories":          ["ICT"],
  "industries":          ["ICT"],
  "publishDate":         "2026-03-20",
  "expiryDate":          "2026-05-19",
  "description":         "<p>Full vacancy text...</p>",
  "descriptionText":     "Full vacancy text...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "Full vacancy text...",
  "isRepost":            false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl":         null,
  "contentHash":         "sha256...",
  "recruiterId":         "...",
  "referenceId":         "...",
  "numberOfApplies":     4,
  "scrapedAt":           "2026-03-22T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

All developer vacancies in Amsterdam:

{ "searchQuery": "developer", "city": "Amsterdam", "radius": 40 }

Nurse vacancies, new listings only (no reposts):

{ "searchQuery": "verpleegkundige", "skipReposts": true, "sort": "date" }

Senior HBO ICT vacancies, fulltime:

{
  "searchQuery": "developer",
  "educationLevel": "hbo",
  "careerLevel": "senior",
  "industry": "ICT"
}

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💰 Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved vacancies. 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.

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Performance

Run	Time
100 vacancies	~11s
1,000 vacancies	~2 min
5,000 vacancies	~10 min

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Known limitations

• Salary: Not published by all employers — salary, salaryMin and salaryMax are null when unavailable.
• Location radius: Distance filtering is applied client-side using GPS coordinates — a small number of results near the boundary may fall slightly outside the requested radius.
• Apply URL: Varies by employer. Some listings link to an external ATS, others to the NVB application flow.

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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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