Visidarbi.lv Scraper

Scrape job listings from Visidarbi.lv — Latvia's largest job aggregator with 8,000–12,000 active listings collected daily from all major Latvian job portals. Filter by keyword and location. No API key required. Fast and cost-efficient.

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Why this scraper?

🔄 Repost detection keeps your data clean

Job aggregators are especially prone to duplicate listings — the same vacancy appears from multiple source portals simultaneously. This scraper tracks jobs across runs using a 90-day index. The isRepost field flags duplicates, originalPublishDate shows when the vacancy first appeared, and originalUrl links to the first occurrence. Set skipReposts: true to filter them out entirely.

💰 Structured salary data — monthly and hourly

Visidarbi.lv aggregates salary information from all source portals in a consistent format. The scraper returns salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency (EUR), and salaryPeriod (MONTH or HOUR) as structured numeric fields — no regex parsing needed in your pipeline. Raw salary text (e.g. "1 200 - 1 800 (gross)") is also preserved in salaryText.

📄 Three description formats

When fetching the full job description, each listing is returned in three formats simultaneously:

Field	Format	Use case
descriptionHtml	Raw HTML	Display in web apps
descriptionText	Plain text	Full-text search, keyword extraction
descriptionMarkdown	Markdown	RAG pipelines, LLM agents

🌍 Covers all of Latvia — including regional filters

Filter listings by any Latvian region or city: riga, daugavpils-and-region, vidzeme, zemgale, kurzeme, latgale, or use latvia to get nationwide results. International postings (Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden) are available under abroad.

⏱️ Date filter removes stale listings automatically

Set daysOld to only retrieve vacancies posted within a specific window. Useful for daily feed pipelines — set daysOld: 1 and run on a schedule to get only fresh postings each day.

🔗 Custom start URLs for targeted crawling

Bypass the standard filters and provide any Visidarbi.lv search or category URL directly via startUrls. Useful for bookmarked searches, specific employer pages, or category URLs not covered by the keyword/location inputs.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
keyword	string	Job title or keyword, e.g. "programmētājs", "driver", "nurse"	""
location	string	Location slug, e.g. "riga", "latvia", "daugavpils-and-region", "abroad"	"latvia"
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of results to return	100
daysOld	integer	Only return listings posted within this many days. 0 = no limit	0
skipReposts	boolean	Skip listings seen in previous runs (90-day cross-run deduplication)	false
fetchDetails	boolean	Fetch the detail page for each listing to retrieve the full description. Increases run time	true
startUrls	array	Custom Visidarbi.lv start URLs. Overrides keyword and location when set	[]
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify AUTO proxy	AUTO

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique ID from the source.
url	string	Direct link to the listing.
title	string	Title as published.
company	string	Hiring company name.
location	string	Location as displayed.
locationRegion	string	Location region.
salaryMin	number	Minimum salary (null if not published).
salaryMax	number	Maximum salary (null if not published).
salaryCurrency	string	Salary currency.
salaryPeriod	string	Salary period.
salaryText	string	Salary text.
publishDate	string	Publish date.
publishDateISO	string	Publish date iso.
deadline	string	Deadline.
externalSource	string	External source.
contractType	string	Contract type.
descriptionHtml	string	Full description in HTML.
descriptionText	string	Description text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
contentHash	string	Stable hash of the content, used for repost and change detection.
summary	string	Summary.
source	string	Source.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this record was scraped.
isRepost	boolean	true when the listing is a repost of an earlier one (detected by content hash).
originalPublishDate	string	Original publish date.
originalUrl	string	Original url.

{
    "id":                   "69611efd11751",
    "url":                  "https://www.visidarbi.lv/en/job-ad/programmers/69611efd11751",
    "title":                "PHP Developer",
    "company":              "Acme Tech SIA",
    "location":             "Riga",
    "locationRegion":       null,
    "salaryMin":            2500,
    "salaryMax":            3500,
    "salaryCurrency":       "EUR",
    "salaryPeriod":         "MONTH",
    "salaryText":           "2 500 - 3 500 (gross)",
    "publishDate":          "3 hours ago",
    "publishDateISO":       "2026-04-24",
    "deadline":             "2026-05-15",
    "externalSource":       "cv.lv",
    "contractType":         "Full time",
    "descriptionHtml":      "<p>We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer...</p>",
    "descriptionText":      "We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer...",
    "descriptionMarkdown":  "We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer...",
    "contentHash":          "a3f8c2d1e4b56789",
    "summary":              "We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer to join our growing team in Riga. You will work on high-traffic web applications...",
    "source":               "visidarbi.lv",
    "scrapedAt":            "2026-04-24T10:15:32.000Z",
    "isRepost":             false,
    "originalPublishDate":  null,
    "originalUrl":          null
}

Always present fields: id, url, title, company, location, salaryText, publishDate, publishDateISO, source, scrapedAt, isRepost, originalPublishDate, originalUrl, contentHash.

Populated when fetchDetails: true: descriptionHtml, descriptionText, descriptionMarkdown, summary, contractType, deadline, externalSource.

May be null: salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod (not all employers publish salary), locationRegion, deadline, externalSource, contractType.

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Examples

Daily feed — all new Latvian jobs in the last 24 hours:

{
    "keyword": "",
    "location": "latvia",
    "maxItems": 500,
    "daysOld": 1,
    "skipReposts": true
}

IT jobs in Riga:

{
    "keyword": "developer",
    "location": "riga",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "fetchDetails": true
}

Driving and logistics — nationwide:

{
    "keyword": "driver",
    "location": "latvia",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "daysOld": 7,
    "skipReposts": true
}

Custom URL — jobs abroad (Netherlands / Germany):

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.visidarbi.lv/en/job-ads/where:abroad" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

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💰 Pricing

$1.49 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved job listings. Failed retries and filtered reposts are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.49
10,000	~$14.90
100,000	~$149.00

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 listings (with details)	~2 min
1,000 listings (with details)	~15 min
5,000 listings (with details)	~60 min
10,000 listings (list only)	~20 min

Set fetchDetails: false to skip the detail page fetch. This reduces run time by ~70% but omits descriptionHtml, descriptionText, descriptionMarkdown, summary, and contractType.

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Known limitations

• Description: Only available when fetchDetails: true. Without it, descriptionHtml, descriptionText, and descriptionMarkdown are null.
• Salary: Not all employers publish salary information — salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, and salaryPeriod will be null when unavailable. The raw salaryText is still captured when the value is displayed.
• External source: Visidarbi.lv aggregates from multiple Latvian portals (cv.lv, nva.gov.lv, ss.com, workingday.lv, etc.). The externalSource field identifies which portal the listing originates from, but the listing itself is hosted on Visidarbi.lv.
• Apply URL: Not included — Visidarbi.lv routes applications through the originating portal. Use url to navigate to the listing and follow the apply button from there.
• Languages: The scraper uses the English interface (/en/). Listing content (title, description) is in the original language of the posting (Latvian, Russian, or English depending on the employer).

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Technical details

• Source: Visidarbi.lv — Latvia's largest job aggregator, operated by Alma Career Latvia SIA (CV-Online Group). Aggregates from 10+ Latvian job portals.
• Proxy: Apify AUTO proxy (rotated per request).
• Memory: 256 MB
• Repost storage: Named KeyValueStore visidarbi-lv-job-dedup, 90-day TTL per job ID.
• Retry: Automatic retry with exponential backoff on network errors and server-side rate limiting.
• Deduplication: Cross-run, 90-day window. Safe to run on a daily schedule without accumulating duplicates.

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Additional services

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Run it on a schedule

This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.

• Schedule runs — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
• Connect it to your stack — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
• Pull results via API — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.

Set it once and it runs on its own.

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