Werk.nl Job Scraper

Scrape job vacancies from werk.nl — the official Dutch government job board (UWV) with 250,000+ active listings from both commercial employers and government agencies.

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Why this scraper?

📄 Three description formats — ready for RAG & LLM pipelines

Every vacancy is delivered in three formats:

Field	Format	Use case
description	HTML	Display in your own application
descriptionText	Plain text	Search indexing, full-text search
descriptionMarkdown	Markdown	Pinecone, Weaviate, GPT-4, Claude

🔄 Repost detection

Companies frequently republish the same vacancy to stay at the top of search results. This scraper detects that automatically via cross-run fingerprinting:

• isRepost: true/false
• originalPublishDate — date first seen
• originalUrl — link to the original listing

Use skipReposts: true to automatically skip republications.

💰 Normalised salary data

Field	Example
salary	"€4,000 - €6,000"
salaryMin	4000
salaryMax	6000
salaryType	"monthly"

Supports monthly, hourly and annual salaries.

🎯 Unique target group filters

Werk.nl carries target group markers not available on other job boards:

• isInternship — internship positions
• isForYouth — vacancies for young job seekers
• isFor50Plus — vacancies for 50+ candidates
• isForWomen — vacancies specifically targeting women
• isForDisabled — vacancies for people with a disability
• isBanenafspraak — Dutch government employment initiative vacancies

🔁 Automatic retries

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

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
keywords	string	Search term, e.g. "developer"	—
keywords2	string	Second search term (batch mode)	—
keywords3	string	Third search term (batch mode)	—
location	string	City or postcode, e.g. "Amsterdam"	—
distance	integer	Search radius in km	—
contractType	select	vast / mogelijk vast / tijdelijk	—
educationLevel	select	vmbo / mbo / hbo / wo	—
sortBy	select	relevantie / dichtbij / datum	dichtbij
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of results (1–1000)	100
fetchDetails	boolean	Fetch full vacancy text and apply URL	true
daysOld	integer	Only vacancies from the last X days	—
skipReposts	boolean	Skip republications	false
debugMode	boolean	Save screenshots on errors	false

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Output schema

{
  "title":              "Senior Frontend Engineer",
  "referenceNumber":    68101116,
  "url":                "https://www.werk.nl/nl/vacatures/68101116",
  "company":            "Poki",
  "companyWebsite":     "https://jobs.lever.co/poki",
  "city":               "Amsterdam",
  "postcode":           "1012WZ",
  "address":            "Spui 10 1012WZ Amsterdam",
  "distanceKm":         1.7,
  "workLocationType":   "Fixed location",
  "contractType":       "Tijdelijk",
  "hoursMin":           40,
  "hoursMax":           40,
  "education":          "HBO/bachelor",
  "profession":         "Frontend engineer",
  "salary":             "€4,000 - €6,000",
  "salaryMin":          4000,
  "salaryMax":          6000,
  "salaryType":         "monthly",
  "publishDate":        "2026-02-20",
  "expiryDate":         "2026-03-22",
  "applyUrl":           "https://jobs.lever.co/poki/...",
  "isRepost":           false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl":        null,
  "isInternship":       false,
  "isForYouth":         false,
  "isFor50Plus":        false,
  "isForWomen":         false,
  "isForDisabled":      false,
  "isBanenafspraak":    false,
  "description":        "<p>We are looking for...</p>",
  "descriptionText":    "We are looking for...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "## About the role\n\nWe are looking for...",
  "scrapedAt":          "2026-03-29T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

Developer vacancies in Amsterdam:

{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "location": "Amsterdam",
  "distance": 40,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Only new vacancies from yesterday, no reposts:

{
  "keywords": "verpleegkundige",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "sortBy": "datum"
}

Batch: three search terms at once:

{
  "keywords": "marketing",
  "keywords2": "communicatie",
  "keywords3": "pr",
  "location": "Utrecht"
}

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Performance

Run	Time	Cost
100 vacancies (with details)	~5 min	~$0.16
500 vacancies (with details)	~25 min	~$0.81

fetchDetails: true is required for full vacancy text and apply URL. Use fetchDetails: false for fast runs with basic fields only (~3× faster).

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💰 Pricing

$1.25 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved vacancies. Failed retries and filtered reposts are not charged.

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Known limitations

• Contact fields: contactName, contactPhone, and contactEmail are not returned — removed in a previous version for GDPR compliance with UWV platform rules.
• Salary: Not published by all employers — salary, salaryMin, and salaryMax are null when unavailable.
• Apply URL: Links to the UWV application flow or an external ATS depending on the employer. Always present but destination varies.
• Target group flags: Fields such as isForYouth and isFor50Plus are set by the employer and may not always be populated.

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Technical details

• Source: werk.nl — official Dutch government employment platform (UWV), 250,000+ active listings from public and private sector employers
• Memory: 1024 MB
• Proxy: Apify RESIDENTIAL
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore werk-nl-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff

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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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