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. Unique feature: direct recruiter contact details, unavailable through any other scraper.

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Why this scraper?

☎️ Recruiter contact details — exclusive to this scraper

Werk.nl publishes the name, phone number and email address of the contact person for each vacancy. This scraper is the only one on the Apify Store that extracts this data:

Field	Example
contactName	"Jan de Vries"
contactPhone	"+31207512190"
contactEmail	"jan@company.nl"

Reach out directly — without submitting an application first.

📄 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 + contact details	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",
  "contactName":        "Jan de Vries",
  "contactPhone":       "+31207512190",
  "contactEmail":       "jan@company.nl",
  "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":          "2026-03-24T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

Developer vacancies in Amsterdam with contact details:

{
  "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	~$0.19
500 vacancies (with details)	~25 min	~$0.94

fetchDetails: true is required for contact details and full vacancy text. Use fetchDetails: false for fast runs without contact data (~3× faster).

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Pricing

$1.50 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

• Salary: Extracted from free-text employment descriptions — may be null for listings that don't include salary information in structured form.
• contractType filter: Occasionally the Werk.nl API returns an error for specific filter combinations. The scraper falls back to unfiltered results in those cases and logs a warning.
• Government listings only: Werk.nl is the official Dutch government job board — it does not include commercial recruitment agency listings.

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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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