FreeJobAlert Scraper: India government jobs by state

Scrape the Latest Notifications page of FreeJobAlert (freejobalert.com), an Indian site that lists government job notifications by state and by category (Banks, Railways, Defence, SSC, UPSC, Medical Jobs, Other All India...): recruiting board, post, qualification, number of vacancies, advertisement number, post date and last date, and from each article the organisation's full name, the exact post time, employment type, the pay when the article prints one, age limit, fee, selection process, official website, notification PDF and apply links, and the article text. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API.

USD 0.69 per 1,000 notifications. No login, no browser. Not affiliated with FreeJobAlert.

What you get

• State-wise, each notification once: choose one of the 45 sections (36 states and union territories, 9 categories) or all of them. A notification listed under three sections is one row, with all of them in extra.sections and extra.states.
• Pay only where printed: minimum, maximum, INR and period from the article's structured data, which matched the article text on all 6 pages we compared. 12 of 20 rows in our Uttar Pradesh test had a pay; the others print none.
• Honest dates: a last date only when the list or the article states a date. "30 Days" or "Every working Friday" stays as words in extra.lastDateText. The post time comes with its offset.
• Facts from the article's overview table, when it has them: total vacancies, post names, age limit, pay, application fee, selection process, mode, start and last date, job location; plus the official website, notification PDF and apply links (the site's own Telegram and WhatsApp links are removed).
• The recruiting office is not passed off as the job location: its address goes to extra.office. location is the state section, or the article's Job Location line when it has one.
• Fast list-only mode: switch off job pages for the whole current list (1,356 notifications at our last read) in two requests, with title, board, dates, state, qualification, vacancies and advertisement number.

The article text is for your own use

FreeJobAlert's policy page asks that its full articles not be republished without its permission (it allows a short summary with a link). descriptionText and descriptionHtml hold the article for your own reading, filtering and analysis. If you publish job alerts, use the fields and link to the article. Set Description format to "No description", or switch off job pages, to get rows with no article text at all.

Input examples

{ "section": "Uttar Pradesh", "maxJobs": 20 }

Railway notifications for 10th-pass candidates that are still open, new ones only (daily schedule):

{ "section": "Railways", "keywords": ["10th"], "openOnly": true, "onlyNewJobs": true }

Example row

From a saved FreeJobAlert list and article (empty fields left out, description shortened, some extra fields and links left out):

{
  "jobId": "3074247",
  "title": "Assistant Manager and Junior Executive",
  "company": "Central Warehousing Corporation",
  "location": "Delhi",
  "region": "Delhi",
  "country": "IN",
  "salaryMin": 29000,
  "salaryMax": 140000,
  "salaryCurrency": "INR",
  "salaryPeriod": "MONTH",
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "category": "Other All India",
  "datePosted": "2026-10-16T11:20:46.000Z",
  "validThrough": "2026-11-15",
  "descriptionText": "CWC Recruitment 2026: Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), a Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprise, has announced 327 vacancies for Assistant Manager and Junior Executive posts ...",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.cewacor.nic.in/",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.freejobalert.com/articles/cwc-recruitment-2026-apply-online-for-327-assistant-manager-junior-executive-posts-3074247",
  "sourceBoard": "FreeJobAlert",
  "duplicateKey": "0944172b56307d24",
  "extra": {
    "advertisementNumber": "CWC/I-Manpower/DR/Rectt/2026/01",
    "qualification": "Graduation, Postgraduation, B.E./B.Tech, relevant B.Sc. or specified finance qualifications, depending on the post",
    "vacancies": 327,
    "states": [
      "Delhi"
    ],
    "sections": [
      "Other All India",
      "Delhi"
    ],
    "officialWebsite": "https://www.cewacor.nic.in",
    "office": {
      "city": "New Delhi",
      "region": "Delhi",
      "postalCode": "110016"
    },
    "notificationDate": "2026-10-17",
    "totalVacancies": 327,
    "applicationFee": "Rs. 500 or Rs. 1,350, category-wise",
    "selectionProcess": "Online Examination, Document Verification and Interview (Interview for Assistant Manager posts only)",
    "applicationMode": "Online",
    "applicationStart": "2026-10-17",
    "applicationLast": "2026-11-15",
    "notificationUrl": "https://www.cwceportal.com/Careers/Guidelines/45/45_Detailed%20Advertisement_7109fe46-7e18-4b68-84a5-8b6d6708e571.pdf",
    "links": [
      {
        "label": "Apply Online CWC Recruitment Portal",
        "url": "https://www.cewacor.nic.in/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Detailed Notification Official Website - Advertisement CWC/I-Manpower/DR/Rectt/2026/01",
        "url": "https://www.cwceportal.com/Careers/Guidelines/45/45_Detailed%20Advertisement_7109fe46-7e18-4b68-84a5-8b6d6708e571.pdf"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Good to know

• No city field: the article's Job Location line, when there is one, is the location as written. No remote flag, skills or experience field; the vacancy and fee tables stay inside the description text. In our 20-row test: employment type on 17 rows, an apply link on 6 (the others give the official website and notification only), age limit on 7, fee on 6.
• Words are matched on the board, post, qualification and advertisement number of the list, not on the article.
• The page holds current notifications only (post dates from early April 2026 on 18 Oct 2026), and the site prunes it; there is no archive. Results and admit cards are not read.
• Articles are about 200 KB each: a 20-row run took 33 s, so 1,000 rows take about 30 minutes.

Who uses it

• Exam-prep apps and coaching institutes: new notifications by state every day, with qualification, vacancies and last date as fields.
• Researchers: government hiring by state and category over time.

Output: one row per job

Every Actor in this family writes the same columns, so you can merge boards in one sheet or database.

Field	What it holds
jobId	The board's own job id
title, company	Job title and hiring company (as the board shows them)
companyUrl, companyLogoUrl	Company page and logo on the board, when given
location, city, region, postalCode, country	Location as shown, and its parts; country is an ISO code (FR, DE, US...)
remote, workplaceType	true/false and remote, hybrid or onsite, only when the board says so
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, salaryText	Salary range as numbers, ISO currency, HOUR/DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR; empty when the board gives none (never guessed)
employmentType, employmentTypeText	FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, TEMPORARY, INTERN, APPRENTICE, CONTRACTOR, FREELANCE..., and the board's own wording
experienceLevel, category, skills	When the board gives them
datePosted, validThrough	ISO 8601 dates
descriptionText, descriptionHtml	Full description as plain text and as HTML
applyUrl, jobUrl	Where to apply, and the job's page on the board
sourceBoard, searchLabel, scrapedAt	Which board, which of your searches found it, when
duplicateKey	The same key for the same ad posted on several boards (or reposted): title without (m/w/d) or H/F tags, company without legal form, city, country. Use it to merge results from several of our board Actors
extra	A few fields only this board has

Contact email addresses and phone numbers inside descriptions are removed: this Actor never collects recruiters' personal contact details.

Job alerts: only new jobs, sent where you work

1. Switch on Only new jobs since the last run and schedule the Actor (daily, hourly). It remembers the jobs it has already delivered for the same searches and filters, in a key-value store on your own account (named job-boards-seen-
2. Paste a Slack or Discord webhook (or a Zapier or Make webhook, which can email you) into Send new jobs to. After each run that found new jobs you get one message with the count and up to 10 jobs with their links. Free: the message is never billed.

Apify's own integrations (Google Sheets, email, webhooks) work too.

Pricing

Pay per job saved: USD 0.69 per 1,000 jobs (USD 0.00069 a job), plus USD 0.002 per run start. No monthly rental, no charge for jobs skipped as duplicates, already seen or filtered out. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops just before it, keeping everything saved so far.

Use it through the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/usefulapi~freejobalert-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"section":"Uttar Pradesh","maxJobs":20}'

Python: ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN").actor("usefulapi/freejobalert-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then read the dataset items.

Good to know

• Polite by design: one request at a time per site with a pause between requests, and the site's robots.txt is followed. Runs read public job pages only: no login, no candidate profiles or CVs.
• What a run summary tells you: the OUTPUT record has jobs saved per search, jobs skipped (duplicates, seen before, too old) and why a run stopped early, if it did.
• Is it legal? The Actor reads job ads that the board publishes openly, the same pages a job seeker sees. You are responsible for how you use the data (for example, the board's terms and data protection rules in your country).
• Found a problem? Open an issue on the Issues tab: we answer quickly.