Hays Jobs Scraper: UK, IE, CA, FR, ES, BE, BR [USD 1.49/1K]

Hays Jobs Scraper: recruitment jobs in 7 countries

Scrape Hays job ads on seven country sites: hays.co.uk, hays.ie, hays.ca (English), hays.fr, hays.es, hays.be and hays.com.br. Per job: title, place, pay as the page shows it, contract type, working pattern, specialism, industry, Hays reference, closing date when shown, full description and dates. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API.

USD 1.49 per 1,000 jobs. No login, no browser.

What you get

• Pay true to the page. The structured data on Hays pages says "per day" on almost every job and carries placeholder figures on jobs that say "Competitive". This Actor publishes a figure only when the displayed pay shows it, takes the period only from the displayed text ("per annum", "per hour"), keeps "Up to £50k" as a maximum and "40k+" as a minimum, and puts the word shown instead of a pay ("Competitive", "Selon profil") in extra.hiddenPay.
• Consultant names removed from the end of every description.
• Filters that cost nothing: words of the job title and place, and postedWithinDays, are checked before any job page is opened. Contract type and "Only jobs that show a pay" are checked on the job page; jobs they drop are not saved and not charged.

Input examples

{ "country": "GB", "keywords": ["accountant"], "maxJobs": 200 }

Temporary engineering jobs in Manchester that show a pay, new ones only (daily schedule):

{ "country": "GB", "keywords": ["engineer"], "locations": ["manchester"], "jobType": "temporary", "onlyWithSalary": true, "onlyNewJobs": true }

Example row

From a saved Hays job page (empty fields left out, description shortened):

{
  "jobId": "4818429",
  "title": "Resident Liaison Officer",
  "company": "Hays",
  "location": "London",
  "city": "London",
  "country": "GB",
  "salaryMin": 49000,
  "salaryMax": 52000,
  "salaryCurrency": "GBP",
  "salaryPeriod": "YEAR",
  "salaryText": "£49,000 - £52,000 per annum",
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "employmentTypeText": "Permanent, Flexible Working, Full-time",
  "category": "Property And Surveying",
  "datePosted": "2026-08-03",
  "validThrough": "2026-11-01",
  "descriptionText": "Your new company A London Local Authority is seeking a customer-focused Resident Liaison Officer to join its Asset Management team. Working ...",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/resident-liaison-officer-london_4818429",
  "sourceBoard": "Hays",
  "duplicateKey": "8dc32664d9f61c94",
  "extra": {
    "industry": "Government & Public Services",
    "reference": "4818429"
  }
}

Good to know

• Hays' robots.txt disallows its search pages, so the Actor reads each site's job sitemap and matches your words against the job's page address (its title and place). "accountant" finds "Management Accountant"; a title worded only "Accounts" is missed.
• Every row needs its job page, so there is no list-only mode. UK pages take 5 to 7 seconds each, about 2 hours for 1,000 jobs. France, Spain, Belgium and Brazil ask robots to wait 10 seconds between pages, about 3 hours for 1,000 jobs.
• company is always Hays: the end client is not named.
• When the page shows a pay without a unit, salaryPeriod stays empty (11 of 12 UK accountant jobs in our test).
• Not covered: hays.com (US), Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia and the other Hays sites. Not given: skills, experience level, apply link (applying needs a login).

Who uses it

• Recruiters and staffing firms: what Hays is hiring for, by specialism, place and contract type.
• Pay research: posted pay in the UK, Ireland, Canada and four more countries.

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 1.49 per 1,000 jobs (USD 0.00149 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~hays-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"country":"GB","keywords":["accountant"],"maxJobs":20}'

Python: ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN").actor("usefulapi/hays-jobs-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.