Net-Empregos Scraper: job ads in Portugal, all trades

Scrape Net-Empregos (net-empregos.com), a Portuguese job board for every trade: the latest 1,000 ads from the site's own feed in one request, or the whole archive by category or town. Per ad: title, company and its Net-Empregos page, logo, district, category, the date the site prints, the site's reference and the full ad text. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API.

USD 0.59 per 1,000 jobs. No login, no browser.

What you get

• Two speeds. By default the Actor reads the site's feed (the latest 1,000 ads, about the last day and a half) and then each job page for the full text. With "Open each job page" off, rows come from the feed alone: very fast, but the description is only the first 250 characters of the ad (marked extra.descriptionIsPreview).
• The whole archive on demand: "Read the older ads too" reads the site's list pages (18 ads a page) for one category or one town, or for all ads (about 62,000 on 18 Oct 2026), instead of the feed.
• Filters: keywords, the site's 44 categories, district, company name and town; accents and case ignored.
• Honest data: a confidential company stays empty (extra.confidentialCompany), ads for all of Portugal get no district, ads abroad get "Estrangeiro" instead of Portugal, and the site's masked e-mail addresses stay masked.

Input examples

{ "keywords": ["motorista"], "maxJobs": 200 }

Every programming ad on the site, not only the latest ones:

{ "listPages": true, "category": "Informática ( Programação )", "maxJobs": 1200 }

Example row

From a saved Net-Empregos feed and job page (empty fields left out, description shortened):

{
  "jobId": "16137100",
  "title": "Engenheiro(a) Mecânico(a) Orçamentação e Projeto",
  "company": "TSwaterjet, Lda",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.net-empregos.com/emprego-empresa-id/215998/tswaterjet-lda/",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://upload.net-empregos.com/uploads/8c6ca8bee5b54cd8b3bb8f588a3e35c4/logo-net-empregos.png",
  "location": "Aveiro",
  "region": "Aveiro",
  "country": "PT",
  "category": "Engenharia ( Mecanica )",
  "datePosted": "2026-10-17",
  "descriptionText": "A TSwaterjet, Lda. é uma empresa vocacionada para a produção de componentes metálicos, prestação de serviços de corte por jato de água ...",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.net-empregos.com/16137100/engenheiro-a-mecanico-a-orcamentacao-e-projeto/",
  "sourceBoard": "Net-Empregos",
  "duplicateKey": "88a747a7f92524cb",
  "extra": {
    "feedPubDate": "2026-10-17T17:55:07.000Z",
    "reference": "16137100"
  }
}

Good to know

• No salary, contract, hours, experience or end date: the site has no such fields (the word salary appears only inside some ad texts), so those columns stay empty. There is no apply link either (applying needs an account).
• Feed-only rows have a 250-character preview, not the full text. Switch job pages on (the default) for the full ad.
• Dates are the date the site prints, without a time. The feed's own timestamps look like refresh times, so they are kept apart in extra.feedPubDate. Order is roughly newest first: an ad whose date is refreshed moves up.
• Keywords are matched here, not by the site (its keyword search is closed to robots): on the title, company, category and, in the feed, the 250-character preview. A word that appears only further down the ad is missed.
• The feed covers only about a day and a half: schedule the Actor with "Only new jobs" every few hours for a continuous stream.
• 1,000 ads with job pages take about 30 minutes; feed-only rows take seconds (the feed is one 1.3 MB download for any run). "Most list pages to read" (default 100) bounds a list-page search whose filters rarely match.

Who uses it

• Recruiters and staffing agencies in Portugal: every new ad by category and district, a few times a day.
• Job-data teams: the full Portuguese market across all trades, with duplicateKey to match the same ad on other boards.

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 0.59 per 1,000 jobs (USD 0.00059 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~net-empregos-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords":["motorista"],"maxJobs":20}'

Python: ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN").actor("usefulapi/net-empregos-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.