PCI Concursos Scraper: open public exams in Brazil

Scrape the open concursos públicos and processos seletivos listed by PCI Concursos (pciconcursos.com.br), a Brazilian site that tracks public-sector exams: organisation, state, vacancies and reserve-list flags, positions, education levels, the top pay in BRL, the registration deadline (and its start when the card shows it), and from PCI's news item the publication date, the registration site, the lowest pay when it is given, the fee, exam date and validity sentences and the full text. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API.

USD 0.79 per 1,000 concursos. No login, no browser.

What you get

• Every open concurso of a region in one request: the site's six region lists are complete (558 open concursos on 18 Oct 2026), including the 134 teacher concursos that PCI's main list leaves out. A state reads only its region's list.
• Numbers, not text: vacancies as a number (with "+ CR" and "Cadastro de reserva" flagged), the top pay ("até R$") as salaryMax in BRL, and the deadline as an ISO date; extended and reopened deadlines are marked.
• The lowest pay too, when it is the same range: when PCI's news item prints a pay range whose top equals the card's figure, salaryMin is filled (6 of 20 rows in our test). Otherwise only the top pay is given.
• The registration site as applyUrl (the exam organiser's page), and the registration, fee, exam date and validity sentences quoted as written.
• Filters: region, state, education level (fundamental, médio, técnico, superior), teacher positions only, and words in the organisation, headline or positions.

Input examples

{ "state": "SC", "maxJobs": 20 }

Open concursos in the Southeast with higher-education positions, list fields only (fast), new ones only (daily schedule):

{ "region": "sudeste", "educationLevel": "superior", "includeDetails": false, "onlyNewJobs": true }

Example row

From a saved PCI Concursos region list and news item (empty fields left out, description shortened):

{
  "jobId": "prefeitura-de-apucarana-pr-abre-concurso-publico-com-salarios-de-ate-16381",
  "title": "Prefeitura de Apucarana - PR abre concurso público com salários de até R$ 16.381,41",
  "company": "Prefeitura de Apucarana",
  "location": "Paraná",
  "region": "Paraná",
  "country": "BR",
  "salaryMin": 5415.55,
  "salaryMax": 16381.41,
  "salaryCurrency": "BRL",
  "salaryText": "R$ 5.415,55 a R$ 16.381,41",
  "datePosted": "2026-10-14T12:43:33.000Z",
  "validThrough": "2026-11-09",
  "descriptionText": "O Município de Apucarana, no Paraná, divulgou o edital do Concurso Público nº 001/2026 para a formação de cadastro de reserva e o provimento de vagas em funções de nível médio e superior. ...",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.concursosfau.com.br/",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.pciconcursos.com.br/noticias/prefeitura-de-apucarana-pr-abre-concurso-publico-com-salarios-de-ate-16381",
  "sourceBoard": "PCI Concursos",
  "duplicateKey": "1913d244a464f5cc",
  "extra": {
    "state": "PR",
    "vacancies": 9,
    "vacanciesText": "9 vagas até R$ 16.381,41",
    "positions": "Vários Cargos",
    "educationLevels": [
      "Médio",
      "Superior"
    ],
    "registrationStart": "2026-10-21",
    "registrationText": "As inscrições poderão ser feitas entre 21 de outubro de 2026, a partir das 12h, e 9 de novembro de 2026, às 23h59, pelo site www.concursosfau.com.br.",
    "feeText": "Haverá isenção da taxa em condições previstas no edital, com solicitação nos dias 22 e 23 de outubro de 2026.",
    "examText": "A prova objetiva está prevista para o dia 6 de dezembro de 2026.",
    "positionList": [
      "Administrador (2 vagas)",
      "Arquiteto (CR)",
      "Economista (2 vagas)",
      "Engenheiro Civil (CR)",
      "Procurador Jurídico (1 vaga)",
      "Veterinário (CR)",
      "Agente Fiscal (4 vagas)"
    ]
  }
}

Good to know

• The pay is the top pay of the concurso, not the pay of each position; the lowest is added only as described above. Pay per position, the fee as a number and the exam cities are not fields (the fee is a sentence in extra.feeText). Pay "por hora" gets HOUR as its period; otherwise no period is given, because the card names none.
• The edital itself is never read (it sits behind a security check, and PDFs are closed to robots). datePosted is the date of PCI's news item, not of the edital.
• No city field: the organisation name carries it ("Prefeitura de X"). National bodies have no state and no country.
• Open concursos only: closed ones and expected ones ("previstos") are not in the lists.
• The site is slow (1 to 5 seconds a page): about 45 minutes per 1,000 rows with news items. List-only rows need one request per region (152 rows of the South in 16 s).
• Text is in Portuguese, as the site writes it.

Who uses it

• Exam-prep courses and apps: every new concurso by state and education level, with deadlines and pay.
• Public-sector hiring research: vacancies and pay by state, organisation and level 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 0.79 per 1,000 jobs (USD 0.00079 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~pci-concursos-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"state":"SC","maxJobs":20}'

Python: ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN").actor("usefulapi/pci-concursos-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.