# Nordic Jobs API — Sweden, Finland, Norway, DK, Iceland (`vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh`) Actor

Nordic job listings from official sources: Sweden Platsbanken (JobTech) and Finland Tyomarkkinatori, with Google Jobs reach for NO/DK/IS. Keyword, municipality and region filters, unified flat JSON output for recruitment, market research and job-board feeds.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh.md
- **Developed by:** [Karl Sundström](https://apify.com/vhsgreed) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 40.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.38 / 1,000 official job listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Nordic Jobs (Official Sources)

> Independent tool; data from official public job-listing APIs (JobTech/Arbetsförmedlingen et al.). Not affiliated with them.

Hybrid Nordic job-listings actor with a **unified output schema across all Nordic countries**.

**Primary layer — official keyless APIs (cheap, structured):** Sweden (Platsbanken via the official JobTech API — live listings plus an optional 2016+ historical archive) and Finland (Job Market Finland / Työmarkkinatori via its keyless fulltext search API).

**Reach layer — Google Jobs (udm=8, headless Chromium):** always on for **NO, DK, IS** (which have no keyless official API as of 2026-09-09), opt-in (`googleAugment`) for SE/FI. Google results are deduped against the official records by normalized title + employer + location; official records win on conflicts and every row carries a `sources` array. Needs a residential proxy; Google's Jobs vertical may itself return "no matches" outside its covered markets (status surfaced in OUTPUT\_STATS).

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: you pay for listings delivered, not for time.

| Item | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Run start | $0.002 |
| Official-source listing (SE, FI) | $0.0005 ($0.50 per 1,000 listings) |
| Google Jobs listing (NO/DK/IS, or `googleAugment`) | $0.005 |
| Max spend per run | $5 |

### Why Nordic Jobs?

- 🏛️ **Official sources only** — listings come straight from national employment services.
- 🌍 **One schema for the Nordics** — same fields regardless of country, ready for cross-market analysis.
- 📍 **Geography done right** — municipality and region filters use official codes.
- 🤖 **Automation-ready** — flat JSON with source URLs for follow-up.

### Use cases

Recruitment sourcing pipelines · labour-market research across Nordic countries · salary and demand monitoring · job board content feeds

### What data you get?

| 🏷️ Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| 🌍 country | Country code |
| 💼 title | Job title |
| 🏢 employer | Employer |
| 📍 location | Location |
| 📋 employmentType | Employment type |
| 📅 published / deadline | Publication and application deadline |
| 🔗 sourceUrl | Link to the source listing |
| 🏷️ source | Which national API produced the record |

### How to use

1. Add the actor to your Apify account and click **Run**.
2. Set `country` (`SE`, `FI`, `NO`, `DK` or `IS`).
3. Enter `q` in the country's language (e.g. `sjuksköterska`).
4. For SE, optionally filter by `municipality` / `region` official codes; set `limit` (default 10, max 100).
5. For SE/FI, toggle `googleAugment` to merge Google Jobs results; for NO/DK/IS the Google layer runs automatically (a residential proxy is required) and `googleLocation` helps focus the query.
6. Export results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Input

```json
{
  "country": "SE",
  "q": "sjuksköterska",
  "municipality": "0180",
  "limit": 50
}
```

| Field | Type | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `country` | string | `SE` = official JobTech/Platsbanken (live, optional 2016+ historical archive). `FI` = official Tyomarkkinatori search API. `NO`, `DK`, `IS` = Google Jobs reach layer (needs a residential proxy) | SE |
| `q` | string | Free-text query in the country's language | — |
| `municipality` | string | SE only: official SCB municipality code, e.g. `0180` = Stockholm kommun. Text names return 0 hits | — |
| `region` | string | SE only: zero-padded county code, e.g. `01` = Stockholm, `03` = Uppsala län | — |
| `limit` | integer | Maximum listings returned | 10 (max 100) |
| `historical` | boolean | SE only: search the JobTech historical archive (2016+, expired Platsbanken listings) instead of live ads | false |
| `googleAugment` | boolean | SE/FI only: also run the Google Jobs browser layer and merge results (deduped, official records win) | false |
| `googleLocation` | string | Free-text location appended to the Google query, e.g. `Oslo`. Recommended for NO/DK/IS | — |

### Output

```json
{
  "country": "SE",
  "title": "Sjuksköterska, kirurgisk avdelning",
  "employer": "Region Stockholm",
  "location": "Stockholm",
  "employmentType": "Heltid",
  "published": "2026-09-01",
  "deadline": "2026-09-30",
  "sourceUrl": "https://arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/annonser/31444396",
  "source": "jobtech"
}
```

### Roadmap / coverage

Build 0.4: SE (JobTech live + historical), FI (Työmarkkinatori) via official APIs; NO/DK/IS via the Google Jobs reach layer with cross-source dedup. Norway (Arbeidsplassen — old public GraphQL/REST now 404s), Denmark (Jobnet — authenticated BFF) and Iceland (VMST → island.is/starfatorg, unverified) have no stable keyless official API. Remaining scrape-only board candidates: Duunitori, Oikotie, Jobly, FINN.no, Jobindex, Blocket, StepStone.

### Support

Questions or missing fields? Open an issue on the actor page or contact the developer via Apify.

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

SE = official JobTech/Platsbanken (live, optional 2016+ historical archive). FI = official Tyomarkkinatori search API. NO, DK, IS = Google Jobs (udm=8) reach layer only — no keyless official API exists (verified 2026-09-09); needs a residential proxy and only works where Google's Jobs vertical has coverage.

## `q` (type: `string`):

Free-text query in the country's language, e.g. 'sjuksköterska' (SE).

## `municipality` (type: `string`):

Official SCB municipality code, e.g. 0180 = Stockholm kommun. Text names return 0 hits.

## `region` (type: `string`):

Zero-padded county code, e.g. 01 = Stockholm, 03 = Uppsala län (leading zero optional).

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum listings returned (default 10, max 100)

## `historical` (type: `boolean`):

SE only: search the JobTech historical ads archive (2016+, expired Platsbanken listings, keyless) instead of live ads.

## `googleAugment` (type: `boolean`):

SE/FI only: also run the Google Jobs browser layer and merge results (dedup by title+employer+location; official records win). Costs $0.005/Google listing. Always on for NO/DK/IS.

## `googlePages` (type: `integer`):

Browser-layer result depth (1-5; 10 cards per page).

## `googleLocation` (type: `string`):

Free-text location appended to the Google query, e.g. 'Oslo' or 'Kööpenhamina'. Recommended for NO/DK/IS.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "SE",
  "q": "sjuksköterska",
  "limit": 10,
  "historical": false,
  "googleAugment": false,
  "googlePages": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

Dataset of Nordic job listings. Fields: country, title, employer, location, employmentType, published, deadline, sourceUrl, source.

## `listingsJson` (type: `string`):

Full dataset items as raw JSON.

## `runStats` (type: `string`):

Key-value store entry OUTPUT\_STATS: country, pushed count, total matches.

## `runView` (type: `string`):

Inspect this run, its logs and storages in Apify Console.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "q": "sjuksköterska"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "q": "sjuksköterska" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "q": "sjuksköterska"
}' |
apify call vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,vhsgreed/nordic-jobs-api-fresh"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FUmHVj0RLRye04loG/builds/VBcBa5Ey42rSJsQRB/openapi.json