Google Jobs Scraper

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A powerful Apify actor for scraping Google Jobs search results by keyword and location. Built with Playwright for reliable JavaScript rendering.

Features

• 🔍 Keyword & Location Search — Search for jobs by title/keywords and any location
• 📅 Date Filtering — Filter by posting date (24h, 3 days, week, month)
• 💰 Salary Extraction — Captures salary information when available
• 📝 Full Descriptions — Extracts complete job descriptions
• 🏢 Company Details — Gets company names and job types
• 🔗 Direct Links — Provides URLs to original job postings
• 🛡️ Anti-Bot Protection — Realistic user agents, delays, and proxy support

Use Cases

1. Job Market Research — Analyze salary trends and job availability by location
2. Recruitment Intelligence — Monitor competitor job postings
3. Career Planning — Track job openings in your field
4. HR Analytics — Collect data for workforce planning
5. Lead Generation — Identify companies actively hiring

Input

Example Output

{
"title":"Senior Software Engineer",
"company":"Google",
"location":"New York, NY",
"salary":"$150,000 - $220,000 USD/year",
"description":"We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. You will work on large-scale distributed systems...",
"url":"https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/...",
"postedDate":"2024-01-15",
"jobType":"FULL_TIME",
"source":"Google Jobs"
}

Search Tips

Effective Queries

• ✅ software engineer — General job title
• ✅ python developer remote — Include remote keyword
• ✅ data scientist entry level — Specify experience level
• ✅ product manager fintech — Include industry

Location Formats

• ✅ New York, NY — City and state
• ✅ United States — Country-wide search
• ✅ Remote — Remote positions
• ✅ San Francisco Bay Area — Regional search

Common Job Types

• FULL_TIME — Full-time positions
• PART_TIME — Part-time positions
• CONTRACTOR — Contract roles
• INTERN — Internships

Running Locally

# Install dependencies
pip install-r requirements.txt
playwright install chromium
# Run the actor
python -m src.main

Proxy Configuration

For best results, enable Apify's residential proxy to:

• Avoid IP-based rate limiting
• Get location-specific results
• Maintain consistent scraping performance

Output Schema

The actor outputs job listings with the following fields:

Rate Limits

• Default delay: 1-3 seconds between requests
• Recommended: Use proxy rotation for large-scale scraping
• Max results: 200 per run

Changelog

v1.0.0

• Initial release
• Playwright-based scraping
• JSON-LD structured data extraction
• DOM parsing fallback
• Proxy support
• Date filtering

License

MIT