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jobs.ac.uk Scraper

👁 Jobs.ac.uk Job Scraper

Scrape academic job listings from jobs.ac.uk — the UK's leading higher education and research job board. Extracts rich structured data via JSON-LD JobPosting schema on detail pages. No proxy required.

Features

• Full-text keyword search with location filtering
• Filter by academic discipline, job type, or employer
• Rich data extraction: salary range, employment type, full description, ISO dates
• Two modes: listing-only (fast, card-level data) or full (detail page JSON-LD)
• Polite rate limiting, no bot-blocking issues

Input fields

Output fields

Cost estimate

No proxy cost — datacenter IPs work without restrictions.

Pricing: $1.49 per 1,000 results (~87% margin at median run cost)

Examples

Search by keyword

{
"keyword":"developer",
"maxItems":50
}

With location filter

{
"keyword":"developer",
"location":"London",
"maxItems":100
}

Recent listings — last 7 days

{
"keyword":"manager",
"daysOld":7,
"maxItems":100
}

Daily incremental feed

{
"keyword":"developer",
"daysOld":1,
"skipReposts":true,
"maxItems":500
}

Technical notes

Architecture

• List pages: GET /search/?keywords=&pageSize=25&startIndex=N → Cheerio HTML parsing
• Detail pages: GET /job/{id}/{slug} → <script type="application/ld+json"> JSON-LD extraction
• Pagination: offset-based, startIndex increments by pageSize

Why not REST/GraphQL?

No public API found. The JS bundle only contains internal Vue component endpoints. No Algolia, no __NEXT_DATA__, no GraphQL. Detail-page JSON-LD provides equivalent structured richness with zero API-fragility risk.

Robots.txt compliance

Only /job/feedback/ and /enhanced/fp/ are disallowed. All search and job detail paths are permitted.

Rate limiting

Polite delays built in: 300ms between list pages, 200ms between detail batches. No observed rate limiting at concurrency=5.

Related scrapers

Other scrapers in our Jobs — UK & Ireland collection:

• CV-Library Scraper
• NHS Jobs Scraper
• Reed.co.uk Scraper
• Totaljobs Job Scraper — Search & Extract UK Job Listings
• TotallyLegal Jobs Scraper

Run it on a schedule

This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.

• Schedule runs — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
• Connect it to your stack — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
• Pull results via API — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.

Set it once and it runs on its own.

Need a custom scraper?

Unfenced Group builds Apify actors for any website — for free.

If the site you need isn't in our portfolio yet, just ask. We scope, build, and publish it at no cost to you. You only pay for results — we absorb the compute and proxy costs ourselves. Same pay-per-result pricing, same quality, same standards as every actor in this portfolio.

Get in touch: www.unfencedgroup.nl