# Workday Jobs Scraper & Change Detector (`aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test`) Actor

Extract jobs from public Workday career sites and monitor new, changed, and removed job postings

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test.md
- **Developed by:** [Jawad EL OUFIR](https://apify.com/aiechosystem) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job listings

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Workday Jobs Scraper & Change Detector

Python 3.12 Apify Actor for extracting public Workday job listings and detecting
new, changed, and removed postings between runs.

### Development status

The project has a current Apify Python lifecycle, locked dependencies, a
reproducible container build, linting, type checking, and tests. It can now
validate public Workday URLs, derive their public JSON search endpoint, paginate
list-level results, deduplicate them, and write real records to an Apify Dataset.

Job-detail extraction, filtering, normalization beyond list-level fields, change
detection, input and dataset schemas, and billing are still to be implemented.

No external database is used. The finished Actor will use Apify Dataset for run
results and Apify Key-Value Store for monitoring snapshots.

### Local development

Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), then run:

```shell
uv sync --all-groups
uv run python -m src
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run ty check src
```

The checked-in `requirements.txt` is generated from `uv.lock` for compatibility
with standard Python tooling. Manage dependencies with `uv add` and regenerate it
with:

```shell
uv export --no-dev --no-hashes --format requirements-txt -o requirements.txt
```

### Apify deployment

After installing and authenticating the Apify CLI:

```shell
apify push
```

The Actor definition is in `.actor/actor.json`; the container runs
`python -m src` on Apify's Python 3.12 base image.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Required public Workday career-site, search, or job-detail URLs. Example: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Optional case-insensitive OR match against title, description, department, or category.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Optional case-insensitive OR match against the normalized location fields.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only jobs explicitly classified as remote. Hybrid and uncertain roles are excluded.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Optional maximum posting age. Jobs with an unavailable date are retained.

## `maxJobsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Safety limit. Reaching it marks the crawl truncated and prevents removed-job detection.

## `includeJobDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetches the public detail endpoint for each job; this increases requests and run time.

## `includeDescriptionHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Store original Workday description HTML in addition to cleaned text.

## `parseSalary` (type: `boolean`):

Best-effort parsing of common US salary formats; raw source text is always retained when found.

## `deduplicateJobs` (type: `boolean`):

Use stable Workday requisition, job ID, or external path to remove duplicates.

## `changeDetection` (type: `object`):

Optional named monitoring scope. A first baseline stores the snapshot without treating current jobs as alerts.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy settings. Disabled by default; public Workday JSON endpoints often do not need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext",
      "companyName": "Autodesk"
    }
  ],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "locations": [],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "maxJobsPerSource": 1000,
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "includeDescriptionHtml": false,
  "parseSalary": true,
  "deduplicateJobs": true,
  "changeDetection": {
    "enabled": false,
    "emitMode": "changes_and_current",
    "initialRunBehavior": "baseline",
    "includeRemovedJobs": true
  },
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobListings` (type: `string`):

Normalized public Workday job records, including their change status when monitoring is enabled.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Counts and status information for the completed run.

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext",
            "companyName": "Autodesk"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test").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 = { "startUrls": [{
            "url": "https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext",
            "companyName": "Autodesk",
        }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext",
      "companyName": "Autodesk"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aiechosystem/workday-jobs-scraper-test",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/XO26Fep8qRupuJwZR/builds/hJ2JcfWQRvUp2CQHB/openapi.json