🇧🇪💼 VDAB Jobs Scraper – Extract Job Listings from VDAB 🔍

Easily collect job listings from VDAB.be, the official employment service of Flanders (Belgium).

This Apify actor extracts structured job data directly from VDAB search results, making it ideal for recruitment agencies, HR teams, job aggregators, labor market analysis, salary research, lead generation, and hiring intelligence.

The VDAB Jobs Scraper is a fast, reliable, and affordable solution for large-scale job data extraction with no coding required.

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🔍 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide a job keyword and optionally a location, and the actor automatically collects matching job listings.

✅ Scrapes job listings directly from VDAB

✅ Keyword-based job search

✅ Optional location filtering

✅ Automatically handles pagination

✅ Supports all job categories available on VDAB

✅ Limits the maximum number of jobs to scrape

✅ Outputs clean, structured datasets ready for analysis

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📦 Data Extracted

Field	Description
jobId	Unique VDAB job identifier
jobTitle	Job title
companyName	Hiring company
location	Job location
employmentType	Employment type
contractType	Contract type
salary	Salary information (when available)
postedDate	Publication date
description	Job description
requirements	Skills or requirements
jobUrl	Direct VDAB job URL

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🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Deploy the actor on Apify

2️⃣ Enter a job keyword

3️⃣ (Optional) Specify a location

4️⃣ Set the maximum number of jobs

5️⃣ Run the actor

6️⃣ Export the dataset in your preferred format

Supported export formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML Table

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💡 Use Cases

💼 Recruitment & Talent Sourcing

📊 Belgian Labor Market Analysis

📈 Hiring Trend Monitoring

🏢 Company Hiring Intelligence

💰 Salary Research

🤖 AI & NLP Training Datasets

📋 Job Aggregation Platforms

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💸 Pricing

This scraper uses a pay-per-result pricing model.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 Price: $0.89 / 1,000 results

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✏️ Input Schema Example

{
  "keyword": "software engineer",
  "location": "Antwerp",
  "max_items": 100
}

Input Fields

Field	Description
keyword	Job search keyword
location	Job location (optional)
max_items	Maximum number of jobs to scrape

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📤 Output Example

{
  "jobId": "123456789",
  "jobTitle": "Software Engineer",
  "companyName": "Tech Company NV",
  "location": "Antwerp",
  "employmentType": "Full-time",
  "contractType": "Permanent",
  "salary": "€3,500 - €4,500/month",
  "postedDate": "2026-07-15",
  "description": "Develop and maintain software applications...",
  "requirements": [
    "Java",
    "Spring Boot",
    "SQL"
  ],
  "jobUrl": "https://www.vdab.be/vindeenjob/vacatures/123456789"
}

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📊 Preconfigured Dataset Views

This actor includes ready-to-use dataset views for instant analysis:

📋 Overview
All scraped jobs with key information.

🏢 Companies
Jobs grouped by employer.

📍 Locations
Analyze hiring activity by city or region.

💰 Salary Analysis
Compare salary information where available.

📅 Recent Jobs
Newest job postings first.

📄 Detailed Jobs
Complete job descriptions and metadata.

Perfect for dashboards, BI tools, recruitment workflows, and labor market intelligence.

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