Snicket Jobs Scraper

Scrape Bradford and West Yorkshire community-sector vacancies from snicket.org. Reads the public RSS feed for fast listing, then enriches each row with detail-page structured fields: organisation, salary, hours, closing date, payment schedule, contact name, contact email, and phone number. JSON or CSV out, no compute charge per run, just per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

Snicket is the community-sector hub for Bradford and West Yorkshire — local charities, faith groups, mental health orgs, family support, domestic abuse services, refugee support. Tracking who's hiring across the region's third sector? Building a Bradford voluntary-sector dashboard?

• 🎯 Two starting points. The /jobs/feed/ RSS feed (default) or any direct /jobs/<slug>/ URL.
• ⚡ RSS feed as the primary source. One HTTP call returns up to 17 items with title, link, pubDate, author, description, and full content HTML.
• 📋 Detail-page label extraction. Each job page has a "Job Details" section with inline Label: value rows — Hours, Closing Date, Payment Schedule, Job Salary, Contact Name, Contact Email, Phone Number.
• 📧 Apply contact captured. Contact email always populated when present — falls back to mailto in "How to Apply" section.
• 💰 Salary parsed. Job Salary: £25,989 - £27,254 → structured {currency, min, max, raw}.
• 🇬🇧 West Yorkshire community focus. Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield — small charities and large support orgs alike.
• 📤 Clean exports. One row per vacancy with merged RSS + detail enrichment. JSON + CSV exported automatically.

🎯 Use cases

Team	What they build
Voluntary sector recruiters	Daily new-vacancy feeds for West Yorkshire third-sector jobs
Charity researchers	Bradford / West Yorkshire community-sector hiring trends
Aggregators	Real recruiter contact emails for direct applicant outreach
Funders	Salary intelligence across small West Yorkshire charities
Sector publications	Auto-populate Bradford voluntary-sector job listings

📥 Supported inputs

URL pattern	Behaviour
https://snicket.org/jobs/feed/	RSS feed (default) — up to 17 items
https://snicket.org/jobs/	Jobs archive — routed to the RSS feed
https://snicket.org/jobs/<slug>/	Single job — synthetic stub + detail-page fetch

Leave startUrls empty for the default RSS feed.

Not supported: hosts outside snicket.org.

🔄 How it works

1. Bucket each startUrl as RSS feed vs direct detail URL.
2. Fetch the RSS feed — title, link, pubDate, author, full content HTML.
3. For each item, optionally fetch the /jobs/<slug>/ detail page.
4. Parse the "Job Details" section — labelled Hours: …, Closing Date: …, Payment Schedule: …, Job Salary: …, Contact Name: …, Contact Email: …, Phone Number: ….
5. Find the organisation — "About
6. Push one merged row per vacancy to the dataset.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	["https://snicket.org/jobs/feed/"]	RSS feed or direct job URLs. Empty = default feed.
enrichDetail	boolean	true	When true, fetches each detail page for the labelled fields above. Disable for RSS-only output.
postedWithinHours	integer	(none)	Only return rows posted in the last N hours (24 = last day, 72 = last 3 days). Empty/0 = all. Ideal for daily monitoring runs that only want fresh postings.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on rows pushed (~17 in the RSS feed at any time).
maxConcurrency / minConcurrency	integer	5 / 1	Parallel detail-page fetch limits.
maxRequestRetries	integer	5	Retries before a failed request is given up.
proxy	object	No proxy	Site does not anti-bot — proxy optional.

📊 Output overview

Each scraped vacancy is one single dataset row of type: "job". RSS-derived fields merged with the detail-page structured "Job Details" block.

📦 Output sample

{
  "type": "job",
  "source": "snicket.org",
  "jobId": "5955",
  "slug": "community-engagement-worker-2",
  "jobUrl": "https://snicket.org/jobs/community-engagement-worker-2/",
  "title": "Community Engagement Worker",
  "description": "<p>Community Engagement Worker for West Bowling Community Advice and Training Centre…</p>",
  "descriptionText": "Community Engagement Worker for West Bowling Community Advice and Training Centre…",
  "companyName": "West Bowling Community Advice and Training Centre",
  "companyWebsite": null,
  "companyDomain": null,
  "location": null,
  "remote": false,
  "salary": {
    "currency": "GBP",
    "min": 25989,
    "max": 27254,
    "raw": "£25,989 - £27,254"
  },
  "salaryRaw": "£25,989 - £27,254",
  "hours": "35 hours per week",
  "closingDate": "26/05/2026",
  "paymentSchedule": "Monthly",
  "contactName": "Wbcatc26",
  "contactEmail": "mohammed.rafiq@wbcentre.org.uk",
  "contactPhone": "01274 733770",
  "categories": [],
  "employmentTypes": [],
  "contractType": null,
  "status": "publish",
  "postedDate": "2026-05-19T15:45:02.000Z",
  "modifiedDate": null,
  "applyType": "email",
  "applyUrl": "https://snicket.org/jobs/community-engagement-worker-2/",
  "applyEmail": "mohammed.rafiq@wbcentre.org.uk",
  "externalApplyUrl": null,
  "authorName": "Snicket",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T00:13:00.000Z"
}

🗂 Key output fields

Group	Fields
Identifiers	type, source, jobId, slug, jobUrl, scrapedAt
Content	title, description (HTML, from RSS), descriptionText (plain)
Dates	postedDate (from RSS pubDate), closingDate (from Job Details), modifiedDate
Employer	companyName (from "About
Compensation	salary.{currency, min, max, raw}, salaryRaw, paymentSchedule (Monthly / Weekly / etc.)
Working pattern	hours (e.g. "35 hours per week")
Apply flow	applyType, applyUrl, applyEmail, externalApplyUrl
Contact	contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone
WordPress meta	authorName (RSS dc:creator)

❓ FAQ

Why is location sometimes null? Snicket doesn't enforce a "Location" field in their post template. When present we extract it from a dedicated heading; otherwise null.

Why does contactEmail sometimes have trailing junk (e.g. "Interview Date" appended)? The labelled-extraction regex can over-match when the post uses a non-standard label after the email. This is rare but the email is always at the start — split on the first whitespace if needed.

Can I get the full HTML description? Yes — see description. The plain-text version (descriptionText) drops markup but keeps line breaks.

Can I scrape private pages or applicant data? No. Only the public RSS feed and public /jobs/<slug>/ pages.

How do I limit results? Set maxItems. Disable enrichDetail to skip per-job HTTP calls (17 jobs in 1 fetch).

💬 Support

• For issues or feature requests, please use the Issues tab on the actor's Apify Console page.
• Author's website: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
• Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

🛠 Additional services

• Custom output shape, additional fields, or one-off datasets: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• Similar scrapers for other CVS / volunteer hubs (Doing Good Leeds, VA Rotherham, VAS Sheffield, Barnsley CVS): drop an email.
• For API access (no Apify fee, just usage): muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Snicket, snicket.org, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only the publicly available RSS feed and public job pages on snicket.org — no authenticated endpoints, recruiter-only features, or content behind a login. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with snicket.org's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), and any contractual obligations of their own organisation.

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