Job Bank Canada Scraper

$0.50 per 1,000 jobs ($0.35 on paid Apify plans), billed through your Apify account; you pay only for results. Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit a month, enough for about 10,000 jobs.

From 'Job Postings Advertised on Canada's National Job Bank Website', the monthly open dataset Employment and Social Development Canada publishes on open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

It reads only public data any logged-out visitor can see: the Job Bank open dataset ESDC publishes on open.canada.ca under the Open Government Licence - Canada; it does not scrape jobbank.gc.ca pages. It goes at a polite pace, never logs in and never solves CAPTCHAs. It returns job posting fields (title, location, wage, dates, link); the dataset carries no employer contact details. To have a record removed, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab; if the publisher formally asks us to stop, this Actor will stop. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, incl. anti-spam and privacy laws; this is not legal advice.

Each month is published about one to five weeks after it ends (for example, September appeared in early October). This Actor is for monthly feeds, labour-market research and wage benchmarking, not for applying to jobs posted today.

The open data. This Actor reads the government's monthly open data, not today's jobbank.gc.ca postings: whole months back to January 2023, typed NOC, NAICS and wage fields, and a licence that allows commercial reuse: best for labour-market analysis, wage benchmarking and trend studies.

The government's open dataset does not include them. They exist only on the jobbank.gc.ca pages, whose terms do not allow commercial redistribution without permission, so this Actor does not scrape them.

The National Occupational Classification, Canada's occupation code. NOC 2021 codes have five digits; the first digit is the broad category (7 = trades and transport, 6 = sales and service, 2 = natural and applied sciences). Filter with any prefix.

The Actor remembers the posting IDs it has returned for the same filters (or the state name you set) and skips them next time. IDs are forgotten 400 days after they were last seen.

Yes. Every input is described for agents, and an empty input returns the latest month. It works through Apify's MCP server and API.

Only the start fee. Jobs are charged one by one as they are saved, so a run that matches nothing costs just that fee. If open.canada.ca is down or rate-limits the run, the Actor retries with backoff; if it still fails, the run ends with a 'No jobs' status and no job is charged. When one of several months fails, the jobs already read are kept and charged, and the status starts with 'Partial' and names the missing month.

It is one cap for the whole run, counted after filters. Months are read newest first, and the run stops as soon as the cap is reached, so older months can be cut off. For comparisons across months, set Max results to 0 and narrow the filters instead.

Provinces accept two-letter codes or English names in any case, plus Québec with or without the accent; an unknown province stops the run with a clear message. Cities must match the published city name exactly, ignoring case, so accents count (Montréal, not Montreal). Employment types must be written as Job Bank publishes them: Full time, Part time, or Part time leading to full time.

It keeps only postings paid by the hour whose minimum wage is at least your figure in CAD. Postings paid by the day, week, month or year are dropped while the filter is set. In the month we tested, 43,170 of 52,368 postings were paid by the hour.

The Actor returns the flags exactly as the government file publishes them. In every month we checked, old and recent, every benefit and telework flag was 'No' on direct Job Bank postings and blank on partner-board postings, so benefits came back as an empty list on every job. Work schedule flags (day, evening, weekend and so on) were filled on direct postings.

Any published month, by YYYY-MM, or 'latest' with up to 12 recent months. If you ask for a month that has no file, the run stops with a message naming that month and nothing is charged per job. The newest month appears some weeks after it ends.

Not within one run: each posting ID is returned once, even if it appears in more than one monthly file. Across runs, switch on 'Only new jobs since last run' to skip IDs already returned for the same filters.

The Actor reads the English edition of each monthly file, so field values such as province names, employment types and NOC occupation names are in English. Keywords match the title and NOC occupation name without regard to case.

Download the run's results as CSV or Excel and open them in Google Sheets, or add Apify's Google Sheets integration to the run or a schedule so every run's results land in a sheet.