# South Africa Jobs Aggregator (`loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator`) Actor

Fresh South African job listings (CareerJunction) as structured JSON: title, company, location, URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator.md
- **Developed by:** [Armand Oberholzer](https://apify.com/loopwalker-owner) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 job results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **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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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## South Africa Jobs Aggregator

### What does ZA Jobs Aggregator do?

This actor collects **fresh South African job listings** into structured JSON: title, company, location, summary, and a direct application URL. Current source: [CareerJunction](https://www.careerjunction.co.za), one of ZA's largest job boards, scraped from its public (no-login) search results. Schedule it on Apify to feed job alerts, market dashboards, recruiter tooling, or salary research.

### Why use it?

- **Recruiters**: track which companies are hiring for a skill, daily.
- **Job-alert products**: one clean feed instead of scraping boards yourself.
- **Labour-market analysts**: build time series of ZA demand by keyword.

### How to use it

1. Enter search keywords (e.g. "developer").
2. Choose how many result pages to collect.
3. Run or schedule; read the dataset via UI or API.

### Input

```json
{ "keywords": "developer", "maxPages": 1 }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "source": "careerjunction",
  "keywords": "developer",
  "title": "Senior C# Developer",
  "url": "https://www.careerjunction.co.za/jobs/senior-csharp-developer-johannesburg-123456",
  "company": "MSP Staffing",
  "location": "Johannesburg",
  "summary": "Our client, a leading fintech, is looking for...",
  "collectedAt": "2026-07-25T18:00:00.000Z"
}
```

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel formats.

| Field | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `title` / `url` | Listing title and canonical listing URL |
| `company` | Hiring company or agency (when disclosed) |
| `location` | Listing location text |
| `summary` | First ~300 chars of the listing blurb |

### Automate it: Tasks + scheduling (recommended)

Job listings decay in days — schedules keep your feed fresh:

1. Click **Create task** and save your keywords as a configuration.
2. Set the task's **Schedule** — daily 07:00 catches listings posted overnight.
3. Each run lands in dataset history, giving you a **hiring-demand time series per keyword**.
4. Use **Integrations** to push new listings to Slack, email digests, or your ATS via webhook.

Pro pattern: one task per role family — "developer-jhb", "accountant-cpt", "remote-only" — so alerts stay signal, not noise.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small flat fee per run plus a fraction of a cent per job row. A daily one-page pull costs about a cent.

### Roadmap, disclaimers & support

Additional boards (JobMail, PNet) are planned; Careers24 and IOL are currently excluded because they sit behind bot protection — this actor does not bypass CAPTCHAs or bot walls. Only public listing metadata is collected (no candidate data, no personal information). Layout changes on the source site can temporarily reduce results; report anything odd via the Issues tab (answered within the Apify 14-day SLA).

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Job search keywords, e.g. "developer", "accountant", "project manager".

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

How many result pages to collect per run (about 20 jobs per page).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "maxPages": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": "developer"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator").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 = { "keywords": "developer" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": "developer"
}' |
apify call loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loopwalker-owner/za-jobs-aggregator"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sFTN8uvpWcqKiGolY/builds/83YXYjZxdhDbSP6bf/openapi.json