PracticeLink Jobs Search Scraper

This Actor collects complete, verified public physician and healthcare job postings from PracticeLink. It uses official PracticeLink HTTPS pages only: the search form is submitted directly, result cards are parsed from HTML, and each posting is enriched from its official detail page using JobPosting JSON-LD plus semantic HTML.

Every run is bounded by item, candidate, page, request, retry, and per-request timeout limits. Records are buffered and written only after the detail page passes identity, canonical URL, source-record, HTTP, and rich-description checks. If the public site returns an access-control page or incomplete content, the Actor fails closed and writes a diagnostic rather than inventing a row.

Input modes

• search: submit one keyword/specialty search. Exact specialties such as family medicine use the PracticeLink specialty selector.
• searchMultiple: submit each value in searchQueries (or queries), sharing the profession and location filters.
• single: fetch one exact public job URL from jobUrl.
• multiple: fetch exact public job URLs from jobUrls or jobs.
• startUrls: mix official filtered search URLs and official job URLs.

The compatibility modes jobUrl and jobUrls are accepted and normalized to single or multiple. query, keyword, state, maxJobs, timeoutSecs, and maxRequestRetries are also accepted as aliases. This implementation does not launch a browser or use a proxy.

Useful limits are maxItems, maxCandidates, maxPages, maxRequests, timeoutMs, and retries. The checked-in primary input requests three family-medicine jobs in Texas.

Output

Complete dataset rows include:

• stable PracticeLink job identity and official detail/canonical URLs;
• title, employer, facility, location, state, specialty, provider type, recruitment labels, employment, remote/telemedicine, salary, and address fields;
• normalized dates, application links, contact-redaction signals, external links, and source-backed JSON-LD;
• rich plain-text, HTML, section, heading, bullet, responsibility, benefit, and qualification fields;
• request receipt, HTTP status, retrieval timestamps, and verification flags.

Published email addresses and telephone numbers are redacted from descriptions and nested source evidence. The key-value store contains RUN_SUMMARY, RUN_DIAGNOSTICS, RUN_METADATA, and RUN_HEALTH, including request receipts, execution metadata, source transport, counts, status, and omission diagnostics.

Local commands

npm ci --ignore-scripts --no-audit --no-fund
npm run check
npm test
npx --yes apify-cli validate-schema .actor/input_schema.json
npx --yes apify-cli run --purge --input-file INPUT.json
npm run validate

The local verification command reads the dataset and key-value store under storage/ and rejects missing required fields, duplicate records, invalid URLs/dates, placeholder values, unverified rows, and inconsistent run counts.

Source and compliance

The Actor uses PracticeLink's public search and detail routes over native HTTPS with ordinary request headers. It does not use third-party mirrors, alternate transports, a proxy, browser automation, CAPTCHA solving, or access-control bypasses. Search and detail failures are represented in key-value diagnostics and do not produce partial or fabricated records.