VDAB.be Scraper: Belgium Flanders Jobs, Vacatures & Employers

The NanoScrape VDAB Scraper is an Apify actor that extracts job listings from vdab.be. It returns 35 fields per result including title, location, description, company_name, company_website, priced at $5/1k result, with no API key or monthly subscription required.

Extract job listings from VDAB.be, Belgium's Flemish public employment service (source platform). Returns title, company, location, province, salary, full description, external apply URL, company website and social media links. Covers Flanders and Brussels.

What you can scrape — 35 fields per result

Input example — showcase (full detail)

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "programmeur",
    "verpleegkundige",
    "software engineer"
  ],
  "maxResults": 30,
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "includeCompanyDetails": true,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10
}

Output example — real dataset item (PII scrubbed)

{
  "_type": "job",
  "id": "74571043",
  "title": "Field service engineer",
  "job_url": "https://www.vdab.be/vindeenjob/vacatures/74571043/field-service-engineer",
  "source_url": "https://www.vdab.be/vindeenjob/vacatures/74571043/field-service-engineer",
  "source_platform": "vdab.be",
  "company_name": "Meditech",
  "company_website": null,
  "company_logo_url": "https://cdn.app-prd-cdn.aws.vdab-prd.be/vindeenjob/templates/bedrijven/3379/logo.jpg",
  "company_social_urls": [],
  "company_about": null,
  "location": "Izegem",
  "postal_code": null,
  "country": "BE",
  "region": "West-Vlaanderen",
  "posted_at_text": "9 sep. 2026",
  "posted_at_datetime": "2026-09-09T00:00:00Z",
  "employment_type": "permanent",
  "workplace_type": null,
  "salary_min": null,
  "salary_max": null,
  "salary_currency": null,
  "salary_period": null,
  "salary_text": null,
  "description": "Meditech is een snelgroeiend High-Tech bedrijf, dat ‘pick & place’ robots ontwikkelt en fabriceert voor de apotheeksector. Wij zijn in Europa de belangrijkste speler en wij hebben wereldwijde groeiambities Door positieve commerciële ontwikkelingen in o.a. Frankrijk, Spanje, Australië en het Midden-Oosten zijn wij, ter versterking van ons team van 100 medewerkers (ontwerpers, technici en informatici), op zoek naar een Field service engineer Als service Engineer ben je verantwoordelijk voor de installatie, opstart, het onderhoud en de herstelling van onze robots bij klanten Jouw taken als field service engineer:. Jij start onze robots ‘on site’ op bij onze klanten; het grootste deel van onze klanten situeren zich in Frankrijk Je verzorgt de opleiding bij de klanten en je traint de eindgebruikers in het gebruik van de robot Je onderhoudt en de herstelt de robots die bij onze klanten zijn geïnstalleerd Een paar dagen per maand werk je mee op onze afdeling ’Customer Care’ en geef je telefonische ondersteuning bij problemen bij onze klanten (’second line support’)",
  "description_full": null,
  "description_html": null,
  "description_md": null,
  "contact_emails": [],
  "contact_phones": [],
  "contact_urls": [],
  "apply_url": "https://www.vdab.be/vindeenjob/vacatures/74571043/field-service-engineer",
  "search_query": "Engineer",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-28T03:57:02Z",
  "detail_status": null
}

Cost math

Priced at $0.0050 per detail result. 10 detail results ≈ $0.05, 100 ≈ $0.50, 1,000 ≈ $5.00. The first runs land inside Apify's $5/mo free-tier credit — pay only for what you extract, no monthly subscription.

Integrations

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger runs and process results via webhook
• AI Agents (MCP) — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex
• Python / Node.js — Apify SDK for programmatic access
• Google Sheets / Airtable — export via Apify integrations

Run this actor directly on Apify (no code)

Click Open on Apify above to run vdab-be-scraper in your browser - no code, no install. In the Apify console you get:

• One-click test - fill in the input form, or paste the JSON example above into the JSON editor tab, then hit Start.
• Live output - watch rows stream into an interactive Output table as they arrive, or flip to the raw JSON / Log view.
• Export in any format - one click to download the dataset as JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, HTML table, RSS, or JSONL.
• Schedules - run this actor daily, weekly, hourly, or on a custom cron. Apify handles timing and stores every dataset run.
• Integrations & webhooks - fire a webhook on success/failure, or plug into Zapier, n8n, Make, Airbyte, Google Sheets, Slack, S3, Postgres, and more from the Actions tab.
• Transparent cost - see exact usage against your $5/month free tier before you spend a cent.

Get your Apify API token

To run this actor from your own code you need an Apify API token. Get one in about a minute:

1. Sign up for a free Apify account (Google, GitHub, or email).
2. Go to Settings → Integrations → API tokens.
3. Click Create a new API token. Copy it and keep it secret.

Free tier: Apify credits your account with $5 of platform usage every month, no credit card required. Enough to test any actor meaningfully. How many results that covers depends on the actor's price per result.

Call from code

Run this actor from any language via the Apify REST API. Replace YOUR_TOKEN with your API token and adapt the input JSON to your needs.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~vdab-be-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

// npm install apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('santamaria-automations/vdab-be-scraper').call({});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('santamaria-automations/vdab-be-scraper').call(run_input={})
items = list(client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items())
print(items)

// dotnet add package Apify.Client
using Apify.Client;

var client = new ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN");
var run = await client.Actor("santamaria-automations/vdab-be-scraper").CallAsync(new { });
var items = await client.Dataset(run.DefaultDatasetId).ListItemsAsync();

// Maven: com.apify:apify-client
import com.apify.client.ApifyClient;

ApifyClient client = new ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN");
ActorRun run = client.actor("santamaria-automations/vdab-be-scraper").call(Map.of());
List<Map<String,Object>> items = client.dataset(run.getDefaultDatasetId()).listItems();

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is available on the Apify MCP server, so you can drive it from any MCP-compatible AI client - Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a custom agent - without writing any code.

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/vdab-be-scraper

Example prompt once connected:

"Use <code>vdab-be-scraper</code> to run a scrape on my target list and give me the results as a table."

Clients that support dynamic tool discovery (Claude.ai, VS Code) receive the full input schema automatically via add-actor.

Use with no-code platforms

Trigger this actor from your favorite automation tool. Every platform below can call the Apify API in a few clicks - no code required.

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Last verified run: 2026-10-28 · Actor v1.2.4 · Maintained by NanoScrape (santamaria-automations on Apify)