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Each keyword is searched separately and results are merged (deduped by URL). Leave empty to use the built-in defaults spanning both humanities/social-science and STEM/health: social science, politics, psychology, humanities, international development, research, computer science, engineering, biology, medicine.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "disciplines": { "title": "Disciplines", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by jobs.ac.uk discipline facet (server-side). Academic slugs: agriculture-food-and-veterinary, architecture-building-and-planning, biological-sciences, business-and-management-studies, computer-sciences, creative-arts-and-design, economics, education-studies-inc-tefl, engineering-and-technology, health-and-medical, historical-and-philosophical-studies, information-management-and-librarianship, languages-literature-and-culture, law, mathematics-and-statistics, media-and-communications, physical-and-environmental-sciences, politics-and-government, psychology, social-sciences-and-social-care, sport-and-leisure. Professional-services slugs: administrative, estates-and-facilities-management, finance-and-procurement, human-resources, it-services, laboratory-clinical-and-technician, library-services-data-and-information-management, senior-management, student-services, and more (see README). Unknown values are ignored with a warning. Leave empty for all disciplines.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "location": { "title": "Location (region/city facet)", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by jobs.ac.uk location facet slug (server-side). Use region or city slugs such as 'england', 'scotland', 'wales', 'northern-ireland', 'greater-london', 'london', 'greater-manchester', 'manchester', 'edinburgh', 'cambridge', 'oxford'. Values are lowercased/hyphenated automatically. Note: jobs.ac.uk's free-text 'within N miles' search needs Google geocoding, so this Actor filters by the region/city facet instead. An unrecognised slug returns 0 results.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "studentshipType": { "title": "Studentship type", "type": "array", "description": "Filter to PhD or Masters studentships (jobs.ac.uk 'Job Type' facet). Allowed values: 'phds', 'masters'. Leave empty to include all posting types (staff roles + studentships).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "contractType": { "title": "Contract type", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by contract type (server-side). Allowed values: 'permanent', 'fixed-term-contract', 'temporary'.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "hours": { "title": "Hours", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by working hours (server-side). Allowed values: 'full-time', 'part-time'.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "workplace": { "title": "Workplace", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by workplace type (server-side). Allowed values: 'remote', 'hybrid', 'on-site'. When a single value is set, each returned record's isRemote/workplaceType is filled from it.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "employerSector": { "title": "Employer sector", "type": "array", "description": "Filter by employer sector (server-side). Allowed values: 'universities-higher-education-institutions', 'further-education', 'science-and-research-organisations', 'public-sector', 'charity-not-for-profit', 'commercial-organisations'.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "employer": { "title": "Employer name contains", "type": "string", "description": "Keep only postings whose employer name contains this text (case-insensitive). Applied locally after fetching — jobs.ac.uk has no server-side employer-name filter. Example: 'Oxford' keeps University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, etc." }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of job postings to return across all keyword queries. Each job returned is billed as one result event — see the Pricing tab. Set to 0 for no limit.", "default": 100 }, "pageSize": { "title": "Results per keyword query", "type": "integer", "description": "How many results to request per keyword search (portal maximum is 25; higher values are clamped to 25). Increase if you are running with a large maxItems and few keywords.", "default": 25 }, "postedSince": { "title": "Posted within last N days", "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep postings placed within this many days. Applied locally after fetching, since jobs.ac.uk has no server-side date filter — postedAt is parsed from each listing's Date Placed text and compared here. Listings whose date can't be read are always kept, not silently dropped. Set 0 (default) to disable and return all fetched listings regardless of age.", "default": 0 }, "fetchDescriptions": { "title": "Fetch full job descriptions", "type": "boolean", "description": "Also fetch each posting's detail page and return the full advert text in a `description` field. One extra page fetch per job (slower) and each enriched job is billed as one additional detail event — see the Pricing tab. Leave off to return search-card fields only.", "default": false }, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": { "title": "Only new since last run (delta mode)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Return only postings not already delivered by a previous run of this Actor. Uses a named key-value store to remember posting IDs across runs, so a scheduled run pays only for genuinely-new postings. Each returned record carries isNew=true. Leave off for a full snapshot every run.", "default": false }, "cacheTtlSeconds": { "title": "Cache TTL (seconds)", "type": "integer", "description": "How long to reuse a previous fetch instead of contacting jobs.ac.uk again, in seconds. Speeds up repeated runs that use the same keywords. 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