Stepstone DACH & Benelux B2B Buying-Signal Scraper (No Cookies)

Extract real-time, high-intent B2B hiring buying signals across Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands (aperture/stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper) with zero cookies, zero browser overhead, and an industry-first Strict Named-Contact Pay-Per-Event Guarantee.

Built by Aperture — Data Aggregation Solutions for outbound sales agencies, RevOps teams, Clay / HeyReach / n8n pipelines, and AI SDR agents (Apify MCP Server & Skyfire).

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Why GTM & RevOps Teams Switch to Aperture

Feature / Capability	Standard Job Scrapers	Aperture Stepstone Buying-Signal Scraper
Pricing Fairness	Charges full enriched price for generic info@ addresses, empty strings, or unverified mailboxes.	Strict Named-Contact PPE Guarantee: $0.008 is billed strictly when a verified named individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status: "ok") is delivered. Generic corporate role inboxes (info@, karriere@, jobs@, office@) are included 100% free as "role_fallback" at the basic $0.002 rate.
Scheduled Monitoring	Re-scrapes, re-emits, and re-bills identical job listings every week, flooding CRMs with duplicates.	Cross-Run Delta Mode (onlyNewSignals: true): Persists seen listing keys in the named buying-signal-dedup-store Key-Value Store. Skips previously emitted jobs before enrichment or Actor.charge() fires — duplicate listings cost $0.00.
Search Flexibility	Rigid single-keyword form inputs only. No way to paste browser filters or target recency.	Browser searchUrls + postedWithinDays (1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 30) + contractTypeFilter: Paste any live filtered Stepstone search URL (.de, .at, .be, .nl), filter by publication age (ag=N), or combine keywords, locations, and contract types effortlessly.
Zero-Cost Bonus Metadata	Scrapes only basic job title and raw job board URL.	contact_phone, salary_band, and contract_type: Automatically extracted from schema.org JSON-LD, Stepstone badges, and job ad content at $0.00 extra compute cost.
DACH & Benelux Impressum Engine	Emits useless Stepstone redirect links or ATS URLs (personio.de, workday.com).	4-Tier Domain Waterfall + Legal /impressum, /kontakt, /over-ons Crawler + DNS/DoH MX Fingerprinting & BYOK Verifier Hook: Resolves authentic corporate root domains and statutory legal disclosures across 4 European markets.

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5-Actor Global B2B Buying-Signal Suite (aperture) (MCP-Ready)

Strict Named-Contact Enriched Guarantee: Across the entire Aperture suite, the enriched PPE tier ($0.008 / $0.009) is billed strictly when a verified named individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status: "ok") is extracted. Generic or departmental role inboxes (info@, hello@, contact@, office@, jobs@, hr@, karriere@) are never discarded — they remain populated in contact_email for free with email_verification_status: "role_fallback" and automatically downgrade billing to the basic tier ($0.002 / $0.003).

Combine our regional zero-cookie signal scrapers with our zero-proxy ICP scoring engine to run a unified 8-country multi-market outbound pipeline across 3 buying-signal dimensions (jobs, funding, contract_award -> multi_signal) in Europe (DE, AT, BE, NL, FR, UK) and APAC (AU, NZ):

Actor	Markets (geo)	Signal Types	Primary Sources	PPE Pricing (Basic / Enriched)
aperture/stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper (This Actor)	DE, AT, BE, NL	jobs	Stepstone Germany, Austria, Belgium & the Netherlands + statutory /impressum & /over-ons emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/seek-anz-buying-signal-scraper	AU, NZ	jobs	Seek Australia & New Zealand JSON/GraphQL + ANZ corporate /contact & /privacy emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/france-buying-signal-scraper	FR	jobs, funding	France Travail B2B Hiring + Maddyness Startup Funding Rounds + /mentions-legales emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper	UK, FR, DE, NL, BE, AT	contract_award	UK Contracts Finder & Find a Tender OCDS + France BOAMP Open Data v2.1 + EU TED Search v3	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator	DE, AT, BE, NL, FR, UK, AU, NZ	jobs, funding, contract_award, multi_signal	Zero-proxy cross-dataset deduplicator, multi-signal ICP scorer (0–100), 28-tool tech-stack extractor, and cold outreach hook engine	$3.00 / $9.00 per 1k

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What does Stepstone DACH & Benelux B2B Buying-Signal Scraper do?

Stepstone DACH & Benelux B2B Buying-Signal Scraper is a high-speed, No Cookies / No Login Required scraper that extracts live B2B hiring intent across:

• Germany: Stepstone Germany (stepstone.de)
• Austria: Stepstone Austria (stepstone.at)
• Belgium: Stepstone Belgium (stepstone.be)
• The Netherlands: Stepstone Netherlands (stepstone.nl)

When a B2B company advertises roles like Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Head of Sales, or RevOps Manager, active budget allocation and expansion are occurring in real time. This Actor turns these hiring events into clean, normalized buying signals formatted for instant CRM routing.

Key Architectural Advantages

• Pure HTTP/2 CheerioCrawler Architecture: Runs in lightweight 256 MB – 1,024 MB containers without bloated headless browser overhead. Zero session cookies, zero login credentials, and sub-30-second execution on standard runs.
• The DACH & Benelux Statutory Impressum Advantage (§ 5 DDG, § 5 ECG, Belgian CEL, Dutch BW Art. 3:15d): Commercial entities across Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands are legally obligated to publish authentic corporate electronic contact channels. In enriched_with_email mode, the Actor crawls corporate /impressum, /kontakt, /team, /over-ons, and /karriere pages, decodes Cloudflare obfuscated emails, and prioritizes named individual contacts.
• 4-Tier Root Domain Waterfall: Resolves true company domains (domain) by inspecting Schema.org JobPosting data, Stepstone Passport metadata, canonical company cards, and normalized company names—filtering out third-party ATS hosts (personio.de, workday.com, greenhouse.io, softgarden.io, stepstone.*).
• Pre-Charge Blacklist Filtering (blacklistDomains): Exclude existing accounts, competitors, or recruiting agencies prior to Pay-Per-Event billing—excluded listings cost $0.00.
• Enterprise MX Fingerprinting + BYOK Verifier Hook: Fingerprints mail infrastructure (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Hornetsecurity, IONOS, Hetzner, Strato), detects disposable/privacy-shield MX hosts, runs safe SMTP handshake probes, and supports optional Bring-Your-Own-Key verification via MillionVerifier, ZeroBounce, or Reacher with zero platform markup.

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Data Extracted (Dataset Schema)

Field Name	Type	Description
detected_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when the signal was scraped (2026-10-31T19:00:12Z).
company	string	Normalized hiring company name (StackFuel GmbH, Adyen N.V.).
domain	string	Verified corporate root domain (stackfuel.com, adyen.com), cleansed of ATS/job board hosts.
role_title	string	Job role title listed on Stepstone (Enterprise Account Executive (m/w/d)).
seniority_band	string	Standardized seniority tier: entry, mid, senior, manager, director, vp, or cxo.
location	string	City, province, or workplace location (Berlin, Wien, Brussels, Amsterdam).
geo	string	ISO country code: DE, AT, BE, or NL.
posted_date	string	ISO 8601 publication timestamp of the job posting.
signal_type	string	Canonical signal type ("jobs").
signal_detail	string	Ready-to-use CRM summary (Job: Enterprise Account Executive (m/w/d) — Berlin [Full-time, Hybrid/Remote | 51-250 employees]).
signal_source_actor	string	Source Actor identifier (stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper).
signal_date	string	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) compatible with aggregation pipelines.
evidence_url	string	Canonical live URL to the Stepstone job listing.
contact_email	string	Verified named individual contact (malte.fenger@stackfuel.com) or free fallback corporate role inbox (jobs@adyen.com).
contact_phone	string	Direct telephone / recruiter contact number (+49 30 5557890, +31 20 240 1234).
salary_band	string	Disclosed compensation or salary range (€ 75.000 - € 95.000 per jaar).
contract_type	string	Standardized contract type (Festanstellung / Vollzeit, Vast contract, Permanent).
email_verification_status	string	Deliverability status: ok (verified named contact), role_fallback (free role inbox), mx_only, invalid, unverified, or not_requested.
mx_provider	string	Fingerprinted mail server (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, IONOS, etc.).
ppe_event_charged	string	Pay-Per-Event tier billed (job-signal-scraped, buying-signal-enriched, or none).
notes	string	Enrichment provenance, SMTP verification codes, and MX diagnostic notes.
error	string | null	Error description if extraction failed, or null.

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Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing & Strict Named-Contact Guarantee

No recurring monthly subscriptions. Pay only for successful, non-duplicate signals extracted:

Scraper Mode (scraperMode)	PPE Event Name	Price	What Is Included	Strict Named-Contact Billing Guarantee
basic	job-signal-scraped	$2.00 / 1,000 listings ($0.002 / item)	Normalized hiring signals (company, 4-tier domain, role_title, seniority_band, location, geo, signal_date, evidence_url, contact_phone, salary_band, contract_type) + pre-charge blacklistDomains and Delta Mode deduplication.	Billed for standard listings and enriched_with_email runs where only a generic role inbox (role_fallback, provided free in contact_email) or no deliverable email was found.
enriched_with_email	buying-signal-enriched	$8.00 / 1,000 verified contacts ($0.008 / item)	Everything in Basic plus Impressum/over-ons crawling, Cloudflare decoding, named individual prioritization, DoH/DNS MX fingerprinting, and SMTP/BYOK email verification.	You ONLY pay $0.008 when a verified NAMED individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status === "ok") is delivered! Generic role inboxes (info@, karriere@, jobs@, office@) are kept in contact_email as role_fallback and automatically downgraded to basic pricing ($0.002).

Free-Tier Run Limits & Budget Protection

• Strict Budget Guard (ACTOR_MAX_TOTAL_CHARGE_USD): The Actor monitors Apify's ChargeResult in real time and cleanly halts crawling the moment your maximum spend limit is reached—zero unbilled overruns.
• 25-Item Free-Tier Cap: Accounts on Apify's Free Tier can test both basic and enriched_with_email modes up to 25 items per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan for high-volume jobs (up to 5,000 records per run) and automated schedules.

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Copy-Paste Recipes & Integration Workflows

1. Scheduled Monday Delta Monitoring (onlyNewSignals: true + postedWithinDays: 7)

Set up a recurring Apify Task scheduled every Monday at 07:00 UTC (Cron: 0 7 * * 1). This pulls jobs posted over the past week and skips any previously emitted listings across runs via the persistent Key-Value Store:

{
  "keywords": ["Account Executive", "Sales Development Representative", "Head of Sales"],
  "country": "DE",
  "location": "Berlin",
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "onlyNewSignals": true,
  "monitorScopeName": "dach-b2b-sales-monday",
  "scraperMode": "enriched_with_email",
  "seniorityFilter": ["mid", "senior", "manager", "director"],
  "blacklistDomains": ["existing-customer.de", "competitor.de"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

2. Clay HTTP API Integration (POST run-sync-get-dataset-items)

Import real-time Stepstone buying signals directly into your Clay table using an HTTP API (Enrichment / Action) column:

Endpoint:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/aperture~stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&maxTotalChargeUsd=2.00
Content-Type: application/json

Request Body:

{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.stepstone.nl/jobs/sales-director/in-amsterdam?ag=7",
    "https://www.stepstone.de/jobs/account-executive/in-munich?ag=7"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "scraperMode": "enriched_with_email",
  "onlyNewSignals": true
}

Clay Column Mappings:

• Company Domain: {{domain}}
• Signal Summary: {{signal_detail}}
• Evidence URL: {{evidence_url}}
• Verified Contact Email: {{contact_email}} (filter on email_verification_status == 'ok')
• Direct Phone: {{contact_phone}}
• Compensation Range: {{salary_band}}
• Contract Type: {{contract_type}}

3. Claude Desktop, Cursor & Antigravity MCP Server Configuration

Connect @apify/actors-mcp-server to Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) or Cursor / Google Antigravity (.cursor/mcp.json or .agents/mcp_config.json) to allow your AI agent to discover live Stepstone hiring signals on demand:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
        "--actors",
        "aperture/stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper,aperture/seek-anz-buying-signal-scraper,aperture/france-buying-signal-scraper,aperture/eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper,aperture/b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Prompt Example for Claude / Cursor:

"Use the Stepstone scraper to find companies hiring Account Executives or SDRs in Amsterdam and Rotterdam with jobs posted in the last 7 days. Return the top 20 verified leads with contact emails, telephone numbers, and salary ranges."

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Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	["Account Executive"]	Persona role titles or hiring intent keywords (e.g. ["SDR", "RevOps", "BDR"]).
country	string	"DE"	Stepstone market: "DE" (stepstone.de), "AT" (stepstone.at), "BE" (stepstone.be), or "NL" (stepstone.nl).
location	string	""	Target city or province (e.g. "Berlin", "Wien", "Brussels", "Amsterdam").
searchUrls	array	[]	Copy-pasted browser search URLs from Stepstone (.de, .at, .be, .nl). Overrides keyword/location when provided.
postedWithinDays	number	undefined	Filter listings published within 1, 3, 7, 14, or 30 days (ag=N).
contractTypeFilter	array	[]	Filter jobs by contract type substrings (e.g. ["Full-time", "Vast contract", "Festanstellung"]).
onlyNewSignals	boolean	false	Cross-Run Delta Mode: Skips previously emitted listings stored in buying-signal-dedup-store at $0.00 cost.
monitorScopeName	string	""	Custom partition namespace for Delta Mode deduplication storage across separate campaigns.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum signal records to collect per run (1–5000; capped at 25 on Free-Tier).
scraperMode	string	"basic"	"basic" ($2.00 / 1k) or "enriched_with_email" ($8.00 / 1k verified named contact).
seniorityFilter	array	[]	Filter by seniority band: ["entry", "mid", "senior", "manager", "director", "vp", "cxo"].
blacklistDomains	array	[]	Root domains or company names excluded before PPE billing fires ($0.00 spend).
proxyConfiguration	object	undefined	Crawlee proxy options (supports Apify Proxy or custom residential proxies).
customEmailVerifierApiKey	string	""	BYOK verification token: MillionVerifier (mv:<KEY>), ZeroBounce (zb:<KEY>), or Reacher (reacher:<URL>|<SECRET>).

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Sample Output

[
  {
    "detected_at": "2026-10-31T19:00:12Z",
    "company": "StackFuel GmbH",
    "domain": "stackfuel.com",
    "role_title": "Enterprise Account Executive (m/w/d)",
    "seniority_band": "mid",
    "location": "Berlin",
    "geo": "DE",
    "posted_date": "2026-10-30T10:00:00.000Z",
    "signal_type": "jobs",
    "signal_detail": "Job: Enterprise Account Executive (m/w/d) — Berlin [Full-time, Hybrid/Remote | 51-250 employees]",
    "signal_source_actor": "stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper",
    "signal_date": "2026-10-30",
    "evidence_url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Enterprise-Account-Executive-Berlin-StackFuel-GmbH--14571042-inline.html",
    "contact_email": "malte.fenger@stackfuel.com",
    "contact_phone": "+49 30 5557890",
    "salary_band": "€ 70.000 - € 90.000",
    "contract_type": "Festanstellung / Vollzeit",
    "email_verification_status": "ok",
    "mx_provider": "Google Workspace",
    "ppe_event_charged": "buying-signal-enriched",
    "notes": "source=impressum; verify=smtp_250_ok; mx=Google Workspace",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "detected_at": "2026-10-31T19:02:30Z",
    "company": "Adyen N.V.",
    "domain": "adyen.com",
    "role_title": "Enterprise Account Executive Benelux",
    "seniority_band": "senior",
    "location": "Amsterdam",
    "geo": "NL",
    "posted_date": "2026-10-30T10:00:00.000Z",
    "signal_type": "jobs",
    "signal_detail": "Job: Enterprise Account Executive Benelux — Amsterdam [Full-time]",
    "signal_source_actor": "stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper",
    "signal_date": "2026-10-30",
    "evidence_url": "https://www.stepstone.nl/vacatures--Enterprise-AE-Amsterdam-Adyen-NV--99887766-inline.html",
    "contact_email": "jobs@adyen.com",
    "contact_phone": "+31 20 240 1234",
    "salary_band": "€ 75.000 - € 95.000 per jaar",
    "contract_type": "Vast contract",
    "email_verification_status": "role_fallback",
    "mx_provider": "Google Workspace",
    "ppe_event_charged": "job-signal-scraped",
    "notes": "source=impressum; verify=mx_fingerprinted_impressum_match; mx=Google Workspace",
    "error": null
  }
]

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FAQ & Legal / Compliance Disclosures

Why did an item with a valid contact_email charge job-signal-scraped ($0.002) instead of buying-signal-enriched ($0.008)?

Our Strict Named-Contact Enriched Guarantee protects your budget. We only bill the $0.008 enriched tier when we uncover a verified named individual decision-maker (firstname.lastname@, f.lastname@). When a company only publishes a departmental role inbox (info@, jobs@, karriere@, office@), we never throw that data away—we include it in contact_email as a free bonus (email_verification_status: "role_fallback") and bill it at the basic $0.002 rate.

Does this Actor require Stepstone cookies or login credentials?

No. All listing discovery, structured JobPosting schema parsing, and corporate Impressum extractions run via fast, stateless HTTP/2 requests with zero cookies or authentication.

Legal & GDPR Compliance

This Actor extracts publicly published commercial employment postings and statutory corporate disclosure notices (/impressum, /kontakt, /over-ons) required by European trade law. While corporate entities are legally required to disclose direct contact channels, personal contact details may constitute personal data under GDPR in the European Union. Ensure you process B2B contact data in accordance with legitimate interest requirements and local regulations.

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