Personio Jobs Scraper

Extract public Personio job postings from company career pages. The actor collects job titles, departments, locations, employment metadata, detail-page descriptions, section text, direct job URLs, and apply URLs from Personio-hosted job boards.

Use it when you need a repeatable feed of open roles from companies that use Personio, without building a custom parser for every tenant.

What does Personio Jobs Scraper do?

Personio Jobs Scraper turns public Personio career pages into structured datasets. Provide one or more Personio job-board URLs, or enter tenant subdomains such as westwing, egym, or join, and the actor saves one dataset item per job.

It works HTTP-first. Personio career pages expose their visible job cards and detail pages in HTML, so the actor does not need a browser for the standard workflow.

Who is it for?

• 🧑‍💼 Recruiters monitoring target employers that use Personio
• 📈 Sales teams finding hiring signals in European SMB and scale-up accounts
• 🧲 Talent sourcers building role and location watchlists
• 📰 Job board operators importing Personio-hosted postings
• 🧪 Market researchers tracking openings by company, department, or location
• ⚙️ Automation builders syncing hiring data into CRMs, spreadsheets, or BI tools

Why use it?

Personio is common across German and European companies, but every tenant can customize labels, languages, and job groups. This actor combines flexible URL input, DOM parsing, and detail-page enrichment so you can monitor many tenants with one workflow.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
jobId	Stable Personio job identifier when present in the URL
title	Job title from the listing or detail page
companyName	Company or career-page name
department	Personio job group or department heading
location	Location or remote/mobile marker
employmentType	Full-time, part-time, internship, permanent, etc. when visible
schedule	Remote, hybrid, or onsite marker when visible
seniority	Seniority clue when visible
jobUrl	Canonical Personio job detail URL
applyUrl	Direct apply URL if Personio exposes one
descriptionText	Clean text from the detail page
descriptionHtml	Detail-page HTML content for downstream formatting
sections	Description sections keyed by heading
status	ok, list_only, or detail_error
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp for the scrape

How much does it cost to scrape Personio jobs?

The actor uses pay-per-event pricing: a small start fee plus a per-job charge. The exact live tiers are shown on the Apify Store pricing tab. You can control cost with maxJobs, includeDetails, and maxDetailPages.

For low-cost monitoring, start with list-only mode (includeDetails=false) and a small maxJobs value. For richer exports, enable detail pages and cap maxDetailPages to the number of descriptions you need.

Input overview

The actor accepts two ways to target Personio job boards:

1. Full URLs in startUrls, for example https://westwing.jobs.personio.de/.
2. Shorthand tenant names in companySubdomains, for example westwing.

You can combine both in one run.

Example input

{
  "companySubdomains": ["westwing", "egym", "join"],
  "maxJobs": 100,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxDetailPages": 25,
  "language": "en"
}

How to scrape a Personio career page

1. Open the company career page and confirm it is hosted on jobs.personio.de.
2. Copy the URL or tenant subdomain.
3. Paste it into startUrls or companySubdomains.
4. Set maxJobs to your desired limit.
5. Decide whether you need detail-page descriptions.
6. Run the actor and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or via API.

Detail-page enrichment

When includeDetails is enabled, the actor opens job detail pages and tries to extract:

• Full job description text
• HTML description content
• Description sections such as responsibilities, requirements, benefits, or about us
• Direct apply URL
• Detail-page title and metadata fallbacks

If a detail page fails, the listing row is still saved with status=detail_error instead of being discarded.

Tips for reliable runs

• ✅ Use actual Personio career pages, not the company marketing homepage.
• ✅ Keep maxDetailPages lower than maxJobs when you only need descriptions for a sample.
• ✅ Use language=en or language=de depending on the tenant.
• ✅ Provide multiple tenants in one run when you need larger datasets.
• ✅ Check status to identify rows that were list-only or partially enriched.

Integrations

Personio Jobs Scraper works well with:

• Google Sheets or Airtable job monitoring tables
• CRM enrichment workflows for companies currently hiring
• Slack alerts for new roles at target accounts
• BI dashboards for hiring trends by department or city
• Applicant tracking market research pipelines
• Lead scoring systems that use hiring velocity as a buying signal

API usage with Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper').call({
  companySubdomains: ['westwing', 'egym'],
  maxJobs: 50,
  includeDetails: true,
  maxDetailPages: 20,
  language: 'en'
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

API usage with Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper').call(run_input={
    'companySubdomains': ['westwing', 'egym'],
    'maxJobs': 50,
    'includeDetails': True,
    'maxDetailPages': 20,
    'language': 'en',
})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items
print(items)

API usage with cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~personio-jobs-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "companySubdomains": ["westwing", "egym"],
    "maxJobs": 50,
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxDetailPages": 20,
    "language": "en"
  }'

Use with AI agents via MCP

Personio Jobs Scraper is available as a tool for AI assistants that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Add the Apify MCP server to your AI client and reference automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper in your prompt.

Setup for Claude Code:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper"

Setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• "Use automation-lab/personio-jobs-scraper to scrape current engineering jobs from these Personio career pages and summarize locations."
• "Monitor Personio jobs for Westwing and EGYM and flag new data roles."
• "Extract Personio job descriptions and format them into a recruiting spreadsheet."

Output example

{
  "jobId": "30961",
  "title": "Initiativbewerbung",
  "companyName": "Join GmbH",
  "department": "Initiativ",
  "location": "Mobil",
  "employmentType": "Vollzeit",
  "jobUrl": "https://join.jobs.personio.de/job/30961?language=de",
  "applyUrl": "https://join.jobs.personio.de/job/30961?language=de&apply",
  "status": "ok",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}

FAQ

How fast is the Personio Jobs Scraper?

List-only runs are usually fast because the actor uses HTTP instead of a browser. Detail-page enrichment takes longer because each selected posting is opened.

Does Personio have an official jobs API?

Some tenants may have private integrations, but this actor is designed for public Personio career pages and does not require tenant API credentials.

Troubleshooting

Why did a run return zero jobs?

The page may have no open positions, the tenant may have moved away from Personio, or the URL may point to a marketing page rather than a Personio career board. Try a direct *.jobs.personio.de URL.

Why are some rows list_only?

list_only means the actor saved the job from the listing page and did not enrich that row, usually because includeDetails=false or the maxDetailPages cap was reached.

Why are some rows detail_error?

The listing was visible, but the detail page returned an error or redirect during enrichment. The actor keeps the partial listing row so you do not lose the job.

Legality

This actor extracts publicly available job postings from public Personio career pages. Always respect Apify platform rules, Personio tenant terms, applicable law, and reasonable request volumes. Do not use scraped data for spam, discrimination, or prohibited profiling.

Related scrapers

Explore related Automation Lab actors on Apify:

• https://apify.com/automation-lab/greenhouse-jobs-scraper
• https://apify.com/automation-lab/lever-jobs-scraper
• https://apify.com/automation-lab/indeed-jobs-scraper
• https://apify.com/automation-lab/linkedin-jobs-scraper

Changelog

Initial version: HTTP-first Personio career-page scraping with optional detail enrichment, shorthand subdomain input, and structured job output.