StepStone Jobs Scraper DE, AT, BE, NL — New Jobs, No Login

Search public StepStone job listings in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands and get one clean row per job: title, company, location, posting date, salary as numbers, workplace type and job URL. No login and no API key are needed. A typical run with 20 jobs takes about 5 seconds and costs $0.022.

Use it if you are a recruiter, a sourcing agency or a labour-market analyst who tracks jobs in DACH or Benelux. The smallest run is one search query, for example python developer in Berlin.

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quick start
• Use cases
• Input
• Output
• Pricing and limits
• API, export and integrations
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• Related Actors
• Support

What it does

The Actor opens the public StepStone search for each of your queries, reads the job list and saves each job as one Dataset row. It works on four StepStone sites: stepstone.de, stepstone.at, stepstone.be and stepstone.nl.

Each row has absolute job and company URLs, an ISO date, salary as numbers with a currency and period, and a workplaceType of onsite, remote or hybrid. You can also:

• keep only jobs that earlier runs did not return (onlyNew), for daily monitoring;
• open every job page and add the full description and employment type (includeDetails);
• search up to 10 queries in one run; a job found by two queries is saved once.

Good fit

• Daily or weekly lists of new jobs for a role and a city.
• Salary ranges for a role in one city, for market research.
• A list of companies that hire for a skill right now, for sales or sourcing.

Not a fit / limits

• No login, no applications, no recruiter names, e-mails or phone numbers. E-mails and phone numbers in descriptions are replaced with [removed].
• Only stepstone.de, .at, .be and .nl. Other StepStone countries are not supported.
• Most salaries are StepStone's own estimates, not employer figures (salaryIsEstimate: true). In our tests they come only with the first 150 results of a query (search pages 1–6). Later pages are read from StepStone's result list without estimates, so those jobs have empty salary fields.
• Up to 1000 jobs per run. StepStone itself may stop a search earlier.

Quick start

1. Open the Input tab.
2. In Search queries (queries), keep python developer or type your own job title.
3. Keep Location (location) as Berlin or type your city. Keep Maximum jobs (maxItems) at 20.
4. Click Start.
5. Open the Output tab and check the Jobs view: title, company, location, salaryMin, salaryMax, url.

Expected result: about 20 rows in 5–10 seconds. On our test runs 19 of 20 rows had a salary estimate.

Use cases

Buyer job	Input path	Output entity	Key fields	Next integration
Get new jobs for a role every day	queries, location, onlyNew: true	job	title, company, postedAt, url	Apify schedule + Google Sheets or webhook
Compare salary ranges in a city	queries, location, maxItems: 200	job	salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, salaryIsEstimate	CSV / Excel export
Find companies that hire for a skill	queries with several skills, empty location	job	company, companyUrl, location	CRM import
Read full job texts for analysis	includeDetails: true	job	descriptionText, employmentType, expiresAt	Your own text or AI pipeline

Input

Input fields

Field	Plain name	Type	Required	Default / prefill	Allowed values	Effect	Example	Recommendation
queries	Search queries	array of strings	yes	prefill ["python developer"]	1–10 items, 1–100 characters each	One StepStone search per query. Each query is charged once.	["SAP Berater", "data analyst"]	Use job titles as people type them on StepStone.
location	Location	string	no	default empty, prefill Berlin	up to 100 characters	City or region. Empty = the whole country.	München	Use a city from the selected country site.
radiusKm	Radius (km)	integer	no	30	0–100	Search radius around location. Ignored when location is empty.	50	Larger radius = more jobs.
domain	Country site	string (select)	no	de	de, at, be, nl	Which StepStone site to search.	at	Match it with the location country.
postedWithinDays	Posted in the last days	integer	no	0	0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 30	Keeps only jobs posted in that many days. 0 = no date filter.	7	Use 1 or 7 for daily or weekly lists. Other numbers fail input validation.
workplace	Workplace	string (select)	no	any	any, remote, hybrid	Keeps only remote or only hybrid jobs.	remote	Leave any unless you need home office.
sortBy	Sort by	string (select)	no	relevance	relevance, date	Order of StepStone results.	date	date is used automatically with onlyNew and with 3, 14 or 30 days.
includeDetails	Full job description	boolean	no	false	true / false	Opens each job page: full description, employmentType, exact expiresAt. Adds the job-details charge.	true	About 1 job per second. Use only when you need the full text.
maxItems	Maximum jobs	integer	no	default 50, prefill 20	1–1000	Stops after this many saved jobs in total, across all queries.	200	Start small, then raise it.
onlyNew	Only new jobs	boolean	no	false	true / false	Saves only jobs that earlier runs with the same settings did not return.	true	Use with a schedule. The first run saves the current jobs as a baseline.

Unknown input keys fail the run with a clear input error. Duplicate jobs inside one run are saved once.

Interacting settings

When	Input A	Input B	Effective behavior	Example	Cost/result effect
No city	location empty	radiusKm	Radius is ignored; the whole country is searched.	location: ""	More results for the same query.
Monitoring	onlyNew: true	sortBy	Newest first is used; a query stops at the first page with nothing new.	daily schedule	An unchanged run saves 0 rows and costs $0.006.
Date filter	postedWithinDays 3, 14 or 30	sortBy	Newest first is used; rows older than the limit are dropped.	14	Pages are still read, so query is charged even with 0 rows.
Several queries	queries	maxItems	maxItems is the total for the run, not per query.	3 queries, maxItems: 100	Later queries may get fewer rows.
Full texts	includeDetails: true	maxItems	One extra page per saved job.	100 jobs ≈ 2 minutes	Adds $0.005 per job (FREE tier).

Input examples

New Python jobs in Berlin

{
  "queries": ["python developer"],
  "location": "Berlin",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Expected behavior: one search on stepstone.de, 30 km around Berlin. Expected output: up to 20 jobs with title, company, salaryMin, salaryMax, workplaceType. Limit or cost note: $0.022 on the FREE tier.

Weekly nursing jobs in Vienna

{
  "queries": ["pflege"],
  "location": "Wien",
  "domain": "at",
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Expected behavior: stepstone.at, only jobs from the last 7 days.

Daily monitor for data jobs in Amsterdam, with full texts

{
  "queries": ["data analyst"],
  "location": "Amsterdam",
  "domain": "nl",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Expected behavior: the first run saves the current jobs. Later runs save only new jobs, each with the full description.

Output

Output fields

Field	Meaning	Type	Can be empty?	Example / enum	Source / notes
jobId	StepStone job ID	string	no	13818030
title	Job title	string	no	Backend Entwickler Python (m/w/d) - Data Engineer Python
company	Employer name	string	yes	Ratbacher GmbH	null if StepStone hides it
companyUrl	Company page on StepStone	string	yes	https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/ratbacher-gmbh-46710/jobs	absolute URL
location	Location text	string	yes	Berlin, Mannheim, Frankfurt	as shown on StepStone
country	Country of the site	string	no	DE, AT, BE, NL	from domain
url	Job page	string	no	https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--...--13818030-inline.html	absolute, no tracking parameters
postedAt	Posting date	string (ISO 8601, UTC)	yes	2026-09-22T11:03:04.747Z	StepStone may refresh this date
expiresAt	Listing end date	string (ISO 8601)	yes	2027-03-21T11:30:13.917Z	exact with includeDetails
salaryMin	Lower salary bound	number	yes	53000	null = no salary shown
salaryMax	Upper salary bound	number	yes	74000	null = no salary shown
salaryCurrency	Currency	string	yes	EUR	ISO code
salaryPeriod	Salary period	string	yes	year, month, week, day, hour
salaryIsEstimate	Salary is StepStone's estimate	boolean	yes	true	null when there is no salary
employmentType	Contract type	string	yes	full_time, part_time, contract, temporary, internship, other	only with includeDetails, else null
workplaceType	Home office option	string	yes	onsite, remote, hybrid
descriptionText	Plain text	string	yes	short snippet or full text	contacts replaced with [removed]
descriptionHtml	Full description HTML	string	yes		only with includeDetails
descriptionType	Which text you got	string	no	snippet, full	snippet if a job page failed
isSponsored	Promoted listing	boolean	yes	false
query	Query that found the job	string	no	python developer
source	Source name	string	no	StepStone
fetchedAt	Collection time	string (ISO 8601)	no	2026-10-14T12:54:39.873Z

null means StepStone did not show the value. The Actor never writes 0 or "" instead of an unknown value.

Output entities and surfaces

Situation	Dataset/API/KVS/live view	Result shape	User action
Normal item	Dataset, Jobs view	one row per job	Export or use url
No jobs for the search	Empty Dataset; RUN_SUMMARY with status: "not_found"	run SUCCEEDED	Change the query or location
Monitor with nothing new	Empty Dataset; status: "complete", skippedSeen > 0	run SUCCEEDED	Nothing to do
Partial result (cost limit, time limit)	Saved rows + RUN_SUMMARY with status: "partial" and reason (CHARGE_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT, SCAN_LIMIT, DETAILS_UNAVAILABLE)	run SUCCEEDED	CHARGE_LIMIT: raise the cost limit. TIME_LIMIT: raise the timeout or lower maxItems. SCAN_LIMIT: narrow the query or filters. DETAILS_UNAVAILABLE: run again later or without includeDetails
Source error or block	Saved rows (if any) + RUN_SUMMARY with reason like SOURCE_HTTP_403	run FAILED	Try again later

RUN_SUMMARY (Key-value store, Run status and counters in the Output tab) also has counters per query: sourceTotal, pages, saved, hasMore.

Output example

From the first input example (one row, description shortened):

{
  "jobId": "13818030",
  "title": "Backend Entwickler Python (m/w/d) - Data Engineer Python",
  "company": "Ratbacher GmbH",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/ratbacher-gmbh-46710/jobs",
  "location": "Berlin, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe",
  "country": "DE",
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Backend-Entwickler-Python-m-w-d-Data-Engineer-Python-Berlin-Mannheim-Frankfurt-Stuttgart-Karlsruhe-Ratbacher-GmbH--13818030-inline.html",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-22T11:03:04.747Z",
  "expiresAt": "2027-03-21T11:30:13.917Z",
  "salaryMin": 53000,
  "salaryMax": 74000,
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "salaryPeriod": "year",
  "salaryIsEstimate": true,
  "employmentType": null,
  "workplaceType": "hybrid",
  "descriptionText": "Als Backend Entwickler Python (m/w/d) übernimmst Du eine zentrale Rolle: ...",
  "descriptionHtml": null,
  "descriptionType": "snippet",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "query": "python developer",
  "source": "StepStone",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T12:54:39.873Z"
}

employmentType and descriptionHtml are null because includeDetails was off.

Field names compared with raw StepStone data

If you used raw StepStone search data before, these are the new names:

Raw StepStone field	This Actor	Change
id	jobId	string
title	title	same
companyName	company
companyUrl	companyUrl	absolute URL
location	location	extra spaces removed
url	url	absolute URL, tracking removed
datePosted	postedAt	ISO 8601 UTC
unifiedSalary.min / max	salaryMin / salaryMax	numbers, StepStone estimate included
unifiedSalary.currencyIso / period	salaryCurrency / salaryPeriod	lower-case period
unifiedSalary.salaryType	salaryIsEstimate	boolean
workFromHome	workplaceType	onsite / remote / hybrid instead of 0 / 1 / 2
textSnippet	descriptionText	plain text, contacts removed

Pricing and limits

Pricing unit

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay only for these events:

Event	When	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
apify-actor-start	once per run	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001
query	once per query, after StepStone answers the first page	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005
job	each saved job	$0.0008	$0.00076	$0.00072	$0.00068
job-details	each job with a full description (includeDetails)	$0.005	$0.0048	$0.0046	$0.0045

Platform usage (compute, proxy) is included; you do not pay it separately.

• A search with 0 jobs, a date filter with no matches and a monitor run with nothing new each cost $0.006 (start + one query).
• If StepStone fails before the first page, the query event is not charged.
• If a job page fails with includeDetails, the row is saved with the snippet and job-details is not charged. After 6 failed job pages in a row the Actor stops opening job pages and ends with reason: "DETAILS_UNAVAILABLE"; rows already found are saved.
• Partial runs charge only for saved rows. When your run cost limit is reached, the Actor stops and saves reason: "CHARGE_LIMIT".

Cost examples

FREE tier prices. Times are from our test runs.

Scenario	Input scope	Saved jobs	Base charge	Optional charge	Run time
Quick start	1 query, maxItems: 20	20	$0.022	none	~5 s
Medium	1 query, maxItems: 200	200	$0.166	none	~35 s
Large	3 queries, maxItems: 1000	1000	$0.811 (2 queries used)	none	~2.5 min
Full texts	1 query, 10 jobs, includeDetails: true	10	$0.014	$0.050	~20 s
Empty search	1 query, no jobs	0	$0.006	none	~5 s
Monitor, nothing new	1 query, onlyNew: true	0	$0.006	none	~3 s

Limits: up to 10 queries and 1000 saved jobs per run; up to 40 search pages per query and 80 per run. With includeDetails the Actor opens about 1 job page per second, so 1000 jobs take about 17 minutes. The default run timeout is 30 minutes.

API, export and integrations

• Export: download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Output tab.
• API: start the Actor and read the Dataset with the Apify API. Use the jobs view: /datasets/{id}/items?view=jobs.
• Scheduling: create a schedule with onlyNew: true to get only new jobs every day.
• Webhooks / no-code: send the Dataset to Google Sheets, Slack, Make or Zapier with Apify integrations after each run.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

• MCP server with only this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cliqtomedia/stepstone-jobs-scraper (Apify MCP docs).
• Smallest useful input:

{ "queries": ["python developer"], "location": "Berlin", "maxItems": 20 }

• Key output fields: title (job title), company (employer), location (city text), salaryMin / salaryMax (numbers, often a StepStone estimate), url (job page).
• Typical call: about 5 seconds and $0.022 for 20 jobs. Keep maxItems at 100 or less and includeDetails off for fast answers.

Troubleshooting

The run finished with 0 jobs

Symptom: empty Dataset, run SUCCEEDED, RUN_SUMMARY.status is not_found. Likely reason: StepStone has no jobs for this query, location or filter. Check: open the same search on the StepStone site. Action: use a shorter query, a bigger radiusKm or an empty location.

A monitor run saved 0 jobs

Symptom: status: "complete", saved: 0, skippedSeen > 0. Likely reason: no new jobs since the last run with the same settings. Action: nothing to fix. This is normal for onlyNew.

Full descriptions stopped

Symptom: status: "partial", reason: "DETAILS_UNAVAILABLE", rows have descriptionType: "snippet". Likely reason: StepStone job pages failed 6 times in a row. Action: run again later, or turn off includeDetails to get the search rows only.

Jobs have no salary

Symptom: salaryMin and salaryMax are null. Likely reason: StepStone shows no salary for the job, or the job is after the first 150 results of the query. Action: use a narrower query or a city to get the jobs you need into the first 150 results.

The run failed with a SOURCE_ reason

Symptom: run FAILED, reason like SOURCE_HTTP_403 or SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE. Likely reason: StepStone blocked or did not answer after 4 tries. Action: start the run again later. Jobs saved before the error stay in the Dataset.

The run stopped early with CHARGE_LIMIT

Symptom: status: "partial", reason: "CHARGE_LIMIT". Likely reason: the maximum cost per run in your run options was reached. Action: raise the maximum cost or lower maxItems.

FAQ

Do I need a StepStone account or API key?

No. The Actor reads only public search and job pages. It does not log in.

Are the salaries real?

Most are StepStone's estimates (salaryIsEstimate: true), not the employer's figures. When the salary is not marked as an estimate, salaryIsEstimate is false. Use estimates as a market range, not as an offer.

Is the output complete?

The Actor saves what StepStone shows for your search, up to maxItems. StepStone may show a different order or count on different days. RUN_SUMMARY.queries[].sourceTotal shows how many jobs StepStone reported.

How fresh are the jobs?

Each run reads StepStone live. postedAt is the date StepStone shows; StepStone sometimes refreshes this date for older jobs.

Can I get recruiter contacts?

No. E-mails and phone numbers in descriptions are replaced with [removed].

Related Actors

• Personio Jobs Monitor & Scraper — jobs straight from company career pages on Personio, common in DACH.
• Greenhouse Jobs Scraper & Monitor — jobs from company boards on Greenhouse.
• Remote Jobs Aggregator — remote jobs from RemoteOK, We Work Remotely and Himalayas.

Support

For a bug, a question or a feature request, open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor. Add the run ID, your input (without private data) and the reason from RUN_SUMMARY. Never send tokens, cookies or billing data.