StepStone Jobs Scraper: job search results from stepstone.de and stepstone.at

Give it a keyword (and optionally a city) and get the jobs StepStone lists for that search as clean JSON: title, employer, location, home-office option, salary when the employer published one, posting date, a short excerpt and the link to the posting. Each run also tells you what changed since the last run: new jobs, jobs still listed, and jobs that dropped off.

• Germany and Austria: stepstone.de (default) and stepstone.at. Enter python in berlin, at: python in wien, or paste a StepStone results URL.
• Plain requests to public pages, nothing else: one request per search to the same results page a visitor opens. No login, no proxies, no CAPTCHA or anti-bot workarounds, and the site's robots.txt is checked and obeyed during the run.
• Structured data, not scraped HTML: the results page embeds its job list as data; the Actor reads that, so fields are consistent and do not break when the page design changes.
• First page per search, by design. StepStone's robots.txt forbids crawlers from using query strings on these pages, which is how page numbers, filters and sorting work. The Actor therefore returns the first results page of each search, 25 jobs, and never requests page 2. To cover more ground, add more specific searches (keyword + city, several keywords).
• Change tracking built in: every record has changeStatus (new or existing) and firstSeenAt. Turn on Only new jobs and schedule the Actor daily to get a feed of what appeared.
• Reliable and polite: timeouts, retries with backoff on server errors, at most two requests at a time and one per second per host, a descriptive User-Agent. A bad search is reported in the run summary and the rest still runs.

Use cases

• Daily job alerts: "python in berlin", "pflegefachkraft in hamburg", "controller in wien": run every morning with Only new jobs on and pipe the result into Slack, e-mail or a sheet.
• Recruiters and staffing agencies: watch which employers are hiring for your specialities, with the employer's company page and the posting date.
• Labour-market and salary research: sample postings per keyword and city, including the published pay ranges and home-office options; searchTotalResults gives StepStone's total count per search for trend lines.
• Sales intelligence: hiring is a buying signal; find companies opening "SAP", "Data Engineer" or "Cloud" roles in your region this week.

How to use it

1. Add searches to Searches, one per line, in any of these forms:
   • python (keyword, all of Germany)
   • data engineer in hamburg (keyword and city)
   • at: python in wien (Austria; de: is the default)
   • https://www.stepstone.de/jobs/python/in-berlin (a results URL without ?...)
2. For daily monitoring, schedule the Actor with Only new jobs turned on.
3. Run it. Jobs land in the dataset; a run summary lands in the OUTPUT record.

Spelling follows StepStone's own URLs: words joined by hyphens, umlauts as written (in-münchen), c# for C#. A keyword that StepStone does not know still returns a page of related jobs, as it does for a visitor.

Input example

{
    "searches": ["https://www.stepstone.de/jobs/python/in-berlin", "data engineer in hamburg", "at: python in wien"],
    "onlyNew": false,
    "maxItemsPerSource": null
}

Field	Default	What it does
searches	1 sample search	Keyword, keyword in city, optional de:/at: prefix, or a StepStone results URL. One request per search.
onlyNew	false	Outputs only jobs that earlier runs with the same searches have not seen.
maxItemsPerSource	all (25)	Keeps at most N jobs per search.

Output

One record per job. Fields are stable and documented in .actor/dataset_schema.json.

{
    "id": "stepstone:de/python/in-berlin:14504872",
    "source": "stepstone",
    "sourceKey": "de/python/in-berlin",
    "title": "Werkstudent Data Analytics / Python (all genders)",
    "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Werkstudent-Data-Analytics-Python-all-genders-Berlin-Forvis-Mazars-GmbH-Co-KG--14504872-inline.html",
    "country": "de",
    "company": "Forvis Mazars GmbH & Co. KG",
    "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/forvis-mazars-gmbh-%26-co-kg-207661/jobs",
    "location": "Berlin",
    "workFromHome": "partial",
    "salary": null,
    "postedAt": "2026-10-01T06:11:57.000Z",
    "descriptionExcerpt": "Wir sind Forvis Mazars und du findest uns in mehr als 100 Ländern, weil wir aus Audit, Tax und Advisory weltweit nicht wegzudenken sind. Als integrierte Partnerschaft mit über 40.000 Professionals, davon mehr als 2.700 an 13 deutschen Standorten, gehören wir zu den führenden Prüfungs- und Beratungsg",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/jobs/python/in-berlin",
    "searchTotalResults": 267,
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-08T05:34:36.000Z",
    "changeStatus": "new",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T05:34:36.489Z"
}

• workFromHome: none, partial (hybrid), only (fully remote), or null when the employer gave no option.
• salary: { "min", "max", "currency", "period" } when the employer published a range (period is yearly, monthly, weekly or hourly); otherwise null. Most German postings publish none.
• descriptionExcerpt: the first 300 characters of the posting as plain text. The full text is never output; follow url.
• company and companyUrl are null for anonymous postings.

Run summary (OUTPUT record)

Totals (searches requested, succeeded and failed; jobs output, new, existing, removed since the last run), one entry per search with its status and error message, and the list of errors. One bad search never fails the run. A search that StepStone refuses (HTTP 403) is reported as such and never retried or worked around.

Change tracking: how it works

History is kept in a named key-value store, keyed by the set of searches. The first run outputs everything as new; later runs mark jobs new or existing, and the OUTPUT record lists IDs that dropped off the first page since the last run. With Only new jobs on, only new records are output. Jobs that disappear are remembered for 90 days, so a job that returns to the first page is not reported as new again. Because only the first page is read, "removed" means "no longer on the first page", not necessarily "closed".

Pricing

Pay per event: one job event per record. Suggested price: $0.002 per job; free to try with the Apify free plan. The owner sets the actual price in the Store; it is never in the code.

What that costs, with every search returning the full first page of 25 jobs:

• The default input (one search) costs about 5 cents per run.
• Five searches with Only new jobs off (the default) output 125 jobs per run, about $0.25; run daily, about $7.50 a month (30 runs).
• Five searches with Only new jobs on output only jobs not seen before. After the first run (about $0.25) a daily run costs only the newly posted jobs: a few cents on a quiet day, up to $0.25 if the whole first page turned over.

FAQ

• Why only 25 jobs per search? Can it fetch page 2? No. StepStone's robots.txt disallows every query string on /jobs/... pages except a bare ?q=, and page numbers, filters and sorting are query strings. The Actor only requests what robots.txt allows. Use several narrower searches instead (add a city, use more specific keywords).
• Can it filter by full-time, part-time or home office? Not through StepStone's filters (query strings again, and the /jobs/vollzeit/, /jobs/teilzeit/ and /jobs/home-office/ listing pages are disallowed by robots.txt). Filter the output on workFromHome, title and location instead.
• Does it fetch the full job description? No. The results page already carries a 300-character excerpt, which is what the Actor outputs together with the link. Job detail pages are not requested.
• Does it log in or bypass bot protection? No. Plain requests with a descriptive User-Agent, robots.txt obeyed at run time. If StepStone blocks a request, the run reports it and moves on.
• How fresh is the data? It is read live during the run, in StepStone's default (relevance) order.
• Other StepStone countries? Only .de and .at for now. They share the same page structure; other country sites were not checked.

Legal

This Actor reads only public job postings that employers publish on StepStone, sends plain GET requests to pages that StepStone's robots.txt allows for every crawler, identifies itself with a descriptive User-Agent, obeys robots.txt at run time, requests nothing robots.txt disallows (no query strings, no pagination, no filters, no APIs), and outputs only a 300-character excerpt of each posting plus the link. It stores no personal data beyond what the employer wrote into the posting. StepStone's terms of use for job seekers contain a clause against scraping; see LEGAL.md for the exact wording, dates and the open questions. "StepStone" is a trademark of its owner; this Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by StepStone.