StepStone Jobs Scraper

💰 $3.20 / 1 000 results  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

The devil's in the data. 😈

Scrape job listings from StepStone, Germany's largest job board, keyed by keyword and an optional location. Get clean, deduplicated rows — title, company, location, posting date, URL, salary if published, sponsorship flag, skills, and a text snippet — ready for a recruiter pipeline or a hiring-intent feed.

🎯 What this scrapes

StepStone lists thousands of German job postings across every industry, 25 to a page, with no bulk export. This Actor searches by keyword and optional location, walks the result pages, and returns one row per job: title, company, location, posting date, absolute URL, salary (when published), sponsorship/highlight/anonymous flags, skills, and labels.

🔥 Features

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints so StepStone sees a real browser's TLS handshake, not a Python script.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on rate limits and server errors, honouring Retry-After.
• 🌐 We route every request through Apify Proxy.
• 🧊 Run-wide deduplication. The same job id never appears twice in your dataset, even across pages or across multiple keywords in one run.
• 🧾 Multi-keyword batching in one run — search several terms at once and every row is tagged with the keyword (and location) that found it.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land. No data → no charge (only the small actor-start warm-up fee).

💡 Use cases

• Recruiters and staffing agencies — pull every open role matching a skill or title across German employers.
• Job boards and aggregators — backfill DACH-region postings your existing sources miss.
• Sales / BD teams — new job openings are a public hiring-intent signal; a company opening five engineering roles just funded a team.
• Market research — track which titles, locations, and skills a sector is hiring for over time.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Set one or more keywords — the search terms to run.
2. Optionally set location — applied to every keyword in the run.
3. Set maxResults and maxPagesPerKeyword to bound how much you pull per run.
4. Run it, then export to JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull the dataset straight from the Apify API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
keywords	array<string>	yes	—	Search terms; one or more searches run per Actor call.
location	string | null	no	null	Applied to every keyword in the run.
maxResults	integer	no	100	Hard cap on total rows emitted across all keywords (1-2000).
maxPagesPerKeyword	integer	no	20	Safety cap on pages fetched per keyword, 25 rows/page (1-200).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Apify Proxy configuration.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["java"],
  "location": null,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxPagesPerKeyword": 1
}

📤 Output

One row per deduplicated job matching your search.

Field	Type	Notes
id	integer	Stable job id, dedupe key.
title	string	Job title.
companyName	string	Hiring company's name.
companyId	integer	Hiring company's numeric id.
location	string	Free text, may be multi-city.
datePosted	string	ISO-8601 posting timestamp.
url	string	Absolute job URL, tracking params stripped.
salary	string | null	Usually null.
unifiedSalary	object | null	Passthrough.
workFromHome	string | null	Opaque enum passthrough.
isSponsored	boolean	Sponsored listing flag.
isHighlighted	boolean	Highlighted listing flag.
isAnonymous	boolean	Anonymous employer flag.
postCode	string | null	Postal code, if published.
textSnippet	string | null	Passthrough snippet.
skills	array<string>	May be empty.
labels	array<string>	May be empty.
sourceKeyword	string	Input keyword that produced this row.
sourceLocation	string | null	Input location that produced this row.

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-emitted	$0.003	Per deduplicated job posting written to the dataset

Example: 1 000 job postings = $3.20 per run ($0.20 start + 1000 x $0.003). No subscription, no minimum, no card required to try it.

🚧 Limitations

• List-page fields only. This returns the fields StepStone's search result page publishes; full job-description text isn't fetched — use the returned url for a follow-up detail-page job.
• .de only. StepStone's .at and .ch country variants aren't covered in this version.
• A narrow search can legitimately return zero rows. That's a successful run, not a failure — widen your keyword or drop the location filter.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a StepStone account or API key? No. This reads StepStone's public search result pages.

Why did my run return fewer rows than maxResults? Either the search genuinely has fewer matching jobs than your cap, or maxPagesPerKeyword stopped the run first — the status message tells you which.

Can I search multiple keywords in one run? Yes — pass an array to keywords; every row is tagged with the keyword that found it via sourceKeyword.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes — use Apify Schedules to re-run your keyword set on a cadence and catch newly posted jobs.

💬 Your feedback

Found a bug, or need a field we don't return yet? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — we read every one.