# Personio Job Board Scraper — DACH SME Hiring Signals (`foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper`) Actor

Scrape open roles from any Personio careers site by company slug or URL. Returns title, department, office, employment type, seniority, schedule, years of experience, description sections and apply URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 job postings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Personio Job Board Scraper — DACH SME Hiring Signals 🚀

**foXLabs hiring series:** [Greenhouse](https://apify.com/foxlabs/greenhouse-job-board-scraper) · [Lever](https://apify.com/foxlabs/lever-job-board-scraper) · [Ashby](https://apify.com/foxlabs/ashby-job-board-scraper) · [Workday](https://apify.com/foxlabs/workday-job-board-scraper) · [SmartRecruiters](https://apify.com/foxlabs/smartrecruiters-job-board-scraper) · [Teamtailor](https://apify.com/foxlabs/teamtailor-job-board-scraper)

🎉 Turn any company's Personio board into clean, structured hiring data — no login, no API key, one row per open role.
Built for recruiters, sales & competitive-intelligence teams, and anyone scoring hiring intent at scale.

### 🔍 What is the Personio Job Board Scraper — and when should you use it?

Personio is the HR system of the German-speaking Mittelstand. Give this actor a company slug (`deskbird`) or careers URL and it returns every open role with rich structured classification — department, seniority, schedule, occupation, office and posted date. The clearest public window into SME hiring across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

**Use it when you need:** every open role at a target company, hiring-intent signals (which functions a company is growing), a recruiter sourcing list across many companies, or a clean read of a competitor's headcount plans — from the XML job feed every Personio careers site publishes at `/xml`, no key.

**Use something else when:** the company doesn't run on Personio. Point the matching actor at its ATS instead — every actor in the **foXLabs hiring series** emits the **same schema**, so their outputs concatenate into one hiring-intent table: [Greenhouse](https://apify.com/foxlabs/greenhouse-job-board-scraper) · [Lever](https://apify.com/foxlabs/lever-job-board-scraper) · [Ashby](https://apify.com/foxlabs/ashby-job-board-scraper) · [Workday](https://apify.com/foxlabs/workday-job-board-scraper) · [SmartRecruiters](https://apify.com/foxlabs/smartrecruiters-job-board-scraper) · [Teamtailor](https://apify.com/foxlabs/teamtailor-job-board-scraper).

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

**Already on the Apify MCP server?** Ask for this Actor by name: `foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper`.

**Your agent can pay for its own runs.** This Actor is pay-per-event with agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over **x402 (USDC on Base)** or **Skyfire** — no Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is per delivered role, never for errors.

Otherwise paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

```
I want to pull a company's open roles using the Apify Actor `foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper`.
Input: `queries` is a list of a Personio company slug (`deskbird`) or careers URL. `maxResultsPerQuery` caps rows per company (default 200).
Start with: {"queries":["deskbird"],"maxResultsPerQuery":50}
Ask me which companies to track, run the Actor, then summarise the roles as a table.
```

The machine-readable API, MCP config and OpenAPI definition live at `apify.com/foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper.md`.

### 📋 Overview

Everything you need to turn a Personio careers board into clean, structured data — role details, metadata and hiring signals — in one actor, with no login, cookies or API key.

**Why teams pick this actor:**

- ✅ **Whole board in one call** — every open role, no per-tool stitching.
- ⚡ **Slug- or URL-native** — paste what you already have; the actor resolves the rest.
- 🔗 **Same schema across the series** — join with the six sibling ATS actors on `companyBoard`.
- 💰 **Pay only for results** — per-row pricing, empty/failed lookups never billed.
- 🤖 **Agent-ready** — MCP + x402 agentic payments.
- 🇩🇪 **DACH SME coverage** — the mid-market segment US-centric ATS feeds miss entirely.
- ℹ️ **Structured, not free-text** — Personio's public feed publishes classification (department, seniority, schedule, occupation), not the description body.

### 🎬 Quick Start

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~personio-job-board-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["deskbird"],"maxResultsPerQuery":50}'
```

### 🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. **Choose your companies** — a Personio company slug (`deskbird`) or careers URL.
2. **Set the cap** — `maxResultsPerQuery` limits rows per company (default 200).
3. **Run and export** — a clean dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### 📥 Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "personio",
    "deskbird",
    "https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 200,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `queries` | array | a Personio company slug (`deskbird`) or careers URL. |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | integer | Caps rows per company (default 200). |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | How many companies to fetch at once. |
| `includeRaw` | boolean | Attach the source's untouched record under `raw`. |
| `requestDelayMs` | integer | Politeness delay between requests. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Optional. |

### 📤 Output

One row per open role, saved to the dataset.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `companyName` | Company slug, title-cased |
| `companyBoard` | Personio slug — join key |
| `jobId` | Position ID |
| `jobTitle` | Role title |
| `department` | Department |
| `recruitingCategory` | Personio recruiting category |
| `location` | Office |
| `isRemote` | Remote flag |
| `employmentType` | Employment type |
| `seniority` | Seniority level |
| `schedule` | Full-time / part-time |
| `yearsOfExperience` | Experience band where published |
| `occupationCategory` | Occupation category |
| `subcompany` | Sub-company where set |
| `postedAt` | Posted date (ISO, from the feed) |
| `applyUrl` | Apply link |
| `sourceUrl` | Public posting URL |

Every row also carries `query`, `scrapedAt`, and — when a lookup fails — an `error`.

### 💼 Use cases

**1. DACH SME prospecting**
*Input:* target slugs. *Output:* roles by department + seniority. *Use:* find mid-market hiring data unavailable elsewhere.

**2. Hiring-intent scoring**
*Input:* a set of Mittelstand slugs. *Output:* roles by occupation + schedule. *Use:* a company opening its first data roles is starting a data project.

**3. Recruiter sourcing**
*Input:* many slugs. *Output:* roles + apply links. *Use:* source across DACH employers.

### 🔗 Integration

**JavaScript / Node.js**

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper').call({ queries: ['deskbird'], maxResultsPerQuery: 50 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);
```

**Python**

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper').call(run_input={'queries': ['deskbird'], 'maxResultsPerQuery': 50})
for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)
```

**Automation (n8n / Zapier / Make):** schedule or webhook → HTTP request to the actor API → handle the JSON dataset → push to a sheet, CRM or dashboard.

### 📊 Pricing

Pay-per-event: **$0.002 per delivered role**. Empty or failed lookups are never billed. [View current pricing.](https://apify.com/foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper)

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need an account, login or API key?** No. This reads the XML job feed every Personio careers site publishes at `/xml` — no key.

**What do I search by?** A Personio company slug (`deskbird`) or careers URL.

**How current is the data?** Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the board itself.

**Can I export to CSV / Excel / JSON?** Yes — directly from the Apify dataset.

**What happens on a bad input or empty board?** You get a row with your `query` and an `error` — nothing is silently dropped, and you're not charged.

**Is scraping this legal?** It reads a public job feed the company publishes for syndication — job data, not personal data. See below.

### 🐛 Troubleshooting

- **"No Personio job feed found …"** — pass a bare slug (the actor tries both .de and .com) or the exact careers URL.
- **Personio rate-limited this IP** — lower `maxConcurrency`, raise the delay, or turn the proxy on.
- **No description field** — Personio's public feed does not expose the description body; this actor returns the structured classification instead.

### ⚠️ Trademark

Independent, third-party tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Personio SE. "Personio" and related marks belong to their owners and are used here for identification only.

### ⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

This actor reads only publicly published job-posting data — no private or personal user data. Your results can still contain personal data (e.g. a name in a description); personal data is protected by the GDPR and similar laws, so only process it with a legitimate basis. See Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

### 🤝 Support & contact

- 🌐 **Website:** [data.foxlabs.com.tr](https://data.foxlabs.com.tr)
- 📧 **Email:** info@foxlabs.com.tr
- 🐛 **Issues:** open a ticket in the Actor's **Issues** tab
- 🧰 **More clean B2B data actors:** [Fox Labs on Apify](https://apify.com/foxlabs)

### Changelog

#### 0.4.2 — 2026-09-06

- **Added `recruitingCategory`.** Personio's human-readable role category (100% of roles), distinct from the coded `occupationCategory` slug.

#### 0.4.1 — 2026-09-06

- **Fixed `includeRaw`.** Turning on `includeRaw` previously failed the whole run with "Converting circular structure to JSON" — the actor attached the raw XML DOM node (which holds circular parent/child references). Each position is now parsed into a plain field object, so `includeRaw` returns a clean, serialisable record and the default (`includeRaw: false`) run is unchanged.

#### 0.4 — 2026-09-06

- **Enabled AI-agent payments (x402).** Standby mode was removed because Apify's x402 agentic-payment eligibility requires it off; the actor now runs as a standard pay-per-event run that agents can discover, run and pay for over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire without an Apify account. Batch and MCP usage are unchanged.

#### 0.3 — 2026-09-05

- Output schema linked in `actor.json` (`output` field) so the Store shows the Output tab.
- **Standby mode (real-time API).** The actor now also runs as an always-on HTTP API: `GET /search?query=<query>&maxResults=N` returns open roles as JSON, billed per role (pay-per-event). Batch runs are unchanged. Endpoint and OpenAPI schema appear in the Standby tab.

#### 0.2 — 2026-09-05

- **Added posted date.** `postedAt` is now populated from the feed's `createdAt`.
- **Removed columns the feed never provides:** `team`, `city`, `countryName`, `salary`, `updatedAt`. Every emitted column now carries real data.
- **Descriptions:** Personio's public `/xml` feed ships an empty `<jobDescriptions/>` (the free-text advert is only on each job's HTML page). Rather than risk Personio's aggressive IP rate-limiting with a request per job, this actor returns the rich structured classification (`department`, `seniority`, `schedule`, `yearsOfExperience`, `occupationCategory`, `subcompany`, `employmentType`, `location`) instead of a description.

#### 0.1

- Initial release: positions from any Personio XML feed.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Company slugs (`personio`, `deskbird`) or careers URLs (`https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com`). Both `.de` and `.com` careers domains work.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many rows a single query may produce.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many queries to run at the same time. Lower it if the source throttles you.

## `includeRaw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the source's untouched response under `raw`. Useful when you need a field this actor does not map.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay against a public source. Raise it for large runs.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Personio rate-limits aggressively per IP. Turn the proxy on for runs over a handful of companies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "personio",
    "deskbird",
    "https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 200,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "includeRaw": false,
  "requestDelayMs": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "personio",
        "deskbird",
        "https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": [
        "personio",
        "deskbird",
        "https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "personio",
    "deskbird",
    "https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,foxlabs/personio-job-board-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/yt2dBF6fxOL304HF8/builds/lqc5aXV1Z6clXa08F/openapi.json