Softgarden Jobs Scraper: DACH Career Boards to JSON

Turn any public Softgarden career board into clean, structured job data. No API token, no login, pay only for the jobs you get.

More than 2,000 employers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland run their careers pages on Softgarden (*.softgarden.io). Many of those jobs never reach LinkedIn or StepStone, or show up there days later. This Actor reads the public boards directly and gives you one consistent row per job: title, employer, locations with coordinates, contract type, remote status, posted date, description and link.

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Who it's for

• Recruiting and staffing agencies (DACH). Spot new openings at your target accounts the day they go live, then pitch candidates first.
• Job boards and aggregators. Add the Softgarden long tail of Mittelstand, retail, logistics and tech employers to your index with daily incremental feeds.
• HR-tech and labour-market analysts. Track hiring velocity, roles and locations across hundreds of DACH employers.
• Sales teams selling to HR. "Company X just opened 12 warehouse roles in Halle" is a buying signal.

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What you get

• ✅ Jobs from a board in one dataset: title, company, hiring legal entity, category, locations (city + lat/lng), country, contract type (normalized), remote/hybrid/on-site, experience level, posted date (ISO), salary text when the employer publishes it, description (text or HTML), job URL, apply URL string.
• ✅ Many boards per run. Paste URLs or just slugs (home24, acme, …).
• ✅ Incremental monitoring (onlyNew). Schedule it daily and you're charged only for new or changed jobs.
• ✅ Filters before billing. Keyword, location and category filters run before charging, so dropped jobs cost nothing.
• ✅ Empty boards are free, and so are duplicates and boards that fail.
• ✅ Fast and light. HTTP-only (no browser): one request per board for listings, plus one per job when you want full details.
• ✅ Polite by design. Obeys robots.txt, keeps one request at a time per board with a delay, and backs off on errors.
• ✅ Privacy-first. No applicant data, no contact-person fields, and emails/phones redacted from descriptions by default.
• ✅ Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or via API, webhooks, Make, n8n or Zapier.

Pagination / coverage note (v1)

Softgarden classic boards (*.softgarden.io/{lang}/vacancies) server-render job rows into the first HTML response. On probed boards — including a 535-job board — the pagination control (ul#job-search-pagination) was empty and ?page=2 returned the same set. v1 therefore reads all jobs present in that first HTML document.

If Softgarden later enables multi-page listing via a robots-allowed path, we will add it. Paths under /wicket/bookmarkable/ and /*/widgets/ are disallowed by Softgarden robots.txt and are never requested. Do not assume infinite scroll or widget endpoints are used.

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How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Under Boards, add Softgarden board URLs or slugs:
   • https://home24.softgarden.io
   • https://acme.softgarden.io/de/vacancies
   • acme
3. (Optional) Add Keywords, Locations or Categories to narrow results.
4. (Optional) Turn on Only new jobs and set a State key (e.g. dach-it-weekly), then add a Schedule (daily or weekly).
5. Click Start and download your dataset.

Where do I find a company's board? Open the company's careers page. If job links go to something.softgarden.io/job/…, then something is the slug.

Input fields

Field	What it does	Default
boards (required)	Softgarden board URLs or slugs	—
language	Board locale: auto, de, en	auto
includeDetails	Fetch full job pages (description, contract type, date, …)	true
descriptionFormat	text, html or both	text
redactContactDetails	Remove emails/phone numbers from descriptions	true
keywords / locations / categories	Case-insensitive filters, OR within a field	empty
maxJobsPerBoard / maxJobs	Caps per board and per run (0 = no cap)	0 / 1000
onlyNew + stateKey	Incremental mode: only new/changed jobs since the last run	false / default
maxConcurrency / requestDelayMs	Politeness controls	2 / 1500
proxyConfiguration	Optional Apify datacenter proxy	off

Sample input

{
  "boards": ["https://musterwerk.softgarden.io", "alpenblick-reisen", "zuerichtech"],
  "language": "de",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "keywords": ["Informatiker", "Developer", "Logistik"],
  "locations": ["Berlin", "Wien", "Zürich"],
  "maxJobs": 1000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "dach-it-weekly"
}

Prefill / try boards: home24, gtmotive1.

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Sample output

One dataset item per job (example data):

{
  "postingId": "67118342",
  "title": "Fachinformatiker:in Systemintegration (m/w/d)",
  "companyName": "Musterwerk Logistik",
  "hiringEntity": "Musterwerk Logistik GmbH & Co. KG",
  "boardSlug": "musterwerk",
  "boardUrl": "https://musterwerk.softgarden.io/de/vacancies",
  "jobUrl": "https://musterwerk.softgarden.io/job/67118342",
  "applyUrl": "https://jobdb.softgarden.de/jobdb/public/jobposting/applyonline/click?jp=67118342",
  "category": "IT",
  "locations": [
    { "city": "Berlin", "geoName": "Berlin, Deutschland", "latitude": 52.5200066, "longitude": 13.404954 }
  ],
  "country": "DE",
  "employmentType": "Vollzeit",
  "employmentTypeNormalized": "FULL_TIME",
  "remoteStatus": "Hybrid",
  "remoteType": "HYBRID",
  "experienceLevel": "Mit Berufserfahrung",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-28",
  "postedDateRaw": "28.09.26",
  "language": "de",
  "salaryText": "52.000 – 61.000 € brutto/Jahr",
  "descriptionText": "Wir sind Musterwerk Logistik – über 600 Kolleg:innen an 9 Standorten. Deine Aufgaben: Betrieb und Weiterentwicklung unserer Microsoft-365- und Linux-Infrastruktur …",
  "detailError": null,
  "contentHash": "3f1c9a0d7e5b2c48a1f6e9d03b7c5a2e4d8f1b60",
  "isNew": true,
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-05T18:02:11Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T18:02:11Z"
}

The dataset has two views: Overview (title, company, city, type, remote, date, link) and Full (all fields).

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Pricing: pay per event

$1.50 per 1,000 jobs ($0.0015 per job delivered to your dataset).

You run…	Jobs charged	You pay
1 board, 25 jobs	25	~$0.04
300 boards weekly, onlyNew, ~2,000 new jobs/month	2,000	~$3.00 / month
Full pull of 50,000 jobs	50,000	~$75.00

Free: empty boards, filtered-out jobs, duplicates, already-seen jobs in onlyNew mode, and failed or blocked boards. There's no per-board or per-run fee from us (standard Apify platform start rules apply). Set a maximum cost per run in Apify, and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Listing-only billing: If a detail page fails after retries, the Actor still pushes the listing row (title, location, URL, …), sets detailError, and charges once for that job. It never double-charges if a detail fetch later succeeds in the same run.

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FAQ

Do I need a Softgarden account or API key? No. The Actor reads only publicly published career pages, the same ones any job seeker sees.

Does it apply to jobs or collect applicant data? No. It never opens application forms, never signs in, and never touches candidate or talent-pool data. The applyUrl field is the public link string only — it is never requested.

Why is a board returning 0 jobs? Either the employer has no open positions (free), the slug is wrong, or the board is on a custom domain (not supported in v1).

Can it handle company career sites that embed Softgarden? v1 supports *.softgarden.io boards. Paste the softgarden.io link from any job ad.

Does it paginate large boards? Softgarden boards probed for v1 put all vacancies into the first HTML response (including a 500+ job board) with an empty pager. v1 scrapes that document. Robots-disallowed Wicket/widget endpoints are not used. See the pagination note above.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as your schedule. Daily with onlyNew is the sweet spot.

What if detail enrichment fails? You still get the listing row with detailError set, charged once (see Pricing).

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Responsible use and legal

• Independent tool. This Actor is built and maintained by Frontiersman. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by softgarden e-recruiting GmbH. "Softgarden" is used only to describe compatibility, and all trademarks belong to their owners.
• Public data only. It accesses only publicly available job advertisements on *.softgarden.io. It does not use Softgarden's partner/Frontend APIs, client IDs or tokens, does not bypass logins or CAPTCHAs, and does not request paths disallowed by robots.txt (e.g. /api/, /rest/, /apply/, /*/widgets/, /wicket/bookmarkable/).
• Softgarden terms context (read 2026-10-05). Softgarden's General Terms and Conditions (Rev. 4.0, valid from 26.03.2026) govern the contractual relationship between softgarden e-recruiting GmbH and its customer companies (platform account holders), not a public visitor ToS aimed at job seekers. They describe the SaaS recruiting platform, application handling, and placement services. Softgarden's public privacy materials describe CAPTCHA/IP checks used to detect automated access to forms and product surfaces. Separately, Softgarden publishes GEO/feed guidance for making career-page job data easier for automated systems to consume. This Actor does not create Softgarden accounts, does not access applicant data, and does not call partner APIs. Users remain responsible for ensuring their use of public career pages complies with applicable law and with any terms that apply to them. Rights holders with concerns can contact us via the Issues tab; we respond within 12 hours on business days.
• Polite crawling. Defaults: one request at a time per board, ~1.5 s delay with jitter, retries with backoff, and an automatic stop on blocks. Please don't schedule it more often than hourly against the same boards.
• Personal data. Job ads are business information, but they can mention people (e.g. a contact person). The Actor never extracts contact names into fields and redacts emails/phone numbers by default. If your use involves personal data, you are the controller and must have a lawful basis under GDPR (and Swiss FADP). Don't use the output for unsolicited direct marketing to individuals.
• Your responsibility. Check that your use complies with the terms of the sites you access and with applicable law.

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Roadmap

Planned, subject to demand. This is an independent community Actor, not a Softgarden product.

• 🔜 Board discovery: give a company website and we find its public Softgarden board (following public links only).
• 🔜 Support for custom-domain Softgarden career sites with identical public markup.
• 🔜 Robots-allowed pagination if Softgarden exposes it for very large boards.
• 🔜 Cheaper "listing-only" event for high-volume monitoring.
• 🔜 Sibling Actors for other DACH ATS boards.

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