# Personio Jobs API & Change Monitor (`istenotools/personio-jobs-api`) Actor

Extract normalized public Personio jobs, offices, departments, descriptions, schedules, and hiring changes.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/istenotools/personio-jobs-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Isteno Tools](https://apify.com/istenotools) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 personio jobs

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## Personio Jobs API & Change Monitor

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/28WlO7n0iHj8sJN95/records/actor-icon-personio-jobs-api.png" alt="Personio Jobs API icon" width="180">
</p>

> **Unofficial independent tool.** Not affiliated with or endorsed by Personio SE & Co. KG. The
> Personio name identifies compatible public career-page URLs only.

Convert enabled public Personio career feeds into normalized job datasets. Extract current
vacancies or monitor additions, updates, and removals without a Personio login, customer
credentials, cookies, or private Recruiting API access.

### Best for

- European job-search and recruiting products
- Company and competitor hiring trackers
- Hiring-signal lead generation
- Search indexes, alerts, and research datasets

### What you get

- Stable Personio job IDs and content fingerprints
- Company, title, primary office, additional offices, and department
- Recruiting category, employment type, schedule, and seniority
- Section-aware plain-text and HTML descriptions
- Public job and application URL
- Keyword, location, department, remote, and date filters
- Exact `maxItems` result control and failure-safe change monitoring

### Run it

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://personio.jobs.personio.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "mode": "snapshot",
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

Use a public Personio career home, job page, or XML-feed URL. The company's public XML option must
be enabled. The Actor requests the selected language, normalizes every published position, and
builds public job and application links.

### Monitor changes

Set `"mode": "changes"` and schedule the same input. The first changes run emits current jobs as
`added`; later runs emit only meaningful changes and removals from healthy feeds. A disabled or
temporarily failing feed retains its previous state and cannot cause a paid removal flood.

Each default-dataset item is one normalized public Personio job or job-change event. Diagnostics
and run totals are stored in the unpaid `OUTPUT` record.

### Cost and reliability

`maxItems` is a hard paid-result cap. Personio XML requires one public request per company, keeping
compute and request costs low. HTTPS-only network checks, bounded responses, timeouts, and retries
are enforced. Apify shows the active price and maximum charge before every run.

### FAQ

**Does it need Personio credentials?** No. It reads the company's enabled public XML jobs feed.

**What if a company disabled its XML feed?** The Actor reports an empty or failed source in
`OUTPUT`; it does not fabricate jobs or false removals.

**Does it submit applications or access candidates?** No. It never uses the private Recruiting
API or accesses applicant, resume, employee, or unpublished-job data.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Add one or more public Personio job-board URLs. HTTPS only.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Optional advanced source objects with url, provider, companyName, and label.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap across all sources. One default-dataset item is one chargeable result.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Snapshot emits current jobs. Changes emits only added, updated, and removed jobs versus saved state.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Optional stable key-value store name. If omitted, one is derived from sources and filters.

## `titleKeywords` (type: `array`):

Emit jobs whose title contains at least one term. Leave empty for all titles.

## `excludeTitleKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop jobs whose title contains any term.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Case-insensitive location substrings. Leave empty for every location.

## `departments` (type: `array`):

Case-insensitive department substrings. Leave empty for every department.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Emit only records identified as remote or hybrid.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch and normalize descriptions when the source exposes them.

## `includeCompensation` (type: `boolean`):

Include public salary or compensation fields when the source exposes them.

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

Bounded request concurrency across sources and detail pages.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time allowed for each source request.

## `retryCount` (type: `integer`):

Retries timeout, rate-limit, and server errors with backoff.

## `failOnSourceError` (type: `boolean`):

When disabled, healthy sources still return results and failed sources cannot create false removals.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://personio.jobs.personio.com/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "mode": "snapshot",
  "titleKeywords": [],
  "excludeTitleKeywords": [],
  "locations": [],
  "departments": [],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "includeDescription": true,
  "includeCompensation": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "retryCount": 2,
  "failOnSourceError": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://personio.jobs.personio.com/"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("istenotools/personio-jobs-api").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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://personio.jobs.personio.com/" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("istenotools/personio-jobs-api").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://personio.jobs.personio.com/"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call istenotools/personio-jobs-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,istenotools/personio-jobs-api"
        }
    }
}

```

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/qM528QsZ7BZ8M6If7/builds/Eyb6XFh9OVt3mAXUC/openapi.json