Arbeitsagentur Jobs Scraper: German Job Listings (Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit)

Unofficial scraper for the job search ("Jobsuche") of the German Federal Employment Agency. Search by keyword, city or postcode, radius, working hours, contract type and publication date, and get clean JSON rows for jobs, apprenticeships, internships and self-employment offers. This Actor is unofficial and not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit.

What does it do?

The Arbeitsagentur lists more than a million current offers from employers across Germany. The Actor reads the public search service behind arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche (the same data the website shows to every visitor, no login) and returns one dataset row per offer: title, employer, city, postcode, region, coordinates, working hours, contract type, salary text, start date, publication and modification dates, the application link of the employer, and the page on arbeitsagentur.de. Turn on Include full job description to also get the full ad text.

Why use it?

• Labour market and salary research: how many offers for a profession, in which region, with which contract.
• Recruitment and lead generation: find employers that are hiring right now, by industry keyword and location. Company data only, no private contacts.
• Job boards and aggregators: daily feed of fresh offers with the publishedWithinDays filter.
• Monitoring: track apprenticeships (Ausbildung) and dual study places per city.
• Clean and cheap: no proxy needed, deduplicated across searches, charged only for rows that were saved.

How to use it

1. Enter one or more keywords (German terms work best) and locations with a radius.
2. Pick offer types, working hours, contract type and the publication window if you need them.
3. Set Maximum number of jobs and run. Start with the prefilled input: it finishes in well under a minute.
4. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Input

Field	Meaning
keywords	Job title, skill or profession. Each keyword is searched separately, results merged without duplicates.
locations, radiusKm	City names or postcodes, radius 0 to 200 km. Empty = all of Germany.
offerTypes	job, selfEmployment, apprenticeship, internshipTraineeDualStudy.
employmentTypes	fullTime, partTime, shiftWeekendNight, homeOffice, miniJob.
contractType	any, fixedTerm, permanent.
publishedWithinDays	0 (today) to 100 days, exact cut-off on the first publication date.
employers	Employer names; exact name or any text contained in the listed name (up to 5 matches per entry).
temporaryAgencies, privateRecruiters	include, exclude or only.
maxJobs	Total cap across all searches.
includeDetails	Add the full description (extra request per job).

One search combination returns at most 10,000 offers (limit of the Arbeitsagentur service). For larger result sets split by location or by publication date.

Output

{
  "referenceNumber": "10001-1003891446-S",
  "title": "Softwareentwicklerin (w/m/d)",
  "employer": "GASAG AG",
  "city": "Berlin", "postcode": "10829", "region": "Berlin",
  "latitude": 52.480611, "longitude": 13.356027,
  "workTypes": ["full time"], "contractType": "fixed-term", "contractMonths": 24,
  "salaryText": "72,600 EUR per year",
  "startDate": "2026-10-21", "firstPublishedDate": "2026-10-21",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/jobdetail/10001-1003891446-S"
}

Data fields

referenceNumber, title, employer, occupation, allOccupations, offerType, apprenticeshipType, city, postcode, region, latitude, longitude, locations[] (all sites of the offer), distanceKm, workTypes, fullTime, partTime, shiftWork, miniJob, homeOffice, homeOfficePercent, careerChangeWelcome, contractType, contractMonths, salaryText, salaryAmount, salaryType, startDate, firstPublishedDate, modifiedAt, externalApplicationUrl, jobUrl, searchKeyword, searchLocation, scrapedAt. With details: description, partnerName, partnerUrl, isTemporaryAgency, isPrivateRecruiter, disabilityRequired, hasDetails.

Personal data: the Actor never outputs contact persons, their emails or phone numbers, and does not output street addresses. Email addresses, phone numbers and named contact persons (for example after "Ansprechpartner:" or "Frau ...") are removed from descriptions on a best-effort basis. Please check the result for your own compliance needs (GDPR).

Pricing

Pay per event, you pay only for rows that were saved:

• job: $0.0012 per job (about $1.20 per 1,000), list data.
• job-detail: $0.002 per job (about $2 per 1,000), charged instead of job when the full description was added.

There is no start fee. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops at that limit. Platform usage is small and shown in the run in the console.

Tips

• Use publishedWithinDays: 1 and a schedule for a daily fresh-jobs feed; the referenceNumber is a stable ID for deduplication.
• Keep details off for market overviews (about 100 offers per request, very fast). Turn them on when you need the text.
• The service pages at about 2 requests per second on purpose; 1,000 jobs with details take roughly 10 minutes.
• Employer filters work best with the exact name shown on the listing.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor reads data that anyone can see on arbeitsagentur.de without login, respects robots.txt of the portal, collects no personal contact data and does not work around blocks. The portal's terms of use restrict automated access; you are responsible for how you use the data. If the Bundesagentur asks to stop, this Actor will be taken down.

Do I need a proxy or an API key? No.

Why did a run stop early? If the service answers 403 or 429, the Actor waits once, retries once, then stops and charges only the jobs already saved.

Why are there fewer results than on the website? Duplicates across keywords and locations are removed, and one search is limited to 10,000 offers.