Personio Job Board Scraper - German & EU Company Careers Feeds

Export open positions from any company running Personio. One XML feed per employer returns the whole board with department, office, seniority, schedule, years of experience and a comparable occupation taxonomy. No API key needed.

✨ What this Actor does

• Track hiring at German and EU mid-market companies that never appear on the big job boards.
• Compare seniority and schedule mix across employers using one shared taxonomy.
• Spot a company opening a new office from the office field alone.
• Keep a recruiting CRM in step with what employers currently have open.

🚀 Quick start

1. Fill in the input below — the example is already prefilled, so you can just press Start.
2. Watch the log: it names every source it reaches and how many rows each returned.
3. Export from the Storage tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or feed it straight into your own tools.

📥 Input

{
  "companies": [
    "1komma5grad",
    "urbansportsclub"
  ],
  "maxItems": 300
}

Every field is documented in the input form. Nothing here needs an API key or a login.

📤 Output

One row per record, with these columns:

Field	Type	Description
company	string	Personio subdomain the position came from.
positionId	string	Personio's identifier for the position.
title	string	Role title as published.
subcompany	string	Entity within the group, where the employer uses them.
office	string	Office or site the role belongs to.
department	string	Department the role sits in.
recruitingCategory	string	Employer's own grouping for the role.
employmentType	string	Permanent, intern, trainee, contractor.
seniority	string	Entry level, experienced, executive.
schedule	string	Full-time or part-time.
yearsOfExperience	string	Experience band the employer selected.
occupation	string	Standardised occupation, comparable across employers.
occupationCategory	string	Broader occupation family.
keywords	string	Employer keywords, pipe-separated.
createdAt	string	When the position was created (ISO 8601).
description	string	Job description sections as plain text.
jobUrl	string	Public posting page.
scrapedAt	string	When this row was collected.

A column that is empty means the source did not publish that value for that record — it is never a silent substitute for zero or for "unknown".

❓ Frequently asked questions

Do I need an API key or an account? No. This Actor reads a public feed.

What happens if the source blocks the run? A refused exit IP is replaced within a quarter of a second, up to five times, before the Actor tries anything else. If nothing gets through, the run fails with the reason — it never reports success with zero rows, because "there is no such data" and "the source would not answer" are very different answers and you should not have to guess which one you got.

How do I schedule this? Use the Schedules tab. Daily is usually enough; the sources here do not change by the minute.

Can I get the results into Google Sheets or a database? Yes — use the dataset export, or the Apify API and integrations. Every run writes a SUMMARY record to the key-value store with the outcome and counts, which is handy for monitoring an automated pipeline.

💰 Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged for the rows you receive and nothing else, so a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

⚖️ Legal

This Actor collects publicly available information only. It does not log in, does not bypass access controls, and collects no private data. You are responsible for using the output in line with the source's terms and with applicable law, including GDPR where personal data is involved.

⭐ Support

Found something wrong, or want a field that is not here? Open an issue on the Actor's page — include the run ID and I will look at it.

How much Personio data can you extract in one run?

A single run returned 38 job ads in 8 seconds on the example input. That example is deliberately narrow; the result limit and the input list are both yours to widen. That is roughly 285 job ads a minute.

There is no hard ceiling built into this Actor. What bounds a run is the result limit you set, the breadth of the input you give it, and how much Personio itself publishes. Because billing is per result, a wider run costs proportionally more and a narrow one costs almost nothing — so it is worth starting small and scaling once the output looks right.

Personio scraping — frequently asked questions

Do I need a Personio API key, account or login?

No. This Actor reads publicly available pages and feeds, so there is nothing to register for and no credentials to manage.

How do I export Personio data to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets?

Open the Storage tab after a run and pick the format you want — CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or an HTML table. For Google Sheets, Airtable or a database, use the dataset URL or the Apify API so the sheet refreshes itself on every run.

Can I schedule this Personio scraper to run daily or hourly?

Yes. Use the Schedules tab and pick a cadence. Daily is enough for most tracking work; pick hourly only if the job ads you care about really do change that fast.

How many job ads can I get, and what does it cost?

See the volume section above for a measured figure. Billing is per result, so you pay for the rows you actually receive and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Is scraping Personio legal?

This Actor collects only information that Personio publishes publicly. It does not log in, does not defeat access controls and does not touch private data. You remain responsible for how you use the output, including under GDPR and similar rules where personal data is involved.

What happens if Personio blocks the run or changes its layout?

A refused exit IP is swapped for a fresh one within a quarter of a second and retried, and rate limiting is waited out rather than fought. If nothing gets through, the run fails with the reason instead of reporting success with zero rows — so an empty result always means "no matches", never "the source would not answer".

Can I use this with an AI agent, LangChain or an MCP client?

Yes. The Actor is callable over the Apify API and through Apify's MCP server, so an agent can run it and read the dataset back as a tool call.

Who uses this Personio scraper, and what for

• Market and pricing analysts tracking how job ads on Personio move week to week.
• Sales and growth teams building prospect lists from what Personio publishes.
• Data and ML teams who need a structured corpus rather than screenshots.
• Researchers and journalists who need a dataset they can cite and re-run.
• Operations teams feeding job ads into a CRM, a warehouse or a dashboard on a schedule.

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📝 Changelog

2026-09-25

• First release.