Stepstone.de Jobs Scraper – Scrape Stellenangebote from stepstone.de

Extract job postings (Stellenangebote) from Stepstone.de, Germany's largest job board and the dominant recruiter platform for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This Stepstone scraper searches by keyword and city and returns a clean, structured dataset — title, company, location, salary, posted date and apply URL — ready to export to CSV, JSON or Excel.

It runs each keyword + location pair as its own search, sorts by relevance or newest, and can optionally open each job's detail page for the full description. Stepstone is protected by Akamai Bot Manager, so the actor uses residential proxies with TLS-fingerprint impersonation to fetch pages reliably.

What you get

Every job is returned as a flat record:

• title – the job title (Stellenbezeichnung).
• companyName – the hiring company / employer.
• location – the advertised city or region.
• salary – the salary as displayed on Stepstone (when present).
• datePosted – ISO 8601 posting date.
• jobUrl – direct link to the job's application page.
• companyUrl – the employer's Stepstone profile URL.
• isSponsored – whether the listing is a promoted/sponsored result.
• scrapedAt – ISO timestamp of the scrape.

With Fetch Full Job Description enabled, each record also carries the longer description, requirements and company profile from the detail page. Export as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML, or pull via the Apify API.

Use cases

• Recruiter & DACH market intelligence – track which companies are hiring for which roles across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• Job-market research – measure posting volume, salary ranges and in-demand skills in the German market.
• Recruiting & sales leads – build lists of employers actively hiring in a city or job category for outreach.
• Power a job aggregator or board – ingest fresh, structured German job listings into your own site or app.
• Daily monitoring – sort by date and schedule the actor to capture newly posted Stellenangebote.

How to use

1. Fill Searches with one or more { "keyword": ..., "location": ... } pairs (e.g. software engineer in berlin). Leave location empty for nationwide.
2. Set Max Pages per Search (each page = 25 jobs; platform cap ~93 pages).
3. Choose Sort By: relevance or date (newest first).
4. Optionally enable Fetch Full Job Description (roughly doubles request count).
5. Keep the default residential Proxy Configuration (DE/EU is required to beat Akamai), then click Start and export as CSV, JSON or Excel.

Example input

{
  "searches": [
    { "keyword": "software engineer", "location": "berlin" },
    { "keyword": "data analyst", "location": "munchen" }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 4,
  "sortBy": "date",
  "fetchJobDetails": false
}

FAQ

Why does this scraper need residential proxies?

Stepstone.de is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. The actor uses residential proxies (DE/EU) plus TLS-fingerprint impersonation to fetch search and detail pages reliably. Keep the default proxy configuration.

Can I search multiple cities and keywords at once?

Yes. The Searches field takes a list of keyword + location pairs, and each pair runs as a separate search in the same run.

How do I get only the newest jobs?

Set Sort By to date (newest first) and schedule the actor so each run surfaces the latest Stellenangebote.

Can I get the full job description?

Yes. Enable Fetch Full Job Description and each record will include the long description, requirements and company profile from the job's detail page.

Is this a Stepstone.de API alternative?

Yes. Stepstone has no public jobs API, so this actor works as an unofficial Stepstone API alternative — it scrapes the live search and detail pages and returns the same structured fields you would expect from an API.

How do I export Stepstone data to CSV or JSON?

Run a search, then download the dataset directly as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML from the Apify console, or pull it via the Apify API. This makes it a simple Stepstone.de data export and German job data extraction tool.

Can I scrape Stepstone jobs without an API or login?

Yes. No Stepstone account or login is required. The actor fetches public Stellenangebote using residential proxies and TLS-fingerprint impersonation, so you can scrape Stepstone.de without an API key.

Changelog

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Stepstone.de API alternative usage, exporting Stepstone data to CSV/JSON, and scraping Stepstone jobs without an API or login.