StepStone Scraper

Export StepStone jobs from stepstone.de, stepstone.at and stepstone.be — with salary estimates, full descriptions, contract type, home office, address and hiring-company data — as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, without a login.

Independent tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by StepStone or The Stepstone Group. "StepStone" is a trademark of its owner and is used here only to describe the website this Actor reads.

StepStone Scraper is a StepStone jobs scraper for Germany's largest job board and its Austrian and Belgian sites. It turns any StepStone search — a job title or keyword, a city, a federal state or the whole country, plus StepStone's own filters — into structured StepStone jobs data: title, employer, location, postal code and coordinates, posting and expiry date, StepStone's salary estimate (min / max / period / currency), home-office flag, contract and work type, Easy Apply flag, benefits and the full job description split into introduction, responsibilities, requirements and benefits. Use it to scrape stepstone.de by keyword and location, as a StepStone API alternative (StepStone offers no public jobs API), or to export StepStone jobs to CSV, Excel or JSON for your ATS, CRM, BI tool or data warehouse. No StepStone account, no login, no cookies, no browser.

Recruiters, staffing agencies, HR analysts and job-market researchers use it for salary data in Germany (Gehaltsdaten), lead lists of companies that are hiring, competitor monitoring and labour-market statistics. In German: mit diesem Tool können Sie StepStone Stellenanzeigen exportieren, Jobs scrapen nach Stichwort, Ort, Bundesland, Vertragsart, Homeoffice oder Gehalt, und Stellenmarkt-Daten für ganz Deutschland, Österreich oder Belgien als Excel- oder CSV-Datei herunterladen — inklusive vollständiger Stellenbeschreibung, Gehaltsschätzung, Postleitzahl und Unternehmensdaten (Größe, Branche, Bewertung). Every number on this page was measured on the Apify platform on 2026-10-18.

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Table of contents

• At a glance
• What you get
• Who uses it — 14 workflows
• Cookbook — 16 ready-to-run inputs
• Tutorial: your first run in the Apify Console
• Tutorial: run it from the API
• Input reference
• Output data dictionary
• Real output sample
• Scale and speed (measured)
• What you pay
• Integrations
• Performance tips
• Troubleshooting: every status message explained
• Honest limits
• How it compares
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Is it legal to scrape StepStone?
• Changelog
• Support

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At a glance

Sites	stepstone.de (Germany), stepstone.at (Austria), stepstone.be (Belgium)
Jobs available	stepstone.de ~205,000 · stepstone.at ~9,600 · stepstone.be ~10,100 (counted 2026-10-18)
Search by	keywords / job titles × cities, regions or the whole country, plus pasted StepStone URLs (search pages, company pages, job pages)
Filters	posting date (24 h / 7 days), full-time / part-time, 14 contract types, experience level, home office (partial / full), minimum salary (stepstone.de), Easy Apply, language of the ad, radius, sort order
Per job	48 columns: listing, StepStone salary estimate, home office, contract and work type, employment type, discipline, address with postal code and coordinates, full description and its sections, benefits, company size / industries / rating
Depth	Every page of a search to its end — StepStone has no page cap (page 8,000 of a Germany-wide search returns real, distinct jobs)
Speed	50 jobs with full details in 6.6 s · 1,000 jobs with full details in 90 s · search data alone ~130 jobs per second
Output	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, HTML table; API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, MCP
Login / cookies / proxy	None needed — direct connection at a pace StepStone accepts
Price	$1.50 → $1.00 per 1,000 jobs depending on your Apify plan; everything included

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What you get

Every row is one job ad. Values StepStone does not publish are null — never an empty string or an invented 0. Example values below are real values from a run on 2026-10-18.

The job

Field	Example
id	14571015 — StepStone's listing id (unique per row)
harmonisedId	cc6c37ad-7802-4598-97f2-afc5b81262dd — StepStone's global job id
url	https://www.stepstone.de/jobs--Team-Member-Marketing-…--14571015-inline.html
title	Team Member Marketing and Business Development – Automotive & Mobility / Aerospace & Defense (m/f/d)
datePosted, validThrough	2026-10-17T16:03:07.790Z, 2026-11-01T16:40:33.263Z
textSnippet	StepStone's short summary of the ad
labels	Easy Apply | No cover letter required | Be an early applicant
easyApply, noCoverLetter	true / false
resultType	match (or similar / nearby when you include those)

Pay

Field	Example
salaryMin, salaryMax	58000, 65000
salaryCurrency	EUR
salaryPeriod	YEAR (also MONTH, HOUR)
salaryType	StepStone estimate — StepStone's own salary prediction for the ad; Employer when the employer states the pay

Work arrangement

Field	Example
workFromHome	Partially remote / Fully remote / null (not stated)
contractType	Permanent contract, Temporary contract, Internship, Student job, Industrial placement student …
workType	Full Time, Home office possible
employmentType	FULL_TIME, PART_TIME (schema.org values)
discipline, subDiscipline	IT, Softwareentwicklung (StepStone's own job taxonomy)

Where

Field	Example
location	München — as shown on StepStone
city, postalCode, streetAddress	München, 80539, Karl-Scharnagl-Ring 5
country	DE, AT or BE
latitude, longitude	48.13985, 11.583821

The ad text

Field	What it holds
description	The complete job ad as plain text with paragraphs and bullet points
introduction	The employer's introduction ("About us")
responsibilities	Tasks — "Ihre Aufgaben", "Your tasks"
requirements	Profile — "Ihr Profil", "Qualifications"
benefits	What the employer offers — "Wir bieten", "Benefits"
additionalInformation	Contact, application notes, start date
descriptionHtml	Optional: the description with its original HTML (switch on includeDescriptionHtml)

The hiring company

Field	Example
companyName, companyId	Hogan Lovells Cadwalader International LLP, 83998
companyUrl	The company's job list on StepStone
companyLogoUrl	Logo image URL
companySize	10000+, 1000+, 251-1000, 51-250, 11-50, 1-10
companyIndustries	Medizintechnik | IT & Tech
companyRating, companyReviewCount	3.87, 81 — StepStone's employer rating and the number of reviews behind it
companyOpenJobs	40 — open jobs of the company on StepStone

Bookkeeping

searchTerm, searchLocation (which search found the job), site (stepstone.de / .at / .be), scrapedAt.

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Who uses it — 14 workflows

1. Recruiters sourcing for open roles

Search the job titles you recruit for in the cities you cover, keep postedWithin: "7", and read requirements and benefits side by side to see what competing employers ask for and offer. The salaryMin / salaryMax range tells you whether your client's offer is competitive before you call candidates.

2. Staffing and recruitment agencies — business development

Every job ad is a buying signal: the company has an open position today. Export all jobs of a region or discipline, group by companyName, and sort by companyOpenJobs and companySize — the companies with many open roles and 251–10,000 employees are your best prospects. companyIndustries lets you target the industries you place in.

3. Temporary-work agencies (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung)

Filter contractTypes: ["temp_agency"] to see which competitors post where, or exclude agency ads from your lead list by filtering them out of a full export. The labels field also shows which ads accept applications without a cover letter.

4. HR analytics and compensation teams

Pull every ad for a job family across Germany and compute salary bands from salaryMin / salaryMax by city, companySize and discipline. StepStone publishes an estimate for 68–76 % of jobs (68 % in a 1,000-job München run, 76 % of 25,094 Berlin and München jobs) — enough for solid medians per role and city.

5. Salary benchmarking for candidates and employers

Answer "what does a software engineer earn in Munich?" from live ads instead of surveys: search the title, set the city, export, and take the median of the estimated range. Repeat monthly to track movement.

6. Job aggregators and niche job boards

Feed your board with fresh StepStone jobs in your niche (e.g. nursing, engineering, English-speaking jobs via jobLanguages: ["en"]). Schedule a daily run with postedWithin: "1" and push the new rows to your database through a webhook. url always points to the original ad.

7. Labour-market researchers and economists

Count vacancies by region, discipline, contract type and home-office share. A whole federal state ("Bayern", ~38,000 jobs) or the whole country can be exported in one run, and datePosted gives the time dimension for weekly snapshots.

8. Employer branding and talent-acquisition teams

Benchmark your ads against competitors: what do they promise in benefits, how often do they offer home office (workFromHome), do they drop the cover letter (noCoverLetter), how are they rated (companyRating, companyReviewCount)?

9. Competitor and market intelligence

Paste a competitor's StepStone company page into startUrls and run it weekly: new ads reveal expansion (new cities), new teams (new disciplines) and seniority mix long before a press release.

10. Sales teams selling to HR (HR tech, job-ad services, relocation, benefits providers)

Companies with many open ads are buying HR products. Export a region, keep companies with companyOpenJobs ≥ 10, and hand the list with company size and industry to your SDRs.

11. Career coaches and outplacement providers

Give clients a curated, filtered list — e.g. experienceLevels: ["management"] in their city with salary estimates — instead of pointing them to a website.

12. Universities, career services and student job portals

Collect internship, student_job, thesis and entry_level jobs for your region every week and publish them to students.

13. Relocation, immigration and international-hiring services

jobLanguages: ["en"] returns the English-language ads in Germany, Austria or Belgium — the jobs open to people who do not speak German, Dutch or French.

14. AI, RAG and LLM pipelines

Feed structured, sectioned job ads (responsibilities, requirements, benefits as separate fields) to a vector index, a matching model or an agent through the API or the Apify MCP server, and let an LLM answer questions about the German job market from fresh data.

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Cookbook — 16 ready-to-run inputs

Paste any of these into the Input tab (JSON view) or send it as the body of an API call.

1. Keyword + city

{
  "searchTerms": ["software engineer"],
  "locations": ["Berlin"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Measured: 489 matching jobs for this search on 2026-10-18 (StepStone also lists 138 "similar" and 59 "nearby" jobs, which are skipped unless you switch on includeSimilarJobs).

2. Several job titles × several cities

{
  "searchTerms": ["Pflegefachkraft", "Gesundheits- und Krankenpfleger"],
  "locations": ["Hamburg", "Bremen", "Hannover"],
  "maxItems": 3000
}

Every term is combined with every location (6 searches). Each search first gets a fair share of maxItems; unused shares are redistributed.

3. Every job in a whole region

{
  "locations": ["Bayern"],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "includeDetails": false
}

A federal state, a city or a country works as a location. Bavaria had 38,035 matching jobs on 2026-10-18. maxItems: 0 = no limit. With includeDetails: false the run uses search pages only (25 jobs per request) and is very fast; switch details on for descriptions and addresses.

4. Every job on stepstone.de

{
  "maxItems": 0,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Leave terms and locations empty: the Actor searches "Deutschland" (about 205,000 jobs). Make sure your Maximum cost per run covers the number of results (see What you pay).

5. Remote-only jobs

{
  "searchTerms": ["data analyst"],
  "workFromHome": ["full"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

["partial"] = hybrid, ["partial", "full"] = any home office.

6. Only well-paid jobs (stepstone.de)

{
  "searchTerms": ["project manager"],
  "locations": ["Frankfurt am Main"],
  "minSalary": 70000,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

StepStone filters by its salary information (the estimate where the employer gives none) in steps of 10,000 EUR per year.

7. Jobs posted in the last 24 hours (daily monitoring)

{
  "searchTerms": ["SAP"],
  "locations": ["Deutschland"],
  "postedWithin": "1",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Schedule this every morning (Schedules → Create new) and connect a webhook or Google Sheets — see Integrations.

8. One company's jobs

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/goldbeck-technologies-gmbh-180101/jobs" }
  ]
}

Open the company on StepStone, click its jobs list and paste that URL. Several company pages can go in one run.

9. A StepStone search URL with any filter combination

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/jobs/software-engineer/in-berlin?radius=30&ct=222&wfh=2" }
  ]
}

Set up the search on stepstone.de with every filter you like (categories, sectors, cities, skills …), copy the address bar, paste it. The Actor reads all pages of that exact search.

10. Specific job ads by URL

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--AI-native-Software-Engineer-m-w-d-Bielefeld-GOLDBECK-Technologies-GmbH--14603736-inline.html" }
  ]
}

Each job page becomes one full row (description, address, company card).

11. Austria (stepstone.at)

{
  "country": "at",
  "searchTerms": ["Projektmanager"],
  "locations": ["Wien"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

stepstone.at had 9,606 jobs on 2026-10-18 (Vienna: 2,911 matching).

12. Belgium (stepstone.be), French labels

{
  "country": "be",
  "language": "fr",
  "locations": ["Brussel"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

stepstone.be had 10,145 jobs on 2026-10-18. Labels can be English, Dutch (nl) or French (fr); the job ads stay in their own language.

13. Internships and working-student jobs

{
  "locations": ["München", "Stuttgart"],
  "contractTypes": ["internship", "student_job", "thesis"],
  "maxItems": 2000
}

14. Entry-level jobs in English

{
  "experienceLevels": ["none"],
  "jobLanguages": ["en"],
  "locations": ["Deutschland"],
  "maxItems": 2000
}

15. Part-time jobs with Easy Apply

{
  "locations": ["Köln"],
  "workType": "part",
  "easyApplyOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

16. Fastest bulk export of a city (search data only)

{
  "locations": ["Berlin", "München"],
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Search pages carry title, company, location, dates, salary estimate, home office, labels, snippet and benefits; switch details on for everything else.

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Tutorial: your first run in the Apify Console

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free (or Start if you already use it).
2. In Search terms, type one or more job titles or keywords — e.g. software engineer. Press Enter after each.
3. In Locations, add a city, a region or Deutschland — e.g. Berlin. Leave empty for the whole country.
4. Pick the StepStone site (Germany, Austria or Belgium).
5. Optional: open Filters and choose posting date, full-time / part-time, contract type, experience, home office, minimum salary, Easy Apply or ad language.
6. Set Max results (start with 100 to see the data; 0 means no limit).
7. Keep Include full job details on for descriptions, contract type, address and company data.
8. Click Start. Rows appear in the Output tab within seconds; the status line shows progress.
9. When the run finishes, click Export and choose CSV, Excel or JSON. The Output tab has three views: Overview, Pay & contract and Company & location.
10. To repeat the search automatically, click Schedule and pick a time (e.g. every morning at 7:00).

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Tutorial: run it from the API

1. Get your token

Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations → copy your personal API token.

2. Run and get the data in one call (small runs)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~stepstone-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN&format=json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["data engineer"],"locations":["Hamburg"],"maxItems":200}'

run-sync-… waits up to 5 minutes; use it for runs up to a few thousand jobs.

3. Start a run and fetch the data later (big runs)

# start
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~stepstone-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"locations":["Bayern"],"maxItems":0,"includeDetails":false}'
# poll: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/RUN_ID?token=YOUR_TOKEN  (status SUCCEEDED)
# data: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?format=csv&token=YOUR_TOKEN

4. Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('logiover/stepstone-scraper').call({
    searchTerms: ['Vertrieb', 'Account Manager'],
    locations: ['München'],
    postedWithin: '7',
    maxItems: 1000,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const job of items) console.log(job.title, job.companyName, job.salaryMin, job.salaryMax, job.workFromHome);

5. Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("logiover/stepstone-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchTerms": ["Elektroniker"],
    "locations": ["Nordrhein-Westfalen"],
    "contractTypes": ["permanent"],
    "maxItems": 2000,
})
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["title"], job["companyName"], job["postalCode"], job["salaryMin"], job["companySize"])

6. Read the run summary

Every run writes a SUMMARY record to its key-value store: outcome, jobs per search, how many StepStone listed, pages read, job pages read, skipped similar/nearby jobs, and why the run stopped. Fetch it with GET https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/SUMMARY?token=YOUR_TOKEN.

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Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchTerms	array of strings	[]	Job titles, keywords or skills. Each term is one StepStone search. Empty = all jobs in the locations.
locations	array of strings	[]	Cities, regions (federal states such as Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen), or the country (Deutschland, Österreich, Belgie). Every term × every location. Empty = whole country.
country	de / at / be	de	Which StepStone site to search. Pasted URLs always use their own site.
radiusKm	integer 0–200	StepStone's 30	Search radius around a city.
postedWithin	any / 1 / 7	any	Last 24 hours or last 7 days (StepStone's filter).
workType	any / full / part	any	Full-time or part-time only.
contractTypes	array	[]	permanent, temporary, temp_agency, temp_to_perm (BE), freelance, franchise, entry_level, apprenticeship, internship, student_job, thesis, doctorate, traineeship, trade_representative. Types a site does not have are reported and ignored.
experienceLevels	array	[]	none (first job), experienced, management.
workFromHome	array	[]	partial (hybrid), full (remote).
minSalary	integer	0	Minimum yearly salary in EUR, stepstone.de only, steps of 10,000 (rounded down).
easyApplyOnly	boolean	false	Only ads with StepStone's quick application.
jobLanguages	array	[]	Language of the ad: de, en, nl, fr.
startUrls	array of URLs	[]	StepStone search pages (any filters), company job lists (/cmp/…) and job pages (…-inline.html) from .de, .at or .be. Only URLs → only the URLs are read.
maxItems	integer	1000	Maximum unique jobs per run. 0 = no limit.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Read every job page: full description and its sections, contract / work / employment type, discipline, postal code, street, coordinates, company size, industries, rating, open jobs. Off = search data only, much faster.
includeSimilarJobs	boolean	false	Also keep StepStone's "similar jobs" (shown after keyword matches) and "nearby jobs" (shown after a city's jobs).
sortBy	date / relevance	date	Newest first, or StepStone's relevance ranking.
language	en / de / nl / fr	en	Language of StepStone's labels (contract type, work type, badges). German for .de/.at, Dutch and French for .be.
includeDescriptionHtml	boolean	false	Add descriptionHtml with the original formatting.
maxRequestsPerSecond	integer 1–16	12	Upper limit for the request pace. The Actor slows down by itself when StepStone refuses requests.
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Optional. Direct connection by default; during a StepStone hold up to 80 requests go through residential IPs automatically. Set Apify RESIDENTIAL here for long runs through a hold.

Filters are validated: values a site does not offer are named in the log instead of silently returning nothing. StepStone ignores its own region filter inside URLs (fre=), so regions are searched as locations — the Actor tells you if a pasted URL contains one.

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Output data dictionary

Fill rates were measured on a 1,000-job run (all jobs in München, job details on, 2026-10-18). "100 %" fields are always present; lower rates mean StepStone does not publish the value for every ad.

Field	Type	Fill	Meaning	Example
id	number	100 %	StepStone listing id, unique per row	14571015
harmonisedId	string	100 %	StepStone's global job id	cc6c37ad-…
url	string	100 %	Job ad on StepStone (tracking parameters removed)	https://www.stepstone.de/jobs--…-inline.html
title	string	100 %	Job title	Software Engineer – R&D Orthopedic Surgery
companyName	string	100 %	Employer as shown	Brainlab
companyId	number	100 %	StepStone company id	58265
companyUrl	string	100 %	Company's job list on StepStone	https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/en/brainlab-58265/work
companyLogoUrl	string	99.8 %	Logo	https://www.stepstone.de/upload_DE/logo/…gif
location	string	99.9 %	Location as listed	München
postalCode	string	50.6 %	Validated postal code (5 digits DE, 4 digits AT/BE)	80539
city	string	98.5 %	City of the job	München
streetAddress	string	28.9 %	Street and number when the employer gives one	Karl-Scharnagl-Ring 5
country	string	100 %	ISO country code	DE
latitude, longitude	number	64.2 %	Coordinates of the workplace	48.13985, 11.583821
datePosted	string (ISO 8601)	100 %	Publication time	2026-10-17T16:03:07.790Z
validThrough	string (ISO 8601)	100 %	Planned end of the ad	2026-11-01T16:40:33.263Z
salaryMin, salaryMax	number	68.3 %	Salary range	58000, 65000
salaryCurrency	string	68.3 %	Currency	EUR
salaryPeriod	string	68.3 %	YEAR, MONTH or HOUR	YEAR
salaryType	string	68.3 %	StepStone estimate or Employer	StepStone estimate
workFromHome	string	48.1 %	Partially remote / Fully remote; null = not offered or not stated	Partially remote
contractType	string	94.1 %	Contract type label	Permanent contract
workType	string	91.6 %	Work type label	Full Time, Home office possible
employmentType	string	100 %	schema.org employment type	FULL_TIME
easyApply	boolean	100 %	StepStone quick application	true
noCoverLetter	boolean	100 %	"No cover letter required"	false
labels	string	64.2 %	All labels and badges, pipe-separated	Easy Apply | Be an early applicant
discipline	string	95.0 %	StepStone job discipline	IT
subDiscipline	string	75.7 %	Sub-discipline	Softwareentwicklung
textSnippet	string	100 %	StepStone's short summary	Brainlab ist ein Münchner Medizintechnik-Unternehmen …
benefits	string	96.4 %	What the employer offers	• 30 vacation days …
description	string	100 %	Full ad text	About Hogan Lovells …
introduction	string	95.7 %	Employer introduction	At the forefront of health technology …
responsibilities	string	98.4 %	Tasks	As a highly motivated Software Engineer …
requirements	string	98.4 %	Candidate profile	• A degree in Computer Science …
additionalInformation	string	75.8 %	Contact / application notes	We look forward to receiving your application …
companySize	string	81.3 %	Employee band	1000+
companyIndustries	string	81.7 %	Company industries, pipe-separated	Medizintechnik | IT & Tech
companyRating	number	39.8 %	StepStone employer rating (1–5)	3.87
companyReviewCount	number	39.8 %	Reviews behind the rating	81
companyOpenJobs	number	85.9 %	Company's open jobs on StepStone	40
resultType	string	100 %	match, similar or nearby	match
searchTerm	string	when a term was searched	The search term that found the job	software engineer
searchLocation	string	when a location was searched	The location that found the job	München
site	string	100 %	stepstone.de, stepstone.at or stepstone.be	stepstone.de
scrapedAt	string (ISO 8601)	100 %	Collection time	2026-10-18T21:14:38.000Z
descriptionHtml	string	optional	Original HTML of the ad (includeDescriptionHtml: true)	<h4>Über GOLDBECK</h4>…

With includeDetails: false the job-page fields (postalCode, city, streetAddress, coordinates, contractType, workType, employmentType, discipline, description and its sections, company size / industries / rating / open jobs) stay null; everything else is filled exactly as above.

CSV / Excel columns (in this order): id, harmonisedId, url, title, companyName, companyId, companyUrl, companyLogoUrl, location, postalCode, city, streetAddress, country, latitude, longitude, datePosted, validThrough, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod, salaryType, workFromHome, contractType, workType, employmentType, easyApply, noCoverLetter, labels, discipline, subDiscipline, textSnippet, benefits, description, introduction, responsibilities, requirements, additionalInformation, companySize, companyIndustries, companyRating, companyReviewCount, companyOpenJobs, resultType, searchTerm, searchLocation, site, scrapedAt.

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Real output sample

A real row from the 1,000-job run on 2026-10-18 (all jobs in München, default settings; the long texts are shortened here):

{
  "id": 14571015,
  "harmonisedId": "cc6c37ad-7802-4598-97f2-afc5b81262dd",
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/jobs--Team-Member-Marketing-and-Business-Development-Automotive-Mobility-Aerospace-Defense-m-f-d-Muenchen-Hogan-Lovells-Cadwalader-International-LLP--14571015-inline.html",
  "title": "Team Member Marketing and Business Development – Automotive & Mobility / Aerospace & Defense (m/f/d)",
  "companyName": "Hogan Lovells Cadwalader International LLP",
  "companyId": 83998,
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/en/hogan-lovells-cadwalader-international-llp-83998/work",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/upload_DE/logo/0/logoHogan-Lovells-International-LLP-83998DE-2607011601.gif",
  "location": "München",
  "postalCode": "80539",
  "city": "München",
  "streetAddress": "Karl-Scharnagl-Ring 5",
  "country": "DE",
  "latitude": 48.13985,
  "longitude": 11.583821,
  "datePosted": "2026-10-17T16:03:07.790Z",
  "validThrough": "2026-11-01T16:40:33.263Z",
  "salaryMin": 58000,
  "salaryMax": 65000,
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "salaryPeriod": "YEAR",
  "salaryType": "StepStone estimate",
  "workFromHome": null,
  "contractType": "Permanent contract",
  "workType": "Full Time",
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "easyApply": false,
  "noCoverLetter": false,
  "labels": null,
  "textSnippet": "Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is a global law firm with 3,100+ lawyers across 36 offices. They're looking for a team member to join Marketing and Business Development …",
  "benefits": "• Varied and challenging work in a collegial, highly motivated team\n• A modern, attractive, and future-proof workplace with excellent public transport connections\n• Comprehensive onboarding …",
  "description": "About Hogan Lovells Cadwalader\n\nHogan Lovells Cadwalader brings together more than 3,100 lawyers across 36 worldwide offices …",
  "resultType": "match",
  "searchLocation": "München",
  "site": "stepstone.de"
}

A second real row (same run) with company data, a sub-discipline and home office:

{
  "id": 14624658,
  "title": "Software Engineer – R&D Orthopedic Surgery",
  "companyName": "Brainlab",
  "location": "München",
  "latitude": 48.143295,
  "longitude": 11.564068,
  "salaryMin": 54000,
  "salaryMax": 76000,
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "salaryPeriod": "YEAR",
  "salaryType": "StepStone estimate",
  "workFromHome": "Partially remote",
  "contractType": "Permanent contract",
  "workType": "Full Time, Home office possible",
  "employmentType": "FULL_TIME",
  "easyApply": true,
  "discipline": "IT",
  "subDiscipline": "Softwareentwicklung",
  "requirements": "• A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field …",
  "companySize": "1000+",
  "companyIndustries": "Medizintechnik | IT & Tech",
  "companyRating": 3.87,
  "companyReviewCount": 81,
  "companyOpenJobs": 40
}

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Scale and speed (measured)

All runs on the Apify platform, default memory (2 GB), 2026-10-18.

Run	Result	Time
Prefill / first run (50 jobs, "software engineer" in Berlin, full job details)	50 jobs, first row after 1.7 s	6.6 s
1,000 jobs, default settings (all jobs in München, full job details)	1,000 jobs, 1,000 job pages read, 0 duplicates, 0 refused requests	90 s
Every job in Berlin + München, search data only (includeDetails: false, maxItems: 0)	25,081 unique jobs, 0 duplicates — 99.7 % (Berlin) and 99.8 % (München) of the jobs StepStone counted	197 s
Every job in Berlin, search data only, with completion pass	15,129 of 15,151 listed jobs (99.9 %): first pass 15,002, completion pass +127	243 s

How big searches are read completely

• No page cap. StepStone paginates every search to its end. We checked the deepest pages of a Germany-wide search: page 2,000, 5,000 and 8,000 (offset 199,975) all returned 25 real, distinct jobs, and none of them repeated page 1. So a region or the whole country is read page by page — no splitting tricks are needed, and nothing is silently left out.
• No fake pagination — but a moving order. Pages 1, 2 and 3 of the same search are disjoint and identical on repeat. Over a long search, however, StepStone's order shifts slightly while you read it: one date-ordered pass over all Berlin jobs saw 15,002 of the 15,151 listed (99.0 %), because a few jobs slipped between pages while they were read. The Actor measures this per search (jobsSeen and coveragePercent in the SUMMARY) and, when a search ends below 99.5 % of StepStone's count, reads it once more in the other order (completion pass). Jobs already saved are skipped for free. Berlin then reached 15,129 of 15,151 listed jobs (99.9 %).
• Multi-location ads are saved once. An ad that lists several cities appears in each of those city searches — Berlin and München shared 1,078 such ads in one run. Every job is de-duplicated by its StepStone id, so you pay for it once.
• Matches first, extras last. StepStone lists the real matches first and then appends "similar jobs" (for keywords) and "nearby jobs" (for cities). By default the Actor reads exactly the pages holding the matches and stops — e.g. "SAP ABAP" has 128 matches but 7,627 similar jobs, which you only get with includeSimilarJobs.
• Pace StepStone accepts. StepStone limits how fast one address may send requests. Measured: 3, 6, 10 and 16 requests per second stayed clean for 300–600 requests each; 30 per second got the connection blocked after about 180 requests. The Actor therefore paces itself (default 12 per second, search pages and job pages together), halves the pace as soon as StepStone refuses something and speeds up again after 20 quiet seconds.
• Search data vs. job pages. One search page carries 25 jobs; each job page is one more request. Search data alone (~130 jobs per second) is therefore more than ten times faster than full details (~11 jobs per second).

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What you pay

A fixed price per job in the dataset — compute, connection and job-page requests are included. No monthly rental, no charge for duplicates, similar/nearby jobs you did not ask for, or jobs that were filtered out.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 jobs	1,000 jobs	10,000 jobs	100,000 jobs
Free	$1.50	$1.50	$15.00	$150.00
Bronze	$1.33	$1.33	$13.33	$133.33
Silver	$1.17	$1.17	$11.67	$116.67
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$1.00	$1.00	$10.00	$100.00

The price is the same with or without job details.

Maximum cost per run

Apify stops every pay-per-result run at its Maximum cost per run (you set it in the run options; the platform also applies a default). The Actor reads that limit when it starts, collects only what it covers, stops cleanly and says so in the status: "Saved 37 jobs — this run's maximum cost ($0.05) covers 37 results at the current price. Raise "Maximum cost per run" to get more." (real message of a test run on 2026-10-18; the number depends on your plan's price) The run still ends as Succeeded, and you pay only for the jobs in the dataset. For a full-country export (200,000+ jobs) raise the limit accordingly.

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Integrations

API, apify-client and webhooks

See Tutorial: run it from the API. Add a webhook (Actor → Integrations → Webhooks) on Run succeeded to POST the dataset id to your own endpoint, a CRM middleware or a queue — the cleanest way to load new jobs into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or an ATS.

Make (Integromat)

Use the Apify app: module "Run an Actor" with logiover/stepstone-scraper and your JSON input, then "Get Dataset Items" and map fields into Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, email or your CRM.

Zapier

Trigger "Finished Actor Run" (or action "Run Actor") in the Apify Zapier app, then "Find Dataset Items" to send every new job to a sheet, a channel or a CRM record.

n8n

The Apify node runs the Actor and returns the items; continue with any n8n node — Postgres, Google Sheets, HTTP Request, OpenAI.

Google Sheets

Export the dataset as CSV/Excel, or use the Apify Google Sheets integration to append the rows of every scheduled run to a sheet.

Airtable

Use Make, Zapier or n8n with the Airtable module, or import the CSV export; id makes a good primary field for de-duplication.

Scheduling

Actor → Schedules: run daily with postedWithin: "1" (or weekly with "7") to collect only new jobs. Keep the dataset per run or merge into one sheet.

Data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, S3)

Fetch GET /v2/datasets/{id}/items?format=json (or csv, xlsx, xml) from your ETL tool, or use a webhook to trigger the load. All dates are ISO 8601, all numbers are numbers.

MCP and AI agents

The Actor works with the Apify MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent can call it as a tool — "find remote data-engineering jobs in Germany posted this week with a salary above 70k" — and receive structured rows.

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Performance tips

• Search data first, details for a shortlist. For tens of thousands of jobs, run with includeDetails: false (25 jobs per request), filter in your spreadsheet, then paste the interesting job URLs into startUrls for full details.
• Use StepStone's filters instead of post-filtering — postedWithin, contractTypes, workFromHome, minSalary and easyApplyOnly shrink the search before anything is downloaded.
• Keep maxRequestsPerSecond at the default. Higher values do not help: StepStone refuses bursts, and the Actor would only spend time backing off.
• Daily monitoring: postedWithin: "1" with sortBy: "date" reads only the newest jobs.
• Many cities: list them in locations in one run — each gets a fair share of maxItems, and duplicates across overlapping cities are removed automatically.
• Leave includeSimilarJobs off unless you really want StepStone's loosely related suggestions.

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Troubleshooting: every status message explained

Status / outcome	What it means	What to do
Saved N jobs (max results reached) in X s.	You got what you asked for.	Raise maxItems for more.
Saved N of M listed jobs (every matching job read) in X s.	Every page of every search was read. N can be a little below M: jobs that appear twice across searches are kept once, and StepStone's counts change while you read. coveragePercent per search is in the SUMMARY.	—
Log: Completion pass for N search(es) that ended below 99.5 % of StepStone's count …	StepStone's order shifted during a long search; the search is read once more in the other order to pick up the jobs that slipped between pages.	Nothing — it is automatic and only adds new jobs.
Saved N jobs — this run's maximum cost ($X) covers N results …	The run reached your Maximum cost per run (outcome COMPLETED, stoppedBy: MAX_COST).	Raise the limit in the run options.
Saved 0 jobs — this run's maximum cost … does not cover a single result.	The limit is below the price of one job.	Raise the limit.
StepStone has no jobs for "…" in X. If the place is spelled differently … (EMPTY_RESULT)	StepStone answered, but the location is unknown to it or has no jobs.	Try the local spelling ("München", "Wien", "Brussel") or a bigger area.
No jobs matched on StepStone — the search ran fine but returned 0 results. (EMPTY_RESULT)	The search and filters exclude everything.	Use broader terms or fewer filters.
PARTIAL: … in the log, outcome: "PARTIAL" in SUMMARY	Rows were saved, but some pages could not be read after all retries.	Re-run later; the SUMMARY lists which search was affected.
Run failed: No jobs collected: no page could be fetched (…) (BLOCKED / FETCH_FAILED)	StepStone refused every request — no empty "success" is reported in this case.	Re-run later, or set proxyConfiguration to Apify RESIDENTIAL as a fallback.
Run failed: None of the start URLs is a StepStone search page … (BAD_INPUT)	The pasted URLs are not StepStone search, company or job pages.	Paste URLs from stepstone.de/.at/.be.
Log: StepStone is refusing this connection (HTTP 403 Access Denied) — pausing 30 s …	StepStone has put the connection on hold (measured: about 10 minutes after heavy traffic). The Actor pauses and resumes by itself; pausesForRefusals in the SUMMARY counts the pauses.	Wait, re-run later, or add Apify RESIDENTIAL as fallback proxy.
Log: StepStone ignores the region filter in URLs (fre=…)	Your pasted URL contains StepStone's region facet, which StepStone itself ignores.	Use the region as a location ("locations": ["Bayern"]).
Log: Contract type "…" does not exist on stepstone.be — ignored.	That filter value does not exist on the chosen site.	Pick a type the site offers.
Job-page fields empty for a few rows	The ad was taken offline between the search and the job page (counted as jobPagesOffline in SUMMARY).	—

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Honest limits

• Salary is StepStone's estimate. In all 25,094 Berlin and München jobs we checked on 2026-10-18, every salary range was StepStone's own prediction (salaryType: "StepStone estimate"); 76 % of those jobs carried one (68 % in the 1,000-job München run with details). stepstone.at and stepstone.be publish no salary ranges. Pay written only inside the ad text stays in description.
• No skills list per job. StepStone shows skill filters on search pages but publishes no skill list per ad, so there is no skills column — read requirements instead.
• Addresses are as complete as the employer made them. Postal code ~51 %, coordinates ~64 %, street ~29 % (1,000-job sample); remote and multi-location ads often have none.
• Company rating exists for about 40 % of jobs (employers with reviews on StepStone).
• Discipline names are StepStone's German taxonomy (e.g. Softwareentwicklung) even when labels are English.
• Pace. StepStone limits requests per address; the Actor keeps to ~12 per second. Search data alone is fast (25 jobs per request); with job pages expect roughly 11 jobs per second.
• Temporary holds. If one network address sends StepStone a lot of traffic, StepStone may refuse it for a while. In our testing on 2026-10-18 this happened once, right after several thousand requests of back-to-back test runs: StepStone answered "Access Denied" for about 10 minutes and then served normally again. The Actor pauses (30 s, 60 s, 120 s) instead of hammering, keeps the rows it has, and reports the run as PARTIAL if pages stayed unreadable. Rows whose job page could not be read keep their search data (job-page fields null). For guaranteed continuity, set proxyConfiguration to Apify RESIDENTIAL: the Actor then switches to it only while the direct connection is refused. Since build 1.0.13 a run that starts inside such a hold automatically sends up to 80 requests through residential IPs, so small runs (like the 50-job example) still finish; longer runs pause until the hold ends, or keep going through your own RESIDENTIAL proxy setting.
• Counts move. StepStone adds and removes ads all the time, so totals differ slightly between runs and between StepStone's headline number and the rows you receive.
• stepstone.nl does not exist; totaljobs.com (StepStone UK) is not covered.

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How it compares

	This Actor	Copying from stepstone.de by hand	StepStone's own job alerts
Jobs per run	Up to the whole country (~205,000)	A few dozen per hour	Notification emails
Structured fields	48 columns, typed	Manual	No export
Salary range as numbers	Yes	Manual	No
Full description split into sections	Yes	Manual	No
Company size, industries, rating	Yes	Manual	No
Export CSV / Excel / JSON / API	Yes	No	No
Automation (schedule, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n)	Yes	No	Email only
Login needed	No	No	Yes
Honest failure when StepStone is unreachable	Yes (run fails with the reason)	—	—

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FAQ

What is StepStone Scraper?

An Apify Actor that exports job ads from stepstone.de, stepstone.at and stepstone.be — title, company, location, salary estimate, home office, contract type, full description, address and company data — as JSON, CSV or Excel, for any search, region or the whole country.

Is there an official StepStone API for job data?

StepStone offers APIs to employers for posting ads, not a public API to read job listings. This Actor reads the public job pages any visitor sees and returns them as structured data, so it works as a StepStone API alternative for job data.

How do I scrape StepStone jobs to Excel or CSV?

Run the Actor with your search, open the Output tab and click Export → Excel (or CSV). Through the API add format=xlsx or format=csv to the dataset-items URL.

Do I need a StepStone account, login or cookies?

No. Everything is public; no account, cookies or API key of yours are needed.

Do I need proxies?

No. The Actor uses a direct connection at a pace StepStone accepts. Only while StepStone holds that connection does it send a limited number of requests (at most 80 per run) through residential IPs — included in the price.

How many jobs can I scrape from StepStone?

As many as StepStone lists: about 205,000 on stepstone.de, 9,600 on stepstone.at and 10,100 on stepstone.be (2026-10-18). StepStone has no page limit, so whole regions and the whole country can be exported.

How fast is it?

50 jobs with full details in 6.6 s, 1,000 jobs with full details in 90 seconds; search data alone runs more than ten times faster (see Scale and speed).

How much does it cost to scrape StepStone?

$1.00–$1.50 per 1,000 jobs depending on your Apify plan, everything included — e.g. 10,000 jobs cost $10–$15.

Does it get salaries from StepStone?

Yes — salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, salaryPeriod and salaryType. On stepstone.de 68–76 % of ads carry StepStone's salary estimate (measured 2026-10-18); salaryType says whether a range is StepStone's estimate or stated by the employer.

What does "StepStone estimate" mean in salaryType?

StepStone calculates an expected salary range for ads without a published salary ("Gehaltsschätzung"). It is StepStone's prediction, not the employer's offer — use it for benchmarks, not as a promise.

Can I scrape only remote or home-office jobs?

Yes: "workFromHome": ["full"] for fully remote, ["partial"] for hybrid, or both.

Can I filter by salary?

On stepstone.de: "minSalary": 60000 keeps jobs with at least 60,000 EUR per year (StepStone's filter works in 10,000 steps). Every row also has the numbers, so you can filter further in your spreadsheet.

Can I get all jobs in one city or one federal state?

Yes — put the city or state into locations and set maxItems to 0. Berlin had 15,022 matching jobs, München 11,037 and Bayern 38,035 on 2026-10-18.

Can I export every job on stepstone.de?

Yes: leave search terms and locations empty and set maxItems: 0. Raise your Maximum cost per run to cover ~205,000 results.

How do I get the jobs of one company?

Paste the company's StepStone job list (https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/<company>-<id>/jobs) into startUrls.

Can I paste a StepStone search URL with my filters?

Yes. Any search page from stepstone.de, .at or .be works, including categories, sectors, cities and skills you selected on the site.

Does it work for StepStone Austria and Belgium?

Yes — set country to at or be, or paste URLs from those sites. Belgian labels can be English, Dutch or French.

What are "similar jobs" and "nearby jobs"?

After the real matches StepStone appends loosely related jobs ("similar") for keyword searches and jobs from the wider region ("nearby") for city searches. They are skipped by default and included with includeSimilarJobs: true; resultType says which kind each row is.

Why did I get fewer jobs than StepStone's headline number?

StepStone's headline often includes the similar jobs, which are skipped by default. Also, jobs found by two of your searches are saved once, and StepStone's numbers change while the run reads.

How do I monitor new StepStone jobs every day?

Schedule a run with "postedWithin": "1" and "sortBy": "date" and connect a webhook, Google Sheets or Slack.

Are duplicates removed?

Yes. Every job is de-duplicated by its StepStone id within a run, also across several searches and pages.

What is in the description fields?

description is the complete ad text; introduction, responsibilities, requirements, benefits and additionalInformation are the same ad split into StepStone's sections, so you can analyse requirements or benefits on their own.

Are the job ads in English?

Ads stay in the language the employer wrote them in (mostly German on stepstone.de). StepStone's labels (contract type, work type, badges) are English by default and can be German, Dutch or French. Use jobLanguages: ["en"] to get only English-language ads.

Does it include the employer's contact person or email?

Only when the employer wrote it into the ad text (additionalInformation / description). The Actor does not collect data about candidates.

Why is the postal code empty for some jobs?

Some ads give only a region ("deutschlandweit") or several locations; StepStone then publishes no postal code. Invalid placeholders such as 00000 are removed rather than passed on.

What happens if StepStone blocks or changes something?

The Actor slows down when StepStone refuses requests, retries, and — if nothing works — fails with the reason in the log and in the SUMMARY record. It never reports an empty dataset as a successful search.

Can I use the data with AI or an LLM?

Yes — through the API, webhooks or the Apify MCP server. The sectioned description fields are well suited for embeddings, matching and summarisation.

Can I get the original HTML of the job ad?

Yes: "includeDescriptionHtml": true adds descriptionHtml.

Wie kann ich StepStone Stellenanzeigen exportieren?

Suchbegriffe und Orte eintragen (z. B. "Vertrieb" und "Hamburg"), starten und das Ergebnis im Output-Tab als Excel, CSV oder JSON exportieren — ohne Login.

Kann ich alle Jobs in einem Bundesland herunterladen?

Ja: das Bundesland als Ort eintragen (z. B. "Bayern", "Nordrhein-Westfalen") und maxItems auf 0 setzen.

Gibt es Gehaltsdaten?

Ja — die Gehaltsschätzung von StepStone als Min-/Max-Betrag mit Zeitraum (Jahr/Monat/Stunde) für 68–76 % der Anzeigen auf stepstone.de (gemessen am 2026-10-18).

Kann ich nur Homeoffice- oder Remote-Jobs scrapen?

Ja: workFromHome auf ["full"] (nur Homeoffice) oder ["partial"] (teilweise Homeoffice) setzen.

I need a field or filter that is missing. Can you add it?

Yes — open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and describe what you need.

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Glossary

Term	Meaning
Predicted salary / Gehaltsschätzung	StepStone's own estimate of the salary range for an ad without a published salary (salaryType: "StepStone estimate").
Homeoffice / Teilweise Home-Office / Nur Home-Office	Home office possible / partially remote (hybrid) / fully remote (workFromHome).
Vollzeit / Teilzeit	Full-time / part-time (workType, filter workType).
Feste Anstellung	Permanent contract (contractTypes: ["permanent"]).
Befristeter Vertrag	Fixed-term contract (temporary).
Arbeitnehmerüberlassung	Temporary agency work / staffing (temp_agency).
Werkstudent / Studentenjob	Working student / student job (student_job).
Praktikum	Internship (internship).
Ausbildung / duales Studium	Apprenticeship / dual study (apprenticeship).
Berufseinstieg / Trainee	Entry level / graduate programme (entry_level).
Referendariat	Legal / teaching traineeship (traineeship).
Schnelle Bewerbung / Easy Apply	Quick application through StepStone (easyApply).
Anschreiben nicht erforderlich	No cover letter required (noCoverLetter).
Disziplin	StepStone's job category (discipline, subDiscipline).
Similar / nearby jobs	Suggestions StepStone appends after the real matches (resultType).
Maximum cost per run	The spending limit Apify applies to a pay-per-result run.

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Is it legal to scrape StepStone?

This Actor reads only publicly available job ads — the same pages any visitor sees on StepStone without logging in — and collects business information that employers publish to be seen. It does not log in, does not bypass access controls, and does not collect data about job seekers. Some ads contain the name of a contact person or an application email written by the employer; if you store or process such personal data, the GDPR (DSGVO) applies to you: have a legitimate purpose, keep only what you need, and delete it when it is no longer needed. You are responsible for using the data in line with StepStone's terms, applicable law and your own policies; if in doubt, ask a lawyer.

Legal and trademark disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by StepStone, The Stepstone Group or any of their subsidiaries. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Changelog

• 1.0 (2026-10-18) — First release: stepstone.de, stepstone.at and stepstone.be; keyword × location searches with StepStone's filters (posting date, full-/part-time, 14 contract types, experience, home office, minimum salary, Easy Apply, ad language, radius, sort); pasted search, company and job URLs; every page of a search to its end (no page cap on StepStone); matches only by default, similar/nearby jobs optional; job pages with full description split into sections, contract / work / employment type, discipline, postal code, street, coordinates and company size / industries / rating / open jobs; StepStone salary estimate as numbers; English / German / Dutch / French labels; self-pacing connection; pay-per-result budget handled cleanly.

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Support

Questions, a bug, or a field you need? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we reply within 24 hours. If a run did something unexpected, include the run link so we can look at its log and SUMMARY.