🇩🇪 Bundesagentur für Arbeit Job Scraper

🚀 The fastest, most complete Arbeitsagentur.de job scraper on Apify. Pull thousands of fresh German-language job postings — title, employer, salary notes, contract type, contact emails, full description, application URL and 30+ other fields — straight into a clean dataset.

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💡 Why Choose This Scraper?

• ⚡ Blazing fast — async, concurrent fetching of search pages and job details simultaneously.
• 🎯 Bulk input — feed any number of Arbeitsagentur.de search URLs and get a single deduped dataset back.
• 🛰️ Smart proxy fallback — starts direct, auto-escalates to Apify datacenter, then residential proxies on rate limits, then sticks with the upgraded tier.
• 💾 Live saving — every job is pushed to the dataset the moment it's ready. A crash mid-run never costs you data.
• 🛡️ Production-grade error handling — retries with exponential backoff on every external call.
• 📧 Contact email extraction — automatically pulls application emails out of job descriptions.
• 🇪🇺 DACH coverage — postings from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland whenever Arbeitsagentur.de surfaces them.

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🎯 Key Features

Feature	Description
🔗 Bulk URL input	Drop any number of Arbeitsagentur.de search URLs
🔎 Keyword search	Optional position + location fallback inputs
🛰️ Adaptive proxy	none → datacenter → residential (3 retries) escalation
📊 Rich output	38 normalized fields per job
💾 Live persistence	push_data after every record — no data loss on crash
🔁 Retry policy	3 attempts with exponential backoff + jitter
📧 Email extraction	Regex-pulled application emails from descriptions
🆔 Deduplication	By Arbeitsagentur reference number across queries

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📥 Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/suche?angebotsart=1&was=Softwareentwickler%2Fin" }
  ],
  "position": "Softwareentwickler/in",
  "location": "Berlin",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
🔗 startUrls	array	✅	List of Arbeitsagentur.de job search URLs
💼 position	string	⛔	Keyword fallback when no URL is supplied
📍 location	string	⛔	German city, region, or postal code
🎯 maxItems	integer	⛔	Total result cap across all queries (default 100)
🛰️ proxyConfiguration	object	⛔	Defaults to no proxy; auto-falls back on blocks

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📤 Output

Each dataset row looks like:

{
  "title": "Softwareentwickler/in",
  "mainJob": "Softwareentwickler/in",
  "descriptionText": "LOCATION: Villach, AT, 9500 REQ ID: 198751 ...",
  "jobType": "ARBEIT",
  "referenceNumber": "11949-17224369-S",
  "publishingStartDate": "2026-05-15",
  "firstPublicationDate": "2026-05-15",
  "lastUpdatedAt": "2026-05-15T17:04:43.169",
  "contractDuration": "UNBEFRISTET",
  "startDate": "2026-05-16",
  "salaryNote": "KEINE_ANGABEN",
  "employerName": "Lam Research AG",
  "employerWebsite": null,
  "employerIndustry": null,
  "location": "9500 Villach-Lind, KAERNTEN, OESTERREICH",
  "isFullTime": true,
  "isWorkFromHome": false,
  "externalURL": "https://jobs.ams.at/public/emps/jobs/...",
  "isExternal": true,
  "applicationEmail": null,
  "url": "https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/jobdetail/11949-17224369-S"
}

Full list of returned fields:

title, mainJob, descriptionText, jobType, referenceNumber, publishingStartDate, firstPublicationDate, lastUpdatedAt, contractDuration, contractDurationLimitedTo, contractDurationMonths, startDate, entryPeriod, salaryNote, employerName, employerCustomerNumberHash, employerWebsite, employerIndustry, employerFirmSize, location, employerAddress, isFullTime, isMarginalEmployment, isPartTimeMorning, isPartTimeAfternoon, isPartTimeEvening, isPartTimeFlexible, isWorkFromHome, nightOrWeekendShift, isDisabilityRequired, isPrivateAgency, isTemporaryEmployment, externalURL, isExternal, applicationEmail, allianzpartnerName, allianzpartnerUrl, url.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. 🔐 Log in at https://console.apify.com → Actors.
2. 🔎 Open this actor (Bundesagentur für Arbeit Job Scraper).
3. ⚙️ Configure inputs:
   • Paste one or more Arbeitsagentur.de search URLs, or
   • Provide a position keyword + optional location.
   • Set maxItems (default: 100).
4. ▶️ Click Start.
5. 📜 Watch the live log — every saved job appears in real time.
6. 📊 When the run finishes, open the Output tab.
7. 📥 Export as JSON, CSV, XLSX, HTML, RSS or XML.

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🤖 Use via API / curl

Run synchronously and stream the dataset back:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<USER>~bundesagentur-fur-arbeit-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "startUrls": [
         { "url": "https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/suche?angebotsart=1&was=Softwareentwickler%2Fin" }
       ],
       "maxItems": 50
     }'

Run asynchronously and poll:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<USER>~bundesagentur-fur-arbeit-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/suche?angebotsart=1&was=Pflegekraft"}],"maxItems":200}'

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💼 Best Use Cases

• 🧑‍💼 Recruiters — track open vacancies in your sector and city
• 🏢 HR Tech / ATS vendors — enrich your job feed with German listings
• 📊 Market research — analyse the German labor market by region, industry, contract type
• 🤖 Job aggregators — build vertical job boards on top of the official German source
• 📰 Journalists / analysts — quote real numbers on supply and demand

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💰 Pricing

This actor is on pay-per-event (PPE).

Event	Description	Why
🚀 apify-actor-start	One charge per run start	Covers warm-up compute
📄 apify-default-dataset-item	One charge per saved job posting	Pay only for results you actually receive

Synthetic events are configured in the Apify Console. You only pay for successful, saved results — no data, no charge.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where does the data come from? A: The official Arbeitsagentur.de public job search API (the same one powering the website's search and detail pages).

Q: Do I need a proxy? A: No. The actor defaults to a direct connection. If the upstream rate-limits us, the proxy strategy auto-escalates to Apify datacenter, then residential proxies — no input needed.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: It's a live API call on every run — what you get is what Arbeitsagentur.de is serving right now.

Q: How many results can I scrape? A: As many as Arbeitsagentur.de exposes — set maxItems to the upper bound you want.

Q: Are application emails always available? A: No — only when the employer included a contact email inside the public description text. We regex-extract whenever present.

Q: Why are some jobs from Austria? A: Arbeitsagentur.de partners with AMS (Austria) and shows DACH-region postings. We expose the allianzpartnerName field so you can filter.

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🛡️ Cautions / Legal

• 🌐 All data comes from publicly available endpoints.
• ⚖️ End users are responsible for compliance with GDPR, the target site's ToS, and any local regulations.
• 🤝 The actor honors reasonable rate limits and uses exponential backoff to be a good API citizen.

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📬 Support & Feedback

Spotted a bug? Need a new field? Open an issue from the Apify Console — we read every report. 🙌

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