# Personio Jobs API - Career Page Scraper, European Employers (`starbright_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Personio jobs API and career page scraper. Read live postings from any Personio job board or careers page, or search thousands of known Personio ATS boards in one run. German, Austrian, Swiss and Dutch mid-market that US-built job tools do not reach.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/starbright\_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sulle H](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Personio Jobs Scraper — 5,172 European Career Sites

Personio is what small and mid-sized European companies run their hiring on — heavily German,
Austrian, Swiss and Dutch, and almost entirely absent from job tools built around the US market.
This Actor reads those boards: one company you name, or a bundled registry of **5,172 live
Personio career sites** carrying **41,685 open postings**.

```json
{ "keywords": ["entwickler", "developer"], "locations": ["berlin"], "maxJobs": 200 }
```

```json
{ "companies": ["https://sennder.jobs.personio.de"] }
```

No login, no cookies, no proxies, no API key.

### Why this coverage is hard to get elsewhere

Ask most job APIs for German mid-market hiring and you get whatever LinkedIn happened to syndicate.
Personio boards live on `<company>.jobs.personio.de`, one subdomain per employer, with no public
directory — the same shape that made Breezy invisible to path-based crawlers.

This registry was built by harvesting subdomains from the Wayback Machine index and validating each
against the live endpoint. Entries returned real postings when they were checked, and a companion
Actor re-validates the whole list on a schedule.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `provider` | Always `personio` — the same schema the multi-ATS Actors below emit |
| `company` / `companySlug` | Employer subdomain |
| `jobId` | Personio posting id — stable, so it works as a dedupe key across runs |
| `title` | Job title, as published (usually German, often with `(m/w/d)`) |
| `location` | Office name, e.g. `Bremen Teerhof` |
| `department` | Department label |
| `employmentType` | `Festanstellung`, `Praktikum` and so on, in the employer's own wording |
| `applyUrl` | Direct link to the posting |
| `scrapedAt` | When this row was read |

Measured across live boards: title, location and employment type are present on **100%** of rows,
department on **98%**.

### What Personio does not publish

**No description text and no posting date.** The search endpoint returns the fields above and
nothing more — `descriptionText` and `postedAt` are `null` on every row. Measured on 49 postings
across live boards, the `description` field exists in the payload and is empty on all of them.

Two consequences worth planning for:

- If you need body text, Greenhouse, Workable, Ashby and Pinpoint publish it. The
  [Career Site Job Feed](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed) covers those in this
  same output schema.
- Because there is no date, `postedWithinDays` **keeps** Personio rows rather than dropping them —
  their age is unknown, not old. The same rule applies to Workday.

### Input

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Keep only titles containing one of these. Case-insensitive. |
| `excludeKeywords` | Drop titles containing any of these, e.g. `praktikum`, `werkstudent`. |
| `locations` | Keep only locations containing one of these. |
| `remoteOnly` | Keep postings whose office or schedule looks remote. |
| `postedWithinDays` | Freshness filter. Personio rows have no date and are always kept. |
| `companies` | Subdomains or board URLs. Leave empty to search all 5,172. |
| `maxBoards` | How many boards to scan, largest-first. |
| `maxJobs` | Hard cap on rows, so a run costs what you expect. |

Searching in German pays off here — `entwickler`, `vertrieb`, `pflege`, `buchhaltung` will match
more than their English equivalents on most of these boards.

### Finding a company slug

The board lives at `<slug>.jobs.personio.de`, so the slug is the subdomain. Paste the whole URL if
you prefer — the Actor pulls the subdomain out. Some employers use the `.com` domain instead; both
are in the registry.

Or run without `companies` and read the `companySlug` column.

### Recipes

**Cover the German-speaking market properly.** One run returns roles from hundreds of Mittelstand
employers that no English-language aggregator lists.

**Track a shortlist.** Ten slugs in `companies`, run daily, diff the `jobId` set — new ids are
openings, missing ids are roles that closed.

**Market research on EU hiring.** Departments and offices across the registry show where European
mid-market headcount is going.

### Pricing

Pay per result — you are charged per job row delivered. A board that fails or returns nothing costs
you nothing. Platform usage is included rather than billed on top.

### Beyond Personio

Companies move between applicant tracking systems, and most job-data projects need more than one:

- **[Career Site Job Feed](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed)** — the same engine
  across every platform in this family, in one run, with an identical output schema.
- **[New Job Alerts](https://apify.com/starbright_overlap/new-jobs-feed)** — the same coverage, but
  each run returns only what appeared since the previous run.

### Notes

- **A dead slug never aborts the run.** Failures land in a `FAILED_BOARDS` record in the key-value
  store, with the reason for each.
- **`companySlug:jobId` is a stable key**, safe for detecting what opened and closed between runs.
- **No login, no proxies, no API key.** Personio publishes this endpoint openly. Private boards are
  invisible to every scraper, including this one.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep only jobs whose title contains at least one of these. Case-insensitive. Leave empty for every job.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop jobs whose title contains any of these, e.g. `senior`, `intern`.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Keep only jobs whose location contains one of these, e.g. `london`, `new york`, `germany`.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only postings flagged remote by the ATS or with a remote-looking location.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Freshness filter. Defaults to 90 days because some employers leave postings open for years — measured across the registry, 15% of Greenhouse and about half of the largest SmartRecruiters boards are over a year old. Set a large number such as 3650 to include everything. Postings with no publication date (most Workday rows) are always kept.

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Board slugs, e.g. `1komma5grad`. Leave empty to search all 5,172 known personio employers.

## `maxBoards` (type: `integer`):

Boards are scanned largest-first, so a capped run still returns the most jobs. Raise it to sweep all 5,172 boards.

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on results, so a run costs what you expect. Defaults to 500 — enough to evaluate the feed on free-tier credits. Clearing the box falls back to that, so type a large number such as 500000 to sweep everything.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Higher is faster but more likely to hit ATS rate limits.

## `maxJobsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Keeps one huge employer from filling the whole run. Boards are scanned largest-first, so without this the first few boards use up the entire result budget. Raise it when you want depth on a few employers rather than breadth across many.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "engineer"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "postedWithinDays": 90,
  "maxBoards": 300,
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "concurrency": 8,
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

Every posting matching your filters, normalized across all six ATS platforms.

## `failedBoards` (type: `string`):

Written only when a board was unreachable or rate-limited. The run itself is unaffected.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "engineer"
    ],
    "postedWithinDays": 90,
    "maxJobs": 500,
    "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("starbright_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": ["engineer"],
    "postedWithinDays": 90,
    "maxJobs": 500,
    "maxJobsPerCompany": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("starbright_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "engineer"
  ],
  "postedWithinDays": 90,
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 25
}' |
apify call starbright_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,starbright_overlap/personio-jobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CUKzPlrO1k5rfM2fL/builds/UtGnfPDos0yNCmfi4/openapi.json