NiceJob.de Scraper

Extract job listings from nicejob.de, the leading job board for Southern Germany, with partner coverage across Switzerland and Liechtenstein (nicejob.de shares its listing network with sibling portals such as ostjob.ch). Search by keyword, filter by city or region, and get job titles, companies, workplaces, workload percentages, regions and direct links in one run.

No login. No cookies. No browser automation. The actor talks to the same public JSON API the nicejob.de website uses, so it is fast and stable.

What this actor does

Given a search keyword (and optionally a city or region), this actor collects every matching job listing from nicejob.de and returns one row per job with:

• Job title
• Hiring company
• Workplace / city
• Region (German federal state, Swiss canton, or Liechtenstein/Austrian region)
• Country (derived from the postal code — Germany or Switzerland/Liechtenstein)
• Workload range (employment grade, e.g. 80–100%)
• Short preview of the description
• First-published date
• Home office / remote flag
• The job's unique ID and direct URL

nicejob.de markets itself as Southern Germany's leading job portal, but its listing database is shared with a wider DACH partner network — in practice a search returns openings across Southern Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. This actor exposes a country field so you can filter to German-only results downstream if that's what you need.

Why use it

• Regional job market research — track how many roles match a keyword across Southern Germany or a single city/region.
• Recruitment and sourcing — build a live feed of open positions for a role, region, or company near the German-Swiss border area.
• Workload benchmarking — analyse employment-grade ranges across employers and roles.
• Aggregators and job boards — feed regional DACH listings into your own product.

How to scrape NiceJob data

1. Open the actor and set a Search Query (for example informatik, verkauf, lehrstelle or pflege). nicejob.de is German-language, so German keywords work best.
2. Optionally set a Location such as München, St. Gallen, Bayern or Vorarlberg. Leave it empty to search the whole network.
3. Set Max Results to how many listings you want.
4. Leave the proxy on the default residential setting and click Start.

The actor pages through the nicejob.de search API (up to 100 results per request) until it reaches your Max Results or runs out of listings, then writes everything to the dataset. You can export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search for. German keywords work best. Default: informatik.
location	string	City or region filter (e.g. München, St. Gallen, Bayern). Matched against each listing's city and region. Empty = the whole network.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of listings to return. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings. Default: residential.

Example input

{
    "searchQuery": "informatik",
    "location": "München",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

{
    "jobTitle": "Mitarbeiter*in Aussendienst Verkauf Küchen (w/m/d)",
    "company": "Beispiel GmbH",
    "location": "München",
    "employmentGradeMin": 80,
    "employmentGradeMax": 100,
    "preview": "Wir suchen per sofort oder nach Vereinbarung eine engagierte Persönlichkeit...",
    "publishedDate": "2026-08-05T10:54:28.904+02:00",
    "homeOffice": false,
    "region": "Bayern",
    "country": "DE",
    "jobId": "1089405",
    "url": "https://www.nicejob.de/job/1089405",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-05T11:00:00.000Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
jobTitle	string	Title of the job listing
company	string	Name of the hiring company
location	string	City or place of work
employmentGradeMin	number	Minimum workload percentage (e.g. 80)
employmentGradeMax	number	Maximum workload percentage (e.g. 100)
preview	string	Short teaser of the job description
publishedDate	string	ISO 8601 first-published date
homeOffice	boolean	Whether remote / home office work is offered
region	string	German federal state, Swiss canton, or Liechtenstein/Austrian region the workplace is located in
country	string	DE or CH/LI, derived from the workplace postal code shape. Empty if undetermined.
jobId	string	Unique nicejob.de vacancy identifier
url	string	Full job listing URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection

Cost estimate

This actor uses a lightweight JSON API and no browser, so runs are cheap and fast. One request returns up to 100 listings, so even a few thousand jobs cost only a handful of requests plus proxy traffic. Exact cost depends on your Apify plan and proxy usage.

Usage cost only settles once the run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run undercounts what you'll actually be charged, so wait for the run to finish before checking cost.

Limitations

• Salary is not published in the nicejob.de search API, so it is not included. The actor returns the workload percentage (employment grade) instead, which is what nicejob.de exposes.
• Coverage spans the DACH partner network, not just Germany. nicejob.de shares its listing database with partner portals in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, so an unfiltered search returns openings across all three. Use the country output field or the location input to narrow to German results.
• Location filtering is client-side. nicejob.de's own location filter needs an internal geocoded place ID rather than free text, so this actor matches your location input against each listing's city and region after fetching. This is reliable for region names and common city names, but very unusual spellings may not match.
• Full job descriptions are not fetched; the preview field holds a teaser extracted from the listing's activity text.
• Very broad keywords covering thousands of jobs take proportionally longer to page through.

Related scrapers

Building a European jobs dataset? These sibling actors follow the same clean-JSON approach:

• Ostjob.ch Scraper — Eastern Switzerland's regional job board
• Jobbasel Scraper — Basel-region job listings
• Zentraljob Scraper — Central Switzerland job listings
• Jobs.ch Scraper — Switzerland's largest, nationwide job board
• Jobs.cz Scraper — Czech job listings

Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from nicejob.de for legitimate research and aggregation use. Respect nicejob.de's terms of service and applicable data protection law when using the output.