Stepstone.be Belgium Scraper

Extract job listings from stepstone.be at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for Belgium

A dedicated Belgian scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (EUR) are tuned for stepstone.be.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in EUR. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

🏢 Company details

Hiring company name plus the profile details the source publishes, such as logo and company page.

📍 Location fields

Structured location data for every listing, ready for filtering and analysis.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost and changeStatus, so daily feeds return genuinely new jobs instead of reposted duplicates.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"developer"	searchQuery.
location	string	(empty)	Search or filter by location.
radius	integer	40	Numeric filter: radius.
language	string	(empty)	language.
contractType	string	(empty)	Search or filter by contractType.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of results (0 = no limit).
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return items published within the last N days. Leave blank for all.
skipReposts	boolean	false	Enable skipReposts.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	ON: fetches full job description, salary, company info, and all details. OFF: returns basic listing info only (faster, lower cost).
startUrls	array	(empty)	Filter by startUrls.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Direct link to the listing
jobId	string	Stepstone unique listing ID
source	string	Source.
language	string	Listing language: nl or fr
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company name
companyId	number	Stepstone internal company ID
companyUrl	string	Company website URL (where available)
city	string	City
postCode	string	Postal code
country	string	Always BE
contractType	string	e.g. FULL_TIME, PART_TIME
workSchedule	string	Work schedule.
workFromHome	boolean	Work-from-home label as shown on the listing
workArrangement	string	Normalised: FULL, PARTIAL, or null
salaryMin	string	Minimum salary (numeric), or null if not disclosed
salaryMax	string	Maximum salary (numeric), or null if not disclosed
salaryCurrency	string	Always EUR when present
salaryPeriod	string	Pay period the salary refers to (e.g. year, month, hour).
publishDate	string	ISO 8601 date posted
publishDateISO	string	Publish date iso.
datePosted	string	Date posted.
daysOld	number	Days since publication
expiryDate	string	Date the listing expires (null if not stated).
description	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionText	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
applyUrl	string	Direct application link.
isRepost	boolean	true when the listing is a repost of an earlier job (detected by content hash).
originalPublishDate	string	Original publish date.
originalUrl	string	Original url.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

Example record

{
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.be/vacatures--Java-Angular-Developer-Brussel-Smals--2225912-inline.html",
  "jobId": "2225912",
  "source": "stepstone.be",
  "language": "",
  "title": "Java-Angular Developer",
  "company": "Smals",
  "companyId": 3850,
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.be/cmp/nl/smals-3850/vacatures",
  "city": "Brussel",
  "postCode": null,
  "country": "BE",
  "contractType": null,
  "workSchedule": null,
  "workFromHome": true,
  "workArrangement": "Hybrid",
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryCurrency": null,
  "salaryPeriod": null,
  "publishDate": "2026-06-23",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "datePosted": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysOld": 5,
  "expiryDate": null,
  "description": null,
  "descriptionText": null,
  "descriptionMarkdown": null,
  "applyUrl": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-28T10:12:49.023Z"
}

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Examples

Search for ingénieur roles in Brussel:

{
  "searchQuery": "ingénieur",
  "location": "Brussel",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Filter by contract type:

{
  "searchQuery": "ingénieur",
  "location": "Brussel",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "contractType": "FULL_TIME"
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.stepstone.be/"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "ingénieur",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$0.8 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.08
1,000	~$0.8
10,000	~$8
100,000	~$80

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $0.48 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: stepstone.be — Belgium job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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