Stepstone.de Scraper — Germany Job Listings

Extract structured job listings from stepstone.de — Germany's largest job board with 200,000+ listings. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🔍 Keyword + location search

Search by job title, skill, or keyword. Filter by city, region, or Bundesland with configurable radius.

📋 Rich structured output

Every listing includes title, company, company logo, location, contract type, work schedule, and full job description (HTML, plain text, and Markdown). Salary is included where the employer publishes it.

🏷️ Labels & remote flags

Returns Stepstone's own structured metadata per job: job badges (Quick Apply, No Cover Letter), remote/hybrid flag, and a cross-platform job UUID for matching listings across boards.

📅 Age filtering & deduplication

Filter by days since posting. Skip reposts with cross-run deduplication (90-day window) — ideal for daily incremental feeds.

🔗 startUrls support

Paste any Stepstone.de search results page or direct job URL to scrape specific results without re-entering filters.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"Software Engineer"	Job title, keyword, or skill to search for. Examples: "Software Engineer", "Data Analyst", "Ingenieur". Leave empty to browse all listings. Use searchQueries below to run multiple searches in one run.
searchQueries	array	(empty)	Run multiple keyword searches in a single actor run. Each item can be a plain string ("Software Engineer") or an object {"query": "Ingenieur", "location": "München"}. Results from all queries are combined. Takes precedence over Search keywords above when provided.
location	string	"Berlin"	City, region, or Bundesland to filter by. Examples: "Berlin", "München", "Bayern". Leave empty to search all of Germany.
radius	integer	40	Search radius in kilometres around the specified location. Set to 0 for exact location match.
sortBy	string	"relevance"	Sort results by relevance (default Stepstone ranking) or date (newest listings first).
contractType	string	"FULL_TIME"	Filter by employment type. Leave empty for all types.
workFromHome	string	(empty)	Filter by remote work availability. Leave empty for all listings.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return listings published within the last N days. Leave blank for all listings. Use 1 for today, 7 for the past week.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of job listings to return. Set to 0 for no limit. Default is 100 — increase for production runs.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	ON: fetches full job description, salary, company info, and all details. OFF: returns basic listing info only (faster, lower cost).
skipReposts	boolean	false	Skip listings already seen in previous runs. Uses a 90-day deduplication window stored in Key-Value Store. Ideal for daily incremental feeds — only new listings are returned.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Paste specific Stepstone.de search result URLs or job detail page URLs here. When provided, the search query and location filters above are ignored. Useful for pre-filtered searches or bookmarked pages.

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Output schema

Always present

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Full URL of the job listing
jobId	string	Stepstone numeric job ID extracted from URL
source	string	Always stepstone.de
language	string	Always de
title	string	Job title
company	string	Employer name
companyUrl	string	Stepstone company profile URL
companyId	number	Stepstone internal company ID
city	string	Job location city
location	string	Location display string
country	string	Always DE
contractType	string	Employment type (FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, CONTRACT, INTERNSHIP)
workSchedule	string	Work schedule label
salary	string	Raw salary string, when the employer publishes one (often null)
salaryMin	number	Minimum salary, when published (often null)
salaryMax	number	Maximum salary, when published (often null)
salaryType	string	Salary period (HOUR, MONTH, YEAR), when published
salaryCurrency	string	EUR when a salary is present
publishDate	string	ISO date the listing was posted (YYYY-MM-DD)
publishDateISO	string	Full ISO 8601 datetime
daysOld	number	Days since the listing was posted
labels	array	Job badges e.g. [{"label":"Anschreiben nicht erforderlich","type":"NO_COVER_LETTER"}]
workFromHome	string	Remote work flag: "0"=no, "2"=yes/hybrid
postCode	string	Postal code of job location (published on a minority of listings)
harmonisedId	string	Cross-platform job UUID (e.g. "cd30f8ea-4c6e-4106-9757-ddc74e8e7d1a")
isSponsored	boolean	Whether the listing is a sponsored/paid placement
isTopJob	boolean	Whether the listing is marked as a Top Job
isHighlighted	boolean	Whether the listing is visually highlighted
textSnippet	string	Short HTML snippet shown in search results
isRepost	boolean	Whether this listing was seen in a previous run
contentHash	string	MD5 hash for downstream deduplication
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was scraped

With fetchDetails: true (additional fields)

Field	Type	Description
description	string	Full job description as HTML
descriptionText	string	Full description as plain text
descriptionMarkdown	string	Full description as Markdown
expiryDate	string	Listing expiry date (ISO date)
summary	string	First 200 characters of the description

Example record

{
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Software-Engineer-Berlin-Acme-GmbH--12345-inline.html",
  "jobId": "12345",
  "source": "stepstone.de",
  "language": "de",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer (m/w/d)",
  "company": "Acme GmbH",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/acme-gmbh-12345/jobs",
  "companyId": 12345,
  "city": "Berlin",
  "country": "DE",
  "contractType": "FULL_TIME",
  "salary": null,
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "publishDate": "2026-06-10",
  "labels": [{"label": "Anschreiben nicht erforderlich", "type": "NO_COVER_LETTER"}],
  "workFromHome": "2",
  "harmonisedId": "cd30f8ea-4c6e-4106-9757-ddc74e8e7d1a",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "isTopJob": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

Software engineers in Berlin

{
  "searchQuery": "Software Engineer",
  "location": "Berlin",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Safety roles with skills filter (nationwide)

{
  "searchQuery": "Functional Safety Manager",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Recent roles in Munich with full descriptions

{
  "searchQuery": "Produktmanager",
  "location": "München",
  "daysOld": 14,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Daily incremental feed — new listings only

{
  "searchQuery": "Softwareentwickler",
  "location": "Hamburg",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

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💰 Pricing

$0.8 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries and filtered reposts 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.

Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

• ~25 jobs per list page, no browser required
• fetchDetails: false: ~50–100 jobs/minute
• fetchDetails: true: ~5–10 jobs/minute (one extra request per job)
• Memory: 512 MB

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Technical details

• Source: stepstone.de — Germany's largest job board
• Memory: 512 MB
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore stepstone-de-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff, 3 attempts per request

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Known limitations

• Salary is published by very few employers on Stepstone.de, so salary, salaryMin and salaryMax are null on most listings. When an employer publishes a range, it is captured.
• postCode is provided on a minority of listings and is null otherwise.
• Job descriptions require fetchDetails: true, which fetches each listing's detail page.

Related scrapers

Other scrapers in our Jobs — Germany, Austria & Switzerland collection:

• Arbeitsagentur.de Scraper
• GermanTechJobs Scraper
• Get-in-IT Scraper
• Xing.com Job Scraper

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Run it on a schedule

This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.

• Schedule runs — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
• Connect it to your stack — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
• Pull results via API — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.

Set it once and it runs on its own.

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