🏢 StepStone Jobs & Talent Intelligence Scraper

Ultra-fast, HTTP-only reverse-engineered scraper for StepStone (Austria, Germany, Belgium). Extract high-value, structured B2B job vacancies, salaries, skills, hiring companies, locations, remote/hybrid status, and direct application links with zero browser overhead.

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⚡ Key Features

• Blazing Fast HTTP Extraction: Direct extraction of the server-rendered preloaded state (window.__PRELOADED_STATE__['app-unifiedResultlist']). Fetches 25 vacancies per single HTTP request in under ~1 second.
• TLS Fingerprint Impersonation: Uses curl_cffi to mimic standard Chrome TLS/HTTP2 fingerprints, bypassing anti-bot measures.
• Comprehensive Data Schema: Captures complete job vacancy attributes including salary ranges, detected skills, remote work status, company logos, postal codes, and tags.
• Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Optimized: Ideal for low-compute execution costs ($0.0010/record) with minimal RAM usage (under 256MB).
• Multi-Country Support: Query stepstone.at (Austria - no proxy needed), stepstone.de (Germany - via residential proxy), and stepstone.be (Belgium).
• Flexible Filters: Filter by keywords, cities, publication age (24h, 7d, 14d, 30d), and remote-only tags.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
queries	Array of Strings	No	["python"]	Keywords, job titles, or skills to search for (e.g. ["data engineer", "react"]).
locations	Array of Strings	No	["Wien"]	Cities or regions to search in (e.g. ["Wien", "Berlin", "Munich"]).
country	String (Select)	No	"at"	Target StepStone domain: "at" (Austria), "de" (Germany), "be" (Belgium).
datePosted	String (Select)	No	"all"	Filter by age: "all", "24h", "7d", "14d", "30d".
workFromHomeOnly	Boolean	No	false	When true, filters only remote / home-office eligible roles.
directUrls	Array of Strings	No	[]	List of full StepStone search URLs to scrape directly.
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of job postings to extract.
impersonate	String	No	"chrome124"	Browser TLS profile for WAF bypass.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Apify Proxy configuration (Residential recommended for Germany).

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📤 Output Schema Example

Each dataset item pushed to the default Apify Dataset matches the following JSON structure:

{
  "id": 990164,
  "harmonisedId": "eee4a125-0c7c-4750-b1c3-56cf797c94ba",
  "title": "Senior AI / ML Engineer (Python)",
  "companyName": "IESF AG",
  "companyId": 158699,
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.at/cmp/de/iesf-ag-158699/jobs",
  "companyLogoUrl": "https://www.stepstone.at/upload_at/logo/3/logoIESF-AG-158699AT-2509031546.gif",
  "location": "Vienna",
  "postCode": null,
  "datePosted": "2026-08-30T00:56:02+02:00",
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.at/stellenangebote--Senior-AI-ML-Engineer-Python-Vienna-IESF-AG--990164-inline.html",
  "workFromHome": false,
  "salary": null,
  "unifiedSalary": null,
  "textSnippet": "Our client is a leading supplier of software products in the field of eCustoms internationally...",
  "labels": [
    {
      "label": "Schnelle Bewerbung",
      "type": "QUICK_APPLY"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    "Python",
    "Machine Learning"
  ],
  "isTopJob": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "isAnonymous": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-06T10:35:00.000Z"
}

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🛡️ Proxy & WAF Notes

• Austria (stepstone.at): Operates reliably without proxies. Perfect for fast, cost-effective scraping and local testing.
• Germany (stepstone.de): StepStone Germany enforces Akamai EdgeSuite Bot Manager. When scraping stepstone.de on the Apify platform, enable Apify Residential Proxy with Germany (DE) or European targeting:

  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "countryCode": "DE"
  }