🔥Stepstone Job Scraper
by shahidirfan
A fast, reliable scraper for Stepstone job listings. Get structured data for market research, recruitment, or apps—just pair it with residential proxies for best results.
Opens on Apify.com
About 🔥Stepstone Job Scraper
Need to pull job listings from Stepstone for your project? I've been there. This scraper is my go-to when I need clean, structured job data from one of Europe's biggest job boards. It's built to be fast and straightforward—you set your search parameters, run it, and get back a dataset or JSON file without the headache of building a parser from scratch. The key is its efficiency. It handles the pagination and detail page navigation for you, extracting the core info like job title, company, location, salary range, and full descriptions. Just a heads-up from experience: Stepstone can be tricky with bot traffic. For consistent, reliable runs without getting blocked, pairing this actor with residential proxies makes all the difference. It's the setup I use for market research, competitor analysis, or feeding job data into an application. Think of it as a focused utility. It does one job well, saving you the development time. Whether you're a recruiter building a talent pool, a developer creating a job aggregator, or a data scientist analyzing labor market trends, this tool gets you the raw data you need to work with.
What does this actor do?
🔥Stepstone Job Scraper is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.
Key Features
- Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
- Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
- API access for integration with your applications
- Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
- Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation
How to Use
- Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
- Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
- Configure the input parameters as needed
- Run the actor and download your results
Documentation
Stepstone Job Scraper
Overview
This actor scrapes job listings from Stepstone.de, Germany's leading job portal. It extracts structured data from search results and detail pages, suitable for recruitment analytics, market research, or job monitoring.
Key Features
- Extracts comprehensive job data: title, company, location, posting date, job type, category, and salary.
- Flexible starting points: begin scraping from specific URLs or construct searches using keywords and categories.
- Date filtering: limit results to recent postings (last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or month).
- Detail scraping: optionally collects full job descriptions in HTML and plain text.
- Deduplication: automatically removes duplicate listings.
- Proxy support: works with Apify's proxy configurations.
- Scalable: configurable limits on items and pages.
- Reliable: includes retry logic and human-like delays to avoid blocking.
How to Use
Configure the actor using input parameters. You can either provide direct URLs via startUrl or startUrls, or let the actor build search URLs using keyword and category. Set maxItems and maxPages to control the volume of data collected. Enable collectDetails to get full job descriptions.
Input
The main input parameters are:
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
startUrl / startUrls |
String / Array | Specific Stepstone URL(s) to begin scraping. |
keyword |
String | Search term to auto-generate a search URL. |
category |
String | Job category (e.g., "it", "engineering"). Default is "verwaltung". |
datePosted |
String | Filter by date: "last_24h", "last_7d", "last_30d", "last_month". |
collectDetails |
Boolean | If true, scrapes the full job description page. Default is true. |
maxItems |
Number | Maximum job listings to collect. Default is 100. |
maxPages |
Number | Maximum search pages to process. Default is 20. |
dedupe |
Boolean | Enables deduplication. Default is true. |
proxyConfiguration |
Object | Apify proxy settings. |
Output
Jobs are saved as JSON items in the dataset. Each item includes:
{
"title": "Software Engineer",
"company": "Stepstone GmbH",
"location": "Berlin, Germany",
"date_posted": "2025-10-18",
"job_type": "Full-time",
"job_category": "Engineering",
"salary": "65,000 EUR/year",
"url": "https://www.stepstone.de/job/software-engineer",
"description_html": "<div>Detailed HTML job description...</div>",
"description_text": "Clean, readable job description text."
}
Categories
Common Use Cases
Market Research
Gather competitive intelligence and market data
Lead Generation
Extract contact information for sales outreach
Price Monitoring
Track competitor pricing and product changes
Content Aggregation
Collect and organize content from multiple sources
Ready to Get Started?
Try 🔥Stepstone Job Scraper now on Apify. Free tier available with no credit card required.
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- Developer
- shahidirfan
- Pricing
- Paid
- Total Runs
- 142
- Active Users
- 19
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