StepStone Jobs Scraper

StepStone Jobs Scraper: job listings from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium

Pick the country site, type a keyword and a city, and the job cards come back as rows: the title, the company, the location, the remote flag, how long ago it was posted, a short excerpt and the link. StepStone runs a separate site per country and they do not even agree on the word for a job, so the country is a choice you make first rather than something guessed from your location.

Two things to set expectations. You get what is on the results card, not the full advert, and salary is null on most rows because most StepStone listings never publish one.

💼 What StepStone Jobs Scraper does

It searches one of four StepStone sites, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands or Belgium, and pages through the results until it has as many jobs as you asked for. About 25 jobs per page.

The country comes from the site you pick, not from where the run happens, so the Austrian site gives you Austrian jobs wherever you are, and the Dutch site is read under its own vacatures path without you having to know that.

Your keyword and city are turned into the search path StepStone expects. German umlauts are converted the way StepStone converts them, so München searches muenchen. Other accents and symbols are not: Liège becomes li-ge and C++ becomes c. Spell the term plainly and you will get what you meant.

When StepStone runs out of matches it fills the page with other jobs: ones nearby whose titles do not match, ones further away, and recommendations. Those are left out on every search, so you get and pay for StepStone's own matches only. A niche title in a small town can come back with fewer jobs than you asked for, and a search with no matches at all ends as NO_RESULTS.

Paging stops when it has your number, after 50 pages, or when two pages in a row bring nothing new. A run also has a four-minute budget, so it ends rather than grinding at a search it is not going to win.

📥 What you give it

{
  "keywords": "software engineer",
  "location": "Berlin",
  "site": "de",
  "maxItems": 100
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run on the German site:

{
  "ok": true,
  "site": "de",
  "jobId": "14516532",
  "title": "Software Engineer System Metrology (m/f/x)",
  "company": "ZEISS",
  "location": "Oberkochen bei Ulm",
  "salary": null,
  "postedText": "vor 2 Tagen",
  "workFromHome": false,
  "snippet": "Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. ...",
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Software-Engineer-System-Metrology-m-f-x-Oberkochen-bei-Ulm-ZEISS--14516532-inline.html"
}

The excerpt is cut short above. The real one ends where StepStone cuts its own card off.

🧾 Reading the output

Partial rows are worth understanding. If a search stops part-way, the jobs already collected are still written to your dataset, marked ok: false, partial: true, and none of them are charged. You keep the data and pay nothing for it. Run the search again for the rest.

The Console's overview table hides ok and partial, so those free rows look exactly like paid ones there. Filter on ok in the JSON if the difference matters to you.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open StepStone Jobs Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Pick the StepStone site for the country you want. 3. Type your Keywords, and a Location if you want one city. 4. Set Max jobs, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 jobs. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per job row that arrives complete. Diagnostic rows, partial rows from a search that stopped early, and a search that matches nothing are all free, so a run that brings back no jobs costs you nothing. The other jobs StepStone shows once its matches run out are never delivered, so never charged.

💡 What people use it for

• Tracking who is hiring for a role in one German city, weekly, and diffing on jobId.
• Comparing the same role across the four country sites in four runs.
• Pulling the companies hiring in a sector as a prospect list, from the company column.
• Watching how long postings stay up, by scheduling and reading postedText over time.
• Feeding titles and excerpts into a model to sort listings into the ones worth reading.

🚧 What it does not do

• Card data only. The full advert lives on the listing's own page and is not fetched.
• No salary on most rows. StepStone shows one when the employer published one, and usually the

employer did not.

• postedText is not a date. It is the site's own wording, in the site's language.
• Four countries. Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium. The UK site stopped listing jobs,

so uk is refused before anything is searched.

• No contract type or salary range filter. Keyword, city, radius, experience and order are what it

takes.

• Newest first on the German site only. Asking for it on another site stops the run before it

searches.

• No company profiles, no recruiter contacts, and it does not apply to anything.
• Special characters in the search term are flattened. Plain spelling works best.
• Rows are a snapshot. A listing can be filled or pulled after it was read.

🧭 Which job scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a StepStone account? No. It reads what any visitor sees.

Can I search in German? Yes, and you should. krankenpflege will find more than nursing on the German site.

Why is salary empty? Because the employer did not publish one. Nothing is estimated here, so the field stays null rather than being filled with a guess.

Can I get the full job description? Not from this one. You get the card excerpt and the link.

Why did I get fewer jobs than I asked for? StepStone ran out of matches, and the other jobs it showed after them were left out.

What happens if the search gets stopped part-way? You keep the jobs already collected, marked partial: true, and you are not charged for them.

Is it stable enough to schedule? Yes. jobId comes from StepStone and does not change between runs.

Is this legal? These are public job listings naming companies rather than people. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good start, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the keyword, the site and the run ID. A search you know has results coming back as NO_RESULTS is worth reporting, because it usually means the page layout moved.