# StepStone Jobs Scraper — Titles, Companies, Locations (`hipersoft/stepstone-scraper`) Actor

Scrape jobs from StepStone (stepstone.de) by keyword and location: job title, company, location, remote/home-office flag, posted time, apply link and a description snippet. Fast clean HTTP, no login. For recruiting, job boards and labor-market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hipersoft/stepstone-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [hiper soft](https://apify.com/hipersoft) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.0008 / job scraped

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## StepStone Jobs Scraper — Titles, Companies, Locations & Apply Links

Scrape job listings from StepStone (stepstone.de) by keyword and location and get them back as clean, structured JSON. Give it plain search terms or full StepStone jobs URLs and pull job title, company, company page link, location, home-office flag, posted time, badges, a description snippet and a direct apply link. It uses fast, clean HTTP with no login and no browser, so runs are quick and cheap. No account, no API key. Built for recruiters, job-board builders and labor-market analysts in the German-speaking market.

### Features

- 🔎 **Keyword + location search** — pass `searches` as `"software engineer|Berlin"` lines, or feed full stepstone.de/jobs URLs.
- 🔗 **Advanced start URLs** — supply a `startUrls` request list of `{"url":"..."}` jobs pages for precise control.
- 🏢 **Company links** — captures both the employer name and its StepStone `companyUrl` where present.
- 🏠 **Home-office flag** — every record carries a boolean `workFromHome` so you can filter remote-friendly roles.
- 🏷️ **Job badges** — collects listing badges (e.g. tags shown on the card) as an array.
- ⚡ **Fast clean HTTP** — fast, lightweight and cheap.
- 📄 **Page depth control** — set `maxPagesPerSearch` (~25 jobs each) and `maxItems` to balance cost and coverage.

### What you get

Each job is one dataset record like this:

```json
{
  "jobId": "1234567",
  "title": "Softwareentwickler (m/w/d)",
  "company": "Acme GmbH",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.stepstone.de/cmp/de/acme-gmbh-12345",
  "location": "Berlin",
  "workFromHome": true,
  "posted": "vor 2 Tagen",
  "badges": ["Home Office möglich"],
  "snippet": "Wir suchen einen erfahrenen Softwareentwickler für unser Plattform-Team...",
  "url": "https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--softwareentwickler-berlin-acme-gmbh--1234567-inline.html"
}
```

### Input

```json
{
  "searches": ["software engineer|Berlin", "pflege|München"],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}
```

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `searches` | One per line: `"keyword|location"` or a full stepstone.de/jobs URL. |
| `startUrls` | Advanced: a request list of `{"url":"..."}` StepStone jobs URLs. |
| `maxItems` | Cap total jobs across all searches (0 = no cap). |
| `maxPagesPerSearch` | Result pages (~25 jobs each) to crawl per search. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional — StepStone works without a proxy; enable one only at scale. |

### Use cases

- Build or refresh a German-market job board with fresh listings.
- Source candidates by monitoring roles by title and city.
- Track hiring demand and home-office trends for labor-market research.
- Feed structured job records into an ATS, CRM or analytics pipeline.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the **Pricing** tab for current rates.

### Notes

This scraper reads only public StepStone job pages and returns the same data any visitor can see. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to StepStone; "StepStone" is a trademark of its respective owner. Public data only.

# Actor input Schema

## `searches` (type: `array`):

Keyword + optional location as "keyword|location" (e.g. "software engineer|Berlin"), or a full stepstone.de/jobs URL. One per line.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Alternative to searches: a request list of {"url":"..."} StepStone jobs URLs.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap total jobs across all searches (0 = no cap).

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Pages (~25 jobs each) to crawl per search.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. StepStone works without a proxy; enable one only if you hit rate limits at scale.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searches": [
    "software engineer|Berlin"
  ],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searches": [
        "software engineer|Berlin"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hipersoft/stepstone-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searches": ["software engineer|Berlin"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hipersoft/stepstone-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searches": [
    "software engineer|Berlin"
  ]
}' |
apify call hipersoft/stepstone-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hipersoft/stepstone-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZEgS96rXhBvwXyga1/builds/Es3hdBFdBfuFaqVMH/openapi.json