Personio Job Board Scraper — DACH SME Hiring Signals

Personio is the HR system of the German-speaking Mittelstand, and every customer publishes an XML job feed. That makes it the clearest public window into SME hiring across Germany, Austria and Switzerland — a segment the US-centric ATS feeds miss entirely.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Company slug, title-cased
companyBoard	Personio slug — the join key across runs
jobId	Personio position ID
jobTitle	Role title
department	Department
location	Office
isRemote	True when the office or title marks the role remote
employmentType	Permanent, intern, working student, temporary
seniority	Seniority level as published
schedule	Full-time or part-time
yearsOfExperience	Experience band where published
description	Description sections joined, HTML stripped
occupationCategory	Personio's occupation category
applyUrl	Direct application link
sourceUrl	Public posting URL

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Example output

{
  "source": "Personio",
  "companyName": "Personio",
  "companyBoard": "personio",
  "jobId": "1834171",
  "jobTitle": "Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)",
  "department": "Engineering",
  "location": "Munich",
  "employmentType": "permanent",
  "seniority": "experienced",
  "schedule": "full-time",
  "sourceUrl": "https://personio.jobs.personio.de/job/1834171"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["personio","deskbird","https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 200,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Company slugs (personio, deskbird) or careers URLs (https://deskbird.jobs.personio.com). Both .de and .com careers domains work.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Personio rate-limits aggressively per IP. Turn the proxy on for runs over a handful of companies.

What people use it for

• DACH SME prospecting — Personio's base is German-speaking mid-market — the hardest segment to find hiring data for anywhere else.
• Hiring-intent scoring — a Mittelstand company opening its first data roles is starting a data project.
• Recruiter sourcing — collect open roles across a target list of DACH employers.

Notes and limits

• Personio throttles hard. The defaults here are deliberately conservative — two companies at a time with a half-second delay — and the proxy input is there for larger runs.
• Feeds are usually German-language; field values like permanent and full-time come back in Personio's own English vocabulary regardless.
• Personio accounts sit on either .jobs.personio.de or .jobs.personio.com. Pass a bare slug and the actor tries both, so you do not have to know which.

Where the data comes from

Every Personio careers site publishes its openings as an XML feed at /xml, with no key. Source: Personio XML job feed

FAQ

Is this Personio job board scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.002 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. Every Personio careers site publishes its openings as an XML feed at /xml, with no key.

What can I search by?

By company slug (personio) or a full careers URL (https://sennder.jobs.personio.de). Both .de and .com careers domains work.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. The feed is generated live by Personio.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (2 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. The XML feed is a syndication format Personio publishes on the company's behalf. It carries job data, not personal data.

Related actors

• Teamtailor Job Scraper
• SmartRecruiters Job Scraper

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