The latest articles on DEV Community by Test 1 (@test_1_dd922a9a4a3bed6e4a). https://dev.to/test_1_dd922a9a4a3bed6e4a https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4225871%2F13f4813d-2a6d-4ee3-a058-8f9ba3255016.png https://dev.to/test_1_dd922a9a4a3bed6e4a en Test 1 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:41:14 +0000 https://dev.to/test_1_dd922a9a4a3bed6e4a/germany-has-a-free-public-api-with-every-job-posting-in-the-country-so-i-built-a-scraper-that-2283 https://dev.to/test_1_dd922a9a4a3bed6e4a/germany-has-a-free-public-api-with-every-job-posting-in-the-country-so-i-built-a-scraper-that-2283 <p>Most people don't know this: the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Germany's Federal Employment Agency) runs a <strong>free public API</strong> — Jobsuche — covering basically every registered job posting in the country. No auth needed, no rate-limit games, official data source.</p> <p>I wrapped it in an Apify Actor and it turned out more useful than expected. Quick writeup of what's interesting:</p> <h2> The API nobody talks about </h2> <p>The Arbeitsagentur search endpoint (<code>arbeitnow-style</code>, but official) returns structured JSON: job title, employer, salary ranges, exact locations with coordinates, remote-work flags (<code>homeofficemoeglich</code>), contract type, posting dates. It's the same data behind arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche — Germany's biggest job board.</p> <p>Gotcha I hit while building: the boolean filters work <em>exclusively</em>, not inclusively. <code>zeitarbeit=true</code> doesn't mean "include temp-agency jobs" — it means "ONLY temp-agency jobs". Combine two and you get the intersection = 0 results. Took a real API call to catch.</p> <h2> The part I actually think is useful </h2> <p>Raw job listings are a commodity. The interesting question for recruiters/lead-gen is different: <strong>who is hiring right now, and how much?</strong></p> <p>So the actor also emits a second dataset — aggregated company summaries. Feed it "vertrieb, München" and out comes a prospect list: which companies have open sales roles in Munich, how many, where. That's a list a recruiter would pay for, and it's a free byproduct of the same API calls.</p> <h2> Try it </h2> <p>The actor is public on Apify Store (pay-per-event, ~$0.75/1k results):</p> <ul> <li>Actor: <a href="https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper</a> </li> <li>Ready-to-run example: <a href="https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper/examples/who-is-hiring-munich" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper/examples/who-is-hiring-munich</a> </li> <li>Remote jobs across Germany: <a href="https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper/examples/remote-jobs-germany" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper/examples/remote-jobs-germany</a> </li> </ul> <p>I also built the same thing for German company registry data (northdata — legal names, HRB, executive officers): <a href="https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/northdata-scraper" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://apify.com/dach_data_tools/northdata-scraper</a></p> <p>Happy to answer questions about the API quirks — the docs undersell how much data is in there.</p> <h1> webdev #api #scraping #germany </h1> api automation data webscraping