# SEEK Jobs Scraper (`automatic/seek-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Search SEEK Australia and New Zealand jobs with optional short descriptions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automatic/seek-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Philip Kirkbride](https://apify.com/automatic) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 60.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 jobs

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEEK Jobs Scraper

Collect job listings from SEEK Australia and SEEK New Zealand by keyword and location: title, company, location, salary, work type, posting date, classification and link, with an optional short description of each job. Useful for recruiters, job-market researchers and anyone tracking hiring in Australia or New Zealand. No SEEK account is needed.

### Input

```json
{"keywords": "software engineer", "location": "Sydney", "country": "AU", "maxItems": 50, "includeDetails": false}
```

- `keywords`: job title, skill or company, as you would type it on SEEK.
- `location`: suburb, city, state or region. For New Zealand, Auckland is used when you leave it empty.
- `country`: `AU` or `NZ`.
- `maxItems`: how many jobs to save (1–5000). A run returns up to about 2,200 jobs, even when maxItems is higher.
- `includeDetails`: also add a short description of each job. This is slower (see Limits).

Optional filters (Australia only) take SEEK's own values: `classification` (for example `1200` Accounting), `workarrangement` (`2` Hybrid), `salaryrange` (annual salary, for example `200000-999999`), `daterange` (`1` past day, `7` past week) and `sortmode` (`ListedDate` for newest first). A New Zealand run with any of these filters stops with an error before collecting anything.

### Output

One row per job:

```json
{"jobId": "95471897", "title": "Junior Software Engineer", "company": "Moneyspot Financial", "location": "Surry Hills, Sydney NSW", "country": "AU", "salaryText": "$70,000 – $90,000 per year + annual bonus", "salaryMin": 70000.0, "salaryMax": 90000.0, "salaryCurrency": null, "salaryPeriod": "YEAR", "employmentType": "Full time", "postedDate": "2026-10-23T19:40:06Z", "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/95471897", "descriptionExcerpt": null, "classification": "Information & Communication Technology"}
```

### Empty or missing values

- Anything the job ad does not show is null.
- `salaryText` is the salary exactly as the ad shows it. `salaryMin` and `salaryMax` are filled only when the ad gives a clear amount; unclear amounts stay null. `salaryPeriod` is YEAR, HOUR, DAY, WEEK or MONTH when the ad states one.
- `salaryCurrency` is filled only when the ad names the currency (for example AUD). A `$` sign alone leaves it null, so it is null for most jobs.
- `descriptionExcerpt` is null unless `includeDetails` is on. When on, it is plain text of up to 600 characters and may be cut mid-word.
- A search with no matching jobs finishes successfully with zero rows.

### Limits

- Covers SEEK Australia and SEEK New Zealand only.
- Up to about 2,200 jobs per run.
- Descriptions are slower: about 1.4 seconds per job, so roughly 400 jobs with descriptions fit in the default 10-minute run. Raise the run timeout for more. If a run reaches its time limit, it finishes with the jobs collected so far.

### Privacy

Public job text, including advertiser-provided contacts and application instructions, is preserved in the description excerpt. `company` is the advertiser name as SEEK shows it, which can be a person's name when that is the registered business name.

### Pricing

See the Pricing tab. You pay per run start and per job saved, descriptions included.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Job title, skill or company to search for, as you would type it on SEEK.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Suburb, city, state or region (for example Sydney NSW or Auckland). Leave empty to search the whole country.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Which SEEK site to search: Australia (AU) or New Zealand (NZ).

## `classification` (type: `string`):

AU only: SEEK server filter; see README for values. NZ rejects this filter.

## `workarrangement` (type: `string`):

AU only: SEEK server filter; see README for values. NZ rejects this filter.

## `salaryrange` (type: `string`):

AU only: SEEK server filter; see README for values. NZ rejects this filter.

## `daterange` (type: `string`):

AU only: SEEK server filter; see README for values. NZ rejects this filter.

## `sortmode` (type: `string`):

AU only: SEEK server filter; see README for values. NZ rejects this filter.

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

Maximum number of jobs to save. The run stops when it reaches this number or runs out of results.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open each job page to add a short public description excerpt, including advertiser-provided contacts. Slower.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "software engineer",
  "country": "AU",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automatic/seek-jobs-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 = {}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call automatic/seek-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automatic/seek-jobs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7rpZorVjq6WbDyXX2/builds/wL9TOdQoEctNVoCER/openapi.json