# SEEK Jobs Scraper (AU & NZ) (`axery/seek-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape SEEK job listings across Australia and New Zealand with parsed numeric salary, structured location and incremental mode.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/seek-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, News, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## SEEK Jobs Scraper (AU & NZ)

Scrapes job listings from **seek.com.au** and **seek.co.nz** over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no cookies. It reads SEEK's own public search API, the same endpoint the website calls to paint its results page.

### What makes this different

**Salary you can actually use.** SEEK publishes salary only as a display string like `"$80,000 – $90,000 per year + super"`, which you cannot sort, filter or average. This Actor splits it into numeric `min`/`max`, ISO-4217 `currency` and a `period`:

```json
"salary": {
  "min": 80000, "max": 90000, "currency": "AUD",
  "period": "year", "is_estimated": false,
  "raw": "$80,000 – $90,000 per year + super"
}
```

`raw` is always kept, so if the parser ever misreads a format you still have the original — the data is never silently lossy.

**Incremental mode.** Turn on `incremental` and the Actor remembers which listings it has already returned. Subsequent runs return only new jobs, and **you are charged only for those new rows**. A daily monitor over 5,000 listings costs full price once, then a fraction of that per day.

**One schema across boards.** Every job Actor in this suite emits the same record shape, with a source-prefixed `job_id` (`seek.com.au:93887114`). Merge SEEK, JobStreet and RemoteOK results into one dataset and dedupe without writing a normalizer.

**Honest coverage reporting.** Each run writes a `RUN_COVERAGE` record to the key-value store saying what you asked for, what came back, and which limit applied.

### Input

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `queries` | array | Search keywords. Leave empty to browse by location/classification. |
| `site` | enum | `www.seek.com.au` or `www.seek.co.nz`. |
| `where` | string | Location as SEEK spells it, e.g. `Sydney NSW`. An unrecognised value returns **zero results, not an error** — prefer blank over a guess. |
| `classification` | string | SEEK classification id, e.g. `6281` for ICT. |
| `workType` | enum | Full time / Part time / Contract / Casual. |
| `salaryMin`, `salaryMax` | integer | Annual salary band. Note SEEK excludes listings with no disclosed salary when this is set. |
| `dateRange` | enum | Posted within N days. |
| `sortMode` | enum | Newest first or most relevant. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Per query. `0` = unlimited, still bounded by the ceiling below. |
| `incremental` | boolean | Only return listings not seen in previous runs. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Residential recommended. |

### Known limits

- **Pagination ceiling.** SEEK stops serving results at roughly page 50 (about 1,000 listings per query), regardless of what `totalCount` reports. To go deeper, split the query by location, classification or salary band. The Actor stops cleanly at the ceiling and records it in `RUN_COVERAGE`.
- **Most listings have no salary.** In a typical run only 1 in 5 to 1 in 8 rows carry a salary, because Australian advertisers frequently omit it. Empty `salary.min` is usually correct data, not a parse failure — check `salary.raw`, which is `null` when SEEK showed nothing.
- **No detail endpoint.** SEEK exposes no public JSON for a single job, and the job page carries no embedded state, so the full description body is not available over HTTP alone. The search response already includes `teaser`, `bulletPoints`, salary, location and classification.
- **`remote` is strict.** It is true only for genuinely location-free roles. Hybrid roles report `remote: false` with `"Hybrid"` in `work_arrangements`, because conflating the two makes the flag useless for filtering.

### Sister Actors

| Actor | Covers |
|---|---|
| JobStreet Jobs Scraper | Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong — same platform, those brands' catalogues |
| RemoteOK Jobs Scraper | Remote-only roles, from RemoteOK's official public feed |
| Bayt Jobs Scraper | UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC |

### Local development

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python test_local.py "python developer" --max 20 --out sample_output.json
python test_local.py "data analyst" --site www.seek.co.nz --where "Auckland" --max 10
```

`sample_output.json` in this folder is real output from a live run, kept so the schema can be reviewed without running anything.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One or more keywords or phrases. Each runs independently and streams into the same dataset. Leave the list empty to browse by location or classification instead of searching for a term.

## `site` (type: `string`):

Which SEEK site to search. For Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong use the separate JobStreet Jobs Scraper — it runs on the same platform with those brands' catalogues.

## `where` (type: `string`):

Location filter exactly as SEEK spells it, e.g. `Sydney NSW`, `Melbourne VIC`, `Auckland`. Leave blank to search the whole country. A location SEEK does not recognise returns zero results rather than an error, so prefer blank over a guess.

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

SEEK classification id to restrict the search, e.g. `6281` for Information & Communication Technology. Visible in the URL when you filter by category on SEEK itself.

## `workType` (type: `string`):

Restrict to a single work type. `Any` leaves the filter off.

## `salaryMin` (type: `integer`):

Only return listings advertising at least this annual salary, in the site's local currency. Note this filters on what the advertiser disclosed — listings with no salary shown are excluded by SEEK when this is set.

## `salaryMax` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound for the salary filter. Only meaningful together with the minimum.

## `dateRange` (type: `integer`):

Restrict to recently posted listings. Pair `Last 24 hours` with incremental mode for a cheap daily monitor. Common values: 0 = any time, 1 = today, 3/7/14/31 = last N days.

## `sortMode` (type: `string`):

How results are ordered. `Newest first` is the right choice for monitoring; relevance is better for exploratory searches.

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

Maximum listings to return per keyword. Set to `0` for unlimited, which still stops at SEEK's pagination ceiling of roughly 1,000 results per query — narrow by location or classification to go deeper.

## `incremental` (type: `boolean`):

Remember job ids between runs and return only listings not seen before. You are charged only for the new rows, so a daily monitor costs a fraction of a full re-scrape after the first run. Ids are stored in this Actor's key-value store under `seen_job_ids`.

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

Apify Proxy settings. SEEK sits behind Cloudflare — Residential is the reliable choice. Datacenter often works for small runs and costs less, so try it if your volume is low.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "python developer"
  ],
  "site": "www.seek.com.au",
  "where": "Sydney NSW",
  "classification": "6281",
  "workType": "",
  "salaryMin": 100000,
  "salaryMax": 150000,
  "dateRange": 0,
  "sortMode": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "incremental": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

One row per job listing: title, company, structured location, salary split into numeric min/max plus currency and period, classification, posting date and apply URL.

## `coverage` (type: `string`):

What the run asked for versus what it returned, including per-query failures and the pagination ceiling that applied.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "python developer"
    ],
    "site": "www.seek.com.au",
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/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 = {
    "queries": ["python developer"],
    "site": "www.seek.com.au",
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/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 '{
  "queries": [
    "python developer"
  ],
  "site": "www.seek.com.au",
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call axery/seek-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/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/Q06TuygiVCtrZJ9IF/builds/oPDnEYdfPRfHChuvf/openapi.json