SEEK Jobs Scraper (Australia & New Zealand)

Extract job postings from seek.com.au and seek.co.nz — title, company, salary (when SEEK discloses one), location, work type and work arrangement (remote/hybrid/onsite) — straight from SEEK's own public search pages. No login, no cookies, no CAPTCHA solving.

Use it to

• Feed a job board or aggregator with fresh Australian or New Zealand listings, deduplicated by SEEK's own job ID.
• Track a market or a role (e.g. "software engineer" in Sydney) run after run with "Only new results" switched on, so a scheduled run bills only the postings it hasn't delivered before.
• Benchmark pay for a role or region from the salary ranges SEEK's own advertisers disclose.
• Monitor a classification (e.g. "Information & Communication Technology") for volume, seniority mix and remote/hybrid/onsite split over time.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
country	enum	AU	AU searches seek.com.au, NZ searches seek.co.nz.
keyword	string	(empty)	Job title or keyword, e.g. "software engineer". Cannot be combined with classification.
classification	string	(empty)	SEEK classification slug, e.g. "information-communication-technology" or "trades-services" — exactly as it appears in a seek.com.au/jobs-in-<slug> URL. Cannot be combined with keyword.
location	string	(empty)	SEEK location slug, e.g. "All-Sydney-NSW" or "All-Auckland" — exactly as it appears in a .../in-<slug> URL. Leave empty to search the whole country.
maxItems	integer	50	The run stops once this many postings are saved. See "One page per search" below for the real ceiling.
onlyNew	boolean	false	For scheduled runs: skip postings an earlier run of this same search already delivered, so you're only billed for what's new.

Leave everything empty for SEEK's own front-page mix of categories across Australia — that alone clears 50 results in well under a minute.

Output

One line of SCHEMA-EMPLOI.md-compatible JSON per job posting. Real example (from a live run, 2026-11-02):

{
  "id": "seek.com.au:95623729",
  "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/95623729",
  "title": "Part-Time Pick Packers – Rydalmere - $34 per hour (Day shift)",
  "companyName": "Fuse Recruitment",
  "companyUrl": null,
  "confidentialCompany": false,
  "locationLabel": "Rydalmere, Sydney NSW",
  "city": "Rydalmere",
  "region": "NSW",
  "postalCode": "2116",
  "country": "AU",
  "remote": "unknown",
  "employmentType": "contract",
  "salaryMin": 34,
  "salaryMax": 34,
  "salaryCurrency": "AUD",
  "salaryPeriod": "hour",
  "datePosted": "2026-11-01T20:07:06.000Z",
  "validThrough": null,
  "description": "Part time 3 days a week, flexibility to work 5 days, 8:30am to 3:30pm and paying $34 p/hr + Super!",
  "experienceLevel": null,
  "industry": "Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics",
  "skills": [],
  "source": "seek.com.au",
  "sourceId": "95623729",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T07:11:27.414Z",
  "subClassification": "Pickers & Packers",
  "bulletPoints": ["3 days per week!", "$34 p/hr + Super on Day shift!", "Working with a National industry leader!"],
  "listingDateDisplay": "11h ago",
  "isFeatured": false,
  "salaryLabel": "AUD 34 per hour"
}

The first block of fields (id through scrapedAt) follows the same names across every job-posting Actor we publish, so you can merge SEEK with other sources on one schema. The last block (subClassification through salaryLabel) is specific to SEEK.

Good to know

• One page per search, by design. SEEK's own robots.txt disallows every query-string URL for a generic crawler except two narrow exceptions this Actor doesn't rely on, and it disallows the /job/ job-detail path outright. So this Actor only ever fetches SEEK's plain, path-based search pages (no ?page=..., no detail page) — which caps a single keyword/classification/location search at one page, up to 32 postings. Leaving keyword, classification and location all empty uses two built-in default categories instead of one, so the default run alone reaches 50. To go further, run the Actor again with a different keyword, classification or location.
• description is SEEK's own teaser, not the full ad. The full job description lives on the /job/<id> detail page, which (see above) this Actor never fetches. The short teaser and bullet points SEEK already shows on the search card are included instead.
• experienceLevel and skills are not on the search card, only on the (disallowed) detail page, so they stay null / [] rather than being guessed.
• Salary is best-effort. SEEK's salaryLabel is free text ("$84,500 per year", "$30 - $40 per hour", or sometimes no figure at all); it's parsed into salaryMin/salaryMax/salaryCurrency/ salaryPeriod whenever the unit is one hour/day/month/year and left null otherwise (a missing number beats a wrong one). The raw text is always kept in salaryLabel.
• No personal data. SEEK's search cards never name an individual recruiter or carry a direct phone number or e-mail; the teaser and bullet points are still defensively scrubbed of any stray e-mail address before being saved.
• Real browser, real proxy: this Actor loads each search page in a stealth browser (Camoufox) behind a residential proxy, because SEEK blocks a plain HTTP request, a datacenter proxy, and even a Chrome-impersonating TLS fingerprint on a residential proxy — only a real browser gets through.

Who uses it

• Recruiting agencies and HR teams watch which companies hire, for which roles and at which salary, in their market.
• Job boards and aggregators feed their own site with fresh postings in a stable schema, without maintaining a parser.
• B2B sales and lead generation: a company that is hiring is a company that is buying. Filter postings by role to spot prospects early.
• Labour-market research: salaries, skills in demand, remote share and hiring volume over time.

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.20 per 1,000 postings, plus $0.01 per run start with the default 4 GB of memory. For example, 100 postings cost about $0.13. You only pay for the postings you receive, and platform usage is included in that price. Store discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans: up to 20% off every event on the higher tiers.

Run it from your code

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('bibian/seek-jobs-scraper').call({
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bibian/seek-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "maxItems": 50
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

Monitor new postings daily and connect your tools

1. Schedule it. Save a task, set its publication date filter to the shortest window, and schedule it daily with Apify Schedules. Deduplicate on the id field if you keep your own copy. Tick Only new results in the input and each run returns, and charges, only the postings that earlier runs of the same search did not deliver.
2. Push the results where you work. Add an Apify integration or a webhook to the task: Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n or your own endpoint, triggered at the end of every run.
3. Call it from your stack. The API and the JavaScript and Python clients return the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Let an AI agent use it. Through the Apify MCP server, assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT can search the Store, read this page and run the actor as a tool.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an account, cookies or a proxy for SEEK? No. The actor reads publicly visible pages only.

Which formats can I export? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS, from the dataset page or through the API.

Is it legal to scrape? The actor collects publicly visible postings and respects the robots.txt rules of the site. How you use the data is your responsibility: check the site's terms and the laws that apply to you, for example the GDPR.

Need another site, a missing field or a new filter? Open an issue in the Issues tab and say what you need, with an example URL if you have one. Requests are read, and the most asked ones are built next.

Something does not work? Open an issue in the Issues tab. Every public actor is test-run daily and the broken ones are repaired.

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