# SEEK Jobs Scraper - Australia & NZ, Full Ads + Contacts (`centorprat/seek-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape SEEK job listings in Australia and New Zealand by keyword, location, classification, work type, remote and salary: full ad text, recruiter email and phone from the ad, parsed salary, agency flag, tech stack. No login.

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

## Pricing

from $0.76 / 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.
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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🦘 SEEK Jobs Scraper - Australia & NZ, Full Ads + Contacts

**Scrape SEEK (seek.com.au and seek.co.nz) job listings with the full ad and the contact details written in it.**
Search by keyword and location with SEEK's own filters: classification (industry), work type, remote / hybrid / on-site,
date listed and minimum salary. One row per job: title, company, advertiser, location and area, work type, work
arrangement, classification and sub-classification, salary text, listed date, teaser, bullet points, job URL, company
profile, plus the **full description**, the **contact email and phone** listed in the ad, expiry date, external-apply
flag and advertiser verification. No login, no cookies.

What we add on top of SEEK's data:

- **Parsed salary**: min / max / period (hour, day, week, month, year) and an **annualized range** (`$49-$57 per hour` → 96,824-112,632), so hourly contracts and salaried roles sort together. `plusSuper` tells you when super / KiwiSaver is on top.
- **Recruitment-agency flag** (`isRecruitmentAgency`): from the advertiser's name and the ad's wording ("our client is..."). Use `excludeRecruitmentAgencies` to keep direct employers only.
- **Department**, **seniority class** and **tech stack mentioned** in the ad (languages, cloud, data, AI, CRM, ERP...).
- **No 550-result ceiling**: SEEK stops paging at ~550 jobs per search. Bigger requests are split by classification and state / region automatically and merged without duplicates (up to 5,000 per search).
- `onlyWithContacts`: keep only ads that list an email or phone (it searches deeper to fill your `maxJobs`).

### 📥 Input

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Searches, e.g. `["accountant", "registered nurse"]`; empty = every job |
| `country` | `AU` (seek.com.au) or `NZ` (seek.co.nz) |
| `locations` | e.g. `["Sydney NSW"]`, `["Melbourne VIC"]`, `["Auckland"]`; empty = whole country |
| `maxJobs` | Per keyword x location (up to 5,000) |
| `classifications`, `workTypes`, `workArrangements`, `datePosted`, `minSalary`, `sortBy` | SEEK filters |
| `includeDetails` | Open each ad for description, contacts, expiry (default on) |
| `onlyWithContacts`, `excludeRecruitmentAgencies`, `excludeKeywords` | Keep the rows you want |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional Apify Proxy for very large runs |

```json
{ "keywords": ["electrician"], "country": "AU", "locations": ["Brisbane QLD"], "datePosted": "week", "maxJobs": 200 }
```

### 📤 Output (one job)

```json
{
  "title": "Cloud Ops Engineer", "company": "The Recruitment Company", "isRecruitmentAgency": true,
  "location": "Sydney NSW", "country": "AU", "workType": "Full time", "workArrangement": "Hybrid",
  "classification": "Information & Communication Technology", "subClassification": "Engineering - Network",
  "salaryText": "$160,000 base + superannuation", "salary": {"min": 160000, "max": 160000, "period": "year", "annualMin": 160000, "annualMax": 160000, "plusSuper": true},
  "listedAt": "2026-10-22T23:58:11Z", "contactEmails": ["amandae@therecruitmentcompany.com"], "contactPhones": [],
  "expiresAt": "2026-11-21T23:58:11.000Z", "department": "Engineering", "seniorityClass": "mid",
  "techStack": {"cloud & infra": ["aws", "kubernetes", "terraform"]}, "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/..."
}
```

### 💡 Uses

- **Recruiters and agencies**: fresh roles by niche and city with the hiring contact; direct employers only via `excludeRecruitmentAgencies`.
- **B2B sales**: who is hiring for what (department, tech stack) = who is about to buy tools and services.
- **Salary benchmarking**: annualized ranges across hourly, daily and salaried ads.
- **Job boards and alerts**: run it on a schedule with `datePosted: "today"`.

### 💰 Pricing

Pay per job returned (`job` event), full ad and contacts included. Empty searches and filtered-out jobs are free.

### 🤖 API / agents

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/centorprat~seek-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"keywords": ["accountant"], "locations": ["Melbourne VIC"], "maxJobs": 20}'
```

MCP: `https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,centorprat/seek-jobs-scraper`

### ❓ FAQ

- **Login needed?** No. It reads SEEK's public job search and public job ads.
- **Where do the contacts come from?** Only from what the advertiser wrote in the ad (SEEK marks them). No candidate or personal profile data.
- **How many jobs?** Up to 5,000 per keyword x location; past ~550 the search is split automatically.

### 🔗 Related actors

- [Company Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/centorprat/company-hiring-monitor): jobs straight from company career sites (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday).
- [LinkedIn Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/centorprat/linkedin-jobs-scraper): LinkedIn job listings with full details.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Job search keywords, one search per line, e.g. \["accountant", "registered nurse"]. Leave empty to list every job in the location.

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

Which SEEK site to search.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Where, as you'd type it on SEEK, e.g. \["Sydney NSW"], \["Melbourne VIC"], \["Perth WA"], \["Auckland"]. Empty = the whole country. Each keyword is searched in each location.

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Up to this many jobs per keyword x location. SEEK shows ~550 per search; above that the search is split by classification and region automatically.

## `classifications` (type: `array`):

Only jobs in these SEEK classifications (industries).

## `workTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep these work types.

## `workArrangements` (type: `array`):

Keep jobs with any of these work arrangements.

## `datePosted` (type: `string`):

Only jobs listed in this window.

## `minSalary` (type: `integer`):

SEEK's salary filter (annual, in AUD / NZD), e.g. 100000.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of results.

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

Open every ad for the full description, the contact email / phone written in the ad, expiry date and advertiser info.

## `onlyWithContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only ads that list a contact email or phone (searches deeper to fill maxJobs). Only kept jobs are charged.

## `excludeRecruitmentAgencies` (type: `boolean`):

Drop ads posted by recruitment / staffing agencies (by advertiser name and ad wording), keeping direct employers.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop jobs whose title or company contains any of these, e.g. \["graduate", "casual"].

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

For very large runs: route through Apify Proxy (uses your proxy plan) if SEEK starts rate-limiting.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "data engineer"
  ],
  "country": "AU",
  "locations": [
    "All Australia"
  ],
  "maxJobs": 10,
  "datePosted": "any",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyWithContacts": false,
  "excludeRecruitmentAgencies": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per SEEK job: title, company, location, work type, remote/hybrid, classification, salary (text + parsed + annualized), listed date, full description, contact email/phone from the ad, expiry, recruitment-agency flag, department, tech stack.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "data engineer"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "All Australia"
    ],
    "maxJobs": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("centorprat/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 = {
    "keywords": ["data engineer"],
    "locations": ["All Australia"],
    "maxJobs": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("centorprat/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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "data engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "All Australia"
  ],
  "maxJobs": 10
}' |
apify call centorprat/seek-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,centorprat/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/G8hTauJLmcvT941BY/builds/P4f0E3HqfVuguK5Ud/openapi.json