Seek Australia Jobs Scraper

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What this scrapes 🎯

Seek.com.au (au.seek.com) is Australia's largest job board, listing postings across every industry from thousands of employers. This Actor searches Seek's own listings by job title/keyword and/or a free-text Australian location and writes one normalized row per posting: title, company, classification and subclassification using Seek's own taxonomy, a flattened location hierarchy (suburb → state → country), work type and work arrangement, salary label, listing date, and a teaser summary. It's built for recruiters and staffing agencies sourcing candidates on Seek, AU job-aggregator operators backfilling listings, and HR-tech builders who need structured Australian job-market data without hand-rolling their own Seek integration. Everything is sourced from Seek's own public job-search index — no login, no API key.

What we handle for you 🔥

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation (Chrome / Firefox / Safari) so Seek sees real-browser TLS, not Python.
• 🌐 We rotate residential proxies through Apify Proxy on every block — fresh session ID, fresh AU exit IP, pinned to the Australian market.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 503 and honour Retry-After — up to 5 attempts per page.
• 🌏 We verify the market on every response — before any row ships, we check Seek's own market signal and each job's country code. A mismatch rotates the session and retries instead of quietly shipping the wrong country's jobs.
• 🧱 We fail loud, not silent — a hard block surfaces a clear status message naming pages fetched vs. blocked, instead of a quietly empty dataset.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean — Pydantic-validated rows, ISO-8601 timestamps, deduplicated job IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that land in your dataset, plus one small flat warm-up fee per run.

Use cases 💡

• Recruiting pipelines — pull fresh Seek postings matching a role profile straight into your ATS or sourcing sheet.
• AU job-aggregator feeds — normalize Seek listings into a consistent schema alongside other job boards.
• Market and hiring-trend research — track classification, location, and work-type distribution across Australia over time.
• Competitive intelligence — monitor which employers are actively hiring for a role or in a region on Seek.

How to use it ⚙️

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — keywords and/or where, plus an optional classificationFilter. Every field has a sensible default.
3. Click Start. Rows stream into the run's dataset as pages are fetched.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

Input 📥

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
keywords	string | null	no	null	Job title/keyword search, e.g. "python developer". Omit to browse all postings for where.
where	string	no	"All Australia"	Free-text Australian location (suburb, city, or state), resolved server-side by Seek's own location graph.
classificationFilter	string | null	no	null	Case-insensitive substring match against a job's classification or subclassification name (Seek's own taxonomy). Applied client-side after fetch.
maxResults	integer	no	200	Hard cap on dataset rows for this run, 1–2000.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	RESIDENTIAL + AU	Apify Proxy is mandatory. Defaults to RESIDENTIAL pinned to AU so a random exit country can't return plausible-but-wrong results.

Example input

{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "where": "Sydney NSW",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output 📤

Every row is one dataset item — one Seek job posting.

Field	Type	Notes
job_id	string	Seek's own job id — dedup key for the run.
title	string	Job posting title.
company_name	string | null	Employer name; "Private Advertiser" when anonymous.
advertiser_id	string | null	Seek advertiser ID, null when no advertiser object is present.
advertiser_description	string | null	Advertiser display name, null when no advertiser object is present.
classification_id	string | null	Seek's classification taxonomy ID.
classification_description	string | null	Classification name, e.g. "Information & Communication Technology".
subclassification_id	string | null	Seek's subclassification taxonomy ID.
subclassification_description	string | null	Subclassification name, e.g. "Developers/Programmers".
location_label	string | null	Display location, e.g. "Sydney NSW".
location_country_code	string | null	Country code of the primary location, expected "AU".
location_hierarchy	array<string>	Flattened location hierarchy, e.g. ["Sydney", "NSW", "Australia"]. Empty when unavailable.
work_types	array<string>	e.g. ["Full time"]. Empty when unavailable.
work_arrangement	string | null	e.g. "Hybrid".
salary_label	string | null	Free text as published, e.g. "$120,000 – $140,000 + super". null when Seek doesn't publish one.
listing_date	string	ISO-8601 listing timestamp.
listing_date_display	string | null	Human-readable posting age, e.g. "1h ago".
teaser	string | null	Short summary from the search index — not the full job description.
is_featured	boolean	Whether Seek marks the posting as featured.
display_type	string | null	e.g. "standout" / "standard".
role_id	string | null	Seek's internal role identifier, when present.
url	string	Canonical public posting URL, constructed from job_id.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 wall-clock time the row was built.

Example output

{
  "job_id": "78234561",
  "title": "Senior Python Developer",
  "company_name": "Acme Digital",
  "advertiser_id": "30442112",
  "advertiser_description": "Acme Digital",
  "classification_id": "6281",
  "classification_description": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subclassification_id": "6287",
  "subclassification_description": "Developers/Programmers",
  "location_label": "Sydney NSW",
  "location_country_code": "AU",
  "location_hierarchy": ["Sydney", "NSW", "Australia"],
  "work_types": ["Full time"],
  "work_arrangement": "Hybrid",
  "salary_label": "$120,000 – $140,000 + super",
  "listing_date": "2026-08-16T22:11:00Z",
  "listing_date_display": "1h ago",
  "teaser": "Join our platform team building distributed systems at scale...",
  "is_featured": false,
  "display_type": "standout",
  "role_id": "python-developer",
  "url": "https://au.seek.com/job/78234561",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-17T09:00:00Z"
}

Pricing 💰

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.03	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.0018	Per dataset row (per job posting)

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.83. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

Limitations 🚧

• Teaser-only, not the full job description. The full posting body lives behind Seek's Cloudflare-walled /job/{id} detail page; only the search index's teaser text is captured in v1. This is a deliberate scope decision, not a silent gap.
• salaryLabel is free text only. Seek's search API returns salary as a display string, not structured numbers — no min/max fields are emitted or inferred. Expect salary_label to be null on the many postings where an employer doesn't publish a figure.
• One location per job. When a posting lists more than one location, only the primary (locations[0]) entry is emitted — there's no multi-location row breakout in v1.
• Australia only. This Actor targets au.seek.com exclusively. Seek's other country domains (nz.seek.com and siblings) aren't in scope.
• classificationFilter is a client-side filter, not a server-side search parameter. It matches Seek's own classification/subclassification names against rows already fetched for your keywords/where — it narrows what gets emitted, it doesn't change what gets requested from Seek.

FAQ ❓

Do I need a Seek account or API key?

No. This Actor reads Seek's own public job-search index — no login, no API key, no credentials of any kind.

Why is salary_label sometimes null?

Seek doesn't require employers to publish a salary. We surface exactly what's published as free text — never an estimated or invented range.

Can I get the full job description text?

Not in v1 — see Limitations. The detail page carrying the full description sits behind a Cloudflare challenge; the teaser field is the description-like text this Actor sources in v1.

Does this cover NZ or other Seek country sites?

No. This Actor is scoped to au.seek.com only.

What happens if Seek blocks the run?

We rotate browser fingerprints, proxies, and sessions automatically, and re-verify the market on every response. If a run still gets blocked after retries, it fails loudly with a clear status message naming pages fetched vs. blocked — never a silent empty dataset.

What does classificationFilter match against?

Seek's own classification and subclassification names (e.g. "Information & Communication Technology", "Developers/Programmers"), matched case-insensitively as a substring, applied after your keywords/where search runs.

Your feedback 💬

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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