# Seek Australia Jobs Scraper (`devilscrapes/seek-australia-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Seek.com.au (au.seek.com) job postings by keyword and Australian location. Get normalized rows with title, company, classification, location, work type, salary label, listing date, and teaser, ready for CSV, JSON, or API export. No login required.

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

## Pricing

Pay per event

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

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## Seek Australia Jobs Scraper

**💰 $1.83 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Scrape Seek.com.au (au.seek.com) job postings by keyword and Australian location. Get normalized rows with title, company, classification, location, work type, salary label, listing date, and teaser, ready for CSV, JSON, or API export. No login required.

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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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Actor input Schema

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

Job title/keyword search, e.g. "python developer". Leave empty to browse all postings for the chosen location.

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

Free-text Australian location (suburb, city, or state) resolved server-side by Seek's own location graph.

## `classificationFilter` (type: `string`):

Optional case-insensitive substring match against a job's classification or subclassification description. Applied client-side after fetch — Seek's server-side classification query-param name is unconfirmed. Leave empty to keep every classification.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on dataset rows emitted per run.

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

Apify Proxy is mandatory. Defaults to RESIDENTIAL pinned to AU — Seek's search/detail HTML is Cloudflare Managed-Challenge walled and a random exit country can return plausible-but-wrong (non-AU) results at HTTP 200.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "python developer",
  "where": "All Australia",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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": "python developer",
    "where": "All Australia",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/seek-australia-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": "python developer",
    "where": "All Australia",
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/seek-australia-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": "python developer",
  "where": "All Australia",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/seek-australia-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/seek-australia-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/Bgkc5i1JrreAv9ZcC/builds/tVp2tgTyOL2KcQbcD/openapi.json