Seek Jobs Scraper — Australia & New Zealand, Cheap & Fast

Seek Jobs Scraper pulls job listings from seek.com.au and seek.co.nz as clean JSON: title, company, location, category, work type, salary text, bullet points, listing date and (optionally) the full job description. No login, no browser, no cookies.

It works from Seek's own public search data, so it is fast and cheap: a run of 1,000 jobs usually finishes in a minute or two.

What you can do with it

• Track hiring in a city, industry or company (market research, salary benchmarking).
• Build job feeds, alerts, newsletters or aggregators for Australia and New Zealand.
• Feed recruiter and sales tools with companies that are hiring right now.
• Analyse demand for skills (keywords) over time with daily scheduled runs.

Features

• Both sites: Australia (AU) and New Zealand (NZ).
• Filters: keywords, locations (suburb, city, state, postcode), 30 job categories, work type (full time, part time, contract, casual), on-site / hybrid / remote, posted within N days, salary range (per year, month or hour), sort by relevance or newest.
• Paste Seek URLs: search result pages (with their filters) and single job pages (/job/12345678).
• Goes past the ~500 jobs limit: Seek only shows about 500 jobs per search. When you ask for more, the Actor splits the search automatically (category, work type, state, sub-category, days posted) and removes duplicates, so you can collect thousands of jobs in one run.
• Optional full details (add-on): full description as text and HTML, expiry date, advertiser verification, screening questions.
• Privacy: recruiter names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses are never returned; they are also scrubbed from descriptions.
• Resilient: automatic retries, and automatic fallback from datacenter to residential proxy if Seek blocks the requests.

How to scrape Seek jobs

1. Pick the site: AU for seek.com.au or NZ for seek.co.nz.
2. Add keywords (job titles or skills) and locations (suburb, city, state or postcode). Each keyword is searched in each location; leave them empty for all jobs in the country.
3. Narrow down with categories, work types, work arrangement (on-site, hybrid, remote), posted within N days and a salary range.
4. Or paste Seek URLs: search result pages keep their filters, and single job pages (/job/12345678) are scraped directly.
5. Turn on includeDetails if you need the full description, expiry date and screening questions.
6. Set maxItems, run, and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input

Field	Description
site	AU (default) or NZ
keywords	One search per keyword, e.g. ["nurse", "data analyst"]
locations	One search per location, e.g. ["Sydney NSW", "Auckland"]
classifications	Seek categories (multi-select)
workTypes	full_time, part_time, contract, casual
workArrangement	any, onsite, hybrid, remote
postedWithinDays	Only jobs listed in the last N days
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryType	Salary filter (annual, monthly, hourly)
sortBy	newest (default) or relevance
searchUrls	Seek search or job URLs
includeDetails	Add full description etc. (billed as an extra event)
maxItems	Maximum jobs to return (default 50)
proxyConfiguration	Datacenter by default, residential fallback is automatic

Example:

{
  "site": "AU",
  "keywords": ["data analyst"],
  "locations": ["Sydney NSW"],
  "workTypes": ["full_time"],
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

More input examples

Software engineer jobs in Melbourne with full descriptions (the "Software engineer jobs in Melbourne" example task):

{ "site": "AU", "keywords": ["software engineer"], "locations": ["Melbourne VIC"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": 50 }

Registered nurse jobs in Brisbane (the "Registered nurse jobs in Brisbane" task):

{ "site": "AU", "keywords": ["registered nurse"], "locations": ["Brisbane QLD"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": 50 }

Remote developer jobs in New Zealand posted in the last 3 days, without details (cheapest):

{ "site": "NZ", "keywords": ["developer"], "workArrangement": "remote", "postedWithinDays": 3, "includeDetails": false, "maxItems": 200 }

Note: includeDetails is off by default in the API (the Console form pre-fills it on). Set it explicitly in API calls.

Output

Each job is one dataset item (fields marked details are filled only with includeDetails):

{
  "id": "95128645",
  "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/95128645",
  "title": "Engineer",
  "company": "Urban Utilities",
  "companyId": "61721412",
  "companyUrl": "https://au.seek.com/companies/urban-utilities-123456",
  "companyLogo": "https://bx-branding-gateway.cloud.seek.com.au/.../jdpLogo",
  "advertiserId": "61721412",
  "isVerifiedAdvertiser": true,
  "location": "Fortitude Valley, Brisbane QLD",
  "area": "Brisbane QLD",
  "country": "AU",
  "classification": "Engineering",
  "classificationId": "1209",
  "subClassification": "Water & Waste Engineering",
  "subClassificationId": "6191",
  "workType": "Full time",
  "workArrangement": "Hybrid",
  "salary": "$110,000 – $130,000 per year",
  "listingDate": "2026-10-08T00:29:06Z",
  "listedAgo": "5d ago",
  "teaser": "Engineer the future of Southeast Queensland ...",
  "bulletPoints": ["Shape the growth of Southeast Queensland", "Grow your career in water and development"],
  "isPremium": true,
  "description": "At Urban Utilities, our purpose is ...",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>At Urban Utilities ...</p>",
  "status": "Active",
  "expiresAt": "2026-11-07T00:29:05.000Z",
  "screeningQuestions": null,
  "site": "AU",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Salary is returned as the text the advertiser published (many ads do not show one, then salary is null).

Output fields

Field	Description
id / url	Seek job id and job page link.
title	Job title.
company / companyId / companyUrl / companyLogo	Advertiser shown on the ad, its Seek company page and logo.
advertiserId / isVerifiedAdvertiser	Seek advertiser id; verification flag (details).
location / area / country	Location text, wider area and site country.
classification / subClassification (+ ids)	Seek category and sub-category.
workType / workArrangement	Full time, part time, contract or casual; on-site, hybrid or remote.
salary	Salary text exactly as advertised, or null.
listingDate / listedAgo	When the job was listed.
teaser / bulletPoints	Short summary and selling points from the ad.
isPremium	Featured / premium ad flag.
description / descriptionHtml	Full description as text and HTML (details).
status / expiresAt	Ad status and expiry date (details).
screeningQuestions	Employer screening questions, when present (details).
site / scrapedAt	AU or NZ, and when the job was collected.

How much does it cost to scrape Seek?

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	When
job-result	each job saved to the dataset
job-details	only with includeDetails on, per job whose details were fetched
apify-actor-start	once per run (a fraction of a cent)

From 30 October 2026, 1,000 jobs cost US$2 on the Apify Free plan; paid Apify plans pay less per job — see the Pricing tab. Full details add US$0.50 per 1,000 jobs on every plan, so 1,000 jobs with full descriptions cost US$2.50 on the Free plan. Set maxItems and your run budget cap on Apify to control spend; the Actor stops cleanly when the budget limit is reached.

FAQ

Does it need a login or cookies? No. It only reads public listings.

How many jobs can I get? As many as match your search. A single Seek query is limited to about 500 results; the Actor splits larger searches automatically. Very large, unfiltered runs reach roughly 90% of what Seek reports because listings change while the run is going.

Why is salary often empty? Many employers do not publish pay. We never guess salary.

Are recruiter contacts included? No. Names, phones and e-mail addresses of recruiters are dropped and scrubbed from descriptions.

Which proxy should I use? Leave the default. The Actor starts with datacenter IPs and switches to residential IPs automatically when Seek blocks.

Can I schedule it? Yes: use Apify schedules with postedWithinDays: 1 for a daily fresh-jobs feed, and the id field to deduplicate.

Is the salary filter exact? It uses Seek's own salary filter: jobs whose advertised range overlaps yours are returned. Seek's filter can also include ads that do not display a salary, so check the salary field.

What if Seek blocks every request? The Actor retries on residential IPs automatically. If no job at all can be retrieved, the run fails with a clear message instead of returning an empty dataset.

Can I get jobs from one company only? Paste the company's Seek search URL into searchUrls, or search by the company name as a keyword and filter the company field.

Is it legal to scrape Seek?

This Actor only collects job ads that Seek shows publicly to any visitor, without logging in. It deliberately drops recruiter names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and scrubs contact details from descriptions, but job ads can still contain personal information, so data-protection laws such as Australia's Privacy Act, New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020, the EU GDPR, Chile's Ley 21.719 or the California CCPA may apply to how you use the data. You are responsible for a lawful purpose and for respecting Seek's terms of service, and job ad texts belong to the advertisers. This is general information, not legal advice.

Integrations

Run the Seek Jobs Scraper from the Apify API or the JavaScript and Python clients, send new jobs onward with webhooks, or schedule a daily run with postedWithinDays: 1 in Apify Console. It works with n8n, Make and Zapier (for example, to post new jobs to Slack or a Google Sheet), and with LangChain and LlamaIndex through their Apify integrations. AI agents in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can find and run it through Apify's MCP server. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read from the dataset API.

Use with AI agents

Use this actor to search job ads on Seek Australia or New Zealand by keyword, location, category, work type, arrangement, date and salary, optionally with full descriptions.

{ "site": "AU", "keywords": ["data analyst"], "locations": ["Sydney NSW"], "postedWithinDays": 7, "maxItems": 30 }

Main output fields: title, company, location, classification, workType, workArrangement, salary, listingDate, url, and with details description. It is pay-per-event: an agent pays a small start fee plus a fixed price per job saved (and per job with details), not for compute time.

Related actors

• ATS Jobs Scraper — jobs straight from company career pages on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and SmartRecruiters.
• Greenhouse Jobs Scraper — every job on one or many Greenhouse boards.
• GetOnBrd Jobs Scraper — tech jobs in Latin America.
• Trabajando.cl Jobs Scraper — job listings in Chile.

Ready-made examples

• Software engineer jobs in Melbourne
• Registered nurse jobs in Brisbane
• Developer jobs in Auckland, New Zealand

Changelog

• 2026-10-16 — README expanded: how-to, more input examples, output field table, FAQ, legal notes, integrations and example tasks.
• 2026-10-15 — Published on the Apify Store. Tiered pricing announced, effective 2026-10-30 (lower per-job price on paid Apify plans).
• 2026-10-13 — Builds 0.1.1–0.1.3: initial release for Seek AU and NZ with filters, automatic search splitting beyond ~500 results, optional full details and residential proxy fallback.

En español

Scraper de ofertas de empleo de Seek Australia y Seek Nueva Zelanda. Filtra por palabra clave, ciudad, categoría, tipo de jornada, modalidad (presencial, híbrido, remoto), días de publicación y sueldo; devuelve título, empresa, ubicación, sueldo publicado, puntos clave y, opcionalmente, la descripción completa. Supera el límite de ~500 resultados de Seek dividiendo la búsqueda automáticamente. No devuelve nombres, teléfonos ni correos de reclutadores. Se cobra por oferta guardada (y un extra por oferta con detalle completo); el precio vigente para tu plan está en la pestaña Pricing.