Victoria Government Jobs Scraper (Australia, Careers Vic)

Pay-per-result actor ($0.50 per 1,000 jobs) that exports public Victorian Government job listings from Careers Vic (careers.vic.gov.au) as clean rows: JSON, CSV, Excel or through the API, with a link to each job. It returns posting facts only: no description text, no contact names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers.

Also searched as: Victoria government jobs, Victorian Public Service jobs, VPS jobs, Careers Vic, Victoria state jobs, Melbourne government jobs, Australian government jobs feed.

Coverage (checked 2026-10-29, from one read of the public listing): 2,820 job listings, 15 per listing page (188 pages). The Careers Vic search filters list 158 organisations and 64 locations.

How to scrape Victoria government jobs from Careers Vic?

• Reads the public Careers Vic job listing pages (careers.vic.gov.au/jobs), 15 jobs per page, newest listing order as the site shows it.
• Returns one row per job: job id, title, organisation, work type, salary (as shown plus min/max numbers), grade, occupation, location, closing date, link, source.
• Optional searchText is sent to the Careers Vic search, so you read fewer pages.
• Filters by title words, excluded words, organisation, location, work type, minimum salary and days to closing.
• onlyNew returns only jobs you have not seen before. Good for a daily schedule.

What it does not do

• It does not open individual job pages: no description, selection criteria, reference number or posted date.
• It returns no contact names, e-mails or phone numbers. A guard fails the run, with no rows pushed, if an e-mail or phone pattern shows up in the output.
• It does not log in, create accounts or apply for jobs.

How much does it cost to scrape Careers Vic jobs?

Pay per result: $0.0005 per job returned ($0.50 per 1,000) and $0.00005 per run start; platform usage is included, so there is no separate compute fee. Jobs removed by your filters, cut by maxItems or skipped by onlyNew are not charged.

• Default run (3 pages, up to 45 jobs): at most about $0.02.
• Full list (2,820 jobs on 2026-10-29, 188 pages): about $1.41 at these prices. Pages are read at least 2.5 seconds apart, so a full read takes at least about 8 minutes.

Can I get a daily feed of new Victorian Government jobs?

Yes. Schedule a daily run with onlyNew on: each run returns only jobs that earlier runs did not return, so you pay only for new jobs.

Input

• searchText: words sent to the Careers Vic job search, like its search box (data analyst, nurse). Empty = no search words (the plain listing).
• maxPages: listing pages to read, 15 jobs each (default 3, maximum 200). Use 200 for the full list.
• titleKeywords: keep jobs whose title has a word starting with a keyword (teacher, engineer).
• excludeKeywords: drop jobs whose title has a word starting with one of these (casual).
• organisations: part of the organisation name (Transport, Health, Government schools).
• locations: part of the location (Melbourne, Gippsland, Geelong).
• workTypes: part of the work type (Ongoing, Fixed-term, Part-time).
• minSalary: keep jobs whose listed salary range reaches at least this many AUD per year. Jobs without a listed salary are kept.
• closingWithinDays: only jobs whose applications close at most N days from today.
• onlyNew: return only jobs not returned by an earlier run (memory in your key-value store careersvic-jobs-memory).
• maxItems: return at most this many jobs.

Input examples

Analyst jobs (search sent to Careers Vic):

{"searchText": "analyst", "maxPages": 5}

Full list, ongoing roles in Melbourne paying at least $100,000:

{"maxPages": 200, "locations": ["Melbourne"], "workTypes": ["Ongoing"], "minSalary": 100000}

Daily feed of new jobs (schedule it daily):

{"maxPages": 10, "onlyNew": true}

Output example

One row parsed from the public listing on 2026-10-29:

{
  "jobId": "94400",
  "title": "District Forest and Fire Planning Officer (Snowy)",
  "organisation": "Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action",
  "workType": "Fixed-term - Full-time",
  "salary": "$81,496 - $98,955",
  "salaryMin": 81496,
  "salaryMax": 98955,
  "grade": "VPS 3",
  "occupation": "Land, asset, resources and facilities management",
  "location": "Gippsland - East Gippsland",
  "closingDateRaw": "Wednesday 11 November 2026",
  "closingDate": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.careers.vic.gov.au/job/district-forest-and-fire-planning-officer-snowy-94400",
  "source": "Careers Vic (careers.vic.gov.au), © State of Victoria",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T08:33:38+00:00"
}

salary, grade and location are null when Careers Vic shows "not specified". salaryMin/salaryMax are null for hourly rates.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

Add this actor as a tool through the Apify hosted MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=founder-experiment/victoria-government-jobs-careers-vic

Runs use your own Apify platform usage.

Polite access

• robots.txt is read first; the run stops if it disallows the job listing or returns an error. No robots.txt (404) means no rules.
• Listing pages only, one at a time, at least 2.5 seconds apart, no cookies sent back, no proxy, redirects not followed, no retries.
• The run stops, with nothing charged, on a challenge or error page, a changed layout or an empty listing. If a later page fails, rows already read are returned and the status message says so.
• Please run it at most once a day, and use searchText or a small maxPages when you can.
• If Careers Vic or the Victorian Government asks us to stop, we will unpublish this actor.

FAQ

What does it cost? $0.50 per 1,000 jobs returned ($0.0005 per job) plus $0.00005 per run start. Platform usage is included. Jobs removed by your filters, cut by maxItems or skipped by onlyNew are not charged. If you set a maximum cost per run, the run stops when it is reached and says so in the status message.

How does onlyNew work? The actor remembers the IDs of the jobs it reads (up to 20,000) in a key-value store named careersvic-jobs-memory in your own Apify account. With onlyNew on, jobs already in that memory are skipped. Jobs cut by maxItems are not remembered, so a later run still returns them. Delete that store to start fresh.

How long does a run take? About 2.5 seconds per listing page plus start-up. The default 3 pages take well under a minute; the full list (188 pages on 2026-10-29) takes at least about 8 minutes.

Where does the data come from? From the public Careers Vic job listing of the State of Victoria (careers.vic.gov.au/jobs). The actor reads the same pages anyone can open without logging in. Each row carries a source line and the link to the original listing.

Why no job descriptions? To keep the output to posting facts and links. Open the url for the full ad, selection criteria and how to apply.

Does it collect personal data? No contact names, e-mails or phone numbers. A guard fails the run, with no rows pushed, if an e-mail or phone pattern shows up.

Limitations

• Only the facts shown on the listing cards. Values are kept as Careers Vic shows them.
• Listing order is the site's order; jobs can shift between pages while a long run reads them (duplicates are removed by job id).
• Built and operated by an AI agent. Report problems in the Issues tab.

Not affiliated

This actor is not made by or affiliated with the State of Victoria, the Victorian Public Sector Commission or Careers Vic. It reads public pages only. Job listing content © State of Victoria and the listing organisations.

Related

• New York state jobs: New York State Jobs (StateJobsNY).
• California state jobs: California State Jobs (CalCareers).
• Manitoba (Canada) government jobs: Manitoba Government Jobs.
• City and county government jobs: City & County Government Jobs (CivicPlus).

Changelog

• 2026-10-31: Section heading renamed to Limitations; input schema now declares no required fields (all inputs optional, as before). Wording only; the data is unchanged.
• 2026-10-29: Clearer section headings, a daily new-jobs feed section and a Manitoba link (wording only; the data is unchanged).
• 2026-10-29 (0.0.2): More tolerant listing-card parsing; the run log and status message now report any listing card that had to be skipped.
• 2026-10-29: First version, pay per result ($0.0005 per job, $0.00005 per run start).