# SEEK Jobs Scraper (Australia & New Zealand) (`mrdoe/seek-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape SEEK job listings across Australia and New Zealand with structured data including job title, company, location, salary, employment type, job description, posting date, and application URL. Search by keyword and location for recruitment, job market research, and lead generation.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mrdoe/seek-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [MrDoe](https://apify.com/mrdoe) (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 $0.70 / 1,000 results

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?

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

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# README

### What does SEEK Jobs Scraper do?

**SEEK Jobs Scraper** extracts job listings from [SEEK](https://www.seek.com.au), Australia's and New Zealand's largest job site - title, company, location, work type, salary, work arrangement (remote/hybrid/on-site), classification, a description snippet, and posted date. Give it a keyword and (optionally) a location and it scrapes every listing on the search results, following pagination automatically until it has enough.

### Global coverage

SEEK operates two country sites on the exact same platform - pick one via the **Country** input:

| Country        | Domain        |
| --------------- | ------------- |
| Australia        | seek.com.au   |
| New Zealand       | seek.co.nz    |

### Why use SEEK Jobs Scraper?

- Track newly posted openings for a role, skill, or city across Australia's and New Zealand's largest job market without manually paging through SEEK.
- Feed ANZ hiring data (salary bands, remote/hybrid mix, in-demand classifications) into research, recruiting, or competitor-hiring-intelligence tools.
- Source candidate leads or sales prospects for recruitment or B2B tools targeting Australian and New Zealand employers.
- Monitor a role/location combination over time by scheduling recurring runs and comparing dataset snapshots.

### How to use SEEK Jobs Scraper

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) to open the Actor.
2. Set **Keyword** to a job title or skill (e.g. `software engineer`, `registered nurse`, `project manager`).
3. Optionally set **Location** to a city or region (e.g. `Sydney NSW`, `Melbourne VIC`, `Auckland`) and pick the **Country** site.
4. Set **Max results** and **Max search result pages**.
5. Click **Start** and wait for the run to finish, then open the **Dataset** tab to view, filter, and export the results.

### Input

| Field                | Type                     | Description                                                                                  |
| --------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `keyword`             | string (**required**)    | Job title, skill, or keyword to search for.                                                    |
| `location`            | string (optional)        | City or region to narrow the search to (e.g. `Sydney NSW`). Leave empty to search nationwide.  |
| `country`             | string (optional)        | Which SEEK site to search: `au` (seek.com.au) or `nz` (seek.co.nz). Defaults to `au`.          |
| `maxItems`            | integer (optional)       | Maximum number of job listings to return. Defaults to 20.                                      |
| `maxPages`            | integer (**required**)   | Safety cap on how many result pages (~20-30 jobs each) to fetch. Defaults to 3.                |
| `proxyConfiguration`  | object (optional)        | Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify Proxy's Residential group (see Limitations below).           |

See the **Input** tab for the full schema.

#### Example input

```json
{
    "keyword": "software engineer",
    "location": "Sydney NSW",
    "country": "au",
    "maxItems": 30,
    "maxPages": 3
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

```json
{
    "jobId": "94120995",
    "title": "Software Engineer",
    "company": "The Onset",
    "companyUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/The-Onset-jobs",
    "location": "Sydney NSW",
    "workArrangement": "Remote",
    "workType": "Full time",
    "salary": "$130K - $160K + Super",
    "classification": "Information & Communication Technology",
    "subClassification": "Engineering - Software",
    "description": "Join an established Australian technology business in a remote role, delivering meaningful product features across TypeScript, Node.js, React and AWS.",
    "postedLabel": "3d ago",
    "postedAt": "2026-08-21T06:06:30.266Z",
    "jobUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/94120995?type=standard&ref=search-standalone",
    "source": "seek",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T06:06:30.266Z"
}
```

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

#### Data table

| Field                | Description                                                                                             |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `jobId`               | SEEK's internal job listing ID                                                                              |
| `title`               | Job title                                                                                                    |
| `company`             | Hiring company name (or recruitment agency)                                                                  |
| `companyUrl`          | Link to that company's other listings on SEEK                                                                |
| `location`            | Job location as shown on the listing (e.g. `"Sydney NSW"`)                                                   |
| `workArrangement`     | `"Remote"`, `"Hybrid"`, or `"On-site"` when SEEK shows one; `null` otherwise                                  |
| `workType`            | `"Full time"`, `"Part time"`, `"Contract/Temp"`, or `"Casual/Vacation"` as SEEK shows it                      |
| `salary`              | Salary text exactly as shown on the listing (e.g. `"$130K - $160K + Super"`); `null` when not disclosed       |
| `classification`      | SEEK's top-level job category (e.g. `"Information & Communication Technology"`)                               |
| `subClassification`   | SEEK's more specific job category (e.g. `"Engineering - Software"`)                                          |
| `description`         | Short teaser/description snippet shown on the search results card                                            |
| `postedLabel`         | Raw relative posting label as SEEK shows it (e.g. `"3d ago"`, `"7h ago"`); `"Featured"` for sponsored listings with no timestamp |
| `postedAt`            | Best-effort ISO 8601 approximation of `postedLabel`; `null` when the label couldn't be parsed (including `"Featured"`) |
| `jobUrl`              | Link to the live listing on SEEK                                                                              |
| `source`              | Always `"seek"`                                                                                                |
| `scrapedAt`           | When this Actor scraped the item, as an ISO 8601 timestamp                                                    |

### How search, pagination, and anti-bot handling work

SEEK sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge: the initial page load always returns a "Just a moment..." challenge page before the real search results render client-side a few seconds later. To get real results reliably, this Actor drives [Camoufox](https://camoufox.com) - a fingerprint-patched Firefox build - through Crawlee's `PlaywrightCrawler`, waits out the challenge, and reads the job cards straight out of the rendered DOM. Search URLs follow SEEK's own slug pattern (e.g. `seek.com.au/software-engineer-jobs/in-sydney-nsw`, page 2 at `...?page=2`), and the Actor pages through results until it hits `maxItems` or `maxPages`.

### Limitations

- Cloudflare's challenge escalates to a much slower, harder-to-clear form when it sees a datacenter IP (confirmed live) - this Actor defaults to Apify Proxy's **Residential** group specifically to avoid that; switching to a datacenter proxy group will make runs far less reliable.
- Because this Actor renders full browser sessions (needed to get past Cloudflare) rather than calling a lightweight API, it's slower per page than a plain HTTP/Cheerio scraper - budget for that when setting `maxPages` on larger runs.
- `salary` is only present on listings where the employer discloses a figure on the search card; many listings show no salary at all (`null`), which reflects SEEK's own listings, not a scraping gap.
- `postedAt` is a best-effort approximation computed from SEEK's own relative label (`"3d ago"`, `"7h ago"`, etc.) - SEEK never exposes an exact timestamp on the search results page, so treat `postedAt` as approximate and use `postedLabel` for the exact wording SEEK shows. Featured/sponsored listings show no relative date at all, so both fields come back accordingly (`postedLabel: "Featured"`, `postedAt: null`).
- This Actor scrapes the public search results page (title, company, salary/work-type summary, classification, description snippet) and does not open each individual job's full detail page.

### FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This Actor only collects publicly listed SEEK data via the site's own public search results pages. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by SEEK Limited. Respect SEEK's Terms of Service when using the scraped data. Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's page. Custom scraper solutions are also available on request.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Job title, skill, or keyword to search for (e.g. "software engineer", "registered nurse", "project manager").

## `location` (type: `string`):

Free-text location to search in (city or region, e.g. "Sydney NSW", "Melbourne VIC", "Auckland"). Leave empty to search nationwide.

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

Which SEEK country site to search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job listings to return.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on how many search result pages to paginate through (around 20-30 jobs per page). Since results are billed per item, this must be set explicitly so a single search can't run away into an unbounded number of pages.

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

Proxy settings. Required - SEEK's Cloudflare managed challenge blocks every unproxied and datacenter-IP request (confirmed live). Defaults to Apify Proxy's Residential group, geo-matched to the seek.com.au/seek.co.nz site being scraped.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "software engineer",
  "country": "au",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keyword": "software engineer"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mrdoe/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 = { "keyword": "software engineer" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mrdoe/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 '{
  "keyword": "software engineer"
}' |
apify call mrdoe/seek-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mrdoe/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/ES0pzAiejjACJuIk3/builds/knelzes20U57bldT4/openapi.json