SEEK Email Scraper

SEEK Email Scraper: Employer Contacts Across Australia and New Zealand

The SEEK Email Scraper builds a deduplicated list of employer and recruiter email addresses from publicly indexed SEEK pages.

SEEK is the default job board for Australia and New Zealand, and it is where labour-hire firms, RTOs, healthcare groups and mining contractors advertise. Those adverts frequently publish an application address on purpose.

If your ideal customer is an Australian or New Zealand business that is actively growing headcount, the SEEK Email Scraper converts that hiring signal into a contactable list.

The SEEK Email Scraper does not log in, does not call the SEEK API and never opens the SEEK website. It reads Google search results through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy and pulls emails out of the snippets.

Who uses the SEEK Email Scraper

HR-tech and ATS vendors run the SEEK Email Scraper to find employers whose advert volume signals a broken hiring process. Staffing and labour-hire agencies use it to find client companies rather than candidates.

Superannuation and employee-benefits providers, payroll bureaus, WHS consultancies and employer-branding studios all work the same list. So do B2B sellers whose whole thesis is that a growing team needs new tooling.

Candidate data is out of scope. The SEEK Email Scraper finds employer and recruiter contacts only. It does not collect jobseeker names, resumes, applications or any other candidate personal data.

Key features of the SEEK Email Scraper

Feature	What it means in practice
Google site: search	Queries target seek.com.au and seek.co.nz, covering both trans-Tasman markets
Query expansion	Base, quoted and intitle: phrasings plus one variant per query modifier; base queries run first
Domain filtering	Only emails ending in a domain you list in customDomains are kept
Global deduplication	Each email appears once across every query and every page in a run
Email normalisation	Handles name [at] domain [dot] com, name (at) domain, name @ domain.com, domain .com, zero-width characters and the full-width ＠
Junk filter	Drops placeholders such as email@, yourname@, test@, xxx@ and single-character locals
Boundary-correct matching	@gmail.com will not match inside @gmail.company or @gmail.com.br
Soft-wrap repair	Rejects a hit that is only the tail of another email in the same block
Structural parsing	Finds the <h3> title then the smallest surrounding block, independent of Google CSS class names
Whole-page fallback	A Google markup change degrades to "emails without account details", not "no emails"
Block detection	CAPTCHA, "unusual traffic" and consent interstitials are detected and retried, never counted as empty
Retries and re-queue	Up to 3 attempts per page with exponential backoff and a fresh proxy session; failed queries retry once at the end
Resumable state	Key-value store state keyed by an input hash, saved on PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING
Async concurrency	An asyncio worker pool with a shared stop signal on maxEmails
Streaming output	Leads land in the dataset as they are found, so partial runs stay useful
Run summary	Pages fetched, blocked pages, retries and emails per page are all logged

Every item in that table ships in the SEEK Email Scraper today. There are no hidden modes and no paid add-ons.

How the SEEK Email Scraper works

There is no browser, no JavaScript rendering, no authentication and no cookies. The whole pipeline is six steps.

1. The SEEK Email Scraper reads your input: keywords, location, email domains and limits.
2. It builds Google queries with the site: operator, for example site:seek.com.au recruiter "@gmail.com" "Brisbane".
3. It fetches result pages asynchronously with aiohttp through the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy.
4. It parses each result block structurally rather than by CSS class name.
5. It extracts emails from the block text using a domain-filtered regex.
6. It deduplicates globally and pushes each lead to the dataset immediately.

Google caps a single query at roughly 300 results, which is exactly why query expansion exists. Leaving expandQueries on is the right default for the SEEK Email Scraper.

Measured SEEK Email Scraper performance

In a real ten-page run the SEEK Email Scraper returned 10 result blocks, resolved 10 account identities, produced 10 profile URLs and yielded 4 unique emails.

That is a distinctive profile worth understanding. SEEK resolves handles essentially perfectly, so almost every row arrives with a usable username and profileUrl.

The trade-off is email yield. SEEK's employer pages are richly indexed but comparatively few of them print an address in the snippet, so raise maxEmails and let the run work harder.

If you need raw email volume rather than clean identities, pair the SEEK Email Scraper with the Monster Email Scraper or the Indeed Email Scraper.

Results always vary with keywords, domains and location. Those figures are one observation, not a guarantee.

SEEK Email Scraper input fields

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
keywords	array (required)	["recruiter", "hiring"]	Search terms describing the SEEK pages you want
location	string	""	Optional location phrase added to every query
customDomains	array	["@gmail.com", "@yahoo.com"]	Only emails on these domains are kept; the leading @ is optional
maxEmails	integer 1-10000	20	Stop once this many unique emails have been collected
countryCode	string	""	Two-letter country code for the search proxy
expandQueries	boolean	true	Search each keyword x domain pair in several phrasings
queryModifiers	array	["email", "contact", "apply", "recruiter", "hiring"]	Extra words combined with each keyword when expansion is on
maxPagesPerQuery	integer 1-50	30	Page cap per query
maxConcurrency	integer 1-20	5	How many queries run in parallel

Only keywords is required, so the SEEK Email Scraper runs on defaults. Everything else refines the search.

Tuning SEEK Email Scraper location and countryCode for ANZ

SEEK spans two country domains, so countryCode and location are the levers that decide which market you actually reach.

For Australia set countryCode to AU and use a location such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide. Regional phrases like Newcastle, Geelong or Townsville surface employers a capital-city query never shows.

For New Zealand set countryCode to NZ with Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. Run the SEEK Email Scraper separately per market; a single trans-Tasman run is dominated by Sydney and Melbourne.

Industry keywords matter more here than on most boards. mining recruitment, aged care hiring, civil construction, FIFO, registered nurse and traineeship all pull distinct employer cohorts.

Because email yield is the constraint rather than identity resolution, widening customDomains helps. Add @outlook.com, @bigpond.com or @hotmail.com alongside the defaults.

Example SEEK Email Scraper input

{
  "keywords": ["recruiter", "hiring", "labour hire", "aged care recruitment"],
  "location": "Brisbane",
  "customDomains": ["@gmail.com", "@yahoo.com", "@outlook.com", "@bigpond.com"],
  "maxEmails": 300,
  "countryCode": "AU",
  "expandQueries": true,
  "queryModifiers": ["email", "contact", "apply", "recruiter", "hiring"],
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 30,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

SEEK Email Scraper output fields

Every dataset item the SEEK Email Scraper writes carries all fourteen fields below.

Field	Meaning
network	Platform name
keyword	The keyword that produced the lead
query	The exact Google query used
title	Raw result title
accountName	Account label Google prints
fullName	Display name parsed from a profile-style title; empty for listing snippets
username	URL-safe handle when SEEK exposes one; otherwise null
profileUrl	Canonical company URL when a handle is known; otherwise empty
url	Direct SEEK link when exposed, else the profile URL
description	Snippet text, cleaned of labels and counters
email	Lower-cased email address
emailDomain	The matched domain
possiblyTruncated	true when Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email
foundAt	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Example SEEK Email Scraper output

[
  {
    "network": "SEEK",
    "keyword": "labour hire",
    "query": "site:seek.com.au \"labour hire\" \"@gmail.com\" \"Brisbane\"",
    "title": "Northgate Workforce Solutions Jobs and Careers | SEEK",
    "accountName": "Northgate Workforce Solutions",
    "fullName": "Northgate Workforce Solutions",
    "username": "northgate-workforce-solutions",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/companies/northgate-workforce-solutions",
    "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/companies/northgate-workforce-solutions",
    "description": "Labour hire and civil construction staffing across South East Queensland. Applications to recruitment.northgate@gmail.com",
    "email": "recruitment.northgate@gmail.com",
    "emailDomain": "@gmail.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": false,
    "foundAt": "2026-08-31T10:02:18Z"
  },
  {
    "network": "SEEK",
    "keyword": "aged care recruitment",
    "query": "site:seek.co.nz intitle:\"aged care\" \"@outlook.com\"",
    "title": "Kowhai Care Group | Careers | SEEK New Zealand",
    "accountName": "Kowhai Care Group",
    "fullName": "Kowhai Care Group",
    "username": "kowhai-care-group",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/companies/kowhai-care-group",
    "url": "https://www.seek.co.nz/companies/kowhai-care-group",
    "description": "Residential aged care provider hiring registered nurses across Auckland. Contact careers.kowhai@outlook.com",
    "email": "careers.kowhai@outlook.com",
    "emailDomain": "@outlook.com",
    "possiblyTruncated": false,
    "foundAt": "2026-08-31T10:03:04Z"
  }
]

Both rows resolve a handle, which reflects how the SEEK Email Scraper actually behaves. Identity resolution is this Actor's strength.

Use cases for the SEEK Email Scraper

Buyer	How they use the SEEK Email Scraper
ATS and HR-tech vendors	Reach ANZ employers advertising continuously in shortage occupations
Labour-hire and staffing agencies	Build a client list of businesses hiring in a target state or region
RTOs and training providers	Contact employers hiring apprentices, trainees or ticketed trades
Superannuation and benefits providers	Approach companies visibly expanding their payroll
WHS and compliance consultancies	Target construction, mining and logistics employers scaling crews
Employer-branding agencies	Pitch a careers-page rebuild to firms with thin, repetitive adverts
Payroll and PEO providers	Find NZ businesses opening an Australian entity, and vice versa
Market and workforce researchers	Map which ANZ sectors are hiring hardest, by city

Building an ANZ prospect list with the SEEK Email Scraper

Start with two or three sharp keywords rather than a broad sweep. FIFO recruitment, registered nurse, heavy diesel mechanic and apprentice electrician each pull a different employer cohort.

Set maxEmails modestly on a first pass to check relevance, then raise it. Because SEEK's yield per block is lower, a serious run wants a higher cap than you would use elsewhere.

Export CSV or JSON from the Apify console, or pull the dataset into your CRM through the Apify API. Drop rows where possiblyTruncated is true before sending anything.

Many teams schedule the SEEK Email Scraper weekly so new adverts, and therefore fresh hiring signals, arrive while they still matter.

Responsible use of the SEEK Email Scraper

The SEEK Email Scraper collects only addresses already publicly visible in Google's index. Public does not automatically mean lawful to email.

Australia has the Spam Act and the Privacy Act; New Zealand has the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act and its own Privacy Act. UK or EU recipients bring GDPR and PECR expectations, and US outreach falls under CAN-SPAM.

Practically, that means a genuine business purpose, honest sender identification, a working unsubscribe path and prompt honouring of opt-outs. This is general guidance, not legal advice.

Remember the scope as well. These are business contacts published for recruitment; treating them as a consumer marketing list invites complaints.

Limitations of the SEEK Email Scraper

• The SEEK Email Scraper only finds addresses that are publicly visible in Google's index. Anything behind a SEEK login stays invisible.
• Email yield per result block is lower on SEEK than on several sibling Actors, even though identity resolution is excellent.
• Google caps a single query at roughly 300 results, which is why query expansion exists.
• possiblyTruncated: true means Google's snippet ellipsis touched the email and it may be incomplete. Verify before sending.
• username and profileUrl populate only when Google's result exposes a handle. SEEK is unusually good here, but rows without a handle can still occur. That is a Google limitation, not a bug.
• The Actor requires the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy and cannot run without Apify proxy credentials.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 100 emails per run; paid plans are uncapped.
• Results vary with keywords, domains and location. No volume is guaranteed.
• Candidate and jobseeker personal data is out of scope by design.

SEEK Email Scraper FAQ

How many results should I expect from the SEEK Email Scraper?

A measured ten-block run resolved 10 identities and 10 profile URLs but only 4 unique emails. Expect clean identity data and modest email volume, and raise maxEmails accordingly.

Does the SEEK Email Scraper collect candidate or jobseeker data?

No. It returns employer and recruiter contacts only. It does not gather jobseeker names, resumes, applications or any other candidate personal data.

Does the SEEK Email Scraper log into SEEK?

No. There is no login, no SEEK API call and no visit to seek.com.au. Everything comes from publicly indexed Google results.

Which SEEK domains does the SEEK Email Scraper search?

seek.com.au and seek.co.nz, covering Australia and New Zealand.

Why does SEEK resolve handles so well but return fewer emails?

Google indexes SEEK company pages thoroughly, so account names and URLs are easy to parse. Fewer of those snippets print a contact address, which caps email yield.

How do I get more emails out of the SEEK Email Scraper?

Widen customDomains, add more industry-specific keywords, raise maxEmails and keep expandQueries on. Running per-city also helps.

Should I run Australia and New Zealand together?

No. Run the SEEK Email Scraper twice, once with countryCode set to AU and once with NZ. A combined run is dominated by Australian results.

What does possiblyTruncated mean?

Google's snippet ended in an ellipsis touching the email, so the address may be cut off. Treat those rows as needing verification.

Can I resume an interrupted run?

Yes. State lives in the key-value store keyed by an input hash, and saves fire on Apify's PERSIST_STATE, MIGRATING and ABORTING events.

Is the SEEK Email Scraper affiliated with SEEK?

No. It is an independent tool and is not endorsed by or affiliated with SEEK.

Is there a cap on emails per run?

Free Apify plans stop at 100 emails per run. Paid plans are uncapped and maxEmails accepts 1 to 10000.

What happens if Google changes its layout?

A whole-page fallback parser takes over, so the SEEK Email Scraper degrades to emails without account details rather than to no emails at all.

Related Actors

Covering more than ANZ? These 27 sibling Actors run the same engine elsewhere. Southeast Asian teams should start with the JobStreet Email Scraper, which shares SEEK's ownership and its strong handle resolution. For UK coverage the Reed Email Scraper is the usual first stop, and for the highest all-round yield in the family try the Glassdoor Email Scraper.

Actor	What it collects
SEEK Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from SEEK
SEEK Phone Number Scraper	Public phone numbers from SEEK
CareerBuilder Email Scraper	Public contact emails from CareerBuilder
CV-Library Email Scraper	Public contact emails from CV-Library
Dice Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Dice
Fiverr Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Fiverr
FlexJobs Email Scraper	Public contact emails from FlexJobs
Freelancer Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Freelancer
Glassdoor Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Glassdoor
Guru.com Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Guru
Hired Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Hired
Indeed Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Indeed
JobServe Email Scraper	Public contact emails from JobServe
Jobspresso Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Jobspresso
JobStreet Email Scraper	Public contact emails from JobStreet
Ladders Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Ladders
Monster Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Monster
PeoplePerHour Email Scraper	Public contact emails from PeoplePerHour
Reed Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Reed
Remote.co Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Remote.co
Remote OK Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Remote OK
Remotive Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Remotive
SimplyHired Email Scraper	Public contact emails from SimplyHired
The Muse Email Scraper	Public contact emails from The Muse
Toptal Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Toptal
Totaljobs Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Totaljobs
Upwork Email Scraper	Public contact emails from Upwork
We Work Remotely Email Scraper	Public contact emails from We Work Remotely
ZipRecruiter Email Scraper	Public contact emails from ZipRecruiter
CV-Library Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from CV-Library
Fiverr Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Fiverr
FlexJobs Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from FlexJobs
Freelancer Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Freelancer
Glassdoor Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Glassdoor
Guru Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Guru
Hired Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Hired
Indeed Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Indeed
JobServe Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from JobServe
Jobspresso Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Jobspresso
JobStreet Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from JobStreet
Ladders Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Ladders
Monster Email and Phone Number Scraper	Emails and phone numbers from Monster

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