SEEK Jobs Scraper - New Jobs & Salary Change Monitor

SEEK Jobs Scraper - New Jobs & Salary Change Monitor (AU, NZ)

Schedule it hourly or daily and get only new SEEK jobs, salary changes and removed jobs. For recruiters, staffing agencies, job alert bots and anyone tracking hiring in Australia and New Zealand: the newest jobs SEEK lists for your search, with the company, location, category, work type, the salary as SEEK shows it (plus the amounts and currency when the text has them), the listing date and the job link. Turn on monitor mode and each scheduled run returns only what moved since the last run, with the previous salary in the same row, so you never pay twice for the same job.

Start with just a keyword. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send the new jobs to Slack, email or a sheet with an Apify integration.

What you get

• New jobs only, on a schedule (monitorMode). Each row says what happened in changeType: new (listed since the last run), changed (the salary text changed; the previous salary is in previousSalaryLabel, previousSalaryMin, previousSalaryMax, and salaryDirection says up or down), or removed (a job you received is no longer in the newest-first list on two checks in a row: filled or taken down). The first run returns the current jobs once as the starting point.
• Newest first, up to 2,000 jobs per search. Big searches are read in full where SEEK allows it; a free row tells you when SEEK limits one.
• Salary you can sort. salaryLabel keeps SEEK's own text ($40 – $53 per hour, $120k - $140k + super, Competitive salary). salaryMin, salaryMax and salaryPeriod (hour, day, week, fortnight, month, year) are read from it, with salaryCurrency (AUD or NZD). When the text has no amount, or the job shows no salary, these stay empty; nothing is guessed.
• The filters SEEK has: keywords, location (suburb, city, region, state or postcode), country (Australia or New Zealand), category, work type (full time, part time, contract/temp, casual/vacation), salary range (annual, monthly or hourly) and listing date range. Or paste any SEEK search results URL with your filters already set.
• Each job once. A job found by two searches of the same run is returned and charged once. In monitor mode, a job you already received is never sold as new again, even when it shows up under another search of the same watch.
• Jobs already returned are never sent as new again, and older jobs that only moved up the list are not sold as new.
• Nothing found is not a failure. No jobs, no changes, an unknown location or a spending limit come back as a free row that says why. If SEEK refuses every request, the run ends as failed and says so.

Output

One row per job. Main columns:

Column	Meaning
status	ok for a job row. Other values are free rows (below)
changeType	Monitor mode: new, changed, removed or unchanged (only with includeUnchanged). Empty in a normal search. removed rows carry the title, company, last salary, listing date and link only
isFirstCheck	true on the first run of a watch, when the current jobs are returned as the starting point
id, url	SEEK job ID and the job page
title	Job title
companyName, companyId, advertiserId, companyProfileUrl, logoUrl	The employer as shown on SEEK
location, area, locationHierarchy, countryCode	Where the job is, as SEEK lists it
classification, subclassification (and their IDs)	SEEK category and sub-category
workTypes, workArrangements	Full time, part time, contract/temp, casual/vacation; on-site, hybrid or remote when SEEK shows it
salaryLabel, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod, salaryCurrency	Salary text as shown, and the amounts read from it
previousSalaryLabel, previousSalaryMin, previousSalaryMax, previousSalaryPeriod, salaryDirection	Monitor mode, changed rows: the salary before the change, and up or down when both are amounts in the same period
teaser, bulletPoints	The short description and the bullet points shown in the search results
listedAt, listedAgo	Listing date (UTC) and SEEK's "2h ago" text
isFeatured, adType, tags	Whether SEEK shows the job as a promoted listing, its listing type, and the labels SEEK puts on it
positionInSearch, jobsInSearch	Position in the newest-first list, and the number of jobs SEEK reports for the search
searchKeywords, searchLocation, searchLocationResolved, searchCountry, searchUrl	The search the row came from; searchUrl opens the same search on SEEK
watchName, checkedAt	The watch name you gave, and the time of the check
note	Free rows only: what happened and what to do

Free rows (never charged)

status	When
no-results	SEEK lists no job for this search.
no-changes	Monitor mode: no new jobs, salary changes or removed jobs since the last run.
none-matching	SEEK has jobs, but each one was already returned by an earlier search of the same run or watch.
more-not-returned	A normal search has more jobs than SEEK lets one search reach even after splitting it; the row says how many and how to narrow it. Monitor mode: more changes than maxResultsPerSearch (a later run returns them), or on the first run, how many jobs became the starting point.
more-new-than-readable	Monitor mode: more jobs were listed since the last run than this run read, so some new ones may have been missed. Run the watch more often or raise maxResultsPerSearch.
not-found	SEEK could not use the search, or did not recognise the location.
blocked	SEEK refused the request. The run stops and says which searches were not run.
unreadable	A page could not be read, even after asking again. Nothing is guessed, and in monitor mode nothing is remembered: the next run checks it again.
budget-reached	The run reached the maximum total charge you set; the rest was not returned and not charged (in monitor mode the next run returns them).
bad-input	The input could not be used (for example a date range SEEK does not offer). Nothing was requested.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	What you would type into SEEK: nurse, data analyst, electrician. Each keyword is searched in each location. All search fields empty = nurse jobs in all of Australia.
country	AU (seek.com.au) or NZ (seek.co.nz). Empty = Australia.
locations	Suburbs, cities, regions, states or postcodes as you would type them on SEEK: Sydney NSW, Melbourne, 4000, Auckland. Empty = the whole country.
classifications	SEEK categories, for example Healthcare & Medical or Information & Communication Technology. Empty = all.
workTypes	Full time, part time, contract/temp, casual/vacation. Empty = all.
salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryType	Pay range in AUD or NZD, per year, month or hour, applied by SEEK the same way as its own salary filter.
dateRange	Only jobs listed within 1, 3, 7, 14 or 31 days.
searchUrls	SEEK search results pages copied from the browser, for example https://www.seek.com.au/nurse-jobs/in-Sydney-NSW. Each is read newest first with its own filters.
maxResultsPerSearch	Newest jobs to read per search, 1-2000. Empty = 100. In monitor mode, the window checked for new jobs and changes on each run.
monitorMode	Return only jobs that are new since the last run, salary changes and removed jobs.
includeChanged, includeRemoved	Monitor mode: return salary changes and removed jobs. Empty = yes.
includeUnchanged	Monitor mode: also return jobs already received that did not change (each one is charged). Empty = no.
watchName	Give each schedule its own name so separate schedules keep separate memories.
resetMonitoringState	Forget what this watch remembered; this run is a first check again.

Up to 10 searches per run (keywords times locations, plus search URLs).

Examples

New nursing jobs in Sydney and Melbourne, every hour:

{ "keywords": ["registered nurse"], "locations": ["Sydney NSW", "Melbourne VIC"], "monitorMode": true, "watchName": "rn-syd-mel" }

Full-time IT jobs in Auckland paying at least NZD 100,000, listed in the last 3 days:

{ "country": "NZ", "locations": ["Auckland"], "classifications": ["information-communication-technology"], "workTypes": ["full-time"], "salaryMin": 100000, "dateRange": "3" }

The newest 1,000 jobs across all of Australia for a keyword:

{ "keywords": ["electrician"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 1000 }

Monitor mode, step by step

1. First run: reads the newest maxResultsPerSearch jobs of each search, returns them once (changeType: new, isFirstCheck: true) and remembers them as the starting point.
2. Later runs: read the same window again and return only jobs listed since the last run (new), jobs you received whose salary text changed (changed, with the previous salary), and jobs you received that are gone from the list two runs in a row (removed). When nothing moved, one free no-changes row comes back and only the run start fee is charged.
3. Jobs not returned because of maxResultsPerSearch or a spending limit come back first in the next run. Nothing is judged from a page that could not be read.

Keep one schedule per input and watchName. Two overlapping runs of the same watch can both return the same new job.

Pricing

You pay per job row returned, plus a small start fee once per run. In monitor mode the start fee pays for the check, also when nothing changed. Free rows are never charged, and unchanged jobs are not returned or charged unless you turn on includeUnchanged.

The first run of a watch returns and charges up to maxResultsPerSearch jobs per search (default 100) as the starting point; set it lower for a cheap first run.

FAQ

How often should I schedule it? Hourly or daily. A busy search (for example a keyword across all of Australia) can get more new jobs in a day than a 100-job window holds; run it more often or raise maxResultsPerSearch, and a free row tells you when that happened.

What counts as a salary change? Any change of the salary text SEEK shows, including a salary added to a job that had none. A salary that disappears is not reported as a change.

How many jobs does one search return? Up to 2,000. SEEK pages one search through only its newest 500, so a bigger search is split by work type or category and merged back in date order, without gaps. A search that cannot be split (for example one narrowed to one work type and one category) returns its newest 500, and a split search whose parts are still too big returns the newest jobs SEEK lets it reach; either way a free row says how many more SEEK has. For more, run several searches (locations, categories or work types) in the same run; a job found twice is returned once.

Does it work for New Zealand? Yes. Set country to NZ or paste a seek.co.nz search URL. Salaries are in NZD.

Good to know

• Works without a SEEK account or API key, and reads only what SEEK shows anyone without logging in.
• Unofficial and not affiliated with SEEK.
• Contact details of recruiters are not returned; the company is.

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We build these tools for people who run them every day, and we improve them from what users tell us.

• Missing a field, or need another filter? Tell us in the Issues tab. If the data is there, we add it.
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