SEEK Jobs Scraper: Titles, Salary, Company, No Login

Plain HTTP against SEEK's own public search API. No login, no proxy, no browser.

You are only charged for a job that actually lands in your dataset. A failed or empty page is never billed.

Overview

SEEK is Australia's largest job board, and this actor turns any SEEK keyword and location search into structured rows: job title, company, classification, salary label, work type, listing date and a direct apply link.

Give it one or more keywords such as "software engineer" or "registered nurse", optionally a location like "Sydney NSW", and it returns everything SEEK's own search results page would show you, without opening a browser.

Real jobs, in seconds ✅ · Salary label captured when disclosed ✅ · Classification and subclassification included ✅ · MCP ready for AI agents ✅

How it reaches SEEK without a browser

SEEK's search results pages sit behind an enterprise bot management challenge, and a plain request to those pages is rejected outright. But the search page itself is only a shell: once it loads in a real browser, it calls SEEK's own versioned public search API to fill in the results, and that API endpoint answers a bare request directly, with no cookies, no session and no proxy required. This actor talks to that same endpoint SEEK's own front end uses. Nothing here relies on a browser, a proxy pool or a workaround that could quietly stop working: it is the real API, the same one that powers seek.com.au itself.

Because there is no proxy and no browser render, there is close to nothing standing between your search and the result. That is also why this actor can be priced well below actors that render pages in a browser to get the same data.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["software engineer"],
  "where": "Sydney NSW",
  "maxJobsPerKeyword": 40,
  "workType": "",
  "sortMode": "KeywordRelevance"
}

Field	What it takes
keywords	One or more search terms. Each is searched independently and results are combined into one dataset, deduplicated by job ID.
where	A SEEK location string, for example "Sydney NSW", "Melbourne VIC" or "All Perth WA". Leave blank to search all of Australia.
maxJobsPerKeyword	Hard cap per keyword. SEEK returns 20 jobs per page, so this is your main cost and runtime control.
workType	Optional filter: full time, part time, contract or temp, casual or vacation.
salaryMin / salaryMax	Optional annual AUD salary band filter.
sortMode	Best match (SEEK's relevance ranking) or most recent listings first.

Output

{
  "job_id": "93953663",
  "title": "Software Engineer (Developer)",
  "company_name": "Coadys Personnel Consultants",
  "classification": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subclassification": "Engineering - Software",
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "work_types": ["Full time"],
  "work_arrangement": "Hybrid",
  "salary_label": "$85K - $95K + Super",
  "teaser": "Dynamic National Technology Co. | Salary $85K - $95K + Super | Amazing Staff Benefits",
  "is_featured": false,
  "listing_date_display": "14h ago",
  "apply_url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/93953663",
  "search_keyword": "software engineer",
  "search_location": "Sydney NSW",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-13T20:10:12.108Z"
}

Field	Description
🆔 job_id	SEEK job ID, stable for deduplication across runs
📄 title	Job title
🏢 company_name	Advertising company or agency
🗂️ classification / subclassification	SEEK's own industry taxonomy
📍 location	Location label as displayed
🕐 work_types	Full time, part time, contract, casual
🏠 work_arrangement	On site, hybrid or remote, when disclosed
💰 salary_label	Salary exactly as the advertiser wrote it, blank if undisclosed
✍️ teaser	Short listing summary line
⭐ is_featured	Whether the ad is a featured or premium placement
📅 listing_date_display	Recency as SEEK shows it, for example "14h ago"
🔗 apply_url	Direct link to the job on SEEK

Common use cases

Talent market research. See who is hiring for a role in a city right now, what they call the role, and what they are willing to say about salary.

Salary benchmarking. Pull every disclosed salary label for a role and location to build a real, current pay range instead of relying on a survey.

Recruitment and sourcing lead lists. Build a list of companies actively hiring for a skill set, with a direct link into the live ad.

Competitor hiring signals. Track what roles a competitor is opening, which often reveals what they are building next before it is public.

AI agents. Feed live SEEK listings into an agent that answers "who is hiring software engineers in Sydney this week and what are they paying?"

Pricing

Event	Price	You pay when
Job delivered	$0.0015	A job lands in your dataset

$1.50 per 1,000 jobs. A search that returns nothing costs nothing.

Run it on a schedule

1. Run once with the keywords and location you want repeated, then click Save as a task.
2. In the Apify Console go to Schedules, Create new.
3. Pick a frequency and attach the saved task.
4. Wire the dataset to Sheets, Slack or a webhook from the Integrations tab.

Deduplicate on job_id so a repeated schedule never reprocesses the same listing, and compare listing_date across runs to catch genuinely new postings.

FAQ

Do I need a SEEK account? No. The actor reads SEEK's own public search results only.

Does it return the full job description? It returns the search result teaser and highlight bullet points, which is everything SEEK's own results list shows. The full description lives on the individual job page, which the apply_url links straight to.

Why did I get fewer jobs than my cap? Because the search has fewer matching jobs, or the result set was exhausted before the cap. The run reports what it actually found rather than padding the count.

Does this cover New Zealand SEEK too? Not currently. This actor is scoped to seek.com.au (Australia) only.

Will this actor break if SEEK changes its site design? It talks to SEEK's underlying data API rather than parsing rendered page HTML, which is meaningfully more stable across visual redesigns, though no scraper can promise a target will never change its API.

Use from Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/seek-jobs-scraper

Or call it programmatically:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('themineworks/seek-jobs-scraper').call({
  keywords: ['software engineer'],
  where: 'Sydney NSW',
  maxJobsPerKeyword: 40,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Questions, or need a field we do not return yet? Reach out through the Apify profile.