SEEK Jobs Scraper — AU/NZ Leads & Intelligence

Turn SEEK searches and job URLs into structured Australia and New Zealand hiring data. Collect titles, employers, locations, salaries, work arrangements, classifications and dates; add complete descriptions, public contacts, company profiles, skills, visa-sponsorship signals and recurring job-change monitoring when you need them.

Use the Actor for recruitment, lead generation, salary research, job-board datasets, workforce planning, competitor hiring analysis, remote-work studies and technology-demand intelligence.

🚀 Your first run

1. Open Input and keep What do you want to scrape? → Search jobs.
2. Choose Australia or New Zealand.
3. Under Search queries, enter one phrase, for example software engineer.
4. Enter a location such as All Australia, All Sydney NSW, Auckland or All New Zealand.
5. Set Maximum jobs per search to 3 for a small first run.
6. Leave Fetch full job details off for a quick overview, or enable it for descriptions, contacts, application questions, company data and job intelligence.
7. Click Start, open Output, choose a table and export JSON, CSV or Excel.

Already have job URLs? Select Job details from URLs, paste them into Direct SEEK job URLs, and start the run.

Keyword + location ──→ Search jobs ──→ Job cards, salaries and classifications
                                  └─→ Full details enabled
                                           ↓
                       Descriptions · contacts · companies · skills · visa signals

SEEK search URLs ─────→ Preserve selected search filters ──→ Paginated job results

Direct job URLs ──────→ Complete records for specific AU/NZ jobs

Recurring search ─────→ Incremental mode ──→ NEW · UPDATED · REPOST · EXPIRED

🎛️ Choose what to collect

Workflow	Input	What you get
Search jobs	scrapeType: "search"	Job IDs, titles, companies, locations, displayed salaries, work types, arrangements, classifications, dates, teasers, bullets and URLs.
Search with full details	scrapeType: "search" + includeJobDetails: true	Search fields plus descriptions, expiry, application questions, public contacts, company/recruiter information, skills and visa evidence.
SEEK search URLs	Add URLs to searchUrls	Jobs from one or more complete SEEK searches, including the filters encoded in those URLs.
Direct job URLs	scrapeType: "jobDetails"	Complete records for specific seek.com.au and seek.co.nz jobs.
Incremental monitoring	incrementalMode: true	NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, REPOST and EXPIRED classifications across recurring runs.

Fast search is ideal for market scans and large datasets. Enable full details when you need job text, contacts, application questions, company intelligence or description-based analysis.

▶️ Ready-to-use inputs

Quick Australian job search

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "AU",
  "searchQueries": ["software engineer"],
  "location": "All Australia",
  "includeJobDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 2
}

Full Sydney technology-job audit

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "AU",
  "searchQueries": ["software engineer", "data engineer"],
  "location": "All Sydney NSW",
  "classificationId": "6281",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 3,
  "maxConcurrency": 8
}

New Zealand remote roles

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "NZ",
  "searchQueries": ["software engineer"],
  "location": "All New Zealand",
  "workArrangement": "3",
  "sortMode": "ListedDate",
  "dateRange": 14,
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Public recruiter contacts

Contact fields are returned only when a job advert publishes them.

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "AU",
  "searchQueries": ["recruitment consultant"],
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Visa-sponsorship research

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "AU",
  "searchQueries": ["visa sponsorship"],
  "location": "All Australia",
  "includeJobDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Inspect specific jobs

Replace these illustrative IDs with current SEEK job URLs.

{
  "scrapeType": "jobDetails",
  "jobUrls": [
    "https://www.seek.com.au/job/12345678",
    "https://www.seek.co.nz/job/87654321"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}

Monitor new and changed jobs

Use the same stateKey for every recurring run of the same search.

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "country": "AU",
  "searchQueries": ["data engineer"],
  "location": "All Australia",
  "sortMode": "ListedDate",
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "data-engineer-au",
  "emitUnchanged": false,
  "emitExpired": false,
  "skipReposts": false,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 25
}

📥 Useful input settings

Setting	How to use it
scrapeType	search for queries/search URLs or jobDetails for specific job URLs.
country	AU for Australia or NZ for New Zealand. Query searches use this market; direct URLs retain their own market.
searchQueries	One literal job title, skill or company phrase per entry. Multiple entries run separate searches in one Actor run.
location	City, suburb, region, state or nationwide label such as All Australia or All New Zealand.
searchUrls	Complete SEEK search-result URLs. Use this when you already configured a search on SEEK.
includeJobDetails	Adds descriptions, contacts, application questions, company/recruiter data, skills and visa signals. Default: off.
jobUrls	Direct seek.com.au or seek.co.nz job URLs used in Job details mode. AU and NZ URLs can be mixed.
sortMode	KeywordRelevance or ListedDate.
dateRange	Only jobs listed within the last N days. 0 means any time.
workType	Any, Full time (242), Part time (243), Contract/Temp (244) or Casual/Vacation (245).
workArrangement	Any, On-site (1), Hybrid (2) or Remote (3).
classificationId	Optional numeric SEEK classification ID, for example 6281 for Information & Communication Technology.
subClassificationId	Optional numeric sub-classification ID; requires a parent classification ID.
salaryMin, salaryMax	Optional salary band in AUD or NZD.
salaryType	Interpret the salary filter as annual or hourly.
radiusKm	Search distance around a specific location. Default: 50 km.
maxItems	Maximum successfully saved jobs per query or search URL. Default: 20.
maxPagesPerSearch	Page safety cap per query or search URL. Default: 5.
maxConcurrency	Maximum number of full job records processed at the same time. Default: 8.
incrementalMode	Enable persistent NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED/REPOST/EXPIRED tracking.
stateKey	Stable identifier for one monitored search. Leave blank to derive it from the current inputs.
emitUnchanged	Include jobs whose tracked content did not change. Default: off.
emitExpired	Include jobs no longer present after a complete monitored scan. Default: off.
skipReposts	Omit new IDs that match an inactive title + company + location fingerprint. Default: off.

maxItems counts unique successfully saved jobs. Duplicate, unavailable, failed, unchanged and skipped-repost candidates do not consume the saved-result allowance.

📦 Core job fields

The default dataset has one row per job. Fields remain flat and friendly to JSON, CSV, Excel and databases.

Identity and search context

Field	Meaning
recordType	Record type; job rows use job.
jobId	Numeric SEEK job ID.
globalId	Market-safe identity such as seek:au:12345678.
title	Job title.
jobUrl	Canonical job URL.
sourceCountry	AU or NZ.
searchQuery, searchLocation	Query and location that produced the result.
searchSourceUrl	Related SEEK search URL.
searchResultPosition	Position in the collected search result page.
searchTotalCount	Total matching jobs reported for the search.

Employer

Field	Meaning
companyName	Primary company/advertiser name.
searchCompanyName, detailCompanyName	Separate names published in summary and complete-job data when they differ.
advertiserName, advertiserId	Advertiser identity.
employerId	SEEK employer identifier.
companyProfileId	Company-profile identifier when available.
advertiserVerified	Advertiser verification status when published.
advertiserRegistrationDate	Advertiser registration timestamp when available.
isPrivateAdvertiser	Whether the advert uses a private advertiser.
employerLogoUrl	Employer/listing logo.

Location and work arrangement

Field	Meaning
location	Complete display location.
locationArea, locationCity	Broader area and city.
locationSuburb, locationState	Suburb and state/region.
locationPostcode	Postcode when published.
locationCountry, locationCountryCode	Country and AU/NZ code.
locationHierarchy	Broader location labels associated with the job.
workTypes	Full time, part time, contract/temp or casual/vacation.
workArrangements	Published on-site, hybrid or remote labels.
remoteType	Normalized onsite, hybrid, remote or empty value.

Classification and promotion

Field	Meaning
classification, classificationId	Parent SEEK job category and ID.
subClassification, subClassificationId	Sub-category and ID.
roleId	Normalized SEEK role identifier.
isFeatured	Featured/promoted indicator.
displayType, displayStyleSearch	Available listing presentation labels.

Dates and status

Field	Meaning
listingDate	Primary publication timestamp.
searchListingDate, detailListingDate	Separate summary and complete-job timestamps when available.
listingDateDisplay	Human-readable age such as 2d ago.
expiresAt	Advert expiry timestamp.
status	Current advert status.
isExpired	Expiry flag.
isLinkOut	Whether the application continues on another website.
scrapedAt	Collection timestamp.

💰 Salary fields

Field	Meaning
salary	Primary salary text.
searchSalary, detailSalary	Separate summary and complete-job salary text when available.
salaryMin, salaryMax	Numeric salary boundaries.
salaryCurrency	AUD or NZD.
salaryPeriod	annual, monthly, weekly, daily or hourly.
salaryIncludesSuper	Whether the displayed amount explicitly includes superannuation; empty when silent.
salaryParseConfidence	Confidence that the displayed compensation was fully normalized.

Salary fields are normalized only from compensation information published in the advert. Missing salary data is not estimated. A single “up to” amount can produce only a maximum value; a “from” amount can produce only a minimum.

📄 Complete job content

Enable includeJobDetails or use direct job URLs to add:

Field	Meaning
teaser	Short job summary.
bulletPoints	Highlight bullets associated with the advert.
descriptionText	Complete readable description.
descriptionHtml	Original formatted description.
descriptionWordCount	Word count of the collected description.
applicationQuestions	Published application/screening questions.
applicationQuestionCount	Number of collected application questions.
applyUrl	Public application link.
shareUrl	Public share link.
hasRoleRequirements	Whether role requirements are published.
employerCoverImageUrl	Advert/employer cover image when available.
employerVideoUrl, employerVideoTitle	Employer video information when published.
detailStatus	ok for a complete detail result or not_requested for summary-only results.

📬 Public emails, phones and links

Full job records can include contact information explicitly published in the advert.

Published job contact information
              ↓
Email · phone · external website · social profile · application link
              ↓
Structured contact fields in the Contacts output table

Field	Meaning
contactName, contactNames	One compact contact name and all distinct names when available.
contactEmail, emails	One compact email and all distinct public emails.
contactPhone, phoneNumbers	One compact telephone value and all distinct published numbers.
externalUrls	External websites linked from the advert.
socialProfileUrls	Published LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube or TikTok profiles.
applyUrl	Public job-application URL.
contactAvailability	email, phone, email_and_phone or none.

Contacts are conditional. Many jobs do not publish an email address or phone number. Missing contacts remain empty and are never fabricated. Handle published business and recruiter contact data responsibly.

🏢 Company and recruiter intelligence

When SEEK publishes an employer or recruiter profile, full job records can include:

Company fields

Field	Meaning
companyProfileName, companyProfileId	Company profile identity.
companyProfileUrl, companyProfileSlug	Company profile link and slug when available.
companyIndustry	Published industry.
companySize	Published employee-size range.
companyWebsite	Company website.
companyDescription	Company overview.
companyLogoUrl, companyCoverImageUrl	Company media.
companyReviewRating, companyReviewCount	Published rating and review count when available.
companyPerks	Published perks and benefits.
companyTags	Available company tags.
companyJobsUrl	Link to other jobs from the employer.

Recruiter fields

Field	Meaning
recruiterName	Recruiter/profile name.
recruiterRating, recruiterReviewCount	Published recruiter rating and review count.
recruiterContactNumber	Published recruiter telephone number.
recruiterAgencyName, recruiterAgencyWebsite	Recruitment agency details.
recruiterCountry, recruiterState, recruiterCity, recruiterPostcode	Published recruiter location.
recruiterSpecialisations	Recruitment specialisations.
recruiterPlacementCount	Published placement count when available.

Profile coverage varies. Private advertisers and employers without completed profiles can return empty company or recruiter fields while retaining the job record.

🧠 Job intelligence

Skills

detectedSkills lists technology and platform terms present in the complete job description. Covered terms include:

• Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C++, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Swift and Kotlin.
• Web frameworks: React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, Django, Flask, FastAPI and Spring.
• Data: SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Spark, Snowflake and Databricks.
• Cloud and operations: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, CI/CD and Linux.
• Analytics and business platforms: Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce, SAP and Oracle.
• AI: machine learning, generative AI and large language model terminology.

Only matched terms are returned. The Actor does not invent a skill from a job category alone.

Seniority

Field	Meaning
seniority	intern, entry, senior, lead, staff, principal, manager, director, vp, executive or unspecified.
senioritySource	Whether the matching phrase came from the title or description.
seniorityEvidence	The exact matched seniority phrase.

Visa sponsorship

Value	Meaning
explicit_sponsorship	The advert explicitly says sponsorship is available.
open_to_sponsorship	The advert says sponsorship may be considered.
no_sponsorship	The advert explicitly rejects sponsorship or requires unrestricted work rights.
not_mentioned	No supported sponsorship statement was found.

visaSponsorshipEvidence preserves the relevant wording so the classification can be reviewed. This is a text signal, not immigration or legal advice.

Data quality

Field	Meaning
dataCompletenessScore	Percentage of important job fields populated.
parseConfidence	Overall confidence in the normalized job record.
parseWarnings	Specific missing or partially normalized fields.
contentHash	Stable content identifier for change tracking.
fingerprintHash	Title + company + location fingerprint for repost detection.

♻️ Incremental job monitoring

Incremental mode remembers the previous state of one monitored search. Keep the same stateKey across recurring runs.

Change type	Meaning
NEW	Job ID observed for the first time.
UPDATED	Important tracked job content changed.
UNCHANGED	No tracked content changed. Omitted unless emitUnchanged is enabled.
REAPPEARED	The same job ID returned after becoming inactive.
REPOST	A new job ID matches an inactive title + company + location fingerprint.
EXPIRED	A previously active job is absent from a fully completed monitored scan.

Field	Meaning
changeType	Current incremental classification.
firstSeenAt, previousSeenAt, lastSeenAt	Observation timestamps.
expiredAt	Time the job was confirmed absent from a complete scan.
isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt	Repost detection values.
stateKey	Monitored search identity.

Expired jobs require a complete scan. If a run stops at maxItems, maxPagesPerSearch, a spending limit or a source failure, unseen jobs are not marked expired. This prevents limited runs from creating false expiry records.

📊 Where to find your data

The default dataset stores one flat row per job. Output views organize the same records for different workflows.

Output table	Contents
Jobs	IDs, titles, companies, countries, locations, salaries, work arrangements, seniority, classifications, dates, URLs and confidence.
Full details	Status, expiry, application questions, full descriptions, media, employer data and links.
Contacts	Contact names, emails, phones, websites, social profiles and apply URLs.
Company & recruiter	Company industry, size, website, description, media, reviews/perks and recruiter/agency details.
Job intelligence	Skills, seniority evidence, visa evidence, normalized salary and data-quality metrics.
Changes	NEW/UPDATED/REPOST/EXPIRED status, observation times, hashes and state key.

The default key-value store also contains an OUTPUT summary with effective options, saved counts, input warnings, duplicate and incremental skips, source failures and per-search stop reasons.

🧾 Example full job record

This abbreviated example is fictional. The company, job ID, contact details and URLs are placeholders.

{
  "recordType": "job",
  "jobId": "12345678",
  "globalId": "seek:au:12345678",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "companyName": "Demo Technology Pty Ltd",
  "advertiserVerified": true,
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "locationCity": "Sydney",
  "locationState": "New South Wales",
  "locationCountryCode": "AU",
  "salary": "$150,000 – $180,000 per year + super",
  "salaryMin": 150000,
  "salaryMax": 180000,
  "salaryCurrency": "AUD",
  "salaryPeriod": "annual",
  "salaryIncludesSuper": false,
  "workTypes": ["Full time"],
  "workArrangements": ["Hybrid"],
  "remoteType": "hybrid",
  "classification": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subClassification": "Engineering - Software",
  "listingDateDisplay": "2d ago",
  "status": "Active",
  "isExpired": false,
  "teaser": "Build customer-facing services in a collaborative product team.",
  "applicationQuestions": [
    "Which statement best describes your right to work in Australia?",
    "How many years of software engineering experience do you have?"
  ],
  "contactEmail": "jobs@example.com",
  "emails": ["jobs@example.com"],
  "phoneNumbers": ["0412 345 678"],
  "contactAvailability": "email_and_phone",
  "companyIndustry": "Technology",
  "companySize": "201-500 employees",
  "companyWebsite": "https://example.com/careers",
  "detectedSkills": [
    "Python",
    "TypeScript",
    "React",
    "PostgreSQL",
    "AWS",
    "Docker",
    "Terraform"
  ],
  "seniority": "senior",
  "senioritySource": "title",
  "seniorityEvidence": "Senior",
  "visaSponsorship": "not_mentioned",
  "descriptionWordCount": 850,
  "applicationQuestionCount": 2,
  "dataCompletenessScore": 96.4,
  "parseConfidence": 1.0,
  "detailStatus": "ok",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/12345678"
}

💳 Pricing

The current Store configuration includes platform usage in the event price.

Plan	Price per 1,000 saved jobs
Free / no discount	$1.00
Starter	$0.90
Scale	$0.80
Business	$0.70

An Actor Start event of $0.00005 applies per run up to 1 GB of memory. Higher memory can charge additional start events according to the current Pricing tab.

Only successfully written job rows trigger the result event. Duplicate, failed and incrementally skipped records are not written as paid job results. The Pricing tab is authoritative if prices change.

❓ Practical questions

Why is a field empty? The job or associated profile may not publish it, or full details may be disabled. Summary-only rows use detailStatus: not_requested. Conditional fields remain empty rather than receiving guessed values.

Are emails and phone numbers guaranteed? No. Contacts are returned only when published in the advert. Many jobs expose only an application link.

Does the Actor estimate missing salaries? No. Numeric salary fields are created only when the advert publishes enough compensation information.

Why can search and detail values differ? SEEK can publish a compact value in a search result and a more precise value in the complete job record. Separate search... and detail... fields preserve both values.

Are applicant counts included? No. Applicant count, resume percentage and cover-letter percentage are not returned or estimated.

What does visaSponsorship mean? It summarizes explicit wording found in the job description. Always review visaSponsorshipEvidence; it is not legal advice or confirmation of eligibility.

How are duplicates handled? Jobs are deduplicated by market and job ID across all inputs in the same run. Duplicates do not consume maxItems.

Why did incremental mode save zero rows? If every collected job is UNCHANGED and emitUnchanged is off, a successful run can intentionally produce no job rows. The OUTPUT summary reports the skipped count.

When is a job marked expired? Only after a complete scan confirms the previously active job is absent. Limited or failed scans do not create expiry records.

What happens with incorrect input? The run finishes with a clear correction and does not add a diagnostic row to the jobs dataset.

Can one run contain AU and NZ jobs? Query mode uses one selected market. Direct URL mode can process Australian and New Zealand URLs together.

What formats are available? JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS and HTML are available through Apify datasets.

🔌 API access

Use the same input JSON from your application, command line or automation platform. Keep your Apify token private.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trakk~seek-job-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "scrapeType": "search",
    "country": "AU",
    "searchQueries": ["software engineer"],
    "location": "All Australia",
    "includeJobDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 10
  }'

The run response contains the default dataset ID. Use it to download job records or select one of the focused Output views.

✅ Responsible use

This Actor collects publicly available job and company information. Use results in accordance with applicable laws, privacy requirements and the terms that apply to your use case. Public recruiter and business contact details must be handled responsibly and must not be used for unlawful or unsolicited activity.