SEEK New Zealand Scraper

Extract job listings from seek.co.nz at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for New Zealand

A dedicated New Zealand scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (NZD) are tuned for seek.co.nz.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in NZD. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

🏢 Company details

Hiring company name plus the profile details the source publishes, such as logo and company page.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost, changeStatus, and contentHash. changeStatus is one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, or REAPPEARED, so a scheduled feed can act on genuinely new or changed jobs and skip duplicates. State persists across runs for 90 days.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"developer"	Job title, skill, or keyword to search for. Leave empty to scrape all jobs.
location	string	(empty)	Location to filter by, e.g. 'Auckland', 'Wellington', 'Christchurch', 'All New Zealand'.
workType	string	"Any"	Filter by employment type.
classificationId	integer	(empty)	SEEK classification ID to filter by category. Leave blank for all categories. Common IDs: 6281=ICT, 1209=Engineering, 1211=Healthcare, 1200=Accounting, 6362=Sales, 6251=Admin.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return listings posted within this many days. Leave blank for all listings.
sortMode	string	"KeywordRelevance"	Sort results by relevance or listing date.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	If enabled, fetches the full HTML job description for each listing (slower, but richer output). If disabled, only the teaser is returned.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Optional list of specific SEEK NZ job URLs to scrape. When provided, search parameters are ignored.
requestDelayMs	integer	500	Minimum delay between requests in milliseconds. Increase to reduce load on SEEK servers.
respectRobotsTxt	boolean	true	If enabled, the scraper respects SEEK's robots.txt crawl-delay directives.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of job listings to return. SEEK caps at 500 per search query. Use category-based batching (classificationId) to get more.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	SEEK job ID
title	string	Job title
company	string	Employer name
locationCountry	string	Always NZ
workArrangement	string	null
category	string	Industry category
subCategory	string	null
salaryLabel	string	null
salaryMin	string	null
salaryMax	string	null
salaryCurrency	string	Always NZD
salaryPeriod	string	null
teaser	string	null
bulletPoints	array	Highlights from sponsored listings
publishDate	string	Publication date in Auckland timezone (YYYY-MM-DD)
publishDateISO	string	Publication date/time in UTC ISO 8601
isFeatured	boolean	Whether listing is sponsored/featured
roleId	string	null
logoUrl	string	null
companyProfileUrl	string	null
url	string	Full URL to the SEEK NZ job listing
isRepost	boolean	true if this job was seen in a previous run
changeStatus	string	NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, or REAPPEARED
contentHash	string	16-character hash of the listing's content, used for change detection
originalPublishDate	string	null
description	string	null
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description in Markdown/plain text.
status	string	null
isExpired	string	null
expiresAtUtc	string	null
contactMatches	array	Email and phone contacts when published by the employer
advertiser	object	id, name, isVerified, registrationDate of the SEEK advertiser

Example record

{
  "id": "93037319",
  "title": "Junior Full-Stack Developer",
  "company": "Atom Intelligence",
  "location": "Auckland CBD, Auckland",
  "locationCountry": "NZ",
  "workType": "Full time",
  "workArrangement": null,
  "category": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subCategory": "Developers/Programmers",
  "classificationId": 6281,
  "salaryLabel": "$25 – $35 per hour",
  "salaryMin": 25,
  "salaryMax": 35,
  "salaryCurrency": "NZD",
  "salaryPeriod": "HOUR",
  "teaser": "Junior Full-Stack Developer at ATOM Intelligence's Auckland R&D centre.",
  "bulletPoints": ["Chinese and English communication skills"],
  "publishDate": "2026-06-30",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-06-30T10:10:18Z",
  "isFeatured": true,
  "displayType": "promoted",
  "roleId": "full-stack-developer",
  "logoUrl": null,
  "companyProfileUrl": null,
  "url": "https://www.seek.co.nz/job/93037319",
  "description": "<p>Junior Full-Stack Developer — ATOM Intelligence (Auckland) ...</p>",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "Junior Full-Stack Developer — ATOM Intelligence (Auckland) ...",
  "status": "Active",
  "isExpired": false,
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": "2026-06-30",
  "originalUrl": "https://www.seek.co.nz/job/93037319",
  "changeStatus": "NEW",
  "contentHash": "32a58d51d408e567",
  "expiresAtUtc": "2026-07-30T13:59:59.999Z",
  "contactMatches": [],
  "advertiser": {
    "id": "63516758",
    "name": "Atom Intelligence",
    "isVerified": null,
    "registrationDate": "2026-02-08T02:49:09.884Z"
  }
}

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Examples

Search for teacher roles in Auckland:

{
  "searchQuery": "teacher",
  "location": "Auckland",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Filter by contract type:

{
  "searchQuery": "teacher",
  "location": "Auckland",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "workType": "Any"
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.seek.co.nz/job/91693135"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "teacher",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$0.69 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.07
1,000	~$0.69
10,000	~$6.90
100,000	~$69

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $0.41 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: seek.co.nz — New Zealand job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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