Australia & New Zealand Visa Sponsorship Jobs — Seek Scraper

Every Australian and New Zealand job ad that will sponsor a visa or hire a Working Holiday maker, swept from Seek across every state and region, with the visa terms read out of the full advert.

See it run

Or ask for employers instead of jobs. Set outputMode: "employers" and you get one row per company, ranked by how many sponsorship ads they run, with their sponsorship rate, states, main industry and median salary. That is the list a migration agent or a recruiter actually works down — nobody wants 4,000 adverts.

Seek has no "visa sponsorship" filter. Employers write it a hundred ways — 482 visa, TSS, sponsorship available, WHV welcome, backpackers wanted, 88 days — and just as often write the opposite in the fine print: must have full working rights, no sponsorship, citizens and PR only. This Actor reads the whole ad and tells you which is which.

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Why a keyword search on Seek is not enough

• Seek caps every query at 500 results. A national search for working holiday returns the same 500 ads whatever you do. This Actor splits every keyword by state and by listing date and merges the shards, which is how one run collected 1,246 unique ads from four queries where a plain search would have shown 500.
• The title lies. In a test run, an ad titled "Mechanical Fitter — visa sponsor" said "sponsorship is not available" in paragraph four. The Actor flagged it refusesSponsorship: true. A title scraper would have sold you a dead lead.
• Eight states, seven keywords, one run. 56 queries, deduplicated by job id, so an ad that matches three keywords is delivered — and charged — once.

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What you get

Field	Notes
title, company, location, state	State parsed from Seek's location label
classification, subClassification	Seek's own industry labels
workType, workArrangement	Full time / casual, on-site / remote
salaryLabel, salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryPeriod	Parsed from the advertised range
listingDate, daysSinceListing
teaser, bulletPoints, description	Full advert text when fetchDescriptions is on
offersSponsorship	482 / TSS, 186, 494, 491, DAMA, employer nomination, PR pathway
welcomesWorkingHoliday	417 / 462, WHV, backpackers, travellers
countsForRegional	88 days, second/third-year visa, farm, harvest, specified regional work
refusesSponsorship	Full working rights required, no sponsorship, citizens/PR only
isVisaFriendly	Any of the three above, and not a refusal
evidence	The exact phrases that triggered each flag, so you can check in one glance
url, source, scrapedAt

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Example inputs

Sponsored jobs in Queensland and WA posted this week

{
  "states": ["Queensland", "Western Australia"],
  "onlySponsorship": true,
  "postedWithinDays": 7
}

Working Holiday and 88-day work, nationwide, hospitality only

{
  "onlyWorkingHoliday": true,
  "onlyRegional": false,
  "classifications": ["Hospitality & Tourism"]
}

Fast and cheap: titles and teasers only, no full-ad fetch

{
  "fetchDescriptions": false,
  "onlyVisaFriendly": true
}

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Example output

{
  "jobId": "94455590",
  "title": "MECHANIC | TECHNICIAN | 482 Sponsorship Available | Weipa QLD | $40-$45/hr plus",
  "company": "Gulf Parts & Service",
  "location": "Weipa, Cairns & Far North QLD",
  "state": "QLD",
  "classification": "Trades & Services",
  "salaryLabel": "$40 – $45 per hour",
  "salaryMin": 40,
  "salaryMax": 45,
  "salaryPeriod": "hour",
  "listingDate": "2026-09-08T04:12:51Z",
  "daysSinceListing": 2,
  "offersSponsorship": true,
  "welcomesWorkingHoliday": false,
  "countsForRegional": false,
  "refusesSponsorship": false,
  "isVisaFriendly": true,
  "evidence": ["482 Sponsorship", "visa sponsor"],
  "descriptionFetched": true,
  "url": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/94455590"
}

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Who this is for

• Migration agents and visa consultants — a live list of employers already willing to sponsor, by trade and state.
• Recruiters placing overseas candidates — sponsorship-ready roles are the only ones worth pitching a 482 applicant.
• Working Holiday makers and the platforms, agencies and communities that serve them — WHV-friendly roles and regional work that counts toward a second year.
• Regional employers' associations and labour-hire firms — who is hiring on sponsorship in your region, this week.
• Analysts — which industries and states are sponsoring, and how that moves month to month.

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Pricing

Two events. record per job delivered after filtering — ads dropped by your filters cost nothing. description per full advert read.

Reading the advert is where the accuracy lives: in testing, 5 of every 8 visa-friendly jobs mention the visa only in the body, and refusals hide there too. It is also the expensive part, because job pages block datacenter IPs and each page is about 250 KB through a residential proxy.

Three modes, so you choose:

Mode	What it reads	Speed	Accuracy
all (default)	Every advert	~1 ad/sec	Best
signals	Only ads hinting at a visa in the teaser	~10x faster	Misses most body-only mentions
none	Titles and teasers, no proxy at all	Instant	Weakest, no refusal detection

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Reliability

• Search uses Seek's public JSON endpoint with no key. Advert pages are fetched with a browser-grade client because the page host rejects plain HTTP clients.
• Every query retries three times with backoff. A failed shard is logged and counted in RUN_SUMMARY; the rest of the run continues.
• Results are deduplicated by job id across all keywords and states.

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Data source

Job advertisements published on seek.com.au. Records are business data — an employer's public advert — and carry no personal data. Every record links back to its source ad.