Seek Australia Jobs Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Seek.com.au (au.seek.com) is Australia's largest job board, listing postings across every industry from thousands of employers. This Actor searches Seek's own listings by job title/keyword and/or a free-text Australian location and writes one normalized row per posting: title, company, classification and subclassification using Seek's own taxonomy, a flattened location hierarchy (suburb → state → country), work type and work arrangement, salary label, listing date, and a teaser summary. It's built for recruiters and staffing agencies sourcing candidates on Seek, AU job-aggregator operators backfilling listings, and HR-tech builders who need structured Australian job-market data without hand-rolling their own Seek integration. Everything is sourced from Seek's own public job-search index — no login, no API key.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation (Chrome / Firefox / Safari) so Seek sees real-browser TLS, not Python.
• 🌐 We rotate residential proxies through Apify Proxy on every block — fresh session ID, fresh AU exit IP, pinned to the Australian market.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 503 and honour Retry-After — up to 5 attempts per page.
• 🌏 We verify the market on every response — before any row ships, we check Seek's own market signal and each job's country code. A mismatch rotates the session and retries instead of quietly shipping the wrong country's jobs.
• 🧱 We fail loud, not silent — a hard block surfaces a clear status message naming pages fetched vs. blocked, instead of a quietly empty dataset.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean — Pydantic-validated rows, ISO-8601 timestamps, deduplicated job IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that land in your dataset, plus one small flat warm-up fee per run.

Use cases

• Recruiting pipelines — pull fresh Seek postings matching a role profile straight into your ATS or sourcing sheet.
• AU job-aggregator feeds — normalize Seek listings into a consistent schema alongside other job boards.
• Market and hiring-trend research — track classification, location, and work-type distribution across Australia over time.
• Competitive intelligence — monitor which employers are actively hiring for a role or in a region on Seek.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "where": "Sydney NSW",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

job_idtitlecompany_nameclassification_descriptionsubclassification_descriptionlocation_labellocation_hierarchywork_typeswork_arrangementsalary_labellisting_dateteaseris_featuredurlscraped_at

{
  "job_id": "78234561",
  "title": "Senior Python Developer",
  "company_name": "Acme Digital",
  "advertiser_id": "30442112",
  "advertiser_description": "Acme Digital",
  "classification_id": "6281",
  "classification_description": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subclassification_id": "6287",
  "subclassification_description": "Developers/Programmers",
  "location_label": "Sydney NSW",
  "location_country_code": "AU",
  "location_hierarchy": [
    "Sydney",
    "NSW",
    "Australia"
  ],
  "work_types": [
    "Full time"
  ],
  "work_arrangement": "Hybrid",
  "salary_label": "$120,000 \u2013 $140,000 + super",
  "listing_date": "2026-08-16T22:11:00Z",
  "listing_date_display": "1h ago",
  "teaser": "Join our platform team building distributed systems at scale...",
  "is_featured": false,
  "display_type": "standout",
  "role_id": "python-developer",
  "url": "https://au.seek.com/job/78234561",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-17T09:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Teaser-only, not the full job description. The full posting body lives behind Seek's Cloudflare-walled /job/{id} detail page; only the search index's teaser text is captured in v1. This is a deliberate scope decision, not a silent gap.
• salaryLabel is free text only. Seek's search API returns salary as a display string, not structured numbers — no min/max fields are emitted or inferred. Expect salary_label to be null on the many postings where an employer doesn't publish a figure.
• One location per job. When a posting lists more than one location, only the primary (locations[0]) entry is emitted — there's no multi-location row breakout in v1.
• Australia only. This Actor targets au.seek.com exclusively. Seek's other country domains (nz.seek.com and siblings) aren't in scope.
• classificationFilter is a client-side filter, not a server-side search parameter. It matches Seek's own classification/subclassification names against rows already fetched for your keywords/where — it narrows what gets emitted, it doesn't change what gets requested from Seek.