# Seek.com.au Jobs \[Only $1] Salary·Company·Filters (/w EMAILS) (`memo23/seek-scraper`) Actor

Scrape seek.com.au (AU & NZ) job listings — any keyword/location search with filters, or individual job URLs. Returns title, company, location, salary, classification, work type, full description, apply link and dates as one clean row each. Pure HTTP, JSON/CSV.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/memo23/seek-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhamed Didovic](https://apify.com/memo23) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Jobs, Agents
- **Stats:** 77 total users, 18 monthly users, 90.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Seek.com.au Jobs Scraper — Salary, Company & Full Description

Scrape **seek.com.au — Australia's #1 job board** (and seek.co.nz) — any keyword/location search, with filters, or individual job URLs. Every job comes back in one clean schema with title, company, location, salary, classification, work type, the full description, apply link, and dates. Pure HTTP, no browser.

![How it works](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muhamed-didovic/muhamed-didovic.github.io/main/assets/how-it-works-seek.png)

### Why use this scraper

- **Any Seek search, filters and all** — paste a `{keyword}-jobs/in-{location}` URL or a `/jobs?keywords=&where=` URL with whatever filters you set (classification, work type, salary range, date posted) and the actor honours them and paginates through every matching result.
- **Full job detail** — title, company, location, salary, classification + sub-classification, work type, the complete HTML description (and plain-text), apply link, listing + expiry dates.
- **Salary + classification, parsed** — salary range as shown, and the SEEK classification split into parent + sub-classification.
- **No browser, no anti-bot fuss** — reads Seek's embedded `SEEK_REDUX_DATA` directly. Fast and cheap.

### Overview

Seek embeds its full job data in each page as a JSON island. The actor classifies each URL (search / job), walks search results page by page (~22 per page, `?page=N`), fans out to each job, and normalises everything into a consistent row. Ideal for recruiters, sourcers, market analysts, and job aggregators.

### Supported inputs

| Input URL shape | Example |
|---|---|
| **Keyword/location search** | `seek.com.au/developer-jobs/in-All-Sydney-NSW` |
| **Query search** | `seek.com.au/jobs?keywords=nurse&where=Melbourne` |
| **Filtered search** | `…?keywords=marketing&where=Brisbane&worktype=242` (any site filter) |
| **Individual job** | `seek.com.au/job/{id}` |

> **Tip:** run a search on seek.com.au, then copy the URL from your browser's address bar — the filter parameters drop straight into `startUrls`. seek.co.nz works too.

### Use cases

- **Recruiters & sourcers** — pull live roles by keyword, location, classification; build target lists.
- **Market analysts** — track salary ranges, demand by classification, posting volumes over time.
- **Job boards / aggregators** — ingest Seek listings with full descriptions into your own index.
- **Competitor monitoring** — watch which companies are hiring for what, where.

### How it works

1. You provide one or more Seek URLs (search or job).
2. The actor classifies each URL and walks search results with `?page=N` pagination (filters preserved).
3. Each job's `SEEK_REDUX_DATA` is parsed for the full structured record.
4. Rows are normalised to one schema and streamed to your dataset — JSON or CSV.

### Input configuration

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | array | — | seek.com.au / seek.co.nz URLs (search or job) |
| `flatten` | boolean | `true` | Flatten arrays for CSV-friendly output |
| `maxItems` | integer | `10000` | Hard cap on rows collected |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | `8` | Parallel job fetches |

### Output samples

**Flattened (`flatten: true`, default):**

```json
{
  "portal": "seek",
  "jobId": "92535131",
  "title": "Junior Software Engineer",
  "company": "DMA Global",
  "advertiserId": "39942912",
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "classification": "Information & Communication Technology",
  "subClassification": "Engineering - Software",
  "workType": "Full time",
  "salaryDisplay": "$50,000 – $70,000 per year",
  "teaser": "We are looking for a Junior Software Engineer…",
  "descriptionText": "Junior Software Engineer DMA Global Sydney NSW…",
  "applyUrl": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/92535131",
  "isExpired": false,
  "listingDate": "2026-06-05T02:19:17.024Z",
  "listingDateLabel": "2d ago",
  "expiresAt": "2026-07-05T13:59:59.999Z"
}
```

### Key output fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `jobId`, `canonicalUrl`, `shareLink` | Identity |
| `title` | Job title |
| `company`, `advertiserId`, `advertiserVerified` | Employer |
| `location` | e.g. "Sydney NSW" |
| `classification`, `subClassification`, `classificationFull` | SEEK category (parent + sub) |
| `workType` | Full time / Part time / Contract / Casual |
| `salaryDisplay` | Salary as shown (e.g. "$50,000 – $70,000 per year") |
| `teaser` | Short summary |
| `bulletPoints[]` | Highlight bullets |
| `description`, `descriptionText` | Full HTML + plain-text |
| `phoneNumber` | Recruiter phone (when present) |
| `applyUrl` | Apply / job link |
| `isExpired`, `status`, `listingDate`, `listingDateLabel`, `expiresAt` | Status + dates |

### FAQ

**Can I scrape a filtered search?**
Yes — paste any Seek search URL with its filters (classification, work type, salary, date posted, etc.). They're preserved and paginated automatically.

**Does it work for New Zealand?**
Yes — seek.co.nz URLs work the same as seek.com.au.

**How many jobs per search?**
A search returns up to ~22 per page and the actor paginates until `maxItems`. A single query commonly has hundreds to thousands of matches.

### Support

Found a bug or need a field added? Open an issue on the actor's Apify Console page.

### Explore more scrapers

- **[Naukri Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/naukri-scraper)** — India + Gulf jobs
- **[Indeed Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/apify-indeed-cheerio)** — global jobs
- **[TotalJobs Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/totaljobs-scraper)** — UK jobs
- **[Jora Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/jora-search-cheerio-ppr)** — AU/NZ/SG jobs

Full portfolio: [apify.com/memo23](https://apify.com/memo23)

### 🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com) or the Apify API (actor: `memo23/seek-scraper`).

**Purpose:** Scrape seek.com.au and seek.co.nz job listings — from native search fields, any Seek search URL (filters preserved), or individual job URLs — returning one clean row per job with salary, classification, company and full description, read from the page's embedded `SEEK_REDUX_DATA` (pure HTTP, no browser).

**Minimal input (search mode):**

```json
{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "country": "au",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

Alternative URL mode: pass `startUrls` with any Seek search URL (`seek.com.au/{keyword}-jobs/in-{Location}` or `/jobs?keywords=&where=` with any site filters) or a `seek.com.au/job/{id}` URL. When `startUrls` is set, the Search fields above are ignored. Search fields also accept `classification`, `workType`, `salaryMin`/`salaryMax`/`salaryType`, `dateRange`, `sortMode`.

**Output:** one row per job — portal, jobId, canonicalUrl, shareLink, title, company, advertiserId, advertiserVerified, location, classification, subClassification, classificationFull, workType, salaryDisplay, teaser, bulletPoints, description, descriptionText, phoneNumber, applyUrl, isExpired, status, listingDate, listingDateLabel, expiresAt.

**Behaviors an agent should know:**

- Always set `maxItems` (default 10000) — a single search commonly has hundreds to thousands of matches; search pages return ~22 jobs each.
- Provide either Search fields or `startUrls`; `startUrls` takes priority and overrides the Search filters.
- `incrementalMode` emits only NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED jobs (each row carries `changeType` + `firstSeenAt`); state is kept per `stateKey`, so scheduled runs pay only for changes.
- `includeKeywords`/`excludeKeywords` and `fromDate`/`toDate`/`maxAgeMinutes` gate rows before billing — filtered-out rows are never charged.
- Billing is per result — charged per job row returned; keyword/date-gated and filtered rows are never charged. `enrichEmails` is opt-in and billed only per contact email found.
- Optional notifications (Telegram/Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/generic webhook) and output shaping (`compact` for LLM pipelines, `descriptionMaxLength`, `excludeEmptyFields`, `flatten`) are available.

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This scraper accesses only publicly available data. Use the extracted data in compliance with seek.com.au's Terms of Use, the Australian Privacy Act 1988, the Spam Act 2003, and all applicable laws. You are responsible for how you use scraped data — particularly personal information (recruiter names, phone numbers). This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to SEEK Limited.

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# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

What to search for — job title, skill or company (e.g. "registered nurse", "react developer").

## `location` (type: `string`):

Suburb, city or region exactly as you'd type it on seek (e.g. "Sydney NSW", "All Melbourne VIC", "Auckland").

## `country` (type: `string`):

Which SEEK market to search.

## `classification` (type: `array`):

Limit to one or more SEEK industry classifications. Leave empty for all industries.

## `workType` (type: `array`):

Limit to one or more work types. Leave empty for all.

## `salaryMin` (type: `integer`):

Lower bound of the salary band (e.g. 100000 annual, or 50 hourly). Leave empty for no minimum.

## `salaryMax` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound of the salary band. Leave empty for no maximum.

## `salaryType` (type: `string`):

Whether the salary band is annual (default) or hourly. Only applies when a salary bound is set.

## `dateRange` (type: `integer`):

Only jobs listed in the last N days — the site's own values are 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, but any number of days works. Empty or 0 = any time.

## `sortMode` (type: `string`):

Result order. Sponsored/promoted ads always float to the top on SEEK's side; organic results follow the chosen order.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Full seek.com.au (or seek.co.nz) URLs. Search URLs are paginated and fanned out to individual jobs automatically until `Maximum items` is reached. Leave empty to use the Search filters above.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep jobs whose title, company or description contains at least one of these (case-insensitive). Filtered rows are never charged.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop jobs whose title, company or description contains any of these (case-insensitive).

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

Only keep jobs posted on or after this date (ISO 8601, e.g. 2026-08-01).

## `toDate` (type: `string`):

Only keep jobs posted on or before this date (ISO 8601). A date-only value means through the end of that day.

## `maxAgeMinutes` (type: `integer`):

Only keep jobs posted within the last N minutes. Empty or 0 = no age limit. Ideal for tight scheduled runs.

## `incrementalMode` (type: `boolean`):

Compare against the previous run and only emit jobs that are NEW, UPDATED, or REAPPEARED — you are only charged for what changed. The first run seeds the baseline. Each emitted row carries `changeType` and `firstSeenAt`.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional stable name for this tracked search (e.g. "nurse-sydney"). Leave empty to auto-derive one from the search inputs — same inputs, same baseline.

## `emitUnchanged` (type: `boolean`):

When incremental, also emit rows whose content did not change (charged as normal results).

## `emitExpired` (type: `boolean`):

When incremental, emit a small `changeType: EXPIRED` row for every previously-tracked job that vanished from the source.

## `skipReposts` (type: `boolean`):

When incremental, skip jobs whose content matches a previously-expired posting (employer re-listed the same ad under a new id).

## `resetIncrementalState` (type: `boolean`):

One-shot: drop the stored baseline for this state key at the start of the run.

## `compact` (type: `boolean`):

Emit only the core fields — small payloads for AI-agent / MCP / LLM pipelines.

## `excludeEmptyFields` (type: `boolean`):

Drop null / empty-string / empty-array fields from each record.

## `descriptionMaxLength` (type: `integer`):

Truncate description fields to this many characters (0 = full text). Controls LLM prompt cost and dataset size.

## `telegramBotToken` (type: `string`):

Your bot's token from @BotFather. With Chat ID set, a summary of new jobs is sent after each run.

## `telegramChatId` (type: `string`):

Chat or channel id the bot posts to (e.g. "-1001234567890").

## `slackWebhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Slack incoming-webhook URL (api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks).

## `discordWebhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Discord incoming-webhook URL (Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks).

## `whatsappAccessToken` (type: `string`):

WhatsApp Cloud API token (Meta Business system user). The recipient must have messaged your business number within the last 24h — Cloud API rule.

## `whatsappPhoneNumberId` (type: `string`):

Your WhatsApp Business phone-number id (numeric, from the Meta dashboard).

## `whatsappTo` (type: `string`):

Recipient phone in E.164 without + (e.g. "14165551234").

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Receives one JSON POST with { metadata, items } after the run — the universal escape hatch for n8n / Make / Zapier / custom backends.

## `webhookHeaders` (type: `object`):

Optional custom headers for the generic webhook (e.g. {"Authorization": "Bearer …"}).

## `notificationLimit` (type: `integer`):

How many job lines each chat notification includes (1–20). The rest are summarised as a count.

## `notifyOnlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

With Incremental mode on, notify only about NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED jobs.

## `flatten` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled (default), arrays (e.g. `bulletPoints`) are JSON-stringified into `*_json` fields for CSV. Disable to keep the full nested JSON.

## `enrichEmails` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, tries to find a contact email for each employer by discovering the company's website (Clearbit) and reading its contact/about pages. Adds contactEmail + contactWebsite columns plus a detailed emailEnrichment object. Best-effort, billed per contact email found; only charged when an email is returned, never for misses.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on the number of jobs collected. Seek search pages return ~22 results each; use this cap to control billing.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Cap on list pages fetched per search (native filter searches page 100 jobs at a time; site search URLs ~22). Leave empty for no page cap — `Maximum items` still applies.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job pages fetched in parallel. 6-12 is the sweet spot.

## `minConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Minimum number of job pages fetched in parallel.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Number of retries before a failed request is given up.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Leave empty — the actor already routes all traffic through its own built-in residential proxy at no extra cost to you. Only set this if you want to use your own proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "location": "Sydney NSW",
  "country": "au",
  "salaryType": "annual",
  "incrementalMode": false,
  "emitUnchanged": false,
  "emitExpired": false,
  "skipReposts": false,
  "resetIncrementalState": false,
  "compact": false,
  "excludeEmptyFields": false,
  "notificationLimit": 5,
  "notifyOnlyChanges": false,
  "flatten": true,
  "enrichEmails": false,
  "maxItems": 10000,
  "maxConcurrency": 8,
  "minConcurrency": 1,
  "maxRequestRetries": 5
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": "developer",
    "location": "Sydney NSW"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("memo23/seek-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": "developer",
    "location": "Sydney NSW",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("memo23/seek-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": "developer",
  "location": "Sydney NSW"
}' |
apify call memo23/seek-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,memo23/seek-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OK8tebww5GVDZE6Dw/builds/q0Tgk32CrlrZuMUZv/openapi.json