Seek Jobs Scraper - Australia & New Zealand

Search Seek and get every listing back as a structured row: title, company, location, category, work type, work arrangement, posting date, and the pay.

Type a keyword, a location, or both. No API key, no login.

What you get per listing

The job — title, url, teaser (the summary line on the card) and bullet_points (the selling points the advertiser chose).

Who is hiring — company, company_url where Seek has a profile, and advertiser_id. Recruiters and direct employers both appear, and the advertiser id is what tells you the same agency is behind fifteen of your rows.

Where — location, all_locations when a listing names several, and region for the state or territory it sits in.

What kind of job — classification and sub_classification from Seek's own taxonomy, work_types (full time, contract, casual) and work_arrangements (on-site, hybrid, remote) where the advertiser stated one.

When — listing_date as a UTC timestamp and listing_age as Seek phrases it ("1d ago").

Placement — is_sponsored and is_featured.

Pay — see below. This is the part worth reading.

About the salary, which is the field everyone gets wrong

Seek does not publish a salary number. It publishes a line of text the advertiser typed, and the advertiser can type anything. From a single page of results:

$150,000 – $160,000 per year                        a real range
$90,000 – $95,000 + Super + Bonus                   a range plus extras
Up to $95,170 depending on qualifications            a ceiling, not a range
$120 - $140 - inc Super - Weekly Pay Options         an hourly rate, paid weekly
Suited to detail-oriented engineers with strong QA   not a salary at all
Attractive salary + bonus + benefits                 not a salary at all
                                                     most of them, blank

Treating that field as a number is how a "roles over $100k" filter quietly ends up including jobs whose pay is unknown and excluding jobs that pay well. So this Actor returns both:

• salary_label — the text exactly as written, always, whatever it says
• salary_min, salary_max, salary_period — filled only when the text genuinely reads as money
• salary_is_stated — the flag that lets you tell "no pay stated" apart from "the label was marketing copy"

salary_max stays empty when the advertiser gave a single figure, because repeating it as a maximum invents a range nobody offered. Up to $95,170 becomes a maximum with no minimum, because it promises no floor.

Pay periods, and one specific trap

A results page mixes annual salaries and hourly contractor rates freely, and 45 sitting next to 150000 in one column is worse than an empty column. Every parsed amount carries salary_period, so you can compare like with like.

The trap is that a period word in the text often describes how often you are paid, not what the rate is in. $120 - $140 - inc Super - Weekly Pay Options is an hourly rate offering weekly payment; read literally it says someone earns $140 a week. When the wording and the amount disagree, the amount decides, so that listing comes back as hourly.

Roughly a third of listings state a real amount. The run summary reports withStatedSalary and withSalaryLabelButNoAmount so you always know how much of a run carried one rather than assuming.

Sponsored placement is marked, so position is not a ranking

Employers pay for placement on Seek, and a sponsored ad sits above organic results. A row's position therefore reflects what Seek chose to show, not relevance or recency. is_sponsored lets you drop the paid slots, or study them on purpose: which agencies are paying to be seen is a useful signal in itself.

Australia and New Zealand are separate boards

seek.com.au and seek.co.nz carry different listings, and the Country input picks between them. A search of one never returns the other's jobs, so a national picture means two runs.

Filters and scale

Seek returns 32 listings per page. Maximum jobs rounds up to whole pages and is the ceiling on both time and cost: 96 jobs is three pages. Forty jobs across two pages took under nine seconds in testing.

The summary also reports totalMatchingOnSeek, the count Seek itself claims for your search. When that reads 22,482 and you asked for 96, you know exactly how much of the board you are looking at. That number is Seek's, reported as given.

What people use this for

Salary benchmarking. The subset of listings that state a real amount is a genuine sample of advertised pay by role, location and seniority. salary_period keeps hourly contract work from contaminating an annual average, and salary_is_stated keeps blank labels from being counted as zero.

Recruitment intelligence. advertiser_id and company across repeated runs show who is hiring, how fast, and which agencies dominate a category. New listings appearing under a competitor's name is a hiring-velocity series.

Market monitoring. Run a search on a schedule and keep the rows. listing_date and the disappearance of an id tell you how long a role stayed open, which is a fair proxy for how hard it was to fill.

Job aggregation. One search, one table, one shape, with the pay already separated into text and numbers so you do not have to write that parser.

Notes

Only currently open listings appear. A filled or withdrawn role stops being published, which is what makes the run-on-a-schedule pattern above work.

A search that matches nothing is reported as exactly that, with the search spelled out, rather than as an empty result you would have to interpret. Occasionally a page needs a second attempt before it comes through; that is handled inside the run, and only a page that never arrives is reported.