Every SEEK search and job-detail feature, plus a local job history, salary distributions, and hiring trends no other SEEK tool has.
seek-pp-cli searches Australian and New Zealand job listings, pulls full job details through SEEK's own JSON endpoints (never the bot-gated HTML), and keeps every job it has seen in a local SQLite store. On top of that it computes salary percentiles (salary), hiring-volume trends over time (trends), per-company hiring scans (company), and runs all your saved searches for new postings in one command (me new-jobs). No API key; no hosted scraper.
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Created by @polsiola-dot (Paul Siola).
Authentication
Job search, job details, salary data, and company profiles need no authentication. The me commands (saved searches, saved jobs, applied status) read your SEEK session: run seek-pp-cli auth login --chrome once while logged in to au.seek.com in Chrome and the CLI imports the session cookie. Nothing is written to your SEEK account.
Quick Start
# confirm the CLI can reach SEEK before anything else
seek-pp-cli doctor --dry-run
# the core workflow: keyword + location + recency
seek-pp-cli listings search --keywords "software engineer" --where "Sydney NSW" --posted-within-days 7
# full description, salary, apply link and company for one job
seek-pp-cli listings get 94483533
# shape of the market with zero rows fetched
seek-pp-cli listings facets --keywords "software engineer" --where "Sydney NSW" --group-by classification
# salary percentiles — the command fetches and caches listings itself
seek-pp-cli salary "software engineer" --where "Sydney NSW" --agent
Unique Features
These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.
Local state that compounds
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salary — Get salary percentiles, a histogram, and the pay-disclosure rate for a role and location by sampling matching listings (which it also caches locally).
Reach for this instead of fetching hundreds of listings and computing pay statistics yourself.
seek-pp-cli salary "registered nurse" --where "Melbourne VIC" --agent
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trends — See how job-listing volume for a classification, region, or work arrangement changes over time, bucketed from the listing dates of every job the CLI has cached, with period-over-period deltas.
Use this when the question is 'is hiring up or down', not 'what is open right now'.
seek-pp-cli trends --by classification --since 90d --agent
Cross-entity joins
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company — Profile one advertiser: their company details and review ratings plus every current opening and a local history of how many roles they've posted.
Reach for this for 'who is hiring for X' market scans and interview prep instead of scrolling a company's SEEK page.
seek-pp-cli company "Atlassian" --active --agent
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me new-jobs — Run every one of your SEEK saved searches and return only the postings that aren't already in your local store, tagged by which search matched.
This is the daily-driver command for an active job hunt; use it instead of re-scrolling the SEEK site.
seek-pp-cli me new-jobs --since 7d --agent
Agent-native plumbing
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listings facets — Break a live query down by classification, work type, pay band, or region by tallying the sampled result pages — no local store needed.
Use this for a fast shape-of-the-market answer before committing to a full search or a sync.
seek-pp-cli listings facets --keywords "data analyst" --where "Brisbane QLD" --group-by classification --agent
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classifications — Browse or resolve SEEK's numeric classification and subclassification IDs so filtered searches can target them precisely.
Call this first when you need a --classification value for listings search.
seek-pp-cli classifications software
Recipes
Daily new-jobs digest
seek-pp-cli me new-jobs --since 24h --agent
Runs every saved search and returns only postings not already in the local store.
Salary benchmark for a role
seek-pp-cli salary "data engineer" --where "All Australia" --agent
Percentiles and disclosure rate over the listings the command samples and caches for that role and location.
Competitor hiring snapshot
seek-pp-cli company "Canva" --agent --select openings.title,openings.location,openings.listingDate
All current openings for one advertiser with just the fields an agent needs from a large nested response.
Is ICT hiring cooling?
seek-pp-cli trends --by classification --since 180d --agent
Period-over-period listing counts bucketed from the listing dates of jobs cached locally.
Shape of a market before a full search
seek-pp-cli listings facets --keywords "registered nurse" --where "Perth WA" --group-by salary --agent
Per-facet counts tallied from the sampled result pages, zero extra rows fetched.
Usage
Run seek-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.
Paths & environment variables
This CLI separates local files into four path kinds:
| Kind | Contents |
|---|
config | User-editable settings such as config.toml and saved profiles |
data | Durable local data: credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, browser-session proof files, and other auth sidecars |
state | Runtime state such as persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log |
cache | Regenerable HTTP/cache files |
Each kind resolves independently. The ladder is:
- Per-kind env var:
SEEK_CONFIG_DIR, SEEK_DATA_DIR, SEEK_STATE_DIR, or SEEK_CACHE_DIR
--home <dir> for this invocationSEEK_HOME for a flat relocated root- XDG env vars:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME
- Platform defaults matching existing installs
For containers and agent sandboxes, prefer a single relocated root:
export SEEK_HOME=/srv/seek
seek-pp-cli doctor
Under SEEK_HOME=/srv/seek, the four dirs resolve to /srv/seek/config, /srv/seek/data, /srv/seek/state, and /srv/seek/cache.
MCP servers do not receive CLI flags from the host. Put relocation in the host env block:
{
"mcpServers": {
"seek": {
"command": "seek-pp-mcp",
"env": {
"SEEK_HOME": "/srv/seek"
}
}
}
}
Precedence matters in fleets: an ambient per-kind variable such as SEEK_DATA_DIR overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use SEEK_HOME or the per-kind variables for durable fleet relocation; treat --home as the weaker per-invocation lever.
Relocation is one-way. Unsetting SEEK_HOME does not move files back to platform defaults, and doctor cannot find credentials left under a former root. Move the files manually before unsetting relocation variables.
Existing installs keep working because the platform-default rung matches the legacy layout. On the first auth write, stored secrets leave config.toml and are consolidated into credentials.toml under the data directory. Run seek-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to check path and credential-location warnings in automation.
Commands
listings
Search and inspect SEEK job listings
seek-pp-cli listings - Search job listings by keyword, location, and filters
me
Your SEEK account: saved searches, saved jobs, applied jobs (needs auth login --chrome)
seek-pp-cli me job-status - Check which of the given job IDs you've saved or already applied toseek-pp-cli me saved-jobs - List jobs you've saved on SEEKseek-pp-cli me saved-searches - List your saved searches / job alerts
Self-learning loop
This CLI caches per-question discovery so repeat queries skip the walk and structurally similar queries get answered via entity substitution. The loop also self-captures: every invocation is journaled locally, and failed-flag corrections plus fresh teaches surface as candidates on the next recall for confirm/reject judgment. Agents call recall before discovery and fire teach & after answering. See the ## Automatic learning section in SKILL.md for the full protocol.
seek-pp-cli recall <query> - Look up cached resources for a query before running discoveryseek-pp-cli teach - Record a query -> resource mapping (silent on success, safe to background with &)seek-pp-cli learnings list - Inspect taught rowsseek-pp-cli learnings forget <query> - Undo a teachseek-pp-cli learnings candidates - List auto-captured candidates awaiting confirm/rejectseek-pp-cli learnings stats - Local loop metrics: recall hit rate, teach-to-reuse, playbook resolution, candidate countsseek-pp-cli teach-pattern - Install a query/resource template up frontseek-pp-cli teach-lookup - Add an entity mapping (e.g. country code, team alias) for pattern substitution
Pass --no-learn or set SEEK_NO_LEARN=true to disable the loop for deterministic flows.
The local store's schema version stamp is one-way: once this version of seek-pp-cli opens the database, older binaries refuse it with a version error — upgrade the binary rather than downgrading.
Output Formats
# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
seek-pp-cli listings
# JSON for scripting and agents
seek-pp-cli listings --json
# Filter to specific fields
seek-pp-cli listings --json --select id,title,teaser
# Dry run — show the request without sending
seek-pp-cli listings --dry-run
# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
seek-pp-cli listings --agent
Agent Usage
This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:
- Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
- Pipeable -
--json output to stdout, errors to stderr
- Filterable -
--select <field>[,<field>...] returns only fields you need
- Previewable -
--dry-run shows the request without sending
- Explicit retries - add
--idempotent to create retries when a no-op success is acceptable
- Explicit confirmation -
--agent does not imply --yes; pass --yes separately only after the target, arguments, and side effects are clear
- Piped input - write commands can accept structured input when their help lists
--stdin
- Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
- Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless
--human-friendly is set
Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 6 partial failure, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.
Health Check
seek-pp-cli doctor
Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.
Configuration
Run seek-pp-cli doctor to see the resolved config, data, state, and cache directories. The platform-default config path is ~/.config/seek-cli/config.toml; --home, SEEK_HOME, and per-kind env vars can relocate it.
Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.
Environment variables:
| Name | Kind | Required | Description |
|---|
SEEK_COOKIE | per_call | Yes | Set to your API credential. |
agentcookie (optional)
If you use agentcookie to sync secrets across machines, this CLI auto-adopts agentcookie-managed credentials with no extra setup. When the daemon writes to this CLI's config, seek-pp-cli doctor reports agentcookie: detected and auth-status labels the source as agentcookie. Skip this section if you don't use agentcookie - the CLI works the same as any other.
Troubleshooting
Authentication errors (exit code 4)
- Run
seek-pp-cli doctor to check credentials
- Verify the environment variable is set:
echo $SEEK_COOKIE
Not found errors (exit code 3)
- Check the resource ID is correct
- Run the
list command to see available items
API-specific
- listings get or a company scan returns nothing for a valid job ID — SEEK's GraphQL schema may have shifted; re-run with --json to see the raw error, then trim the query fields the error names.
- me new-jobs or me saved-searches says you are not authenticated — run
seek-pp-cli auth login --chrome while logged in to au.seek.com in Chrome; only the me commands need this.
- salary or trends shows a thin distribution or no history — these commands accumulate listings locally on each run; run the same query a few times over days, or widen --where / drop filters for a bigger sample.
- search returns AU jobs when you wanted NZ — pass --site NZ-Main --locale en-NZ (both are needed).
Discovery Signals
This CLI was generated with browser-captured traffic analysis.
- Target observed: https://au.seek.com/
- Capture coverage: 12 API entries from 60 total network entries
- Reachability: standard_http (90% confidence)
- Protocols: rest_json (95% confidence), graphql (95% confidence), ssr_embedded_data (80% confidence)
- Auth signals: cookie — cookies: SEEK_SESSION; none
- Protection signals: cloudflare (60% confidence)
- Generation hints: primary transport: standard_http against https://au.seek.com, search surface is REST JSON at /api/jobsearch/v5/search; job-detail and account surfaces are GraphQL at POST /graphql, graphql endpoint rejects introspection and enforces a real schema; jobDetails(id: ID!) and jobSearchV7(params: JobSearchV7QueryInput!) verified working with hand-written queries, AU and NZ share the au.seek.com host; switch via siteKey=AU-Main|NZ-Main and locale=en-AU|en-NZ, authenticated surface uses same-origin session cookies on .seek.com (no Authorization header, no CSRF token on read queries); emit auth login --chrome / press-auth cookie companion, requires_browser_auth for the me/* commands only; all jobs/* commands are unauthenticated
- Candidate command ideas: search — GET /api/jobsearch/v5/search — keyword+location+filter job search, the primary workflow; get — POST /graphql jobDetails(id) — full job description, salary, apply link; count — POST /graphql jobSearchV7 JobCountV7 — result count for a filter combination without fetching rows; recommended — POST /graphql JobDetailsRecommendedJobs(jobDetailsId) — similar jobs; saved-searches — viewer -> ApacSavedSearch{id,name,query,createdDate,newToYouCountLabel,subscribeToNewJobs} (cookie auth); saved-jobs — viewer.savedJobs(first) (cookie auth); applied-jobs — viewer.searchAppliedJobs / applied job history (cookie auth)
Warnings from discovery:
- hand_written_queries: GraphQL operation bodies were reconstructed by the agent and verified against the live endpoint (HTTP 200); they are leaner than the SPA's persisted queries. jobDetailsPersonalised/GetMatchedQualities field selections were observed but not fully transcribed.
- cookie_replay_unverified: Cookie auth confirmed working in-browser (viewer queries returned data). Replay outside the browser was not validated this run because session cookie values were deliberately not extracted; Phase 5 live smoke or first auth login --chrome will confirm.
Sources & Inspiration
This CLI was built by studying these projects and resources:
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