What Seek is as a data source
Seek runs the job boards for Australia and New Zealand, and since the 2024 unification the same platform sits underneath Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. For anyone building a pipeline, that matters more than the branding does, because the brands are skins over one system.
Hostnames moved. A request to www.seek.com.au now answers with HTTP 308 to au.seek.com, and www.seek.co.nz answers with 308 to nz.seek.com. Old links still land on the right record, but a crawler that does not follow redirects collects nothing at all.
One system, several brands. The robots.txt served by au.seek.com, nz.seek.com, my.jobstreet.com and hk.jobsdb.com is byte for byte the same file, comment lines included. The results page on each is driven by the same GraphQL operation, jobSearchV6, and the market is chosen by a sitekey value - AU on au.seek.com, NZ on nz.seek.com. Jobstreet Malaysia and Jobsdb Hong Kong return the same category vocabulary Seek uses in Australia, down to strings like Accounting and Administration & Office Support.
The practical effect is that a crawler written against seek.com.au ports to the sibling brands with a parameter change instead of a rewrite, and one schema covers the brands on it.
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