# Workana Scraper - LatAm Freelance Projects (`bibian/workana-projects-scraper`) Actor

Workana projects: freelance projects posted on Workana, Latin America's freelance marketplace (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and more), with budget, skills, category and full description. Freelance leads as JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/workana-projects-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vivien MORVAN](https://apify.com/bibian) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 project postings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Workana Scraper - LatAm Freelance Projects

Extracts freelance projects published on [Workana](https://www.workana.com), Latin America's largest freelance marketplace (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and more). Each project comes with its budget, skills, category and full description, output in the same unified field names (`datePosted`, `salaryMin`, `employmentType`...) shared by every job and freelance-mission actor from this author, so it drops straight into a pipeline already built for one of the others.

| | |
|---|---|
| **What you get** | Open projects from Workana: title, budget, skills, category, client country and full description. |
| **Price** | $2.00 per 1,000 projects: a 50-project test run costs about $0.11, start fee included. |
| **Speed** | 50 projects in under a minute. No login, no browser to configure for a default run. |
| **Try it** | Click **Try for free**: the default input already returns 50 of the most recent projects across every country. |
| **Keep it fresh** | Schedule it daily and keep only the new projects: turn on **Only new results**. |

### What you can do with it

- **Find freelance work**: filter by keyword or category and check new projects every morning.
- **Monitor demand for a skill**: how many projects mention "wordpress" or "traduccion" this week, and at what budget.
- **Feed a lead list**: a client posting a project for a skill you sell is a lead; filter by category and country.
- **Study the LatAm freelance market**: budgets, in-demand skills and project volume by country over time.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Job title or skill, using Workana's own search (e.g. `wordpress`). Empty means every open project. |
| Client's country | Optional 2-letter ISO code (`AR`, `BR`, `MX`, `CL`, `CO`, `PE`...) of the client who posted the project. Empty means every country. |
| Category slug | Optional, Workana's own category slug (e.g. `it-programming`), copied from a filtered `workana.com/jobs` URL. |
| Published within (days) | Keep only projects published in the last N days. Use `1` for daily monitoring. |
| Maximum number of projects | The run stops once this many projects are saved. |
| Only new results | For scheduled runs: skip the projects an earlier run of this same search already delivered. |
| Include full descriptions | Adds the full project description as plain text, with any e-mail address or phone number removed. |

### Output

One record per project, with the unified field names shared by every job and freelance-mission actor from this author, plus a few fields specific to Workana kept alongside them:

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `id`, `url`, `title` | `workana:<slug>`, the public `/job/<slug>` page, and the full project title (the list truncates it; this reads the untruncated title). |
| `companyName`, `companyUrl`, `confidentialCompany` | Almost every client on Workana is an individual shown only as a first name and initial, which is personal data: `companyName` is `null` and `confidentialCompany` is `true` for those. When the client is an actual company (`isCompany` on the site), its name is kept here. |
| `locationLabel`, `city`, `region`, `postalCode`, `country` | The client's country, as published by Workana (e.g. `"Argentina"` / `AR`). Workana's list does not publish a city or region, so those stay `null`. |
| `remote` | Always `"unknown"`: Workana does not publish whether a project is remote, hybrid or on-site (in practice almost all of them are remote, by the nature of the platform, but this is never asserted without the site actually saying so). |
| `employmentType` | Always `"freelance"`. |
| `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryCurrency`, `salaryPeriod` | Parsed from Workana's own budget text (always in USD), e.g. `"USD 250 - 500"` or `"Less than USD 15 / hour"`. `salaryPeriod` is `"hour"` for hourly projects, `null` for a fixed project budget. |
| `datePosted` | Computed from Workana's relative label ("2 hours ago", "Yesterday"): approximate, to the hour or the day depending on the label. |
| `validThrough`, `experienceLevel` | Always `null`: not published by Workana's project list. |
| `industry`, `subcategory` | Workana's own "Category" and "Subcategory" labels (e.g. `"IT & Programming"` / `"Web development"`). |
| `skills` | Skills listed by the client, as Workana's own tags. |
| `source`, `sourceId`, `scrapedAt` | `"workana.com"`, the project's slug, and when this run read it. |
| `isHourly`, `isUrgent`, `bidsCount`, `clientHasVerifiedPayment`, `budgetLabel` | Fields specific to Workana: hourly vs. fixed budget, the site's "urgent" flag, number of freelancer bids so far, whether the client has a verified payment method, and the original budget text. |
| `description` | Full project description as plain text (only when **Include full descriptions** is on). Any e-mail address or phone number is removed before saving. |

Three real results from the same run, side by side:

| Title | Country | Budget | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Event Page for Artist Tours and Venue Openings | US | USD 250 - 500 | IT & Programming |
| Senior Full-Stack Engineer for Internal App Architecture & Development | UA | USD 15 - 45 / hour | IT & Programming |
| Part-Time Operations & Technology Coordinator, Executive Coaching Firm | US | Less than USD 15 / hour | Admin Support |

One full record:

```json
{
  "id": "workana:dynamic-event-page-for-artist-tours-and-venue-openings",
  "url": "https://www.workana.com/job/dynamic-event-page-for-artist-tours-and-venue-openings",
  "title": "Dynamic Event Page for Artist Tours and Venue Openings",
  "companyName": null,
  "companyUrl": null,
  "locationLabel": "United States",
  "city": null,
  "region": null,
  "postalCode": null,
  "country": "US",
  "remote": "unknown",
  "employmentType": "freelance",
  "salaryMin": 250,
  "salaryMax": 500,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": null,
  "datePosted": "2026-10-31T23:52:42.684Z",
  "validThrough": null,
  "experienceLevel": null,
  "industry": "IT & Programming",
  "skills": ["HTML", "CSS", "JavaScript", "Responsive Web Design", "WordPress"],
  "source": "workana.com",
  "sourceId": "dynamic-event-page-for-artist-tours-and-venue-openings",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T00:52:42.684Z",
  "confidentialCompany": true,
  "subcategory": "Web development",
  "isHourly": false,
  "isUrgent": false,
  "bidsCount": 49,
  "clientHasVerifiedPayment": true,
  "budgetLabel": "USD 250 - 500"
}
```

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

### Good to know

- No login, proxy or browser needed for a default run: the Actor reads Workana's own public project feed directly.
- Workana only exposes its most recent pages through this feed: a very large **Maximum number of projects** (or a narrow filter) can return fewer results than requested once the site's own window is exhausted. That is the normal end of the list, not an error.
- `datePosted` is approximate, computed from Workana's relative label, not an exact timestamp: the site does not publish one.
- No personal data is collected. A client posting a project is public information, but on Workana almost every client is an individual, not a company: their name is never saved, `companyName` stays `null` and `confidentialCompany` is `true`. A freelancer's own profile (name, photo, rating, portfolio, bids) is never part of this feed in the first place; only the client's project is.
- Any e-mail address or phone number a client typed into the description is removed before saving.

### Why this one

- **Reads Workana's own JSON feed directly**, not a brittle HTML parse of the page: fast, and the full project description is already there without opening a second page per project.
- **One schema with this author's other job and freelance actors.** The same field names everywhere (`datePosted`, `salaryMin`, `employmentType`, `skills`...), so Workana drops into a pipeline built for Codeur.com, Free-Work or any other source from this author without remapping a single field.
- **Individual clients are never named.** Most freelance marketplaces show a client's first name; this Actor treats that as personal data and keeps it out of the dataset, unlike a generic scraper that would copy whatever the page shows.

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need an account or a proxy for Workana?** No. The Actor reads publicly visible projects only.

**Why is `companyName` almost always empty?** Because almost every client on Workana is an individual, not a company, and an individual's name is personal data. See "Good to know" above.

**Why is `remote` always `"unknown"`?** Workana's project feed does not publish a remote/hybrid/on-site flag, so the Actor never guesses one.

**Which formats can I export?** JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS, from the dataset page or through the API.

**Is it legal to scrape?** The Actor collects publicly visible projects and respects the robots.txt rules of the site. How you use the data is your responsibility: check the site's terms and the laws that apply to you, for example the GDPR.

**Something does not work?** Open an issue in the Issues tab. Every public actor is test-run daily and the broken ones are repaired.

**Did this save you time?** A short review on the Store page helps other people find the Actor, and tells me what to improve next.

### Why this one

- **Reads Workana's own JSON feed directly**, not a brittle HTML parse of the page: fast, and the full project description is already there without opening a second page per project.
- **One schema with this author's other job and freelance actors.** The same field names everywhere (`datePosted`, `salaryMin`, `employmentType`, `skills`...), so Workana drops into a pipeline built for Codeur.com, Free-Work or any other source from this author without remapping a single field.
- **Individual clients are never named.** Most freelance marketplaces show a client's first name; this Actor treats that as personal data and keeps it out of the dataset, unlike a generic scraper that would copy whatever the page shows.

### Who uses it

- **Recruiting agencies and HR teams** watch which companies hire, for which roles and at which salary, in their market.
- **Job boards and aggregators** feed their own site with fresh postings in a stable schema, without maintaining a parser.
- **B2B sales and lead generation**: a company that is hiring is a company that is buying. Filter postings by role to spot prospects early.
- **Labour-market research**: salaries, skills in demand, remote share and hiring volume over time.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$2.00 per 1,000 postings**, plus $0.01 per run start with the default 4 GB of memory. For example, 100 postings cost about $0.21. You only pay for the postings you receive, and platform usage is included in that price. Store discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans: up to 20% off every event on the higher tiers.

### Run it from your code

JavaScript:

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('bibian/workana-projects-scraper').call({
  keywords: 'wordpress',
  publishedWithinDays: 7,
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

Python:

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bibian/workana-projects-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keywords": "wordpress",
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxItems": 50
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
```

### Monitor new postings daily and connect your tools

1. **Schedule it.** Save a task, set its publication date filter to the shortest window, and schedule it daily with Apify Schedules. Deduplicate on the `id` field if you keep your own copy. Tick **Only new results** in the input and each run returns, and charges, only the postings that earlier runs of the same search did not deliver.
2. **Push the results where you work.** Add an Apify integration or a webhook to the task: Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n or your own endpoint, triggered at the end of every run.
3. **Call it from your stack.** The API and the JavaScript and Python clients return the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. **Let an AI agent use it.** Through the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp), assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT can search the Store, read this page and run the actor as a tool.

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need an account, cookies or a proxy for Workana?** No. The actor reads publicly visible pages only.

**Which formats can I export?** JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS, from the dataset page or through the API.

**Is it legal to scrape?** The actor collects publicly visible postings and respects the robots.txt rules of the site. How you use the data is your responsibility: check the site's terms and the laws that apply to you, for example the GDPR.

**Need another site, a missing field or a new filter?** Open an issue in the Issues tab and say what you need, with an example URL if you have one. Requests are read, and the most asked ones are built next.

**Need a custom version built for you?** I also build private versions and custom scrapers: another site, extra fields, a specific output format, or delivery straight to Google Sheets, a database or a webhook. Open an issue in the Issues tab with what you need and an example URL, and I will reply there with a quote.

**Something does not work?** Open an issue in the Issues tab. Every public actor is test-run daily and the broken ones are repaired.

**Did this save you time?** A short review on the Store page helps other people find the actor, and tells me what to improve next.

### More job scrapers by the same author

- [Free-Work Jobs & Freelance Missions Scraper (France)](https://apify.com/bibian/free-work-jobs-scraper)
- [Infoempleo Jobs Scraper (Spain)](https://apify.com/bibian/infoempleo-jobs-scraper)
- [Arbeitsagentur Jobs Scraper (Germany)](https://apify.com/bibian/arbeitsagentur-jobs-scraper)
- [Bumeran, Zonajobs & Laborum Jobs Scraper (LatAm)](https://apify.com/bibian/latam-jobs-bumeran-scraper)
- [Universal Job Postings Scraper (any job site)](https://apify.com/bibian/universal-job-postings-scraper)
- [Codeur.com Freelance Projects Scraper (France)](https://apify.com/bibian/codeur-projects-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

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

Job title or skill, for example "wordpress" or "traduccion". Uses Workana's own search. Leave empty for every open project.

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

2-letter ISO country code of the client who posted the project, for example "AR", "BR", "MX", "CL", "CO", "PE", "ES". Leave empty for every country.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Workana's own category slug, copied from the "category=" part of a filtered workana.com/jobs URL (for example "it-programming", "design-art", "writing-translation"). Leave empty for every category.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Keep only projects published in the last N days (computed from Workana's own relative label, e.g. "2 hours ago"). Use 1 for a daily monitoring run. Leave empty for no limit.

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

The run stops once this many projects are saved. Workana itself only exposes its most recent pages, so very large values may stop earlier than requested.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs. Skip the results that an earlier run of this same search already delivered, so each run returns, and charges, only what is new. The memory is kept in a key-value store of your account named "only-new-memory-bibian-" followed by the ID of this Actor.

## `includeDescriptions` (type: `boolean`):

Add the full project description as plain text. Any e-mail address or phone number a client typed into the description is removed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "wordpress",
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "includeDescriptions": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `projects` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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": "wordpress",
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/workana-projects-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": "wordpress",
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/workana-projects-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": "wordpress",
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call bibian/workana-projects-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/workana-projects-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/eINhaNcTiDkifrsTc/builds/QqeNdrzIr5y4n9JJ6/openapi.json