Freelancer Project Scraper
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Pay per usage
Freelancer Project Scraper
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Pay per usage
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Donny Nguyen
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2 days ago
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Scrape Freelancer.com project listings to extract gig economy data including titles, budgets, bid counts, required skills, client ratings, and project types.
Overview
This actor crawls Freelancer.com to extract structured project listing data. It supports filtering by required skills and minimum budget, making it valuable for freelance market research, competitive intelligence, and lead generation for freelancers seeking high-value projects.
Features
- Search by multiple skills or technologies
- Filter by minimum project budget
- Extract client ratings and review counts for trust evaluation
- Identify project types (fixed vs hourly)
- Track bid counts to gauge competition
- Proxy rotation for reliable access
- Automatic fallback data if site blocks scraping
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skills | array | ["javascript", "react", "node.js"] | Skills to search for in projects |
| budgetMin | integer | 100 | Minimum project budget in USD |
| maxResults | integer | 100 | Maximum number of projects to scrape |
| proxyCountry | string | "US" | Country code for proxy rotation |
Output Format
Each result contains the following fields:
- projectTitle - Project name and description headline
- budgetMin - Minimum budget in USD
- budgetMax - Maximum budget in USD
- bidCount - Number of freelancer bids submitted
- skills - Required skills and technologies
- description - Project description excerpt
- clientRating - Client employer rating score
- clientReviewsCount - Number of client reviews
- timePosted - When the project was posted
- projectType - Fixed price or hourly
- url - Direct link to the project listing
- scrapedAt - Timestamp of data extraction
Use Cases
Freelancers can use this data to identify high-budget projects matching their skills, assess competition levels, and evaluate client reliability. Staffing agencies can monitor freelance market trends, and researchers can analyze gig economy pricing patterns across different skill categories.
Limitations
Freelancer.com uses anti-bot protection that may limit the number of results. The actor uses both API endpoints and HTML scraping for maximum data extraction. Residential proxies are recommended for consistent results.
Cost
This actor uses pay-per-event pricing at $0.75 per 1,000 results. You only pay for the data you receive. See Apify pricing for platform compute costs.
