Guru Freelance Jobs Scraper

Scrape live freelance job postings from Guru.com — one of the largest freelance marketplaces. Browse jobs by category, keyword, and budget type, or pull full job detail pages (description, skills, employer stats) from a list of job URLs. No login, no API key, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Two modes: browse (category listing) and byJobId (full job detail pages)
• 7 top-level categories covering the whole marketplace: Programming & Development, Design & Art, Writing & Translation, Sales & Marketing, Administrative & Secretarial, Education & Training, Engineering & Architecture
• Optional subcategory drill-down (e.g. "Web Development & Design")
• Keyword filter — best-effort client-side match on title/description/skills
• Budget-type filter — Fixed Price / Hourly / Fixed Price or Hourly
• Rich per-job data: skills, budget range, hours/week, project duration, location preference, employer country, quotes received, application deadline
• Detail mode adds full job description, employer payment-verification status, feedback score, total spend, and jobs-posted history
• Automatically engages the free Apify AUTO datacenter proxy if Guru.com temporarily rate-limits direct requests
• Empty fields are always omitted — every field in the output is backed by real scraped data

Output per job (browse mode)

• jobId, title, jobUrl
• category, subcategory, skills[]
• description
• budgetType, budgetRange, hoursPerWeek, duration, locationPreference
• postedText, deadline, quotesReceived
• employerName, employerCountry
• scrapedAt

Output per job (byJobId mode)

All of the above (where available) plus:

• employerPaymentVerified
• employerFeedback, employerTotalSpend, employerJobsPosted, employerJobsPaid, employerPaidInvoices, employerOutstandingInvoices

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	browse	browse / byJobId
category	select	programming-development	Top-level category, or all
subcategory	string	–	Optional subcategory name/slug
keyword	string	–	Best-effort keyword filter
budgetType	select	any	any / Fixed Price / Hourly / Fixed Price or Hourly
jobUrls	array	–	Full job URLs (mode=byJobId)
maxItems	int	40	Hard cap on emitted records (1–500)
maxPages	int	10	Hard cap on listing pages crawled (1–50)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO	Only engaged automatically if Guru.com rate-limits

Example: browse Programming & Development jobs

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "category": "programming-development",
  "budgetType": "any",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: fetch full detail for specific jobs

{
  "mode": "byJobId",
  "jobUrls": [
    "https://www.guru.com/jobs/dentist-website-in-wordpress/2119938"
  ]
}

Data source & reliability notes

Guru.com serves its job listing and detail pages as plain server-rendered HTML with no login wall, so this actor works entirely without cookies, sessions, or paid proxies. Guru.com's free-text keyword search box is client-side (JavaScript) only, so the keyword input is applied as a best-effort post-filter across the fetched listing pages rather than a server-side search query — category and subcategory browsing, by contrast, are true server-side filters.

FAQs

Do I need a Guru.com account? No. All data is scraped from public listing and job-detail pages.

Why did I get 0 results? Either the chosen category/subcategory combination has no active postings right now, or your keyword filter didn't match anything on the pages fetched — try a broader category or remove the keyword.

Is this reliable long-term? Yes — the actor uses realistic browser fingerprinting and automatically retries through the free Apify AUTO proxy if Guru.com temporarily rate-limits a request.