# Guru Freelance Jobs Scraper (`crawlerbros/guru-jobs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape live freelance job postings from Guru.com. Browse by category/skill, filter by budget type and keyword, or fetch full job detail pages by job ID/URL - no login or API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/guru-jobs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Guru Freelance Jobs Scraper

Scrape live freelance job postings from [Guru.com](https://www.guru.com/d/jobs/) — 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

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

#### Example: fetch full detail for specific jobs

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

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

Guru.com top-level job category. Choose `all` to browse every category.

## `subcategory` (type: `string`):

Optional subcategory slug or name within the selected category, e.g. `Web Development & Design`. Ignored when category=all.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Best-effort client-side filter: only keep jobs whose title, description, category or skills contain this keyword (case-insensitive).

## `budgetType` (type: `string`):

Filter jobs by how the client wants to pay.

## `jobUrls` (type: `array`):

Full Guru.com job URLs, e.g. https://www.guru.com/jobs/dentist-website-in-wordpress/2119938 (copy the `jobUrl` field from a browse-mode record).

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

Hard cap on emitted records.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on the number of listing pages crawled (20 jobs/page).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Only used if Guru.com temporarily blocks direct requests. Defaults to the free Apify AUTO datacenter group.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "browse",
  "category": "programming-development",
  "budgetType": "any",
  "jobUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 40,
  "maxPages": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped Guru.com job postings.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "browse",
    "category": "programming-development",
    "budgetType": "any",
    "jobUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 40,
    "maxPages": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/guru-jobs-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 = {
    "mode": "browse",
    "category": "programming-development",
    "budgetType": "any",
    "jobUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 40,
    "maxPages": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/guru-jobs-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 '{
  "mode": "browse",
  "category": "programming-development",
  "budgetType": "any",
  "jobUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 40,
  "maxPages": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/guru-jobs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crawlerbros/guru-jobs-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/j73qq28Rb5cQok1HR/builds/ES7mokqrqAYkhfUnN/openapi.json