Malt Scraper — Freelancer Profiles, Daily Rates (TJM) & Skills API

Scrape Malt freelancers by keyword, city, and daily-rate range across France, Germany, Spain, UK, Belgium & the Netherlands. Get name, headline, daily rate (TJM), rating, missions, skills, languages, response rate — plus a free rate benchmark and optional AI fit-scoring. HTTP-only, $0.001 per freelancer ($1 / 1,000).

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What is the Malt Scraper?

The Malt Scraper pulls freelancer profiles from Malt, Europe's #1 freelance marketplace (700K+ freelancers). Search by keyword (skill or role), city, and daily-rate (TJM) range, then export structured profiles: name, headline, daily rate, rating, reviews, missions count, skills, certifications, languages, and response rate. Every run also appends a free market summary — the median and p25/p75 daily rate for your query — so rate benchmarking is built in.

It's the fastest way to get a structured snapshot of the European freelance market without clicking through search pages, and a transparent per-profile Malt freelancer API alternative (no official public API exists for bulk profile search).

Use cases

• Daily-rate benchmarking (TJM) — every run returns a market_summary record: median, p25/p75, min/max rate, average rating, % Super Malter, % available, and top skills for your query. Price your own rate, or a mission budget, with real data.
• Talent sourcing for agencies — bulk-export freelancers in your niche to your CRM, then outreach. Use the cities fan-out to pull past Malt's 24-per-search guest cap.
• AI-ranked shortlists — turn on AI Fit Scoring: paste a mission brief and get every profile scored 0-100 with a recommended action and a personalised outreach hook.
• Recruiter intelligence — track top freelancers in a sector, their rates, and their availability over time.
• Freelance-market research — count active freelancers per skill per country, or measure rate inflation quarter over quarter.
• Build a niche freelancer directory — power a vertical marketplace on top of Malt data.

Input

Provide keywords (each runs a search), or paste a Malt search URL into searchUrl and its filters are reverse-mapped for you. Add cities to fan a keyword across locations and beat the 24-result guest cap. See the input schema for the full reference.

{
  "keywords": ["developpeur python"],
  "cities": ["Paris", "Lyon", "Marseille"],
  "country": "fr",
  "minRate": 400,
  "maxRate": 800,
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output

One record per freelancer (40+ fields; 30+ more with enrichProfiles), plus one market_summary record per run.

{
  "first_name": "Jean",
  "headline": "Développeur Python · Django & FastAPI",
  "city": "Paris",
  "daily_rate": 650,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "missions_count": 23,
  "top_skills": ["Python", "Django", "PostgreSQL", "AWS"],
  "is_super_malter": true,
  "profile_url": "https://www.malt.fr/profile/example",
  "ai": { "fit_score": 88, "recommended_action": "shortlist", "outreach_hook": "..." }
}

Pricing

This actor uses PAY_PER_EVENT: $0.001 per freelancer (= $1 per 1,000). Failed runs are not charged, and the free market_summary and enrichment fields cost nothing extra.

AI Fit Scoring (optional, premium): $0.008 per freelancer analyzed, charged only when you set analyzeFreelancers + missionBrief on a paid Apify plan. It scores each profile 0-100 against your brief with a reason, a shortlist/maybe/skip action, and an outreach hook.

Automate & schedule

Schedule this actor weekly to track freelancer rates and availability in your niche, or wire it to Google Sheets, Slack, or your CRM via Apify integrations. Recurring runs keep your talent pool and rate benchmarks current — set it once and forget it.

Ready-to-run tasks (pre-configured, one click):

• Scrape Malt Developers — rates, skills & ratings for dev freelancers
• Malt Daily Rate Benchmark (TJM) — median / p25 / p75 daily rate by skill
• Scrape Malt Designers — UX/UI & product designers
• Scrape Malt Freelancers by City — fan across Paris, Lyon, Marseille…
• Malt Talent Sourcing — bulk export enriched profiles to your CRM

FAQ — Malt API & alternatives

Is there an official Malt API, and is it free? No public API exists for bulk freelancer search. This scraper is the practical way to get structured Malt profiles — no account required.

How do I scrape more than 24 Malt profiles? Malt's guest search caps at ~24 results per query. Pass several keywords, or set cities (e.g. ["Paris","Lyon"]) to fan each keyword across locations — every keyword×city query returns a different slice, deduplicated by profile.

Can I paste a Malt search URL? Yes — put it in searchUrl and its filters (keyword, country, city, rate range, location type, availability, experience) are reverse-mapped automatically.

How accurate are the daily rates (TJM)? Rates are what each freelancer publicly displays. Some list "rate on demand" and return a null rate; those are excluded from the benchmark.

Is Malt blocking scrapers? Malt has a Cloudflare rate limit at sustained ~50 req/min on profile endpoints. This scraper paces safely below it and retries. Avoid running many instances in parallel against Malt.

Which countries does it cover? France, Germany, Spain, UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands — the markets where Malt operates. Other regions return empty.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik