Upwork Job Scraper ⭐

Turn thousands of real Upwork job posts into your next business idea. Every listing is a client telling you, in their own words, what problem they have and what they're willing to pay to solve it. Pull a few hundred of these into an LLM or AI agent and you get instant market signal: recurring pain points, underserved niches, pricing benchmarks, and validated SaaS or agency ideas — all sourced from real buyer intent, not guesswork.

This actor is built to make that pipeline effortless. It returns just the title and description of each job — the two fields that actually carry signal — cleaned and ready to drop straight into a prompt. And because it needs no login, no cookies, and no API key, it starts pulling data the moment you hit run, so you can go from "I wonder what people are hiring for right now" to a dataset of thousands of jobs in minutes.

🚀 Features

• ⚡ Built for speed — no cookies, no login flow, no session warm-up. Point it at a query and it starts pulling data immediately.
• 🔍 Keyword search — Search by any keyword or phrase (e.g. "react developer", "python data science", "Shopify expert"). Leave blank to browse all available jobs.
• 📊 Three sort modes — Most Relevant, Newest First, or Highest Budget.
• 🎛️ Experience level filter — Entry Level, Intermediate, Expert, or any combination.
• 💰 Budget type filter — Fixed-price, Hourly, or Weekly Retainer.
• ⏱️ Workload filter — Part Time, Full Time, As Needed, or Not Specified.
• 👥 Client history filter — No previous hires, 1–9 hires, or 10+ hires.
• 📅 Job duration filter — Less than 1 month, 1–3 months, 3–6 months, or 6+ months/Ongoing.
• 🔄 Contract-to-hire — Only show jobs offering a path to full-time work.
• 🏆 Established clients only — Skip first-time posters, focus on experienced buyers.
• 📋 Proposal count filter — Find low-competition jobs (0–4, 5–9, 10–14, 15–19, 20–49 proposals).
• 📄 Just title + description — The two fields that actually matter, cleaned of markup artifacts and ready to drop straight into a prompt.
• 🔢 Configurable result limits — 1 to 5,000 jobs per run.
• 🔐 No login required — No Upwork account, cookies, or API tokens needed. Works out of the box.

📥 Input

Input	Description
query	Search keywords to find relevant jobs
sort	Most Relevant, Newest First, or Highest Budget
maxResults	Max jobs to collect (1–5,000)
contractorTier	Entry, Intermediate, Expert
jobType	Fixed-price, Hourly, Weekly Retainer
workload	Part Time, Full Time, As Needed, Not Specified
clientHires	0, 1-9, or 10+ previous hires
duration	<1mo, 1-3mo, 3-6mo, 6+mo
contractToHire	Only contract-to-hire jobs
proposals	Proposal count ranges
previousClients	Only clients with hiring history

Example Input

{
  "query": "react developer",
  "sort": "relevance+desc",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "contractorTier": ["Intermediate", "Expert"],
  "jobType": ["fixed", "hourly"],
  "workload": ["part_time", "full_time"],
  "clientHires": ["1-9", "10-"],
  "duration": ["month", "ongoing"],
  "proposals": ["0-4", "5-9"],
  "previousClients": true
}

📋 Output

Every scraped job returns exactly what you need — no extra fields to filter out:

• id — Unique Upwork job identifier
• title — Job title, markup removed
• description — Full job description, cleaned and ready to use

Example Output

{
  "id": "2072993847889702808",
  "title": "Build AI Lead Generation + Verification Workflow in Google Sheets/Airtable",
  "description": "We need someone to help build a simple AI-assisted lead generation + verification workflow.\n\nThis is not meant to be a large custom software project. We are looking for a practical, lightweight system that can collect potential leads from public online sources, organize them, check/verify them, score them, and place them into a Google Sheet or Airtable database."
}

🤖 For AI Agents

This actor is designed to be called programmatically by AI agents via the Apify MCP Server or the Apify REST API. The output is deliberately minimal — just id, title, and description — so agents get clean signal with zero cleanup.

Via MCP (recommended for agents)

Connect to https://mcp.apify.com (OAuth or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>). Agents can discover the actor with search-actors, run it with any combination of filters, and fetch results with get-dataset-items.

Example agent prompt:

Search Apify for epicscrapers/upwork-scraper and run it with query "AI agent", max 500 results, newest first. Cluster the job descriptions by recurring problem type and suggest a SaaS product idea for each cluster with 10+ postings.

Via REST API

# Run the actor
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/epicscrapers~upwork-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "react developer",
    "sort": "relevance+desc",
    "maxResults": 100
  }'

# Get the dataset when the run finishes
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"

Output schema for tool-calling agents

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique Upwork job identifier. Use for deduplication across runs.
title	string	Job title, markup removed
description	string	Full job description. This is where the signal lives — feed it directly into an LLM.

All three fields are always present (required). No nesting, no optional fields, no extra metadata to filter out.

Ready-to-use prompts for LLM workflows

Find recurring pain points

Run epicscrapers/upwork-scraper with query "Shopify", max 500, sorted by recency. Cluster descriptions by the underlying business problem. For each cluster with 10+ postings, suggest a SaaS product idea ranked by hiring volume.

Validate pricing

Run epicscrapers/upwork-scraper with query "web scraping", max 300, sorted by highest budget. Extract rates and budgets mentioned in descriptions. Give me a realistic pricing range for a SaaS targeting this audience.

Discover underserved niches

Run epicscrapers/upwork-scraper with empty query, max 1000. Find clusters where many postings describe the same problem but no clear dominant SaaS solution exists.

Build a demand heatmap

Run epicscrapers/upwork-scraper with empty query, max 2000, sorted by recency. Extract and count all skills/services mentioned. Show the top 50 with counts.

Gist for agent discovery

A public GitHub Gist with full input/output specs and agent prompts is available so AI agents and developer tools can discover and integrate with this actor.

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💡 Use Cases

Mine Business & SaaS Ideas with an AI Agent

This is the core use case. Title + description is exactly the input an LLM needs to spot patterns in buyer demand. Feed a batch of 500–1,000 raw job postings into your favorite agent and ask it to cluster them by problem type, surface recurring pain points, or draft SaaS/product ideas based on what clients are repeatedly asking for and paying for. Because there's no extra metadata to strip out, the data goes straight from scrape to prompt with zero cleanup — so you spend your time reviewing ideas, not wrangling data.

Find High-Quality Freelance Gigs with Less Competition

Filter to Entry Level or Intermediate jobs with 0–4 proposals to find gigs with minimal competition, and 10+ previous client hires to focus on buyers who actually pay and leave feedback. Schedule daily runs for your niche keywords and get a curated list of fresh opportunities every morning.

Monitor Market Demand for Skills and Technologies

Run this actor weekly with broad queries like "data science" or "machine learning" and track posting volume over time. Segment by budget type and experience level, dedupe with the id field, and build a demand-trend dashboard.

Build a Personalized Job Alert System

Run this actor on a recurring schedule with your ideal search criteria, add established clients only to skip vague first-time posters, and forward results via webhook to Slack, Telegram, email, or a Google Sheet.

Agency Lead Generation and Sales Intelligence

Companies posting jobs for "Shopify development," "lead generation," or "Zapier automation" are actively looking for services you provide. Scrape daily, mine the description text for client needs and budget signals, and reach out while they're still actively hiring.

Rate Benchmarking and Pricing Strategy

Search your skill area, sort by Highest Budget, and combine Expert + Hourly filters to see what experienced buyers pay. Build a dataset of 500+ jobs and set your rates on real data, not guesswork.

Academic and Labor Market Research

Run at regular intervals across industries to build a longitudinal dataset of job titles and descriptions — clean natural-language data ready for text analysis, topic modeling, and skill extraction.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How do I search for specific jobs on Upwork?

Enter your keywords in the query field — anything you'd normally type into the Upwork search bar. Leave it empty to browse all available jobs.

How many jobs can I scrape in one run?

Up to 5,000 jobs per run. Start small (10–25) to test your filters, then scale up. Need more than 5,000? Run the actor multiple times with different queries and combine outputs.

Do I need an Upwork account or login?

No. This actor only accesses publicly available job data and needs no account, cookies, or API tokens — which is a big part of why it's fast. Just enter your search and run.

What countries and regions are covered?

Same scope as the public Upwork search — jobs from clients in over 180 countries. Target specific markets by including country or region names in your query.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time. Each run queries Upwork's current listings. Schedule the actor to run daily or hourly for ongoing monitoring.

What formats can I export the data in?

JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, and HTML — plus programmatic access via the Apify API or integrations like Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Slack.

How is this actor different from the Upwork API?

The Upwork API needs OAuth 2.0 and is built for authenticated account holders, with rate limits tied to your account. This actor scrapes publicly available listings — no authentication, no account-level rate limits, and just the two fields you actually need, delivered fast.

What are some effective filter combinations?

• Low-competition gigs: proposals: ["0-4"] + clientHires: ["1-9", "10-"], sorted by recency
• High-value projects: contractorTier: ["Expert"] + previousClients: true, sorted by highest budget
• Long-term work: duration: ["ongoing"] + workload: ["full_time"] + contractToHire: true
• Quick starter projects: workload: ["as_needed"] + clientHires: ["0"]

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Upwork Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This Actor accesses only publicly available job listing data on upwork.com. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use complies with the site's Terms of Service and applicable laws.