PeoplePerHour Scraper — Freelance Jobs & Freelancer Leads

Extract structured data from PeoplePerHour at scale: freelance job listings (title, budget, currency, category, proposals, client) and freelancer profiles (name, headline, hourly rate, skills, rating, reviews, completed projects, country). Paste freelance-jobs or hire-freelancers URLs and get clean JSON/CSV/Excel in seconds. Built for recruiters, agencies, market researchers and lead-gen teams.

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What This Actor Does

PeoplePerHour is a leading freelance marketplace with hundreds of thousands of freelancers and a live stream of freelance jobs. This Actor turns both sides into structured data. Two record types, from whichever URLs you provide:

Record type	You provide	You get
job	A freelance-jobs URL	Job title, description, budget & currency, category, status, proposals count, posted date, and the client's name & country
freelancer	A hire-freelancers URL	Name, headline, hourly rate, skills, country/city, certification, rating, reviews, completed projects, response time, endorsements

The Actor reads PeoplePerHour's own inline page data, so results are clean and complete — and it paginates automatically to the end of the result set.

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Why Use This

• Freelancer lead lists. Every profile carries a name, headline, skills, hourly rate, country and track record (rating, reviews, completed projects) — a ready-made source for recruiting, sourcing and outreach.
• Live freelance job feed. Track what buyers are posting — budgets, categories, proposal counts and the posting client — for market research, competitive intel or lead-gen to buyers.
• Rich, structured fields. Rate, skills, rating and stats come as clean typed values, not scraped text.
• Fast and cheap. Pure-HTTP with a browser-grade fingerprint. No headless browser, so it stays quick and inexpensive across thousands of records.

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Quick Start

Run it in the console (no code)

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Jobs: paste a jobs URL, e.g. https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/technology-programming.
3. Freelancers: paste a freelancers URL, e.g. https://www.peopleperhour.com/hire-freelancers?skills=Wordpress.
4. Set Max total items (0 = all), click Start, then export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or push to Google Sheets, a webhook or a database.

Run it via API (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/technology-programming",
        "https://www.peopleperhour.com/hire-freelancers?skills=Wordpress",
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
}

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/peopleperhour-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for rec in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if rec["type"] == "freelancer":
        print(rec["name"], "·", rec["hourlyRate"], rec.get("cert"), "·", rec["country"])

Build a freelancer lead list (Python)

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/peopleperhour-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchUrls": ["https://www.peopleperhour.com/hire-freelancers?skills=Search%20engine%20optimization"],
    "maxItems": 1000,
})

leads = []
for r in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if r["type"] == "freelancer" and (r.get("feedbackRating") or 0) >= 0.95:
        leads.append({
            "name": r["name"], "headline": r["jobTitle"], "rate": r["hourlyRate"],
            "country": r["country"], "reviews": r["reviews"], "skills": r["skills"],
        })
print(len(leads), "high-rated freelancers")

Analyze the job market (Node.js)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_USERNAME/peopleperhour-scraper').call({
    searchUrls: ['https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/design'],
    maxItems: 300,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
const jobs = items.filter(r => r.type === 'job');
const avg = jobs.reduce((s, j) => s + (j.budgetConverted || 0), 0) / jobs.length;
console.log('avg budget:', avg.toFixed(0), '· open jobs:', jobs.length);

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Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description
searchUrls	array	PeoplePerHour freelance-jobs and/or hire-freelancers URLs. Auto-detected and paginated.
maxItems	integer	Max records (jobs + freelancers) across all URLs. 0 = no limit.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy. Datacenter is enough and enabled by default.

Finding URLs: search or filter on peopleperhour.com (by category, skill, keyword) and copy the address-bar URL — filters like ?skills= are preserved.

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Output

type: "job"

{
  "type": "job",
  "jobId": "4521722",
  "title": "Screen control system",
  "description": "I am looking to develop a website that will control digital screens…",
  "budget": 1000, "budgetConverted": 1342, "currency": "GBP",
  "category": "Technology & Programming", "subCategory": "Programming & Coding",
  "status": "open", "proposalCount": 58,
  "postedAt": "2026-09-16 04:50:40",
  "clientName": "Paul Swift", "clientCountry": "United Kingdom",
  "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/…/screen-control-system-4521722"
}

type: "freelancer"

{
  "type": "freelancer",
  "freelancerId": "660962",
  "name": "GAJURA C.",
  "jobTitle": "SEO & Digital PR Expert | Authority Link Building",
  "country": "Spain", "countryCode": "ES", "city": "Marbella",
  "hourlyRate": 32, "cert": "TOP",
  "feedbackRating": 0.99, "reviews": 2580,
  "projectsCompleted": 3132, "completedRatio": 0.95,
  "responseTime": "within a few hours", "endorsements": 217,
  "skills": ["Link building", "Google ranking", "Content marketing", "Guest posting"],
  "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/…"
}

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Use Cases

1. Freelancer sourcing & recruiting

Build targeted lists of freelancers by skill, rate, country and track record. Filter to top-rated, high-volume sellers for staffing, agency bench-building or vendor sourcing.

2. Freelancer lead generation

Every profile is a lead: name, headline, skills, rate and stats. Perfect for tools, courses, agencies and services that sell to freelancers.

3. Freelance market & rate research

Analyze hourly rates, skills demand and budgets across categories and countries. Benchmark what freelancers charge and what buyers pay.

4. Buyer / demand lead generation

Job postings carry the posting client and their country — a source of buyers actively hiring in your niche.

5. Competitive & talent intelligence

Track the most in-demand skills, top freelancers and busiest categories to inform pricing, positioning and hiring.

6. Data enrichment

Enrich CRM or ATS records with public freelancer stats — rating, reviews, completed projects and response time.

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Tips

• Jobs URLs look like /freelance-jobs/{category}; freelancer URLs like /hire-freelancers or /hire-freelancers?skills={skill}.
• Skill filters on freelancer URLs (?skills=Wordpress) narrow results to a niche — great for targeted lead lists.
• maxItems: 0 paginates to the end; set a cap for quick samples.
• Schedule it with Apify Schedules to keep a fresh feed of jobs and freelancers.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a PeoplePerHour account? No. The Actor reads publicly visible listing and profile data — no login required.

Can I scrape both jobs and freelancers in one run? Yes. Put both kinds of URLs in searchUrls; each record carries a type of job or freelancer.

How is the rating expressed? feedbackRating is PeoplePerHour's positive-feedback ratio (0–1, e.g. 0.99 = 99%). reviews is the review count.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via API — plus Google Sheets, webhooks, Make and Zapier.

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Legal & Responsible Use

This Actor collects only publicly available information for research, analytics and business use. You are responsible for how you use the data. Please:

• Respect PeoplePerHour's Terms of Service and robots directives.
• Comply with applicable data-protection laws (GDPR/CCPA) when handling personal data.
• Do not use the data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.
• Use reasonable request volumes and scheduling.

This project is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PeoplePerHour.