Freelancer Scraper

Freelancer Scraper is a fast, no-login Freelancer.com scraper that exports projects, freelancer profiles, bids and contests from Freelancer.com to CSV, Excel, JSON or an API in seconds. Scrape Freelancer.com projects that are open for bids right now, or go back through more than 17 million historical projects; pull freelancer profiles with hourly rates, ratings, reviews, skills and verification badges from the 1.6-million-profile directory; get every bid on a project with the bidder, the amount, the delivery time and the winner; and collect design contests with prizes and entry counts.

It works as a Freelancer.com API alternative: scrape Freelancer.com projects and freelancers without login — no Freelancer.com account, no OAuth app, no API key, no cookies and no browser. You type keywords or skills, pick countries and filters, and get clean, flat rows with budgets converted to US dollars, ISO dates and one column per fact — ready for lead generation, market research, rate benchmarking and AI agents. Measured on 2026-10-13: 25,000 projects in 44 seconds, 12,000 freelancer profiles in 53 seconds, the first rows of any run in about 1–4 seconds.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Freelancer Technology Pty Limited or Freelancer.com. "Freelancer" and "Freelancer.com" are trademarks of their owner and are used here only to describe the data source.

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What you get

Row type	What it is	Highlights	Typical volume
Project	A job posted by a client	budget in the posted currency and USD, fixed/hourly, bid count and average bid, skills, status and close reason (awarded, expired, cancelled), posted date, full description, 11 upgrade flags, local-job location, client country (with a country filter)	≈5,000 open now, 17.7 million in the history
Freelancer	A directory profile	hourly rate (USD), country and city, rating, reviews, jobs completed, completion / on-budget / on-time %, five rating sub-scores, earnings score, all skills, exams, membership, Preferred Freelancer and verification badges, member since, photo, "About me"	1.6 million profiles
Bid	One proposal on a project	amount (and USD), delivery days, rank, award status (winner = awarded), sealed flag, the bidder's name, country, rate, rating, reviews and verification, plus the project's title, link, budget and bid count	10–1,600+ per project
Contest	A design (or other) contest	prize (and USD), entries, duration, judging period, dates, status, type, skills	≈180 active, 380,000+ in the history

Every row has a type column (project, freelancer, bid, contest), a stable numeric id, a direct url, scrapedAt, and searchQuery — the keyword or skill that found it. Fields that do not apply to a row (a location on a remote job, a client country without a country filter) are left out instead of being written as empty columns, so exports stay tidy.

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Who uses a Freelancer.com scraper, and for what

• B2B lead generation — agencies, SaaS vendors and recruiters build lists of active freelancers by skill, country, hourly rate and rating ("React developers in Poland, 4.8+, 50+ reviews"), or find clients who keep posting projects in their niche.
• Market research and demand analytics — count how many projects ask for a skill per month, how budgets move, which categories grow, which countries hire. The full project history since the 2000s is reachable, newest first.
• Rate benchmarking — compare hourly rates of freelancers by skill and country, budgets of projects, average bids and real bid amounts to price your own services or justify a rate card.
• Competitive intelligence on bids — see who bids on projects like yours, at what price, how fast they promise delivery, and who won (awardStatus = awarded).
• Job alerts and bidding bots — schedule the Actor every 10–60 minutes with postedAfter: "1 hour" and your skills, then push new open projects to Slack, email, a CRM or an AI agent that drafts proposals.
• Talent sourcing and research — shortlist verified, high-completion freelancers before posting a project, or study gig-economy pricing across countries.
• AI agents and LLM pipelines — clean JSON rows with USD-normalised money and ISO dates are easy to feed into RAG, analytics notebooks or agent tools (see MCP / AI agents below).

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How it works

1. Public JSON, no login. The Actor reads the public JSON endpoints the Freelancer.com website itself uses for anonymous visitors — no HTML parsing to break, no browser, no account.
2. Deep history without the paging wall. Freelancer.com stops paging a project or contest search at 5,000 results, whatever total it reports. The Actor reads a big search in windows of up to 5,000, each ending where the previous one's oldest row is, and pipelines them: the next window starts as soon as the current window's last page is in, so 25,000 projects arrive in 44 seconds. Overlaps at the window edges are deduplicated by ID.
3. Freelancer directory beyond 10,000. The directory stops at 10,000 profiles per search. When you ask for more, the search is split into hourly-rate bands (which partition the directory exactly — measured) and, where a band is still bigger, into the 30 largest countries plus one "rest of the world" slice. No profile is read twice on purpose; duplicates are removed by ID.
4. Bids with bidder profiles. For every project found, the Actor reads its bids and joins each bidder's public profile (rating, reviews, country, rate); on projects with hundreds of bids the profiles are looked up in batches.
5. Rate limits handled for you. Freelancer.com allows each IP about 200 project requests per minute and 1,000 per hour. The Actor reads the limit headers on every response, keeps a few requests in reserve, and moves extra work to fresh Apify Proxy IPs before a limit is hit — measured: 0 rate-limit errors in a 252-request run. Without a proxy it waits for the window to reopen instead of failing.
6. Exact limits, honest outcomes. maxItems is exact (slots are reserved before data is written, so parallel pages can never overshoot). Rows are saved page by page, so you see results within seconds. A search that genuinely has no results ends SUCCEEDED with a plain-English explanation; a run that could not reach Freelancer.com at all ends FAILED with the reason — the two are never confused. A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists requests, windows, splits, duplicates, response times and anything not found.

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How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start on this page (an Apify account is free to create).
2. Choose What to scrape: Projects, Freelancers, Bids or Contests.
3. Enter search keywords and/or skills, optionally countries and the filters for that mode.
4. Set Max results (0 = everything the search has) and press Start.
5. Watch rows appear in the Output tab; export them as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML, or fetch them through the API.

You can also paste Freelancer.com URLs — project pages, profiles (/u/username), contests, and skill pages such as /jobs/python/, /freelancers/skills/python or /freelancers/india/python — and the Actor fetches exactly those.

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Input reference

Field	Type	Default	Used by	What it does
mode	projects / freelancers / bids / contests	projects	all	Which listing to search. URLs are always fetched whatever the mode.
searchQueries	array of strings	[]	all	One search per keyword; all words must match. Empty = list everything (newest first) with your filters.
skills	array of strings	[]	all	Freelancer.com skill names ("Python", "Logo Design", "Web Scraping") or numeric IDs. ANY skill matches. Close names are matched ("React" → React.js) and logged.
countries	array of strings	[]	projects, bids, freelancers	Projects/bids: the client's country (adds clientCountry). Freelancers: where they live. Names ("Germany", "UK") or ISO codes ("DE").
urls	array of strings	[]	all	Project URLs or IDs, profile URLs or usernames, contest URLs, skill pages. With URLs and no keywords/skills, only the URLs are scraped.
maxItems	integer	1000	all	Total rows to save. 0 = no limit. Exact.
projectStatus	open / all / closed	open	projects, bids	Open for bids now, the whole history, or closed only.
projectType	any / fixed / hourly	any	projects, bids	Fixed-price or hourly projects.
minBudgetUsd, maxBudgetUsd	integer	0	projects, bids	Budget range in USD (the project's range must reach the minimum / start below the maximum).
postedAfter	date or relative	–	projects, bids, contests	2026-01-31, or relative: 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 3 months.
postedBefore	date	–	projects, bids, contests	Up to and including this day.
languages	array	[]	projects, bids	Project language codes (en, de, es) or names.
projectUpgrades	multi-select	[]	projects, bids	Featured, Urgent, Sealed, NDA, Full-time, Qualified, Recruiter, IP agreement, Private (any of them).
projectSort	newest / bids / avg_bid	newest	projects, bids	Newest first reaches the end of any search; the other two orders show the top 5,000 per search.
minHourlyRate, maxHourlyRate	integer (USD)	0	freelancers	Hourly-rate range.
minRating	0–5	0	freelancers	Minimum overall rating (implies at least one review).
minReviews	integer	0	freelancers	Minimum number of reviews.
onlineOnly	boolean	false	freelancers	Only freelancers online at run time.
freelancerSort	best / rating / reviews / rate	best	freelancers	Freelancer.com's own ranking, highest rating, most reviews, highest rate.
maxBidsPerProject	integer	0	bids	Cap bids per project (0 = all), e.g. 20 to sample many projects.
contestStatus	active / all	active	contests	Running contests or the whole history.
includeDescriptions	boolean	true	all	Full descriptions and "About me" texts. Off = smaller rows (projects keep a 100-character preview).
maxConcurrency	integer 1–50	24	all	Parallel API requests.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify Proxy	all	Used only for overflow when a per-IP limit is reached. Leave as is.

Example inputs

Open Python projects (live leads):

{
  "mode": "projects",
  "searchQueries": ["python"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Project history for market research — every "Shopify" project of the last 90 days, USD budgets:

{
  "mode": "projects",
  "skills": ["Shopify"],
  "projectStatus": "all",
  "postedAfter": "90 days",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Hourly projects from US and UK clients posted in the last 3 days:

{
  "mode": "projects",
  "projectStatus": "all",
  "projectType": "hourly",
  "countries": ["US", "United Kingdom"],
  "postedAfter": "3 days",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Lead list — German freelancers with 4+ stars, 10+ reviews, from $30/hour:

{
  "mode": "freelancers",
  "countries": ["Germany"],
  "minRating": "4",
  "minReviews": 10,
  "minHourlyRate": 30,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Big directory export — 12,000 Python freelancers (split automatically):

{
  "mode": "freelancers",
  "searchQueries": ["python"],
  "maxItems": 12000
}

Every bid on recent WordPress projects, with bidder profiles and the winner:

{
  "mode": "bids",
  "searchQueries": ["wordpress"],
  "projectStatus": "all",
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Design contests history:

{
  "mode": "contests",
  "searchQueries": ["logo"],
  "contestStatus": "all",
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Job alert (schedule hourly):

{
  "mode": "projects",
  "skills": ["Web Scraping", "Data Extraction", "Python"],
  "postedAfter": "1 hour",
  "minBudgetUsd": 100,
  "maxItems": 0
}

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Output data dictionary

Project rows (type = "project")

Field	Type	Description
id	number	Freelancer.com project ID (stable; use for deduplication).
title	string	Project title.
url	string	Project page.
projectType	string	fixed or hourly.
status	string	open, work_in_progress, complete, closed…
statusDetail	string	Why it is no longer open: closed_awarded, closed_expired, frozen_timeout, cancel_seller, cancel_admin, cancel_buyer… (absent while open).
currency	string	Posted currency (USD, EUR, INR, AUD, GBP…).
budgetMin, budgetMax	number	Budget range in that currency; hourly projects: per hour. budgetMax is empty for open-ended budgets.
budgetMinUsd, budgetMaxUsd	number	Same in US dollars (Freelancer.com's own exchange rate).
hourlyHoursPerWeek	number	Hourly projects: expected hours per week.
bidCount	number	Bids received.
bidAvg, bidAvgUsd	number	Average bid, in the project currency and in USD.
skills	string	Required skills, pipe-separated.
categories	string	Skill categories.
description	string	Full description with paragraph breaks.
language	string	Language code.
postedAt	string	Posting time, ISO 8601 UTC.
bidPeriodDays	number	Days the project accepts bids.
isFeatured, isUrgent, isSealed, isNda, isFullTime, isPrivate, isRecruiterAssisted, isQualifiedOnly, isIpAgreement, isHireMe, isLocal	boolean	Upgrades and project kind.
location, latitude, longitude, localJobDate	string / number	Local (on-site) jobs only.
clientCountry	string	Client's country — present when you filter projects by country.
searchQuery	string	Keyword or skill that found the row.
scrapedAt	string	Collection time.

Freelancer rows (type = "freelancer")

Field	Type	Description
id, username, url	number / string	User ID, username and profile link.
name, tagline	string	Public name and headline.
hourlyRateUsd	number	Hourly rate in USD.
country, countryCode, city, region	string	Location.
timezone, utcOffset	string / number	IANA time zone and hours from UTC.
rating, reviews	number	Overall 0–5 rating (empty without reviews) and review count.
jobsCompleted, completionRatePct	number	Completed projects and completion rate.
onBudgetPct, onTimePct	number	Share of reviewed jobs on budget / on time.
ratingQuality, ratingCommunication, ratingExpertise, ratingProfessionalism, ratingHireAgain	number	Sub-scores 0–5.
rating12Months, reviews12Months	number	Last 12 months.
earningsScore	number	Freelancer.com's 0–10 earnings score.
skills, skillCount, topCategories	string / number	All listed skills, how many, and the three main categories.
qualifications	string	Exams passed with scores.
portfolioItems	number	Portfolio size.
membership	string	Membership plan.
isPreferredFreelancer, isVerified, identityVerified, paymentVerified, phoneVerified, emailVerified, depositMade	boolean	Trust badges.
registeredAt	string	Member since.
language	string	Primary language.
avatarUrl	string	Profile photo.
profileDescription	string	"About me" text.

Bid rows (type = "bid")

Field	Type	Description
id	number	Bid ID.
projectId, projectTitle, projectUrl, projectType, projectStatus		The project the bid belongs to.
projectBudgetMinUsd, projectBudgetMaxUsd, projectBidCount, currency		Project budget in USD, its bid count and currency.
bidAmount, bidAmountUsd	number	Amount bid (hourly projects: per hour); absent on sealed bids.
deliveryDays	number	Promised delivery time.
bidPostedAt	string	When the bid was placed.
bidRank	number	Freelancer.com's ranking of the bid on that project.
awardStatus	string	awarded marks the winner; also pending, rejected, canceled.
bidStatus	string	active, in_progress, …
milestonePercent	number	Upfront milestone requested (%).
isSealed, isHighlighted, isRetracted	boolean	Bid flags.
bidderId, bidderUsername, bidderName, bidderUrl		Who bid.
bidderCountry, bidderCity, bidderHourlyRateUsd		Where they are and their profile rate.
bidderRating, bidderReviews, bidderJobsCompleted, bidderCompletionRatePct, bidderEarningsScore	number	Their track record.
bidderIdentityVerified, bidderPaymentVerified, bidderRegisteredAt		Verification and member since.

Contest rows (type = "contest")

Field	Type	Description
id, title, url		Contest ID, title, page.
status	string	active, pending (judging), closed.
contestType	string	guaranteed or prepaid.
prize, currency, prizeUsd		Prize, currency and USD value.
entryCount	number	Entries submitted.
durationDays, judgingPeriodDays	number	Contest length and judging window.
postedAt, endsAt	string	Start and end.
skills, categories, description, language	string	Content.
isFeatured, isUrgent, isSealed, isHighlighted, isPrivate, isExtended	boolean	Upgrades.

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Output examples (real rows from test runs on 2026-10-13; long texts and a few fields shortened)

Project:

{
  "type": "project",
  "id": 40765375,
  "title": "Bitcoin Trading Strategy Backtesting",
  "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/data-analysis/Bitcoin-Trading-Strategy-Backtesting",
  "projectType": "hourly",
  "status": "open",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "budgetMin": 10,
  "budgetMax": 15,
  "budgetMinUsd": 13.24,
  "budgetMaxUsd": 19.86,
  "hourlyHoursPerWeek": 40,
  "bidCount": 27,
  "bidAvg": 15.81,
  "bidAvgUsd": 20.94,
  "skills": "Python | Statistics | R Programming Language | Financial Analysis | Statistical Analysis | Data Analysis | Backtesting | Cryptocurrency",
  "categories": "Websites, IT & Software | Engineering & Science | Business, Accounting, Human Resources & Legal",
  "description": "Cryptocurrency Trading Strategy Analysis\n\nI want to analyse a file containing historical Bitcoin price predictions…",
  "language": "en",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-13T10:25:11.000Z",
  "bidPeriodDays": 7,
  "isFeatured": false,
  "isUrgent": false,
  "isSealed": false,
  "isNda": false,
  "isFullTime": false,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "isRecruiterAssisted": false,
  "isQualifiedOnly": false,
  "isIpAgreement": false,
  "isHireMe": false,
  "isLocal": false,
  "searchQuery": "python",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T10:45:48.250Z"
}

Freelancer:

{
  "type": "freelancer",
  "id": 60347976,
  "username": "neerajdhameliya",
  "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/u/neerajdhameliya",
  "name": "Niral",
  "tagline": "Full Stack Developer: Flutter, React, Node, Python",
  "hourlyRateUsd": 25,
  "country": "India",
  "countryCode": "IN",
  "city": "Surat",
  "region": "Gujarat",
  "timezone": "Asia/Calcutta",
  "rating": 4.99,
  "reviews": 97,
  "jobsCompleted": 103,
  "completionRatePct": 97.2,
  "onBudgetPct": 98.7,
  "onTimePct": 99.2,
  "ratingHireAgain": 4.96,
  "rating12Months": 5,
  "reviews12Months": 12,
  "earningsScore": 8.5575,
  "skills": "PHP | JavaScript | Python | Website Design | Mobile App Development | Django | eCommerce | MySQL | …",
  "skillCount": 53,
  "topCategories": "Websites, IT & Software | Design, Media & Architecture | Mobile Phones & Computing",
  "qualifications": "Preferred Freelancer Program SLA Exam (97%) | Python Level 1 (80%) | Python - Level 2 (75%)",
  "portfolioItems": 29,
  "membership": "premier",
  "isPreferredFreelancer": false,
  "isVerified": true,
  "identityVerified": true,
  "paymentVerified": true,
  "registeredAt": "2022-01-25T06:58:24.000Z",
  "avatarUrl": "https://cdn3.f-cdn.com/ppic/272514159/logo/60347976/Cyd9V/profile_logo_Facebook_60347976.jpg",
  "profileDescription": "Full stack web developer and mobile app developer building web apps, SaaS platforms, APIs and Flutter apps since 2015…",
  "searchQuery": "python",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T10:45:48.969Z"
}

Bid (the winning one):

{
  "type": "bid",
  "id": 496578552,
  "projectId": 40765303,
  "projectTitle": "One-page website development (Bricks Builder)",
  "projectUrl": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/graphic-design/One-page-website-development-Bricks",
  "projectType": "fixed",
  "projectStatus": "work_in_progress",
  "projectBudgetMinUsd": 250,
  "projectBudgetMaxUsd": 250,
  "projectBidCount": 1,
  "currency": "USD",
  "bidAmount": 250,
  "bidAmountUsd": 250,
  "deliveryDays": 27,
  "bidPostedAt": "2026-10-13T09:43:00.000Z",
  "bidRank": 1,
  "awardStatus": "awarded",
  "bidStatus": "in_progress",
  "milestonePercent": 0,
  "isSealed": false,
  "isHighlighted": false,
  "isRetracted": false,
  "bidderId": 35799422,
  "bidderUsername": "sarthakdhonchak",
  "bidderName": "Sarthak",
  "bidderUrl": "https://www.freelancer.com/u/sarthakdhonchak",
  "bidderCountry": "India",
  "bidderCity": "Panipat",
  "bidderHourlyRateUsd": 50,
  "bidderRating": 4.88,
  "bidderReviews": 193,
  "bidderJobsCompleted": 205,
  "bidderCompletionRatePct": 96.2,
  "bidderEarningsScore": 8.5947,
  "bidderIdentityVerified": true,
  "bidderPaymentVerified": true,
  "bidderRegisteredAt": "2019-06-15T11:46:20.000Z",
  "searchQuery": "wordpress",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T10:50:37.071Z"
}

Contest rows follow the same pattern (title, prize and prizeUsd, entries, dates, skills, status).

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How much data can I get?

Measured on the Apify platform on 2026-10-13 with default settings (512 MB memory):

Input	Rows saved	Run time	Memory peak	Notes
Prefilled example: open "python" projects, 100 rows	100	2.1 s (first rows after 0.6 s)	43 MB	1 API request
Historical "python" projects	1,000	2.8 s	66 MB	11 requests
All open projects on Freelancer.com (maxItems: 0)	5,103	6.0 s	76 MB	2 windows
Whole project history, newest first	25,000	46 s	104 MB	252 requests, 7 windows, 6 overlap duplicates removed, 0 rate-limit errors
Freelancers "web scraping"	1,000	6.1 s	76 MB	first rows after 4 s
Freelancers "python" (split into rate bands and countries)	12,000	54 s	89 MB	125 requests, 115 slices
Bids on "wordpress" projects (all statuses)	2,000	3.6 s	54 MB	bidder profiles joined
Contest history	1,000	11.9 s	51 MB
Hourly projects, US + UK clients, last 3 days	113 (all that exist)	1.6 s	41 MB	clientCountry filled
German freelancers, 4★+, 10+ reviews, $30+/h	71 (all that exist)	3.8 s	41 MB

Depth limits, in plain words

• Projects and contests: no practical limit — a search is read to its very end, newest first (17.7 million projects and 380,000 contests exist). Only the Most bids and Highest average bid orders stop at the top 5,000 per search, because Freelancer.com does not page further in those orders.
• Freelancers: 10,000 per search slice; bigger searches are split by hourly rate and country automatically, so tens of thousands of profiles per run are normal. Very large slices (for example every $10/hour freelancer in India) are read to 10,000 and listed in SUMMARY.cappedSlices.
• Bids: all bids of every project (or maxBidsPerProject). Sealed bids show the bidder but not the amount.
• Open projects: about 5,000 at any time — the whole live market fits in one run of a few seconds.

Big runs and the "Maximum cost per run" setting. Every pay-per-event run on Apify has a maximum cost (Run options → Maximum cost per run, or maxTotalChargeUsd in the API). For 10,000+ results set it to at least results × price per result (Pricing tab) — e.g. 25,000 × $2.50 / 1,000 = $62.50. With a smaller budget the run stops cleanly at the number it covers, ends SUCCEEDED and says so in its status ("Saved 6,800 results — this run's maximum cost ($17.00) covers 6,800 results at the current price. Raise "Maximum cost per run" to get more."); it never fails, aborts or charges past your limit (SUMMARY.stoppedBy = "MAX_COST").

What you pay: a fixed price per result — see the Pricing tab (on 2026-10-13: $2.50 per 1,000 results on the Free plan, down to $1.50 per 1,000 from the Gold plan up). Compute, storage and proxies are included; there is no separate proxy bill and no subscription.

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Integrations

API (curl) — run and get the rows in one call

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~freelancer-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&format=json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"projects","searchQueries":["python"],"maxItems":200}'

Use format=csv or format=xlsx for spreadsheets. For long runs use the asynchronous runs endpoint and fetch defaultDatasetId when the run finishes.

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('logiover/freelancer-scraper').call({
    mode: 'freelancers',
    skills: ['React.js'],
    countries: ['Poland'],
    minRating: '4',
    maxItems: 500,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("logiover/freelancer-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "bids",
    "searchQueries": ["shopify"],
    "projectStatus": "all",
    "maxItems": 1000,
})
for bid in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if bid.get("awardStatus") == "awarded":
        print(bid["projectTitle"], bid["bidderUsername"], bid.get("bidAmountUsd"))

Make, Zapier, n8n

Use the official Apify apps/nodes: action Run an Actor with logiover/freelancer-scraper and your input JSON, then Get dataset items. Typical flows: new open project → Slack/Telegram message; new freelancer list → HubSpot/Pipedrive; weekly bid export → Google Sheets.

Google Sheets

Either connect the Apify integration for Google Sheets, or paste this into a cell to always load the latest run as CSV:

=IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~freelancer-scraper/runs/last/dataset/items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&format=csv")

Schedules and webhooks

Create a Schedule (for example every 30 minutes with postedAfter: "30 minutes") and add a webhook on Run succeeded to push the new rows to your endpoint, CRM or bidding assistant.

MCP / AI agents

The Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server — connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=logiover/freelancer-scraper and ask in plain language: "Find open Shopify projects from US clients over $500 posted today" or "List 4.8-star Python freelancers in Germany with their rates". The flat, USD-normalised output is easy for an LLM to reason about.

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Freelancer Scraper vs. the alternatives

	This Actor	Official Freelancer.com API	Manual browsing / copy-paste
Account, OAuth app, API key	not needed	needed for most use	needs an account for many pages
Past the 5,000 / 10,000 paging cap	yes — windows and splits built in	you build it	no
Rate limits	handled (reserve + IP overflow)	you handle 429s	–
Bids with bidder profiles and winner	yes, joined	separate calls per bid and user	slow
Money in USD, ISO dates, flat columns	yes	raw nested JSON	no
Export	CSV, Excel, JSON, API, Sheets, webhooks, MCP	code only	none
Speed	25,000 projects in 46 s	depends on your code	hours

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Limits and tips

• Client identity is not public. Freelancer.com hides who posted a project from anonymous visitors, so there is no client name, rating or contact. Filter by countries to get each project's client country.
• No emails or phone numbers. Profiles do not expose them; use the profile URL, name, company and location for enrichment.
• Sealed bids hide the amount (the row is still there with the bidder).
• Budgets on hourly projects are per hour; hourlyHoursPerWeek tells you the expected weekly load.
• Totals vs rows: Freelancer.com's counts include private and deleted items it does not return, so a search can yield slightly fewer rows than its headline total.
• Fastest monitoring setup: projectStatus: "open", your skills, postedAfter equal to the schedule interval, maxItems: 0.
• Fastest bulk export: maxConcurrency 24–50 and includeDescriptions: false if you do not need long texts.

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Reliability and freshness

• Live data: every run reads Freelancer.com at that moment — nothing is cached or resold from an old database.
• Retries and IP rotation: transient errors are retried; a refused or rate-limited IP rests while work continues on another Apify Proxy IP.
• No silent failures: empty searches succeed with an explanation, unreachable sources fail with the reason, missing URLs are listed by name, and every run writes a SUMMARY with requests, windows, splits, duplicates and response times.
• Exact maxItems and no duplicate rows (deduplicated by ID across windows and slices); the run also respects your maximum cost per run to the result and stops cleanly there instead of failing.
• Tested on 2026-10-13 with 25,000-project, 12,000-freelancer, 2,000-bid and 1,000-contest runs plus negative tests (nonsense keyword, invalid URL, unknown skill, deleted project).

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FAQ

Do I need a Freelancer.com account, API key or cookies?

No. The Actor uses the public data Freelancer.com shows to anonymous visitors. You only need an Apify account to run it.

Is it legal to scrape Freelancer.com?

The Actor collects publicly visible information only — no login walls, no private messages, no personal contact details. Scraping public data is generally lawful in many jurisdictions, but you are responsible for how you use the data: respect Freelancer.com's terms, privacy laws such as GDPR/CCPA (especially for profile data used in outreach) and anti-spam rules. When in doubt, ask a lawyer.

How many projects can I scrape in one run?

As many as the search has. Projects are read newest first in windows of up to 5,000 with no total cap; a measured run saved 25,000 projects in 46 seconds. With maxItems: 0 a run continues until the search is exhausted or the run's timeout is reached.

How many freelancer profiles can I get?

Up to 10,000 per search slice, and the Actor splits bigger searches by hourly rate and country automatically — 12,000 "python" freelancers took 54 seconds. Tens of thousands per run are normal.

Why did my run stop before reaching "Max results"?

Most likely the run's maximum cost was reached. Pay-per-event runs on Apify have a cost limit (Maximum cost per run in the run options, maxTotalChargeUsd in the API); the Actor saves exactly as many results as that limit pays for, then finishes successfully with a message such as "Saved 6,800 results — this run's maximum cost ($17.00) covers 6,800 results at the current price." Raise the limit to at least results × price per result — e.g. $62.50 for 25,000 results at $2.50 per 1,000 — and run again. Other reasons are reported the same way: the search ran out of results, or the run hit its time limit.

Can I get the bids on a project and see who won?

Yes. Choose Bids mode (with a search or project URLs). Each bid row contains the amount, delivery days, the bidder's profile stats, and awardStatus — awarded marks the winning bid.

Why is the bid amount empty on some bids?

Those are sealed bids: Freelancer.com hides the amount from everyone except the client. The bidder and the rest of the row are still provided.

Can I get the client's name, email or phone?

No. Freelancer.com does not expose client identities or contact details publicly. You can get the client's country by filtering projects by country.

How do I monitor new projects for my skills?

Create a schedule (e.g. every 30 minutes) with mode: "projects", your skills, postedAfter: "30 minutes" and maxItems: 0, then add a webhook or a Make/Zapier/n8n flow to forward new rows to Slack, email or your CRM.

Are budgets converted to US dollars?

Yes. budgetMinUsd, budgetMaxUsd, bidAvgUsd, bidAmountUsd and prizeUsd use the exchange rate Freelancer.com itself attaches to each currency; the original currency and amounts are kept too. Freelancer hourly rates are stored in USD by Freelancer.com.

Which URLs can I paste?

Project pages (/projects/category/title-123 or just the numeric ID), profiles (/u/username or the bare username), contests (/contest/…-123.html), and skill pages: /jobs/python/, /freelancers/skills/python, /freelancers/india/python. Regional domains (freelancer.in, freelancer.co.uk …) work too.

What happens when a search has no results?

The run succeeds with 0 rows and a status message explaining why ("Freelancer.com has nothing matching this search" or, for open projects only, a hint to search the full history). Unknown skills, unknown countries and invalid URLs are reported by name.

What if Freelancer.com rate-limits the scraper?

The Actor reads Freelancer.com's limit headers and stops short of the limit on each IP, continuing on other Apify Proxy IPs; without a proxy it waits until the limit window reopens. Measured: a 252-request run finished with zero rate-limit errors.

Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes — the Output tab offers CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, JSONL, XML and HTML. For Google Sheets use the Apify integration or the IMPORTDATA formula above.

Can AI agents use it?

Yes, through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=logiover/freelancer-scraper) or as a tool in LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI and similar frameworks via the Apify API.

I need a field that is missing. What can I do?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with an example URL — issues are answered within 24 hours, and reasonable field requests are usually added quickly.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-13 — first release. Projects (open, closed or full history) with USD budgets and bid stats; freelancer directory with rate/country splitting past 10,000; bids with bidder profiles and award status; contests; URL input for projects, profiles, contests and skill pages; pipelined time windows (25,000 projects in 46 s); per-IP rate-limit handling with Apify Proxy overflow; exact maxItems; honest empty/failed outcomes with a SUMMARY record. Full history in the Changelog tab.

Support

Questions, bugs or feature requests: open an issue on the Issues tab — answered within 24 hours. Please include the run ID so the run can be checked.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Freelancer.com or Freelancer Technology Pty Limited. It collects only publicly available data; you are responsible for using that data lawfully and in line with the source's terms.