Upwork Jobs Scraper: Up to 5,000 per Search

Get Upwork job posts for any search, up to 5,000 jobs a search, from every client country, each with its full description, job type, budget or hourly rate, experience level, project length, hours per week, skills and dates. One row per job. No Upwork account or cookies needed.

Tested daily. Latest check: 4,049 of 4,049 jobs from two whole searches ("python" and "logo design"), every job Upwork counted for each, in 5 minutes.

What does this Actor do?

You give it search terms and Upwork's filters, or links to Upwork job searches. For each search it reads Upwork's results, 50 jobs at a time, and saves one row per job until it reaches your limit, the search has no more jobs, or Upwork's 5,000-job limit for one search.

Each job comes with:

• its title, Upwork link and full description
• whether it is hourly or fixed price, with the fixed budget or the hourly rate range when the client set one
• the experience level asked for, the project length and the hours per week
• its skills, by name and by Upwork's id
• when it was created, published and renewed
• where it ranked in the search, the search term, the search link and how many jobs Upwork counts for the search

Why use it?

• Every job a search lists, up to Upwork's 5,000. Each row carries Upwork's own count for its search, and the run's status says whether every job was read.
• Jobs from clients anywhere. Upwork shows some visitors only jobs from their own country; this Actor reads the full list.
• Upwork's filters, or a pasted link. Job type, experience level, budget, hourly rate, client history, client location, project length, hours per week, contract-to-hire and category.
• Use the data anywhere. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your own tools through Apify's API and integrations.

How to use it

1. Type one or more Search terms, or paste Search links, or both.
2. Optionally, pick filters: Job type, Experience level, a fixed price or hourly rate range, Client history, Client locations, Project length, Hours per week, Contract-to-hire only, Categories, Sort by and Max jobs per search.
3. Click Start. When the run ends, open the Output tab to view the jobs or download them.

Run it with no input to see a sample: up to 100 "python" jobs, newest first, charged as usual.

Links that work

An Upwork job search, such as https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/?q=python&t=1&contractor_tier=3. Its search words, job type, experience level, budget, hourly rate, client history, client location, time zone, project length, hours per week, contract-to-hire, category, subcategory and sort are used. A link with a filter Upwork keeps to signed-in members (number of proposals, payment verified, previous clients, my location), or with a filter this Actor does not read, is refused before anything is read, naming the link, as are other Upwork pages and other sites.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Search terms (searchTerms)	Words to search job posts for, one search each	—
Job type (jobType)	any, hourly or fixed	any
Experience level (experienceLevel)	entry, intermediate, expert	all
Fixed price from / up to (fixedPriceMin, fixedPriceMax)	A fixed-price budget range in US dollars; searches fixed-price jobs only	—
Hourly rate from / up to (hourlyRateMin, hourlyRateMax)	An hourly rate range in US dollars; searches hourly jobs only	—
Client history (clientHires)	none, 1-9, 10+ freelancers hired before	all
Client locations (clientLocations)	Countries or regions, as Upwork names them	anywhere
Project length (projectLength)	less-than-1-month, 1-to-3-months, 3-to-6-months, more-than-6-months	any
Hours per week (hoursPerWeek)	less-than-30, more-than-30	any
Contract-to-hire only (contractToHire)	Only jobs that may become a full-time hire	off
Categories (categories)	Upwork's twelve categories, such as Web, Mobile & Software Dev	all
Sort by (sortBy)	newest, relevance, client_spend, client_rating	newest
Search links (startUrls)	Upwork job search links	—
Max jobs per search (maxJobsPerSearch)	Stop each term or link after this many jobs, 1 to 5,000	100

Give at least one search term, a filter, or one link. The filters apply to the search terms; with no search term and no link, the filters alone are one search, of every job they match. A link keeps its own filters. A fixed price and an hourly rate cannot be used together. Example input:

{
  "searchTerms": ["react developer", "next.js"],
  "jobType": "hourly",
  "experienceLevel": ["intermediate", "expert"],
  "clientHires": ["1-9", "10+"],
  "hourlyRateMin": 30,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxJobsPerSearch": 1000
}

Output

One row per job. An example, with made-up values and the description cut:

{
  "job_id": "2112181236302511171",
  "url": "https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~022112181236302511171",
  "title": "React developer for a booking dashboard",
  "description": "We need a React developer to build…",
  "job_type": "hourly",
  "fixed_budget": null,
  "hourly_rate_min": 30,
  "hourly_rate_max": 55,
  "experience_level": "intermediate",
  "duration": "1 to 3 months",
  "workload": "part_time",
  "skills": ["React", "TypeScript", "Next.js"],
  "skill_ids": ["1031626788584898560", "1031626796981895168", "1110580752293548032"],
  "created_at": "2026-10-19T13:57:04.268Z",
  "published_at": "2026-10-19T14:16:56.680Z",
  "renewed_at": null,
  "is_premium": false,
  "search_rank": 1,
  "search_query": "react developer",
  "search_url": "https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/?q=react%20developer&t=0&hourly_rate=30-&sort=recency",
  "search_total": 642
}

Field	What it holds
job_id	Upwork's id for the job
url	The job's page on Upwork
title	The job's title
description	The full description, as plain text
job_type	hourly or fixed
fixed_budget	A fixed-price job's budget in US dollars, when the client set one
hourly_rate_min	An hourly job's lowest rate in US dollars, when the client set one
hourly_rate_max	Its highest rate
experience_level	entry, intermediate or expert
duration	The project length ("1 to 3 months")
workload	An hourly job's hours: part_time (less than 30 a week), full_time (more), as_needed, not_sure
skills	The skills the job asks for
skill_ids	Upwork's ids for those skills
created_at	When the job was created
published_at	When it was published
renewed_at	When it was last renewed, if ever
is_premium	true for a premium job post
search_rank	Where the job stood in the search, from 1
search_query	The search term it was found under
search_url	The search on Upwork
search_total	How many jobs Upwork counts for the search

How much does it cost?

No surcharges and no paid options; an item that fails is not charged.

You pay for what you get:

• $0.50 per 1,000 jobs ($0.0005 a job). Each job is charged once per run, even when two of your searches find it.
• No start fee, and nothing per search.

So 2,000 jobs cost $1. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops when it reaches it and keeps every job saved so far.

How long does a run take?

About 100 jobs in 20 seconds; 4,049 jobs from two searches in 5 minutes.

Good to know

• Upwork lists at most 5,000 jobs for one search. For more, split it: one search per category, job type or experience level.
• Newest first reads a search most completely. Upwork's best-match order can move a job from one page to the next while a search is read; a job seen twice is saved once, and the run's status says when a search came up short of Upwork's count.
• Client details are not included. Upwork shows the client's country, spend, rating and payment status only to signed-in members, so this Actor does not fill them.
• One job, one row. A job found again in the same run, under the same or another search, is saved and charged once.
• A search that cannot be read is reported in the run's status; the other searches carry on. The run fails only when none could be read.
• Running it daily? Sort by newest, set a small limit, and remove repeats by job_id.

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Use it from an AI agent or the API

One call starts a run and returns its items (Apify waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/…/runs and read its dataset):

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/luzivanlt~upwork-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>

With the sample input as its JSON body:

{
  "searchTerms": ["python"],
  "jobType": "any",
  "contractToHire": false,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxJobsPerSearch": 100
}

Its inputs, in the order of the input form:

Input	What it takes	Default
searchTerms (Search terms)	Words to search Upwork's job posts for, one search per term (e.g. "python" or "logo design").	—
jobType (Job type)	Hourly jobs, fixed-price jobs, or both, for the search terms above.	"any"
experienceLevel (Experience level)	Only jobs asking for one of these experience levels, for the search terms above.	—
fixedPriceMin (Fixed price from (USD))	Only fixed-price jobs with a budget of at least this many US dollars, for the search terms above.	—
fixedPriceMax (Fixed price up to (USD))	Only fixed-price jobs with a budget of at most this many US dollars, for the search terms above.	—
hourlyRateMin (Hourly rate from (USD))	The low end of an hourly rate range in US dollars, for the search terms above: Upwork matches hourly jobs whose rate falls in the range.	—
hourlyRateMax (Hourly rate up to (USD))	The high end of an hourly rate range in US dollars, for the search terms above: Upwork matches hourly jobs whose rate falls in the range.	—
clientHires (Client history)	Only jobs from clients who have hired this many freelancers on Upwork before, for the search terms above.	—
clientLocations (Client locations)	Only jobs from clients in these countries or regions, named as Upwork names them, for the search terms above.	—
projectLength (Project length)	Only jobs the client expects to last this long, for the search terms above.	—
hoursPerWeek (Hours per week)	Only hourly jobs asking for this many hours a week, for the search terms above: less than 30, or more than 30.	—
contractToHire (Contract-to-hire only)	Only jobs the client may turn into a full-time hire after the contract, for the search terms above.	false
categories (Categories)	Only jobs in these Upwork categories, for the search terms above.	—
sortBy (Sort by)	The order the jobs are read in: newest first, Upwork's best match, the client's total spend, or the client's rating.	"newest"
startUrls (Search links)	Links to Upwork job searches, e.g. https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/?q=python&t=1&contractor_tier=3.	—
maxJobsPerSearch (Max jobs per search)	Stop each search term or link after this many jobs, from 1 to 5,000 (Upwork lists at most 5,000 jobs for one search).	100

Apify's MCP server, https://mcp.apify.com, lists it as luzivanlt/upwork-jobs-scraper. To give an AI agent this Actor as a tool, add the server to the agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=luzivanlt/upwork-jobs-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The client signs in with OAuth, or add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }.

Charged per job delivered; the sample input above costs at most $0.05.

FAQ

Do I need an Upwork account or cookies? No. The Actor reads what anyone can see on Upwork without signing in.

Which filters need an account? Number of proposals, payment verified, previous clients and "my location" are kept to signed-in members on Upwork, so they are not offered.

Can I run it from my own code, on a schedule, or with other apps? Yes. Like any Apify Actor, you can start it through the Apify API, run it on a schedule, and connect it to other apps with Apify's integrations and webhooks.

Is it legal to scrape Upwork?

This Actor reads only public job posts. A job post can name a person or a company; treat names and contact details in a description as personal data. Check Upwork's terms and the laws that apply to you (such as the GDPR or the CCPA) before you use the data. If you are unsure, ask a lawyer.

Support

Found a problem or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run's link.

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