Freelancer Profile Scraper

🧭 Build a public freelancer profile list

Recruiters, talent teams, and researchers can search Contra, Upwork, or PeoplePerHour by skill, role, or supported source URL. Each saved profile includes its marketplace link and the professional details that source makes public, so you can review skills, rates, and locations together in one dataset.

• Find profiles for graphic designers with Contra Graphic Designer Profiles.
• Search by rate with Upwork Freelancers by Hourly Rate.
• Use a badge filter with Upwork Top Rated Freelancers.
• Limit a run to one country with Upwork Freelancers in Canada.
• Start from a talent search link with Upwork Talent Search URL Scraper.

📦 Public profile data in one dataset

The Actor saves one row for each collected public freelancer profile. The marketplace field shows whether it came from Contra, Upwork, or PeoplePerHour. Each row has a source profile link. Other fields depend on the marketplace and what it makes public.

Contra rows can include skills, rates, portfolios, testimonials, follower counts, and linked social profiles. Upwork rows can include earnings, billed hours, job totals, badges, verification details, and agency information. PeoplePerHour rows can include rates, ratings, reviews, and completed-job totals. Optional fields may be missing when a source does not show them.

🚀 Run one marketplace search

Choose one marketplace for each run. Add skills or roles, or provide URLs supported by that marketplace. All keywords in the same run use the same filters.

1. Choose Contra, Upwork, or PeoplePerHour.
2. Enter one or more skills or roles, or add supported source URLs.
3. Set filters that apply to the chosen marketplace.
4. Set a profile limit, run the Actor, and open the dataset from the output.

⚙️ Input

Input fields

Field	Type	What it does
marketplace	String (select)	Choose Contra, Upwork, or PeoplePerHour. Contra is prefilled. Only the selected marketplace's options apply.
specialization	String	Set a Contra category or specialization, such as Graphic Designer.
country	String	Find Upwork freelancers in a country, such as Canada.
region	String	Find Upwork freelancers in a continent or supported sub-region, such as Europe.
earnings	String (select)	Filter Upwork profiles by public earnings in USD: confirmed $0, $1 to under $100, $100 to under $1,000, $1,000 to under $10,000, or $10,000 or more. Hidden or unknown amounts are not treated as zero.
minBilledHours	Integer	Set the minimum billed hours for Upwork profiles.
minJobSuccess	Integer	Set the minimum Upwork Job Success Score, from 0 to 100.
talentBadge	String (select)	Find Upwork profiles with Top Rated, Top Rated Plus, or Rising Talent status.
minRating	Number	Set the minimum PeoplePerHour rating, from 0 to 5 stars.
keywords	Array of strings	Enter skills or roles to search. All keywords use the same filters. “graphic designer” is prefilled.
sourceUrls	Array of URL objects	Add Contra directory, hire, category, or profile URLs, or Upwork talent search URLs. This field does not apply to PeoplePerHour.
location	String	Find Contra or PeoplePerHour freelancers in a city or region. It does not apply to Upwork.
minHourlyRate	Number	Set a minimum hourly rate in USD for Contra or Upwork. It does not apply to PeoplePerHour.
maxHourlyRate	Number	Set a maximum hourly rate in USD for Contra or Upwork. It does not apply to PeoplePerHour.
maxItems	Integer	Stop after saving this many profiles across the run. The field is prefilled with 8 and has a minimum of 1, with no schema maximum. Leave it empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.

Example input

This example matches the public input from a successful hosted run with the prefilled marketplace, keyword, and profile limit.

{
  "marketplace": "contra",
  "keywords": [
    "graphic designer"
  ],
  "maxItems": 8
}

🧾 Output

The run output has a profiles link that opens the default dataset view. Each dataset row is a flat profile object. Its fields depend on the marketplace and the public details available for that profile.

Run output

Field	Type	What it does
profiles	String (link)	Opens the collected freelancer profiles in the default dataset view.

Dataset profile fields

Field	Type	What it does
marketplace	String	Marketplace name: contra, upwork, or peopleperhour.
profileUrl	String (URL)	Link to the public freelancer profile. This field is required.
name	String	Name shown on the profile.
username	String	Public marketplace username.
profileId	String	Source profile ID for matching records from the same marketplace.
headline	String	Professional headline shown by the source.
biography	String	Biography shown by the source.
timezone	String	Timezone listed by Upwork.
photoUrl	String (URL)	Link to the profile photo.
websiteUrl	String (URL)	Personal website linked on Contra.
introVideoUrl	String (URL)	Introduction video linked on Upwork.
skills	Array of strings	Skills listed on the profile.
hourlyRate	Object	Hourly rate reported by the source. A fixed rate uses an amount and currency. A range uses text.
hourlyRate.amount	Number	Fixed hourly amount reported by the source.
hourlyRate.currency	String	Currency for the hourly rate.
hourlyRate.text	String	Rate range shown by the source, including its currency and hourly unit.
location	Object	Location shared on the profile.
location.text	String	Location label shown by the source.
location.city	String	City shown by the source.
location.region	String	State or region shown by the source.
location.country	String	Country shown by the source.
earnings	Object	Public Upwork earnings. A missing amount is unknown, not zero.
earnings.amount	Number	Reported earnings amount. Zero means the source confirms zero earnings.
earnings.currency	String	Currency for the reported earnings.
earnings.text	String	Earnings label shown by the source, including a range or lower bound.
jobCount	Integer	Job total reported by the marketplace.
completedJobCount	Integer	Completed-job total reported by PeoplePerHour.
reviewCount	Integer	Review total reported by the marketplace.
followerCount	Integer	Follower total reported by Contra.
billedHours	Number	Billed hours reported by Upwork.
jobSuccessScore	Number	Upwork Job Success Score as a percent.
rating	Number	PeoplePerHour star rating, out of 5.
badges	Array of strings	Professional or talent badges shown by the marketplace.
isVetted	Boolean	Whether Upwork reports that the freelancer is vetted.
isPhoneVerified	Boolean	Whether Upwork reports that the phone is verified.
isOpenToWork	Boolean	Whether the source reports that the freelancer is open to work.
portfolioProjects	Array of objects	Portfolio projects shared on Contra.
portfolioProjects[].title	String	Portfolio project title.
portfolioProjects[].url	String (URL)	Link to the source project page.
portfolioProjects[].description	String	Portfolio project description.
portfolioProjects[].imageUrl	String (URL)	Link to the project image.
socialLinks	Array of objects	Public social profiles linked on Contra.
socialLinks[].platform	String	Social platform named by the source.
socialLinks[].url	String (URL)	Link to the social profile.
testimonials	Array of objects	Public testimonials and review text shared on Contra.
testimonials[].text	String	Testimonial or review text.
testimonials[].authorName	String	Name of the testimonial author when shown.
agencies	Array of objects	Agency affiliations shown by Upwork.
agencies[].id	String	Source agency ID.
agencies[].name	String	Agency name.
agencies[].url	String (URL)	Link to the public agency page.
agencies[].description	String	Agency description shown by Upwork.
agencies[].logoUrl	String (URL)	Link to the source agency logo.
portfolioCount	Integer	Contra portfolio project total. It may include projects not listed in the row.
testimonialCount	Integer	Contra testimonial total. It may include testimonials not listed in the row.
hourlyJobCount	Integer	Hourly-job total reported by Upwork.
fixedPriceJobCount	Integer	Fixed-price job total reported by Upwork.

All profile fields except marketplace and profileUrl are optional. The rows below come from successful runs on the current beta build. The Contra and Upwork examples are shortened; "..." marks omitted data.

Contra profile row, shortened

{
  "marketplace": "contra",
  "profileId": "WyJVc2VyUHJvZmlsZSIsMzUyODgyNDdd",
  "profileUrl": "https://contra.com/onyourtiptoes",
  "name": "Cara Ellis",
  "headline": "Designing for connection ⋆˚꩜｡ ",
  "biography": "...",
  "location": {
    "text": "London, UK"
  },
  "skills": [
    "Brand Designer",
    "Logo Designer",
    "Digital illustrator"
  ],
  "hourlyRate": {
    "text": "$100 - $150/hr"
  },
  "followerCount": 1712,
  "isOpenToWork": true,
  "reviewCount": 25,
  "portfolioCount": 24,
  "portfolioProjects": [
    {
      "title": "Guerilla Marketing Shirt Artworks and Design for Conduct AI",
      "url": "https://contra.com/p/LAmsBcOl-guerilla-marketing-shirt-artworks-and-design-for-conduct-ai",
      "description": "...",
      "imageUrl": "..."
    }
  ],
  "socialLinks": "...",
  "testimonials": "...",
  "testimonialCount": 21
}

Upwork profile row, shortened

{
  "marketplace": "upwork",
  "profileId": "~01f7f788f7fcd6abae",
  "profileUrl": "https://upwork.com/freelancers/dmytro1serebrych1udata",
  "name": "Dmytro S.",
  "headline": "Python Full stack developer | Python Web Scraping Automation AI LLM",
  "biography": "...",
  "timezone": "UTC+02:00 Israel",
  "location": {
    "city": "Kyiv",
    "region": "KYIV CITY",
    "country": "Ukraine"
  },
  "hourlyRate": {
    "amount": 30,
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "skills": [
    "Python",
    "Python Script",
    "Django",
    "Flask",
    "..."
  ],
  "billedHours": 3349,
  "hourlyJobCount": 28,
  "fixedPriceJobCount": 17,
  "jobCount": 1,
  "earnings": {
    "amount": 142231.66,
    "currency": "USD",
    "text": "$100K+ earned"
  },
  "jobSuccessScore": 100,
  "badges": [
    "Top Rated Plus",
    "Available now"
  ],
  "isPhoneVerified": true,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "id": "~01a9ca7867c57aca25",
      "name": "UData",
      "logoUrl": "...",
      "url": "https://www.upwork.com/agencies/1727373285633892352/",
      "description": "..."
    }
  ],
  "isVetted": false
}

PeoplePerHour profile row

This complete row is unchanged except for whitespace from a successful current beta run.

{
  "marketplace": "peopleperhour",
  "profileId": "3653562",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/technology-programming/george-ogden-software-developer-problem-solver-xwqxqwy",
  "name": "George O.",
  "photoUrl": "https://dw3i9sxi97owk.cloudfront.net/uploads/thumbs/3ae49abfe1115138b12d2dac6da93816_150x150.jpg",
  "skills": [
    "Amazon web services",
    "Linux",
    "Git",
    "C++ programming language",
    "Julia programming language",
    "Problem solving",
    "Python programming language",
    "Rust programming language",
    "Simulation software",
    "Software development"
  ],
  "location": {
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "city": "Croydon"
  },
  "headline": "Software Developer/Problem Solver",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 114,
  "completedJobCount": 98,
  "hourlyRate": {
    "amount": 67.10644712701436,
    "currency": "USD"
  }
}

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. A charged primary event represents one public freelancer profile successfully collected and delivered to the dataset. The event price is $0.0027 per profile.

🔌 Integrations

Open the profiles output link to view the dataset on Apify. For an Apify walkthrough, watch:

❓ FAQ

Can one run search more than one marketplace?

No. Choose Contra, Upwork, or PeoplePerHour for each run. All keywords in that run use the same filters.

What happens if Maximum profiles is empty?

Leave it empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted. The Actor stops when the source has no more available results.

Can I search Fiverr or GitHub?

No. This Actor searches Contra, Upwork, and PeoplePerHour.

Why are some profile fields missing?

Each marketplace shows different fields, and some details are optional. The Actor includes optional values only when they are available. Hidden or unknown Upwork earnings are not treated as zero.

Which source URLs can I use?

For Contra, you can add directory, hire, category, or profile URLs. For Upwork, add a talent search URL. PeoplePerHour does not use the Source URLs field.

📝 Changelog

v0.0 (08-10-2026)

• Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

🔗 Related Actors

• Freelancer Scraper collects public Freelancer.com projects and freelancer profiles for a different marketplace.
• Contra Freelancer Scraper - Profiles, Skills & Portfolio Data focuses on Contra profiles, skills, rates, and portfolio details.
• Upwork Freelancers Scraper - Hourly Rate & Earnings focuses on Upwork profiles with earnings and hourly rates.
• PeoplePerHour Freelancers Scraper adds profiles from the PeoplePerHour marketplace with ratings and completed-job totals.
• Freelancermap Profile Scraper extends profile searches to freelancermap.de.

Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré