Upwork Jobs Scraper — 130K+ Instant Database, Fresh Every 6h

The only Upwork job scraper backed by its own 130,000+ job database — search by keyword and filters and get results instantly, uncapped, with nothing to get blocked. The database is refreshed every 6 hours, so you get today's jobs without ever hammering Upwork yourself. Need a filter we don't cover yet? It automatically falls back to a fresh live scrape, so you always get data.

You give it	You get back
A keyword (e.g. python scraper) + optional filters	Every matching job from the 130k+ database, newest first
A public Upwork search URL	The same jobs that URL would show, fully structured
minFixedBudget, experienceLevel, jobType, clientLocation, maxAgeDays, publishedAfter	Precisely filtered results — budgets, client country, skills, activity all included

Pure HTTP + a pre-harvested database. No browser, no third-party CAPTCHA-bypass service, no per-search 250-job cap.

Why use this instead of a live-only scraper

• Instant & uncapped. Live Upwork scrapers re-fetch every run, get rate-limited, and stop around Upwork's ~50–250 results per search. This one serves from a cumulative database — ask for 5,000 python jobs and get 5,000.
• Always fresh. A background worker refreshes the mirror every 6 hours and ages out jobs older than 45 days, so results are current without you paying for a live crawl each time.
• Budgets & client data included. ~40% of jobs carry an explicit fixed budget and ~100% carry client country — the fields that make Upwork data actually useful for demand analysis.
• Nothing to get blocked. Because the common case is served from the database, there's no live request to detect or ban.
• Two ways in, one clean schema. Paste a search URL or use structured filters — either returns the identical, fully-nested job object.

Overview

Upwork is the largest open marketplace of paid freelance work — every job post is a business holding out a budget to solve a problem. That makes it the richest public signal of what services are in demand and what people will pay for them. This actor turns that stream into structured data you can filter, export, and analyze:

• Recruiters & agencies — find live projects in your niche and the clients posting them.
• Lead generation — surface businesses actively hiring for a service you sell.
• Freelancers — monitor new gigs matching your skills, filtered by budget and client quality.
• Market & startup-idea research — cluster recurring paid tasks to find automation opportunities and validate demand with real budgets, not guesses.

Supported inputs

Input	Example	Emits
Search keywords + filters	searchQuery: "web scraping", minFixedBudget: 200	All matching jobs from the database
Upwork search URL	https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/?q=python&sort=recency	The jobs that URL resolves to
Individual job URL	https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021936702637394960044	That single job, fully structured

How it works

1. You submit a keyword + filters (or a URL).
2. The Instant Database is queried first — a cumulative Turso store of 130k+ Upwork jobs, indexed for full-text keyword search and filtered by budget, experience, job type, client location and publish date. Results come back in seconds, newest first.
3. Automatic live fallback — if a filter combination isn't yet covered in the database, the actor transparently runs a fresh scrape so you still get data.
4. A background worker refreshes the database every 6 hours and ages out stale jobs, keeping results current.
5. You export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull via the Apify API.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Required	Notes
startUrls	array	one of URL / keywords	Public Upwork search or job URLs. Filters in the URL are honored.
searchQuery	string	one of URL / keywords	Keywords matched against job title + description.
jobType	array	no	hourly, fixed.
experienceLevel	array	no	entry, intermediate, expert.
minFixedBudget	number	no	Only fixed-price jobs with budget ≥ this (USD).
clientLocation	array	no	Client country name(s), substring match.
maxAgeDays	number	no	Only jobs published in the last N days.
publishedAfter	string	no	Only jobs published at/after this ISO date (e.g. 2026-07-01).
monitorMode	boolean	no	🔔 Return only jobs new since the previous run for this exact search. Put the Actor on a Schedule for a clean, duplicate-free feed of new gigs.
maxItems	number	no	Cap on jobs returned per search.
proxy	object	no	Optional proxy override (only used on live fallback).

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "web scraping",
  "jobType": ["fixed"],
  "experienceLevel": ["intermediate", "expert"],
  "minFixedBudget": 200,
  "maxAgeDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output

Each row is one job, returned in Upwork's own nested shape so nothing is lost. Abridged sample:

{
  "opening": {
    "job": {
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "publishTime": "2026-07-08T08:27:46.991Z",
      "contractorTier": "INTERMEDIATE",
      "info": {
        "ciphertext": "~021936702637394960044",
        "type": "FIXED",
        "title": "Social Media Manager for Airbnb & Hotels"
      },
      "category": { "name": "Digital Marketing", "urlSlug": "digital-marketing" },
      "categoryGroup": { "name": "Sales & Marketing" },
      "budget": { "amount": 300, "currencyCode": "USD" },
      "engagementDuration": { "label": "1 to 3 months", "weeks": 9 },
      "sandsData": {
        "occupation": { "prefLabel": "Social Media Marketing" },
        "additionalSkills": [{ "prefLabel": "Instagram" }, { "prefLabel": "Facebook" }]
      },
      "clientActivity": { "totalApplicants": 20, "totalHired": 0 }
    }
  },
  "buyer": {
    "isPaymentMethodVerified": false,
    "info": {
      "location": { "country": "Seychelles", "city": null },
      "stats": { "totalAssignments": 0, "feedbackCount": 0, "score": 0 },
      "company": { "profile": { "industry": "Travel & Hospitality", "size": 1 } }
    }
  }
}

Key output fields

Field	Meaning
opening.job.info.title / .type	Job title and payment type (FIXED / HOURLY)
opening.job.budget.amount	Fixed-price budget in USD
opening.job.contractorTier	Required experience level
opening.job.category / categoryGroup	Upwork category taxonomy
opening.job.sandsData.*Skills	Occupation + skill tags
opening.job.publishTime	When the job was posted (sort/monitor on this)
opening.job.clientActivity.totalApplicants / totalHired	Competition + hiring signal
buyer.info.location.country	Client country
buyer.info.stats.*	Client history — assignments, spend, feedback score
buyer.isPaymentMethodVerified	Whether the client's payment method is verified

Pricing

Pay-per-event. You're charged per job returned plus a small run-start fee — the same whether a result is served instantly from the database or live-scraped.

Event	When	Notes
Actor start	Per run	Standard platform start fee
Job result	Per job returned	The bulk of the cost

🔔 Monitoring mode — a live feed of new gigs

Turn on monitorMode and put the Actor on a Schedule (Apify Console → Schedules, e.g. hourly or daily). Each run then returns only jobs posted since the previous run for that exact keyword + filter combination — a clean, duplicate-free feed you can wire to a webhook, Slack, or email integration.

• The first run seeds the cursor and returns the current matches.
• Every run after returns only what's new (often zero — that's a valid "nothing new yet" result, not an error).
• Each distinct search (different keywords/filters) is tracked separately, so you can run several monitors in parallel.

Typical setup: searchQuery: "shopify developer", minFixedBudget: 200, monitorMode: true, scheduled hourly → you get pinged only when a new matching gig appears.

Common use cases

• "Show me every fixed-budget web-scraping job over $200 posted this week." — recurring manual tasks people pay for = automation opportunities.
• "Alert me the moment a new Shopify-developer gig is posted." — monitorMode: true on an hourly schedule (see above).
• "Which clients in the US are hiring for lead generation right now?" — filter by keyword + clientLocation for a warm B2B lead list.
• "What are people paying freelancers to do that I could turn into a product?" — export a category and cluster the recurring pain points with budgets attached.

FAQ

How fresh is the database? Refreshed every 6 hours; jobs older than 45 days are aged out.

What if my exact filter isn't in the database? The actor automatically falls back to a live scrape for that query, so you still get results.

Is there a per-search cap like on Upwork itself? No. Upwork limits a search to a few hundred results; the database serves as many matches as exist, up to your maxItems.

Do I get client budgets? Yes where Upwork exposes them — roughly 40% of jobs carry an explicit fixed budget, and nearly all carry client country and activity stats.

Can I scrape a single job page? Yes — pass the job URL in startUrls.

Support

Questions, custom fields, or bulk/enterprise needs: muhameddidovic@gmail.com. More tools: Upwork Reviews Scraper · Fiverr Scraper · Indeed Scraper.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly available job-posting data from Upwork and performs no login, paywall circumvention, or access to private/personal account data. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with Upwork's Terms of Service, applicable laws, and data-protection regulations (including GDPR/CCPA where relevant). This tool is provided for legitimate research, recruiting, and market-analysis purposes. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Upwork Global Inc. "Upwork" is a trademark of its respective owner.

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