PeoplePerHour Jobs Scraper: open freelance projects with budget, level and client country

$1 per 1,000 projects. Platform usage included. No rental, no minimum.

PeoplePerHour Jobs Scraper collects the open freelance projects listed on peopleperhour.com. Search by keyword, category or sub category, and narrow the list by experience level, fixed price or hourly, remote or on-site, budget, proposals so far, posting date and client country. Each row is one project with its full brief, budget in the client's currency and in US dollars, level, category, labels, proposal counts and the client's name, city and country.

Open it in Apify Console

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How much does PeoplePerHour Jobs Scraper cost?

Projects	This actor
100	$0.10
620 (every open project on 31 October 2026)	$0.62
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Plus $0.001 per run. One flat price, platform usage included, so there is no separate compute or proxy bill. A daily run that collects the 100 newest projects in your categories costs about $0.10, or about $3 a month. PeoplePerHour lists roughly 600 open projects at a time, so one run never costs more than about a dollar.

Why use it

• The whole brief in every row. The full project text, not a cut-off snippet, with budget, currency, experience level, category, sub category, duration and the labels Urgent, Featured, Opportunity, Pre-funded and NDA.
• Filters that save money. Keyword, category, sub category, experience level, budget type, work location, project label and sort order are applied by PeoplePerHour before the actor reads a page. Budget range, proposals so far, posting date, client country and verified clients are applied by the actor, and rows that do not match are never billed.
• Client facts for lead lists. Client name as shown on the project, city, country, member since date and verification flag, so you can sort by region or by how new the client is.
• Fast. All 620 open projects were read in 46 seconds in our test, 20 projects per request.
• No login, no key, no proxy. It reads what a logged out visitor sees.

How to use PeoplePerHour Jobs Scraper

1. Open the actor, pick a category or type a keyword, press Start.
2. Or paste this input:

{
  "searchKeywords": ["wordpress", "web design"],
  "experience": ["expert"],
  "pricing": "fixed_price",
  "minBudgetUsd": 200,
  "postedWithinDays": "7",
  "maxItems": 200
}

3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/one_dollar_store~peopleperhour-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"categories": ["technology-programming"], "maxItems": 50}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("one_dollar_store/peopleperhour-jobs-scraper").call(
    run_input={"categories": ["technology-programming"], "maxItems": 50}
)
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["postedAt"], job["budget"], job["currency"], job["title"], job["url"])

Use it from an AI assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can call this actor through Apify's MCP server. Add it with this server address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=one_dollar_store/peopleperhour-jobs-scraper

Then ask, for example: "List the 20 newest expert level WordPress projects on PeoplePerHour with a budget over $200 and fewer than 15 proposals."

Switching from another PeoplePerHour actor

Most PeoplePerHour actors take keywords, category slugs or listing links, a sort order and a result limit. Here they are searchKeywords, categories and subcategories (pick lists), startUrls, sort and maxItems. The core fields are projectId, title, description, budget, currency, budgetUsd, budgetType, experienceLevel, locationType, category, subcategory, postedAt, expiresAt, proposalCount, isUrgent, isFeatured, isOpportunity, isPreFunded, clientName, clientCity, clientCountry and url. The experience level (entry, intermediate, expert) comes from PeoplePerHour's budget bracket.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchKeywords	list of text	none	Words to look for in project titles and briefs, up to 25. Each is searched on its own and the results are merged without repeats. Empty means no keyword.
categories	pick list	none	One or more of the 10 categories, such as technology-programming or design. Empty means all.
subcategories	pick list	none	One or more of the 129 sub categories, such as web-design or seo. Each belongs to one category.
startUrls	list of links	none	PeoplePerHour listing pages to read instead of the fields above. Filters in the link are kept; the other site filters are ignored for links. Links to single projects are skipped.
experience	pick list	all	entry, intermediate and expert, one or more.
pricing	choice	any	fixed_price, hourly or both.
location	choice	any	remote or onsite.
projectType	choice	any	Only projects with the label urgent, noProposals, preFunded, featured or opportunity.
sort	choice	default	Newest first, or best match when a keyword is given. Also popularity, ending and budget.
minBudgetUsd, maxBudgetUsd	number	none	Budget range in US dollars. For hourly projects the budget is the hourly rate.
maxProposals	number	none	Skip projects that already have more proposals than this. 0 finds projects nobody has answered.
postedWithinDays	choice	any	1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days.
clientCountries	list of text	none	Two letter codes of the client country, such as GB, US, AU.
verifiedClientsOnly	true or false	false	Keep only projects from verified clients.
includeClientDetails	true or false	true	Adds the client name, member number and profile link. Turn off to leave them out.
maxItems	number	100	Total projects for the run. Minimum 10, maximum 10,000.
maxItemsPerSource	number	none	Cap for each keyword and category combination.

Example with several categories and keywords:

{
  "searchKeywords": ["shopify", "woocommerce"],
  "categories": ["technology-programming", "digital-marketing"],
  "location": "remote",
  "clientCountries": ["GB", "US"],
  "maxProposals": 20,
  "maxItems": 300
}

What data does PeoplePerHour Jobs Scraper return?

Each row is one open project. Fields PeoplePerHour does not show for a project are left out of that row.

Field	Meaning
projectId, url, title	PeoplePerHour's number for the project, the link to it and its title.
description	The full brief as plain text, line breaks kept.
category, categoryId, categorySlug	Main category. The slug can be used as an input value.
subcategory, subcategoryId, subcategorySlug	Sub category. The slug can be used as an input value.
budgetType	fixed for a fixed price project, hourly for an hourly rate.
budget, currency	Budget in the currency the client chose (GBP, USD or EUR). For hourly projects this is the hourly rate.
budgetUsd	The budget as PeoplePerHour converted it to US dollars when the page was read.
experienceLevel	entry, intermediate or expert, from PeoplePerHour's budget bracket.
locationType	remote, remote_country (remote, but only from one country) or onsite.
whereCanBid, biddersCountry	ALL, or the country code and name when bids are limited to one country.
onsiteCity, onsiteRegion, onsiteCountry, onsiteCountryCode	Workplace of on-site projects.
duration	Expected length of the work, when the client gave one.
status	open for every row.
isUrgent, isFeatured, isOpportunity, isPreFunded, hasNda	The labels PeoplePerHour puts on a project. isPreFunded means the budget is already in escrow.
postedAt, expiresAt	When the project was posted and when it closes for proposals. ISO date and time without a time zone, because PeoplePerHour gives none.
proposalCount, unreadProposalCount	Proposals the project had when read, and how many of them the client had not opened.
clientId, clientName, clientProfileUrl	The client as PeoplePerHour shows them on the project, often a first name and a last initial. Left out when includeClientDetails is off.
clientCity, clientCountry, clientCountryCode	Where the client says they are.
clientMemberSince, clientVerified	Date the client joined and whether PeoplePerHour marks them as verified.
searchKeyword	The keyword that found the project. Empty when no keyword was used.
listingUrl, listingPage, listingPosition	The listing page the project came from and its place on that page.
scrapedAt	When the page was read, ISO 8601, UTC.

Sample results

Real rows from the volume test on 31 October 2026, shortened to the main fields.

[
  {"projectId": "4529130", "title": "Claude designed app needs moving to Azure for scale.", "category": "Technology & Programming", "subcategory": "Programming & Coding", "budgetType": "fixed", "budget": 155, "currency": "GBP", "budgetUsd": 207.68, "experienceLevel": "entry", "locationType": "remote", "isOpportunity": true, "postedAt": "2026-10-31T12:10:13", "proposalCount": 44, "clientName": "Shaun J.", "clientCity": "Brighton", "clientCountryCode": "GB", "clientVerified": false, "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/technology-programming/programming-coding/claude-designed-app-needs-moving-to-azure-for-scale-4529130"},
  {"projectId": "4529123", "title": "UK/EPO Patent Disclosure Advice,Google Play Closed Testing (£50)", "category": "Business", "subcategory": "Legal Services", "budgetType": "fixed", "budget": 51, "currency": "GBP", "budgetUsd": 68.33, "experienceLevel": "entry", "locationType": "remote", "isOpportunity": false, "postedAt": "2026-10-31T09:41:06", "proposalCount": 4, "clientName": "Sb C.", "clientCity": "High Wycombe", "clientCountryCode": "GB", "clientVerified": false, "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/business/legal-services/uk-epo-patent-disclosure-advice-google-play-closed-testing-4529123"},
  {"projectId": "4529112", "title": "WordPress Webpages Revisions", "category": "Design", "subcategory": "Web Design", "budgetType": "fixed", "budget": 30, "currency": "USD", "budgetUsd": 30, "experienceLevel": "entry", "locationType": "remote", "isOpportunity": false, "postedAt": "2026-10-31T08:02:39", "proposalCount": 38, "clientName": "Timothy O.", "clientCity": "London", "clientCountryCode": "GB", "clientVerified": false, "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/design/web-design/wordpress-webpages-revisions-4529112"}
]

Limits

• PeoplePerHour lists about 620 open projects at a time (31 October 2026). A run returns what is open at that moment, so maxItems above that number changes nothing. For a longer history, schedule the actor daily and keep the projectId values you already have.
• The public listing shows a category and a sub category for each project, not a list of skills. Use the keyword filter to find a skill.
• The keyword search runs on PeoplePerHour. It matches words in the title and brief. Keywords with symbols, such as c++, find nothing there.
• Posting times carry no time zone. The postedWithinDays cut off treats them as UTC, so it can be an hour out.
• budgetUsd is PeoplePerHour's own conversion on the day of the read, so the same project can show a slightly different value in a later run.
• Client names are what PeoplePerHour shows publicly on the project, often a first name and a last initial. There are no email addresses or phone numbers: PeoplePerHour does not show them to visitors. Turn includeClientDetails off if you do not want the name, member number and profile link.
• Closed, private and draft projects are not listed publicly, so they are not included.
• With a keyword and no sort, PeoplePerHour orders by best match. Without a keyword the default is newest first.
• When you paste listing links in startUrls, only the filters inside the link are used. Keywords, categories and the other site filters in the form are ignored, but the local filters (budget, proposals, date, client country) still apply.
• The actor reads one page a second, 20 projects each, with an honest User-Agent and no proxy. If PeoplePerHour refuses three requests in a row or shows a verification page, the run stops and says so in its status line. A run that cannot read a single page ends as failed with the reason. You are charged only for the rows delivered.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 PeoplePerHour projects? $10, plus $0.001 for each run. In practice PeoplePerHour lists about 600 open projects at a time, so one full read costs under a dollar. Reaching 10,000 means collecting over several weeks.

Do I pay for compute or proxy on top? No. Platform usage is included in the $1 per 1,000 price. The actor reads PeoplePerHour directly and uses no proxy.

Where does the data come from? From the public listing pages of peopleperhour.com, which anyone can open without logging in. The actor reads the project data that each listing page carries. It needs no key and no login.

How do I get only new projects every day? Schedule a daily run with postedWithinDays set to 1 and keep the projectId values you already have. Add maxProposals to find projects that few freelancers have answered.

Why did I get fewer rows than I asked for? There were not that many matching open projects. Keywords and filters narrow the list a lot: a keyword such as wordpress matched about 30 open projects on 31 October 2026. Widen the keyword or remove a filter. The run still ends without an error and the status line says how many rows were delivered.

Is it legal? The actor collects only public data that PeoplePerHour shows to any visitor. You are responsible for how you use it: follow the data protection laws that apply to you, such as GDPR, especially when you store or process names of people, and do not use the data to send unwanted messages. PeoplePerHour's terms of website use say that visitors may not use automated software to crawl or spider the site, may not harvest or scrape its content, and may not use its materials for commercial purposes without a licence. Its robots.txt asks automated clients not to fetch addresses that carry a query string other than the page number, and the filter and sort links work that way. This actor reads only public listing pages as a logged out visitor, one request a second, and stops at any verification page. You decide for yourself whether and how to use the data.

Is this an official PeoplePerHour product? No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by PeoplePerHour.

Feedback and support

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Do I need an Apify account? Yes. Actors run from an Apify account, and a free account is enough to start: it includes $5 of platform usage every month. You can sign up here. This is a referral link and it costs you nothing.

Is there a limit on the free plan? Yes. A run started from a free plan account delivers the first 10 results, then ends with a message and a link to the plans. Any paid plan returns everything you ask for, up to your own limit. The price per result is the same on every plan.

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Changelog

• 1 November 2026: clearer description and headings, field details for AI tools. Price and output unchanged.
• November 2026: first release.