Freelancer.com Scraper

Freelancer.com Scraper

Scrape freelance projects from Freelancer.com into clean, structured JSON. The Freelancer.com Scraper pulls the project title, full description, required skills, budget in USD, bid count and average bid, deadline, and direct URL for any keyword or category search, with no login and no Freelancer.com API key.

Search Freelancer.com by keyword, category, job type, and budget, and get a structured record per project — skills with IDs, USD budget bounds, bid stats, time left, and the featured / urgent / NDA flags — straight from Freelancer's own project feed.

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Actor: parsebird/freelancer-com-scraper (Apify). Scrapes projects from freelancer.com. Call with ApifyClient.
Input JSON fields:
  keyword: string (default "seo") — free-text job keyword or skill
  category: string (default "seo") — Freelancer category / skill slug, e.g. "seo", "web-development", "graphic-design"
  jobType: "all" | "fixed" | "hourly"  (default "all")
  minBudget / maxBudget: int USD — client-side budget filter
  sortBy: "relevance" | "newest" | "budget"  (default "relevance")
  results_wanted: int (default 20, max 1000) — number of billed rows
  max_pages: int (default 20, max 100) — 100 projects per page
  startUrl: string — a public freelancer.com/jobs URL; its category and fixed/hourly/min filters are read
  proxyConfiguration: { "useApifyProxy": false }
Output: one dataset item per project — project_id, project_name, project_desc, project_desc_text, skills[], skill_ids[], skills_info[{id,name,seo_url}], budget_range, budget_min, budget_max, budget_currency, budget_min_usd, budget_max_usd, bid_count, bid_avg, date_posted, date_ends, time_left, featured, urgent, sealed, nda, is_contest, project_status, language, country, vicinity, location_name, url, source, fetched_at.
Example: { "keyword": "wordpress developer", "jobType": "fixed", "minBudget": 100, "maxBudget": 1000, "results_wanted": 50 }
API: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parsebird~freelancer-com-scraper  ·  Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What does Freelancer.com Scraper do?

Freelancer.com is one of the largest freelance marketplaces, with thousands of new projects posted every day across web development, design, writing, marketing, and more. This Freelancer.com scraper reads Freelancer's public project feed and returns:

• 📋 Project details — title, full description (markdown and clean plain text), and status.
• 🏷️ Skills — every skill tag, with its Freelancer skill ID and SEO slug.
• 💰 Budget — the posted range in the project's currency and converted to USD.
• 📊 Bidding — number of bids and the average bid amount.
• ⏳ Timing — when the project was posted, when bidding closes, and time left.
• ⭐ Upgrades — featured, urgent, sealed, and NDA flags.
• 🔗 URL — the canonical project page.

Common uses: freelancer lead generation, marketplace and rate research, tracking demand for a skill or stack, and feeding a project-alert product.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
keyword	string	No	seo	Free-text job keyword or skill.
category	string	No	seo	Freelancer category / skill slug. Combined with the keyword.
jobType	string	No	all	all, fixed, or hourly.
minBudget	integer	No	—	Minimum project budget in USD (client-side filter).
maxBudget	integer	No	—	Maximum project budget in USD (client-side filter).
sortBy	string	No	relevance	relevance, newest, or budget.
results_wanted	integer	No	20	Maximum unique projects to save (max 1000). Billed rows.
max_pages	integer	No	20	Maximum result pages (100 projects per page).
startUrl	string	No	—	A public freelancer.com/jobs URL; its category and filters are read.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Off	Optional proxy. The public API works without one.

Example inputs

Active SEO projects:

{ "category": "seo", "results_wanted": 20 }

Fixed-price WordPress projects within a budget range, newest first:

{
  "keyword": "wordpress developer",
  "jobType": "fixed",
  "minBudget": 100,
  "maxBudget": 1000,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "results_wanted": 50
}

Reuse a filtered Freelancer.com URL:

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.freelancer.com/jobs/seo?fixed=true&fixed_min=250",
  "results_wanted": 30,
  "max_pages": 5
}

What data can you extract from Freelancer.com?

Field	Description
project_id	Unique project ID
project_name	Project title
project_desc / project_desc_text	Full description (markdown) and clean text
skills / skill_ids / skills_info	Skill names, IDs, and {id, name, seo_url} objects
budget_range	Fixed or Hourly
budget_min / budget_max / budget_currency	Posted budget in the project's currency
budget_min_usd / budget_max_usd	Budget converted to USD
bid_count / bid_avg	Number of bids and average bid (USD)
date_posted / date_ends / time_left	Posting time, bidding deadline, and time remaining
featured / urgent / sealed / nda / is_contest	Project upgrade flags
project_status / language	Frontend status and description language
country / vicinity / location_name	Published location (when the project is location-tagged)
url / source / fetched_at	Project URL, source label, collection timestamp

Output example

{
  "project_id": 40278015,
  "project_name": "E-commerce Site Development",
  "project_desc_text": "I need a website developer to create an e-commerce site for selling physical products.",
  "skills": ["eCommerce", "HTML", "PHP", "WooCommerce"],
  "skill_ids": ["3", "17", "56", "137"],
  "skills_info": [
    { "id": 56, "name": "eCommerce", "seo_url": "ecommerce" },
    { "id": 137, "name": "WooCommerce", "seo_url": "woocommerce" }
  ],
  "budget_range": "Fixed",
  "budget_min_usd": 30,
  "budget_max_usd": 250,
  "bid_count": 62,
  "bid_avg": "$74",
  "date_posted": "2026-08-10T08:30:00Z",
  "date_ends": "2026-08-16T08:30:00Z",
  "time_left": "6 days left",
  "featured": false,
  "urgent": false,
  "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/web-development/commerce-site-development-40278015",
  "source": "freelancer.com",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T08:31:12.000Z"
}

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML from the Storage tab or the Apify API.

Use cases

• Freelancer lead generation — pull fresh projects in your niche and pitch fast.
• Rate and market research — analyse budget ranges and bid counts by skill and category.
• Skill-demand tracking — monitor how many projects mention a stack or tool over time.
• Project-alert product — power a notification service for new matching projects.

How it works

1. Resolve — a category slug is resolved to a Freelancer skill ID; keyword, job type, and sort are applied to the project feed.
2. Fetch — Freelancer's public active-projects API is read 100 projects per page.
3. Shape — each project is flattened, budgets are converted to USD from the project's currency, and dates and time-left are computed.
4. Filter — minBudget / maxBudget are applied to the USD budget.
5. Rows stream to the dataset and stop at results_wanted.

How much does it cost to scrape Freelancer.com?

This actor is pay per result — charged once per project saved.

Plan	Price per 1,000 projects
Free	$0.99
Bronze	$0.89
Silver	$0.89
Gold	$0.79

A small platform Actor start fee also applies per run. results_wanted is the exact number of billed rows. Scraping 1,000 projects on the Free plan costs about $0.99. Apify's monthly free platform usage covers small runs.

How to scrape Freelancer.com

1. Click Try for free and sign in to Apify.
2. Enter a keyword and/or category slug.
3. Optionally set job type, budget, or sort.
4. Set results wanted (start low, e.g. 20).
5. Click Start, then watch rows appear in the Output tab.
6. Export from Storage, or pull results via the API.

Run it via API

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/freelancer-com-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keyword": "wordpress developer",
    "jobType": "fixed",
    "minBudget": 100,
    "results_wanted": 50,
})
for project in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(project["project_name"], "-", project.get("budget_range"), "-", project.get("bid_count"), "bids")

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/freelancer-com-scraper').call({
    category: 'graphic-design',
    sortBy: 'newest',
    results_wanted: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Schedule recurring runs, add webhooks, or push results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, and Make with Apify integrations.

FAQ

Do I need a Freelancer.com account or API key? No. The scraper reads Freelancer's public project feed. No login is required.

How current is the data? Live. Each run reads Freelancer.com at that moment. Use Apify's scheduler to keep a dataset fresh.

Which category slugs are valid? Any Freelancer skill slug — the value in a freelancer.com/jobs/<slug> URL, e.g. seo, web-development, graphic-design, content-writing, mobile-app-development.

How does the budget filter work? Budgets are converted to USD from each project's currency, then minBudget / maxBudget keep projects whose USD range overlaps yours.

Why are country and payment_verified sometimes empty? Freelancer only exposes buyer location and payment-verification for location-tagged projects and to logged-in users; most public projects come back without them.

Something's not working. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and the run link — we respond quickly.

Is it legal to scrape Freelancer.com?

Scraping publicly available data is legal in most jurisdictions, and this actor only reads Freelancer's public project feed — no login, no private data. You are responsible for how you use the data — respect Freelancer.com's Terms and Conditions and applicable law, and consult a lawyer if you are unsure. See Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping.

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