Guru.com Jobs Scraper

Guru.com Jobs Scraper

Scrape freelance job listings and freelancer profiles from Guru.com into clean, structured JSON. The Guru.com Jobs Scraper searches by keyword, skill, and location, pulls the job title, budget, full description, skills, and employer's total spend, or freelancer name, rate, earnings, and satisfaction — without the Guru.com API.

Search Guru.com jobs or freelancer profiles by keyword, skill, and location, filter jobs by fixed-price or hourly pricing, and get each job's full description and employer's total spend from its detail page.

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Actor: parsebird/guru-jobs-scraper (Apify). Scrapes freelance job listings and freelancer profiles from guru.com. Call with ApifyClient.
Input JSON fields: searchType: "jobs"|"freelancers" (default jobs); startUrl: string — direct Guru.com jobs/freelancers URL, overrides keyword/location/skill; keyword: string — search term e.g. "web developer"; skill: string — specific skill e.g. "javascript" (takes precedence over keyword); location: string — e.g. "United States"; job_type: "both"|"fixed"|"hourly" (jobs only, default both); results_wanted: int (default 20); max_pages: int (default 5); proxyConfiguration: object (RESIDENTIAL preset, required — Guru.com blocks datacenter IPs).
Output (jobs mode): title, url, price, description, skills, employerName, employerImage, spending, location, posted, deadline, scrapedAt. Output (freelancers mode): name, profileUrl, logo, location, earnings, satisfaction, hourlyRate, startingRate, description, skills, image, scrapedAt.
Example: { "searchType": "jobs", "keyword": "react developer", "results_wanted": 30 }
API: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parsebird~guru-jobs-scraper  ·  Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What does Guru.com Jobs Scraper do?

Guru.com is one of the longest-running freelance marketplaces, listing freelance jobs and freelancer profiles across programming, design, writing, sales & marketing, and more. There is no public Guru.com API — this scraper reads the site's own search-result and job-detail pages and returns them as structured data. For every keyword, skill, and location it extracts:

• 💼 Job listings — title, direct URL, fixed-price or hourly budget, full description, required skills, employer name, employer photo, and the employer's total spend on the platform.
• 👤 Freelancer profiles — name, profile URL, avatar, location, earnings in the last 12 months, feedback satisfaction, hourly and starting rates, top service description, skills, and cover image.
• 🎯 Flexible targeting — search by free-text keyword, a specific skill tag, a location, or paste any Guru.com jobs/freelancers URL directly to scrape that exact view.
• 💰 Job-type filtering — restrict job results to fixed-price only, hourly only, or both.

What data can you extract from Guru.com?

Jobs mode

Field	Description
title	Job posting title
url	Direct link to the Guru.com job listing
price	Fixed-price range or hourly pricing as shown
description	Full job description, fetched from the job's detail page
skills	Skills and category tags attached to the job
employerName / employerImage	Employer's display name and avatar
spending	Employer's total spend on Guru.com, from the job's detail page
location	Employer's displayed country
posted / deadline	When the job was posted and the quote submission deadline

Freelancers mode

Field	Description
name	Freelancer or agency display name
profileUrl	Direct link to the freelancer's profile
location	City, state/province, and country
earnings	Earnings displayed for the last 12 months
satisfaction	Feedback / satisfaction percentage
hourlyRate / startingRate	Rates listed on the freelancer's top service
description	Top service description or tagline
skills	Skills listed on the profile
image	Cover image from the top service listing

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchType	string	No	jobs	Extraction mode: jobs or freelancers.
startUrl	string	No	—	Direct Guru.com URL to start from. Overrides keyword, location, and skill.
keyword	string	No	—	Search keyword, e.g. web developer or data scientist.
skill	string	No	—	Filter by a specific skill, e.g. javascript or wordpress. Takes precedence over keyword.
location	string	No	—	Geographic location filter, e.g. United States.
job_type	string	No	both	Job pricing type filter: fixed, hourly, or both. Jobs mode only.
results_wanted	integer	No	20	Maximum number of items to collect.
max_pages	integer	No	5	Safety cap on the number of search-result pages to visit.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy	Proxy settings. Residential proxies are required — Guru.com blocks datacenter IPs outright.

Example input

{
  "searchType": "jobs",
  "keyword": "react developer",
  "results_wanted": 30
}

Freelancer profile search:

{
  "searchType": "freelancers",
  "keyword": "content writer",
  "location": "United States",
  "results_wanted": 20
}

Output example

Job listing record:

{
  "title": "Mobile QA Automation Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.guru.com/jobs/mobile-qa-automation-engineer/2120816",
  "price": "Fixed Price | $500-$1k",
  "description": "Summary\nWe are looking for a mobile QA automation engineer to own test coverage for our iOS and Android apps...",
  "skills": ["Programming & Development", "Web Development & Design", "Web Design"],
  "employerName": "abdul M",
  "employerImage": "https://res.cloudinary.com/gurucom/image/upload/w_64,h_64,f_auto,dpr_2/.../lhpd9yveavx0f5xipins.jpg",
  "spending": "$0",
  "location": "Pakistan",
  "posted": "Posted on Sep 11, 2026",
  "deadline": "Oct 11, 2026",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T12:46:17.230Z"
}

Freelancer profile record:

{
  "name": "Lindsey Fanders",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.guru.com/freelancers/lindsey-fanders",
  "logo": "https://res.cloudinary.com/gurucom/image/upload/w_96,h_96,f_auto,dpr_2/static/default-user.png",
  "location": "Mesquite, Texas, United States",
  "earnings": null,
  "satisfaction": null,
  "hourlyRate": "$40/hr",
  "startingRate": "$100",
  "description": "Providing niche appropriate original content based on your specific needs. Standard 500-1000 word articles, English only",
  "skills": ["Writing & Translation", "Content Writer", "Article Writing", "Content Writing", "English Language", "Writing"],
  "image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/gurucom/image/upload/f_auto,dpr_2/static/DefaultServiceCoverImgs/defaultsvcover_writing.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T12:46:50.553Z"
}

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

How to scrape Guru.com

1. Open the Input tab of the Guru.com Jobs Scraper.
2. Choose a search type — jobs or freelancers.
3. Enter a keyword (e.g. web developer) or a specific skill (e.g. javascript), and optionally a location.
4. For jobs, optionally set job type to fixed or hourly.
5. Set results wanted — start with 20–30 to keep the first run fast and cheap.
6. Click Start, then watch rows appear in the Output tab.
7. 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/guru-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchType": "jobs",
    "keyword": "react developer",
    "results_wanted": 30,
})
for job in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(job["title"], "-", job["price"], "-", job["employerName"])

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/guru-jobs-scraper').call({
    searchType: 'freelancers',
    keyword: 'content writer',
    location: 'United States',
    results_wanted: 20,
});
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.

Use cases

• 📈 Freelance market research — track how many jobs post for a given skill, and typical budgets.
• 🧭 Lead generation for freelancers — monitor new jobs matching your skill set every day.
• 🕵️ Competitor / talent scouting — pull freelancer profiles by skill and location to benchmark rates.
• 🔁 Marketplace aggregation — feed Guru.com listings into your own product alongside other freelance platforms.
• 📊 Rate benchmarking — aggregate hourlyRate and startingRate across a skill or location.

How it works

1. The actor builds a Guru.com search URL from your keyword/skill and location (or uses your startUrl directly), and requests it through Apify's residential proxy with a Chrome browser fingerprint.
2. It reads the job or freelancer records embedded in each server-rendered results page and follows pagination up to max_pages.
3. In jobs mode, it applies the job_type filter, then opens each job's detail page for the full description and the employer's total spend.
4. Results are pushed to the dataset and billed once per item, up to results_wanted.

How much does it cost to scrape Guru.com?

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing:

Plan	Price per 1,000 items
Free	$1.29
Bronze	$1.19
Silver	$1.09
Gold	$0.99

One event is charged per job or freelancer profile pushed to the dataset. Scraping 100 items costs about $0.13 on the Free plan. Apify platform usage (compute + residential proxy) is billed separately per your plan.

Is it legal to scrape Guru.com?

Scraping publicly available data is legal in most jurisdictions, and this actor only reads pages any visitor can load without logging in. It does not bypass authentication and does not collect personal contact details. You are responsible for how you use the data — review Guru.com's Terms of Use and Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping before large-scale or commercial use.

FAQ

Do I need a Guru.com account? No. The scraper only reads public search results and job/profile pages.

Why is spending sometimes $0? That's the employer's real total spend on Guru.com — many posters are new accounts or have paid outside the platform's tracked invoices.

Why are earnings or satisfaction sometimes null for a freelancer? Guru.com only shows those figures once a freelancer has 12 months of tracked earnings or received feedback. New profiles show neither.

Do I need a residential proxy? Yes. Guru.com sits behind a bot-detection layer that blocks every datacenter IP outright, so the residential proxy group is preset and required.

What does the skill parameter match against? Guru.com's own skill taxonomy (e.g. python, wordpress, content-writer). Free-text keyword is matched the same way; skill wins if both are set.

Something looks wrong or a field is missing. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and the run ID.

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