💼 Guru.com Scraper

🚀 Export Guru.com freelancer profiles in seconds. Search by skill or keyword and download names, rates, ratings, job counts, earnings, and profile links in one structured dataset.

The Guru.com Scraper extracts freelancer profile data from Guru.com - one of the largest freelance platforms in the world - using browser-like HTML scraping with residential US proxies. Each record includes the freelancer's name, professional title, listed skills, hourly rate, feedback rating, number of reviews, jobs completed, annual earnings, and a direct link to their profile.

Guru.com hosts hundreds of thousands of verified freelancers across every professional category - from web development and design to legal, finance, writing, and engineering. This scraper lets you access that talent pool in bulk without manual browsing.

Target Audience

Who	Why
Recruitment and HR teams	Source and vet freelancers at scale without manual searching
Procurement managers	Compare freelancer rates and track across categories
Market researchers	Analyze freelance market pricing and talent availability
Startups and agencies	Build shortlists of candidates for specific skill sets
Competitor intelligence teams	Understand talent supply and pricing in specific domains

📋 What the Guru.com Scraper does

• Searches Guru.com's freelancer directory by keyword or skill
• Scrapes listing pages and then follows each profile link to get full detail
• Collects jobs completed from the profile's transaction history
• Fetches review count from the profile's dedicated reviews page
• Paginates automatically across up to 500 pages of results
• Uses residential US proxies with Chrome-like headers to avoid blocking

💡 Why it matters: Guru.com has no public API. This actor is the only way to systematically collect freelancer data at scale - enabling talent sourcing, rate benchmarking, and market analysis that would otherwise require days of manual work.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: currency, earnings, hourlyRate, imageUrl, jobsCompleted, location, name, profileUrl, rating, results, reviewCount, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Guru.com Scraper actor page and click Try for free
3. Enter a keyword (e.g. mobile app developer, content writer, data analyst)
4. Set maxItems to the number of profiles you need
5. Click Start and wait for collection to complete
6. Download your dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, or connect via API

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Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Guru.com Inc. It accesses only publicly available profile data. Use responsibly and in accordance with Guru.com's Terms of Service. ParseForge is not responsible for how collected data is used.

🆘 Need Help?

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