💼 Upwork Freelancer Scraper

🚀 Pull Upwork freelancer profiles in minutes. Hourly rates, job success scores, earnings, skills, location, Top Rated status, availability. No API key, no login.

Pull live freelancer profiles from Upwork by keyword search. The actor builds the matching Upwork search URL with your filters, walks the result pages, and returns one structured record per freelancer ready for talent sourcing, agency benchmarking, market-rate research, or competitive intelligence.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of Upwork at run time, not a stale dump. Records include hourly rate, Job Success Score, Top Rated badges, total earnings, total jobs completed, skills array, country and city where available, profile photo URL, and the canonical Upwork profile link.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Talent sourcers	Build matched freelancer pipelines by skill
Agency owners	Benchmark competitor talent and pricing
Recruitment teams	Source candidates for outbound outreach
Market researchers	Track hourly rates by skill and region
Procurement	Validate vendor pricing across geographies
Researchers	Study gig-economy labor market trends

📋 What the Upwork Freelancer Scraper does

• 🔍 Keyword search. Pass any Upwork search query (e.g. python developer, react, web scraping).
• 🏆 Quality filters. Top Rated only, Top Rated Plus only, or all freelancers.
• 🌍 Location filters. US only, by region (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania), by sub-region, or by specific country.
• 💰 Pricing. Hourly rate as advertised by the freelancer.
• 📈 Quality signals. Job Success Score, Top Rated badge level, total jobs, total earnings.
• 🛠️ Skills array. All skills the freelancer has tagged on their profile.

The scraper walks the Upwork search result pages with your filter combination, extracts each freelancer card, and pushes the structured record to the dataset. Records include a back-reference URL to the original Upwork profile so you can rejoin downstream data.

💡 Why it matters: Upwork has the largest pool of vetted freelancers but its UI is paginated, JS-rendered, and filter-locked. A live, structured pull beats manual sourcing for talent acquisition, agency benchmarking, and market research at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: city, country, currency, description, firstName, hasAvailabilityBadge, hourlyRate, isPhoneVerified, isVetted, jobSuccessScore, lastName, portraitUrl, profileUrl, region, scrapedAt, skills, state, timezone, title, topRatedPlusStatus, topRatedStatus, totalEarnings, totalFixedJobs, totalHourlyJobs, totalHours, totalJobs. All 26 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: only one location filter can be active at a time (region, subRegion, or country). Setting any of them overrides usOnly.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Upwork Freelancer Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set filters. Set a search query and pick quality + location filters, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Upwork or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

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