Freelancer Scraper

Extract live freelance project listings from Freelancer.com, the global marketplace with millions of posted jobs across every category and currency

20 fields per record

Global coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated 2026-06-22

What you get

One record per active project posted on Freelancer.com, with the full brief, the budget and the live bidding stats, ready to feed a lead pipeline, a market study or a rate benchmark. Every output field:

• projectId: the numeric Freelancer.com project id
• title: the project title as posted by the client
• description: the full project brief
• type: Fixed or Hourly
• budgetMin: lower bound of the client budget, in the project currency
• budgetMax: upper bound of the client budget, in the project currency
• currency: ISO currency code of the budget (for example USD, INR, EUR)
• currencyName: human readable currency name
• bidCount: how many freelancers have bid so far
• avgBid: average bid amount placed on the project
• skills: list of required skills and categories
• hourlyHours: weekly hour commitment, present on hourly projects only
• hourlyInterval: the commitment interval, present on hourly projects only
• bidPeriodDays: how many days the project stays open for bidding
• sealed: true when bids are hidden from other freelancers
• featured: true when the client paid to feature the project
• urgent: true when the client marked the project urgent
• status: the current project status (for example open)
• language: language code of the listing
• postedAt: ISO timestamp of when the project was submitted
• url: direct link to the project page
• observedAt: when this listing was last seen by the scraper

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Lead generation from clients posting paid work	Agencies and freelancers prospecting new clients
Benchmarking budgets and bid counts by skill	Freelancers setting their own rates
Tracking demand for a skill over time	Recruiters and market researchers
Building a niche job board or aggregator	Product teams and developers
Monitoring competition on specific categories	Service businesses and consultants

Frequently Asked Questions

Which countries and categories does this cover? Freelancer.com is a global marketplace, so projects come from clients worldwide and span every category from web development and data entry to logo design and writing. You filter by keyword and skill rather than by country, and budgets are returned in each project's own currency.

How many projects can I collect in one run? You can collect as many active projects as match your search, up to the maxItems limit you set. A single keyword like python typically has dozens to a few hundred active projects at any moment, and the scraper pages through them fifty at a time.

Can I filter by fixed price or hourly, by skill, or by budget? Yes. Use projectTypes to keep only fixed price or hourly projects, jobs to pass one or more numeric skill IDs, and minBudget to drop projects whose average budget falls below a threshold. Leave a filter empty to ignore it.

Why is the employer or client name missing? Freelancer.com withholds the project owner identity on public unauthenticated reads, so client name, rating and country are not available through the public listings. The scraper never invents them. Turning on the include employer option leaves that field null by design.

What happens when a field has no value? Missing values are returned as null and never guessed. Hourly fields are null on fixed price projects, and budgetMax can be null when the client did not set an upper bound. Each record carries an error field that is null on success.

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

• Freelancer Logo Design Projects: Pull logo design freelance projects on Freelancer with title, budget, number of bids and skills required.
• Freelancer Python Projects: Scrape Python freelance projects on Freelancer with title, budget, bids, skills and employer details.
• Freelancer Web Design Projects: Track web design freelance projects on Freelancer with title, budget, bids, skills and employer info.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with Freelancer.com. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the platform. Use it in accordance with Freelancer.com's terms of service.