Upwork Scraper - Jobs & Freelancer Profiles (No API Key)

Scrape Upwork jobs and Upwork freelancer profiles from public search without an API key, cookies, or login. Point it at a keyword or paste Upwork search URLs, and get clean, structured JSON: job budgets and hourly ranges, required skills, experience level and client details in jobs mode, or rates, job success, earnings, hours, skills and location in freelancer mode. Built for freelance lead generation, gig-economy market research, rate benchmarking, and job-feed monitoring.

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns in freelancer mode:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://www.upwork.com/profile-portraits/c1FlM2Ga-T6Nhk3pTJRFZi_I33TuSwJzppERyc8VcpYvwGbrqAmXEb2lShZoqZhv8P",
  "name": "Ronald T.",
  "title": "Python Developer",
  "url": "https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01d699cdd471617458",
  "hourlyRate": 30,
  "currency": "USD",
  "jobSuccess": 100,
  "totalEarned": 182073.96,
  "topRatedStatus": "Top Rated",
  "totalHours": 8938,
  "totalJobs": 14,
  "completedJobs": 1,
  "country": "Philippines",
  "state": null,
  "city": "San Jose Del Monte Bulacan",
  "timezone": "UTC+08:00 Hong Kong SAR, Perth, Singapore, Taipei",
  "offerConsultations": false,
  "description": "I specialize in API development and web scraping using Python...",
  "portfolioItemCount": 2,
  "skills": ["Data Scraping", "Django", "Python", "Data Extraction", "TypeScript", "API Development", "RESTful API", "React", "Docker", "PostgreSQL", "MySQL"],
  "observedAt": "2026-08-10T14:42:24.214Z",
  "error": null
}

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Why this Upwork scraper
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• How it compares
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

This Upwork scraper searches Upwork's public talent or job search for a keyword (or a search URL you supply), paginates the matching results, and writes one normalized record per result to the run's dataset. No official Upwork API, developer key, or account is required.

• Jobs mode returns job posts: id and URL, title and description, fixed budget or hourly range, weekly budget, project type, duration, engagement, experience level, category and subcategory, skills, proposals range, connects required, premium flag, posting dates, plus client details shown on the public job card (country, total spent, hires, rating, reviews, payment-verified status).
• Freelancer mode returns talent profiles: name, headline, profile URL and portrait, hourly rate and currency, job success score, total earned and hours, top-rated status, job counts, location and timezone, whether the freelancer offers consultations, profile description, portfolio item count, and skills.

Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

Why this Upwork scraper

• No API key, no login, no proxy setup. Upwork does not offer a public jobs/talent data API, so this actor reads the same public search pages a visitor sees. You paste a keyword and press Run.
• Both surfaces, one actor. Freelancer leads and job-feed data from a single input.
• Rich client data in jobs mode. Client country, total spent, hires, rating and payment-verified status for freelance lead scoring and outreach.
• Native filters. Job type, experience level, budget, hourly rate, payment-verified, and recency sort, forwarded to Upwork's own search.
• Pay per result. You are billed per record returned, never for failed runs.

Popular searches this actor serves: Upwork scraper, Upwork API alternative, Upwork jobs data, freelance jobs scraper, Upwork job feed, freelancer leads, gig economy data, Upwork talent search export, no API key.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns 10 freelancer profiles for the keyword "python developer".

{
  "searchType": "freelancers",
  "searchQuery": "python developer",
  "maxResults": 10
}

Search job posts instead, newest first, hourly and expert only:

{
  "searchType": "jobs",
  "searchQuery": "react developer",
  "sortBy": "recency",
  "jobType": "hourly",
  "experienceLevel": ["expert"],
  "maxResults": 25
}

Because Upwork's search sits behind a heavy Cloudflare challenge that clears on a warm session, set the run timeout to 600s or more (Input, then Run options) for reliable runs. See Billing and limits for details on throughput.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchType	enum	no	freelancers	freelancers for talent profiles, or jobs for job posts.
searchQuery	string	yes*	(none)	Keyword to search, e.g. python developer, logo design, virtual assistant. Required unless startUrls is set.
startUrls	string[]	no	[]	One or more Upwork search URLs (job or talent) to scrape directly. Overrides searchQuery; searchType is auto-detected from each URL path.
maxResults	integer	no	10	Maximum number of freelancers or jobs to collect. Free plans capped at 10.
sortBy	enum	no	relevance	relevance or recency (newest first).
jobType	enum	no	any	Jobs mode: hourly, fixed, or any.
experienceLevel	array	no	[]	Jobs mode: any of entry, intermediate, expert.
minHourlyRate / maxHourlyRate	integer	no	(none)	Hourly-rate range (USD). Applies to hourly jobs and freelancer rates.
minBudget / maxBudget	integer	no	(none)	Jobs mode: fixed-price budget range (USD).
paymentVerified	boolean	no	false	Jobs mode: return only clients with a verified payment method.

Filters are forwarded to Upwork's native search parameters. Results are drawn 10 per page.

Output reference

Jobs mode

One dataset item per job post.

Field	Type	Description
jobId	string	Upwork job identifier (ciphertext).
ciphertext	string	Raw ciphertext id.
title	string	Job title.
url	string	Direct link to the job post.
type	string	Hourly or Fixed.
description	string	Job description (HTML stripped).
category / subcategory	string	Job category and subcategory, or null.
budgetAmount	number	Fixed-price budget in USD (fixed jobs), else null.
hourlyMin / hourlyMax	number	Hourly-rate range (hourly jobs), else null.
weeklyBudget	number	Weekly budget for hourly contracts, or null.
currency	string	Currency, typically USD.
duration	string	Estimated project duration, or null.
engagement	string	Engagement, e.g. Part Time, or null.
experienceLevel	string	Required tier, e.g. Expert, or null.
proposalsRange	string	Number-of-proposals band, or null.
connectsRequired	integer	Connects required to apply, or null.
freelancersToHire	integer	Openings on the post, or null.
enterpriseJob	boolean	Whether it is an Enterprise post, or null.
premium	boolean	Whether the post is premium.
skills	string[]	Skills requested on the job.
clientCountry	string	Client country, or null.
clientCity	string	Client city, or null.
clientTotalSpent	number	Client lifetime spend in USD, or null.
clientTotalHires	integer	Client total hires, or null.
clientTotalPostedJobs	integer	Jobs the client has posted, or null.
clientRating	number	Client average feedback (0 to 5), or null.
clientReviewsCount	integer	Client review count, or null.
clientPaymentVerified	boolean	Whether the client's payment method is verified, or null.
clientCompany	string	Client company name, or null.
createdOn / postedAt	string	Creation and published timestamps, or null.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection.
error	string	null on success; populated on a failed run.

Client fields reflect what Upwork exposes on the public job card; a field Upwork omits for a given post is returned as null.

Freelancer mode

One dataset item per freelancer profile. Types: string, number, integer, boolean, string[], or null.

Field	Type	Description
imageUrl	string	Profile portrait URL, or null.
name	string	Freelancer display name.
title	string	Profile headline.
url	string	Direct link to the freelancer profile.
hourlyRate	number	Advertised hourly rate, or null.
currency	string	Currency of the rate, typically USD.
jobSuccess	integer	Job Success Score (0 to 100), or null.
totalEarned	number	Total earned on Upwork in USD, or null.
topRatedStatus	string	Top Rated, Top Rated Plus, Rising Talent, or null.
totalHours	integer	Total hours worked, or null.
totalJobs	integer	Total hourly plus fixed-price jobs, or null.
completedJobs	integer	Completed jobs, or null.
country / state / city	string	Location fields (some may be null).
timezone	string	Freelancer timezone.
offerConsultations	boolean	Whether the freelancer offers paid consultations.
description	string	Full profile description.
portfolioItemCount	integer	Number of portfolio items.
skills	string[]	Skills listed on the profile.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection.
error	string	null on success; populated on a failed run.

How it compares

Feature comparison against other Upwork actors on Apify (as of 2026-09).

Capability	This actor	thirdwatch/upwork-jobs-scraper	junipr/upwork-jobs	sovereigntaylor/upwork-scraper
Freelancer (talent) mode	Yes	No	No	Yes
Jobs mode	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Keyword search	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Start URL input	Yes	No	No	Partial
Sort by recency	Yes	No	Yes	No
Job type filter	Yes	No	Yes	No
Experience-level filter	Yes	No	Yes	No
Budget / hourly-rate filter	Yes	No	Yes	No
Payment-verified filter	Yes	No	No	No
Job skills	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Proposals + connects	Yes	Yes (details)	Yes	Partial
Client country / spend / hires / rating	Yes	Yes (details add-on)	Yes	Partial
Freelancer earnings / job success / hours	Yes	n/a	n/a	Yes
Pay per result (no per-run/per-page fees)	Yes	Yes	No (per-page)	Yes

Notes, stated honestly: some competitors pull client history from per-job detail pages, which lets them show fields even when a search card hides them; this actor reads client fields from the public search card and returns null where Upwork omits them. Upwork's search is Cloudflare-gated (see below), so throughput is the trade-off across every actor in this category.

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token. Give Upwork runs a long timeout.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~upwork-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>&timeout=600" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchType":"freelancers","searchQuery":"python developer","maxResults":10}'

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~upwork-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>&timeout=600" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchType":"jobs","searchQuery":"logo design","sortBy":"recency","maxResults":25}'

apify call scrapers_lat/upwork-scraper \
  --input '{"searchType":"freelancers","searchQuery":"virtual assistant"}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per freelancer or job returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• No charge on failure. If a run cannot clear the challenge in time or matches nothing, the actor writes a single item with an error field (and a hint) and does not charge for it.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run. Upgrade for a higher maxResults.
• Cloudflare-gated source, honest throughput. Upwork's public search sits behind a heavy Cloudflare challenge. The actor is HTTP-only and clears each page through a hosted solver service (you configure no proxy or browser). A fresh, cold session can take a few minutes to warm, and some runs time out before the first page clears; when that happens you get an unbilled error record. Set the run timeout to 600s or more and retry; warm sessions are cached, so a retry shortly after a timeout usually succeeds. During periods when Upwork tightens the challenge, expect lower success rates and retries.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Do I need an Upwork API key or account? No. Upwork has no public jobs/talent data API. This actor reads the same public search pages a logged-out visitor sees. No key, cookie, or login is required.

A run returned only an error record. Why? The run could not warm a session and clear Cloudflare in the time available, or the search matched nothing. Raise the run timeout to 600s or more and retry. Error records are not charged.

How do I search job posts instead of freelancers? Set searchType to jobs, or paste a https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/... URL into startUrls. The output switches to job fields (budget, type, experience level, skills, client details).

Can I filter results? Yes. In jobs mode use jobType, experienceLevel, minBudget/maxBudget, minHourlyRate/maxHourlyRate, paymentVerified, and sortBy. Filters are forwarded to Upwork's native search.

Why are some fields null? Upwork does not expose every field for every result in public search (for example a client's exact spend, or a freelancer's state). Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

Is this an official Upwork tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Upwork. It reads only data available through Upwork's public search. Use it in accordance with Upwork's terms.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with Upwork. Accesses only data available through Upwork's public search. Use in accordance with Upwork's terms.