Freelancer.com Projects Scraper
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from $0.84 / 1,000 results
Active freelance projects from Freelancer.com: title, full description, budget range, bid count and average bid, required skills, project type and posting time. Filter by keyword, skill or budget, with skill names resolved to the numeric ids the site needs.
Free-text search across active projects, e.g. 'python', 'logo design', 'shopify'. A real upstream filter — 'python' narrowed 5,723 active projects to 172 during testing.
Filter by required skill. Type the skill NAME ('PHP', 'Game Design'), its URL slug ('php') or its numeric id — all three resolve. Freelancer's own API only accepts the numeric id and has 3,483 of them, so this actor looks them up for you. A skill it does not recognise is reported as an error, because the API answers an unknown id with zero projects and a success status — which looks exactly like 'no work available'.
Emit all 3,483 skills with their ids, categories and slugs as their own rows. This is where the skill names above come from. Costs one extra request.
Restrict to 'fixed' price projects, 'hourly' ones, or leave empty for both.
Keep only fixed-price projects whose average bid is at least this much, in the project's own currency. Note the currency is not normalised — projects are posted in USD, AUD, INR and others, and each row carries its own.
Upper bound on the average bid, same currency caveat as the minimum.
For hourly projects: the lowest average hourly bid to keep, in the project's own currency.
For hourly projects: the highest average hourly bid to keep.
Ask Freelancer for the full description, skills, attachments, location and upgrade flags rather than the short preview. Same number of requests either way — it is a flag on the same call — so there is rarely a reason to turn it off.
Stop after this many unique projects. 0 means no cap (still bounded by max pages).
Safety ceiling on requests. Freelancer serves at most 99 projects per call, and there were about 5,700 active projects in total during testing — so roughly 58 pages covers everything on offer.
Shortest gap between two request starts. Pages are fetched one after another, so this is the only speed control that matters.
