Freelancer.com Scraper

Pull active project listings from Freelancer.com at scale — titles, full descriptions, skills tags, fixed and hourly budgets, bid counts and average bid amounts, employer country, posted and bid-close dates, and quality badges like Featured, Urgent, Sealed, and Guaranteed. Built for sales teams, agencies, and market-research analysts who need fresh freelance-marketplace demand signal without building and maintaining their own data pipeline.

Why This Scraper?

• 16 top-level Freelancer categories — Websites/IT/Software, Mobile & Computing, Writing & Content, Design Media & Architecture, Engineering & Science, Sales & Marketing, Translation, Trades & Services, and 8 more — selectable from a single dropdown.
• 7 project-quality badges per row — Featured, Urgent, Sealed, Guaranteed, NDA, Top, and Full-time — surface high-intent posts at a glance.
• 50-country employer filter — pinpoint projects posted by clients in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, UAE, Germany, Singapore, Brazil, and 41 more, returned as a 2-letter ISO country field on every row.
• Fixed-price and hourly split — budgetMin / budgetMax are emitted as numbers in the project's native currency, with a separate currency ISO code so you can normalize across rows.
• Live bid intelligence — every row carries bidCount and bidAvg so you instantly see how crowded a project is and the going rate clients are accepting.
• Posted and closing timestamps — submitDate and bidEndDate ISO 8601, plus a human-readable timeLeft string like "3 days left" or "Closes today".
• Direct URL pasting — drop any Freelancer.com URL (/jobs/<skill>, /jobs/<skill>/<page>, /search/projects?q=...) into the input and it's parsed into the right filters automatically.
• Four sort orders — Relevance, Newest first, Lowest budget first, Highest budget first.
• Up to 10,000 results per run — large-scale demand snapshots without hand-paging.

Use Cases

Lead Generation

• Build outreach lists of clients posting projects matching your service area
• Filter by minimum budget to target premium clients with real spend
• Capture employer country to prioritize same-timezone leads
• Identify Featured and Urgent posts where clients want to move fast

Market Research & Demand Tracking

• Track freelance demand by skill, region, and budget range over time
• Compare project volume across the 16 Freelancer categories
• Measure average budgets per skill to benchmark market rates
• Spot rising and declining technology demand week over week

Competitive Intelligence

• See exactly which projects competing agencies are bidding on
• Monitor average bid counts to gauge how saturated a niche is
• Track which client countries dominate a given skill category
• Watch a competitor's preferred client patterns by mirroring their search filters

Pricing & Rate Benchmarking

• Compute average fixed-price and hourly budgets per skill
• Compare US-employer budgets against India, Philippines, or UK budgets
• Build internal rate cards anchored to live marketplace data
• Detect when premium-budget projects appear in your niche

Recruiting & Sourcing

• Find clients who post recurring work in a specific skill area
• Identify long-bid-window projects ideal for thoughtful proposals
• Track NDA-flagged and Sealed projects for high-trust opportunities

Getting Started

Search by Keyword

The simplest way to start:

{
    "searchQueries": ["shopify"],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Filter by Category and Budget

{
    "searchQueries": ["react native"],
    "category": "websites-it-software",
    "projectType": "fixed",
    "minBudget": 500,
    "maxBudget": 5000,
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "maxResults": 200
}

Target Premium US Clients

{
    "searchQueries": ["seo", "content marketing"],
    "country": "us",
    "minBudget": 1000,
    "sortBy": "budget_high",
    "maxResults": 500
}

Paste Freelancer.com URLs Directly

{
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.freelancer.com/jobs/web-development",
        "https://www.freelancer.com/search/projects?q=python&minbudget=500"
    ],
    "maxResults": 300
}

Input Reference

Search Inputs

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	["seo"]	Free-text keywords. Each query produces its own result set.
searchUrls	array of strings	[]	Paste Freelancer.com category, search, or project URLs. Filters in the URL are honored.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
category	string	none	One of 16 Freelancer categories (e.g. websites-it-software, design-media-architecture, writing-content).
projectType	string	all	all, fixed, or hourly.
minBudget	integer	none	Minimum project budget in USD.
maxBudget	integer	none	Maximum project budget in USD.
country	string	none	2-letter employer country code (e.g. us, gb, de). 50 countries supported.

Sort & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance, newest, budget_low, or budget_high.
maxResults	integer	1000	Total row cap across all queries and URLs. Maximum 10,000. Set to 0 to request the full 10,000-row maximum.

Output

Example Row

{
    "projectId": 38492013,
    "projectName": "Shopify Plus migration with custom theme",
    "projectDescription": "We are migrating from BigCommerce to Shopify Plus...",
    "projectDescriptionHtml": "We are migrating from BigCommerce to Shopify Plus...<br><br>Requirements:...",
    "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/shopify-plus-migration-custom-theme",
    "seoUrl": "shopify-plus-migration-custom-theme",
    "jobType": "fixed",
    "currency": "USD",
    "budgetMin": 1500,
    "budgetMax": 4500,
    "budgetDisplay": "$1500 - $4500 USD",
    "bidCount": 27,
    "bidAvg": 2890.5,
    "timeLeft": "5 days left",
    "submitDate": "2026-05-06T14:22:01Z",
    "bidEndDate": "2026-05-13T14:22:01Z",
    "country": "us",
    "location": "California",
    "skills": ["Shopify", "Liquid", "JavaScript", "BigCommerce"],
    "featured": true,
    "urgent": false,
    "sealed": false,
    "guaranteed": true,
    "fulltime": false,
    "top": false,
    "nda": false,
    "language": "en",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-08T10:31:42Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
projectId	integer	Numeric Freelancer project ID.
projectName	string	Project title.
projectDescription	string	Full plaintext description with line breaks.
projectDescriptionHtml	string	Same description with <br> tags for HTML rendering.
url	string	Direct link to the project page on Freelancer.com.
seoUrl	string	URL slug portion (e.g. shopify-plus-migration-custom-theme).
jobType	string	fixed or hourly.
language	string	Language code declared by the employer.

Budget & Currency

Field	Type	Description
currency	string	ISO 4217 currency code (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP).
budgetMin	number	Minimum budget in the project's native currency.
budgetMax	number	Maximum budget in the project's native currency.
budgetDisplay	string	Human-readable formatted range (e.g. $1500 - $4500 USD).

Engagement & Bids

Field	Type	Description
bidCount	integer	Number of bids submitted so far.
bidAvg	number	Average bid amount in the project's native currency.
skills	array of strings	Skill tags the employer attached (e.g. ["Shopify", "Liquid"]).

Employer & Location

Field	Type	Description
country	string	Lowercase 2-letter ISO country code of the employer (derived from currency country).
location	string	Administrative area or country name when the employer publishes one.

Quality Badges

Field	Type	Description
featured	boolean	Featured listing — paid placement boost.
urgent	boolean	Marked urgent by the employer.
sealed	boolean	Bids are hidden from competing freelancers.
guaranteed	boolean	Funds held in escrow / qualified project.
fulltime	boolean	Long-term, full-time engagement.
top	boolean	Premium / top-tier placement.
nda	boolean	NDA required to view full details.

Timestamps

Field	Type	Description
submitDate	string	ISO 8601 UTC — when the project was posted.
bidEndDate	string	ISO 8601 UTC — when the bid window closes.
timeLeft	string	Human-readable countdown (e.g. "3 days left", "Closes today", "Closed").
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 UTC — when this row was extracted.

Tips for Best Results

• Drop the keyword for pure budget sorts. When searchQueries is set, results are blended with a relevance score — for clean lowest-or-highest budget order, use searchUrls with sortBy=budget_low or budget_high and no query.
• Combine country=us with minBudget=1000 to surface premium US clients in your timezone — one of the highest-ROI filter combinations for outreach.
• Use searchUrls for category landing pages like https://www.freelancer.com/jobs/seo to ride Freelancer's own skill taxonomy instead of guessing keywords.
• Sort by newest for live monitoring. Run the actor on a schedule (every 30 minutes) with a tight maxResults to capture fresh posts the moment they appear.
• Filter by projectType=hourly when benchmarking long-term retainers — fixed-price posts skew toward one-off work.
• Watch bidCount for saturation. Categories with average bidCount above 40 are crowded; below 15 means less competition for your bids.
• The default maxResults=1000 is the sweet spot for most queries — comprehensive enough to map an active niche, low enough to keep runs quick. Bump up to 10000 (or set to 0) for full-market snapshots.

Pricing

No compute charges — you only pay per result returned.

Results	Cost
100	$0.10
1,000	$0.95
10,000	$9.50
100,000	$95.00

Pricing is per result delivered (billing rounded to the nearest cent). Free runs that return 0 results cost nothing.

Integrations

• Zapier & Make — trigger downstream workflows when new high-budget projects appear.
• Google Sheets — push fresh listings into a sheet for your sales team to work each morning.
• Apify API & webhooks — kick off runs from your own backend or get notified the moment a run finishes.
• CRM systems — drop projectId, country, budgetMax, and skills directly into Salesforce, HubSpot, or Airtable as new lead records.
• BI tools — connect output datasets to Looker, Power BI, or Tableau for trend dashboards.

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor extracts only publicly listed active projects — content that Freelancer.com surfaces to anonymous visitors. It does not access freelancer profiles, private bids, or any logged-in user data.

You are responsible for using the data lawfully. Respect Freelancer.com's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA), and any sender-permission rules (CAN-SPAM, GDPR consent) before contacting employers based on extracted information. Do not use the data for spam or harassment.