Freelancer.com Projects Scraper: Budget, Bids, Skills

Data source

Public Freelancer.com projects JSON API (the same endpoint behind the site search pages), read without a login, so results are as fresh as the live listing.

What does Freelancer.com Projects Scraper do?

It returns open Freelancer.com projects with the fields buyers and agencies care about: title, link, fixed or hourly type, budget range in the original currency and in USD, number of bids, average bid, required skills, categories, full description and posting time. Filter by keyword, project type and minimum budget so you only pay for the projects you want. Pricing is per result.

Why use it?

• Lead generation for freelancers and agencies: find new projects in your niche the hour they are posted.
• Market research: see which skills are in demand, what budgets look like and how crowded each project is (bid count).
• Monitoring: schedule it every hour and push new projects to Slack, email or a spreadsheet.
• Replaces manual searching, saved alerts that arrive late, and stale exports.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set the filters.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new records automatically.

Input

Field	Description
query	Keywords matched against titles and descriptions. Leave empty for all newest projects.
projectType	any, fixed or hourly.
minBudgetUsd	Skip projects whose top budget, converted to USD, is below this value. 0 disables it.
sortBy	newest (posting time) or recently_updated.
maxResults	Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

Example input:

{ "query": "python", "projectType": "fixed", "minBudgetUsd": 100, "sortBy": "newest", "maxResults": 50 }

Output

Every record has the same shape:

{
  "id": "40754600",
  "title": "Healthcare Data Science Portfolio",
  "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/data-visualization/Healthcare-Data-Science-Portfolio",
  "projectType": "fixed",
  "budgetMin": 1500,
  "budgetMax": 12500,
  "currency": "INR",
  "budgetMinUsd": 15.5,
  "budgetMaxUsd": 129.17,
  "bidCount": 48,
  "averageBid": 7702.06,
  "averageBidUsd": 79.59,
  "skills": ["Python", "Machine Learning (ML)", "Data Science", "Pandas"],
  "categories": ["Websites, IT & Software", "Artificial Intelligence"],
  "description": "For my portfolio, I want to develop a complete Python data-science walkthrough...",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-07T05:47:26.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-07T05:47:26.000Z",
  "bidPeriodDays": 7,
  "hoursPerWeek": null,
  "language": "en",
  "featured": false,
  "urgent": false,
  "sealed": false,
  "nda": false,
  "status": "open",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T08:25:29.847Z"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Freelancer.com project id, safe for deduplication between runs
budgetMin, budgetMax, currency	Budget as posted (hourly projects: rate per hour)
budgetMinUsd, budgetMaxUsd, averageBidUsd	Converted with the exchange rate Freelancer.com publishes
bidCount, averageBid	Competition and typical offer so far
skills, categories	Skills the client tagged and their parent categories
hoursPerWeek	Weekly commitment for hourly projects
postedAt, updatedAt	ISO timestamps (UTC)

Pricing

Pay per event: a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set maxResults to cap any run.

Limitations

• Only open (active) projects are returned, not closed or awarded ones.
• Client name, client country and reviews are not exposed without a login, so they are not included.
• The site search returns at most about 5,000 projects per query. Use narrower keywords for more.
• Budgets in some projects are missing when the client chose a custom or "contest" style listing.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads listings the site publishes for any visitor without a login and stores only business information published for that purpose. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab; response time is usually under a day.