Freelancer.nl Opdrachten Scraper

Extract job listings from freelancer.nl at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for the Netherlands

A dedicated Dutch freelance scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (EUR) are tuned for freelancer.nl.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in EUR. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

📍 Precise location

City, region and country plus latitude/longitude for mapping and radius analysis.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost and changeStatus, so daily feeds return genuinely new jobs instead of reposted duplicates.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"developer"	Search or filter by searchQuery.
city	string	(empty)	Search or filter by city.
budgetType	string	(empty)	Search or filter by budgetType.
budgetMin	string	(empty)	budgetMin.
budgetMax	integer	100	Maximum number of results.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	ON: fetches full job description, salary, company info, and all details. OFF: returns basic listing info only (faster, lower cost).
skipReposts	boolean	false	Enable skipReposts.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return items published within the last N days. Leave blank for all.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Filter by startUrls.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of results (0 = no limit).

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique listing ID from the source.
url	string	Direct link to the listing
title	string	Project title
location	string	Location as displayed on the listing.
isRemote	boolean	true when the listing is marked as remote.
isHybrid	boolean	Is hybrid.
budget	string	Budget.
budgetMin	number	—
budgetMax	number	—
budgetType	string	—
salaryMin	number	Minimum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryMax	number	Maximum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryCurrency	string	Currency code of the salary.
skills	array	Skills listed on the posting.
reactionsCount	number	Reactions count.
viewsCount	string	Views count.
summary	string	Summary.
category	string	Job category on the source.
status	string	Status.
startDate	string	Start date.
duration	string	Duration.
publishDate	string	Date posted as displayed
publishDateISO	string	Publish date iso.
description	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionText	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
isRepost	boolean	true when the listing is a repost of an earlier job (detected by content hash).
originalPublishDate	string	Original publish date.
originalUrl	string	Original url.
contentHash	string	Stable hash of the listing content, used for repost and change detection.
source	string	Source.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp
changeStatus	string	NEW, CHANGED or UNCHANGED compared to the previous time this job was seen.
latitude	string	Latitude of the workplace.
longitude	string	Longitude of the workplace.

Example record

{
  "id": "frnl21eb9fae",
  "url": "https://freelancer.nl/opdrachten/telefonische-acquisitie-transport/appointment-setter-21eb9fae",
  "title": "Appointment Setter",
  "location": "Remote",
  "isRemote": true,
  "isHybrid": false,
  "budget": "In overleg",
  "budgetMin": null,
  "budgetMax": null,
  "budgetType": "In overleg",
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryCurrency": "EUR",
  "skills": [
    "telefonische acquisitie",
    "transport"
  ],
  "reactionsCount": 0,
  "viewsCount": null,
  "summary": "Vanwege de uitbreiding van ons personeelsbestand, zijn we opzoek naar een freelancer die opdrachten in transport voor ons kan binnenhalen.",
  "category": null,
  "status": null,
  "startDate": null,
  "duration": null,
  "publishDate": "35 minuten geleden",
  "publishDateISO": null,
  "description": null,
  "descriptionText": null,
  "descriptionMarkdown": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null,
  "contentHash": "fc17a474d314f2a7",
  "source": "freelancer.nl",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T08:13:10.487Z",
  "changeStatus": "NEW",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null
}

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Examples

Search for webdeveloper roles in Amsterdam:

{
  "searchQuery": "webdeveloper",
  "city": "Amsterdam",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Only jobs from the last 3 days:

{
  "searchQuery": "webdeveloper",
  "city": "Amsterdam",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "daysOld": 3
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.freelancer.nl/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "webdeveloper",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$1 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.1
1,000	~$1
10,000	~$10
100,000	~$100

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $0.6 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: freelancer.nl — the Netherlands job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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