Freelancer.com Scraper

🐦 Freelancer.com Scraper

Export open projects from Freelancer.com in seconds: title, full description, budget in the original currency and in US dollars, bid count and average bid, skills, categories, posting time and the client's payment-verified badge. Search by keyword or skill, paste job search links or single project links, and filter by project type, budget, bids and age. No login, no browser, and you pay only for the projects you get.

✨ Why use Freelancer.com Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast — reads the site's own search and project data directly; 20 projects arrive in a few seconds, 1,000 in about 15 seconds in our test runs.
• 💵 Budgets you can compare — every budget and average bid comes in the project's own currency and converted to USD at the site's rate.
• 📝 Full descriptions — the complete project brief, not the 100-character teaser from the search page.
• ✅ Client quality signals — payment-verified badge on every project, plus optional client location, rating, reviews, member-since date and verifications.
• 🎯 Precise filters — fixed or hourly, USD budget range, min/max bids, posted within N hours, payment-verified only, project language.
• 🔓 No login needed — only public data, nothing to configure.

🎯 Use cases

• 🔔 Opportunity alerts — schedule a run every hour for "posted within 2 hours, under 20 bids, payment verified" and pipe new projects to Slack or email.
• 🏢 Agency prospecting — find clients who keep posting work in your niche (Shopify, SEO, mobile apps) and see their budgets and verification status.
• 📊 Market and pricing research — compare budgets and average bids per skill, currency and project type.
• 🧠 Skill demand tracking — count which skills and categories appear most in new projects week over week.
• 🧪 Competition analysis — see how many bids projects attract and how the average bid relates to the budget.

🚀 How to use

1. Enter one or more Search keywords (e.g. seo, wordpress developer), or add Skills, or paste Freelancer.com links (job search pages like freelancer.com/jobs/seo/ or project pages).
2. Set Max projects per search (20 by default; 0 = everything the site lists).
3. Optionally narrow it down with the Filters (type, budget, bids, age, payment verified, language) and turn on Include client details.
4. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["shopify", "react native"],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "projectType": "fixed",
  "minBudget": 250,
  "maxBids": 25,
  "postedWithinHours": 24,
  "paymentVerifiedOnly": true,
  "includeClientDetails": true
}

📤 Output

One row per project.

Example (trimmed):

{
  "id": 40779432,
  "title": "Wix Dancewear Shop Setup",
  "url": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/wix/wix-dancewear-shop-setup",
  "type": "fixed",
  "status": "open",
  "budgetMin": 20,
  "budgetMax": 250,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "budgetText": "£20 - £250 GBP",
  "budgetMinUsd": 26.79,
  "budgetMaxUsd": 334.88,
  "budgetUsdText": "$27 - $335",
  "bidCount": 311,
  "bidAvg": 123.7,
  "bidAvgUsd": 165.7,
  "bidAvgText": "$165",
  "paymentVerified": true,
  "postedAt": "2026-10-21T11:46:33Z",
  "bidPeriodDays": 7,
  "timeLeft": "6 days left",
  "skills": ["Website Design", "SEO", "eCommerce", "HTML", "Wix", "Web Development", "Web Design"],
  "categories": ["Design, Media & Architecture", "Websites, IT & Software", "Engineering & Science"],
  "description": "I have already uploaded every costume, piece of dancewear, shoe and accessory we sell into the Wix Product Manager, but the storefront itself is still a blank page…",
  "language": "en",
  "featured": false,
  "urgent": false,
  "sealed": false,
  "nda": false,
  "clientLocation": "Maidenhad, United Kingdom",
  "clientCountryCode": "GB",
  "clientRating": 5,
  "clientReviewCount": 28,
  "clientMemberSince": "2015-11-09",
  "clientPaymentVerified": true,
  "clientDepositMade": true,
  "clientEmailVerified": true,
  "clientPhoneVerified": true,
  "searchSkills": ["PHP", "HTML"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T12:36:54Z"
}

💰 Pricing

• $0.70 per 1,000 projects ($0.0007 per project).
• Client details add-on: $1.00 per 1,000 projects (only when you turn it on and the client box could be read).
• Platform usage (compute and proxy traffic) is billed on top and is tiny for this actor: well under a cent for 1,000 projects in our test runs.
• Example: 1,000 projects ≈ $0.70 plus usage; with client details ≈ $1.70 plus usage.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Freelancer.com? The actor reads only public project listings that anyone can see without an account. You are responsible for how you use the data; check the site's terms and your local laws, especially for personal data.

Do I need a Freelancer.com account or a proxy? No login. The default US datacenter proxy works; if the site ever refuses it, the run switches to US residential exits by itself.

How many projects can I get? As many as the site lists for your search. Freelancer.com usually shows a few thousand open projects in total, a few hundred per popular keyword. Set maxResults to 0 for everything.

Why is a field empty? Fields appear only when the project publishes them: hourly fields are empty for fixed-price projects, location fields only exist for local (on-site) projects, and bidAvgText / budgetUsdText come from the search table and are empty for project links (the numeric USD fields are always filled).

Are contests included? No. The actor returns projects only; contests are skipped.

Can I schedule it or use the API? Yes. Schedule runs (e.g. hourly with postedWithinHours: 2) and fetch results through the API or integrations.

⚠️ Limits

• Contests, closed private projects and projects hidden from logged-out visitors are not returned (they are counted as "no longer public" in the status message).
• Client names and bidder details are not collected; the client box gives location, rating, reviews and verifications only.
• Budget filters use USD values converted at the site's exchange rate; hourly and fixed budgets are compared on the same number (rate vs. total).
• Category links (e.g. /jobs/websites-it-software/) search every skill of that category, so they honour sortBy and the filters.
• Job links whose skill or category freelancer.com does not know (a typo, or a page like /jobs/united-states/ that the site answers with all jobs) are skipped and reported in the status message instead of returning unrelated projects.