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👁 Freelancer.com Scraper

Extract project listings from Freelancer.com — the world's largest freelance marketplace with 6,700+ active projects posted across every category. Filter by keyword, skill, category, budget, language, or date. No API key, no proxy, and no account required.

Why this scraper?

🌍 Full platform coverage — all 100+ categories

Scrapes every active project across all categories: IT & Software, Design, Writing, Engineering, Sales, Trades & Services, AI, and more. No category is off-limits.

🔍 Richest output in its class

Returns 28+ structured fields per project — including bid count, average bid, bidding deadline, sealed/NDA/IP-contract flags, escrow status, hourly commitment, duration, skill categories, and more. Competitors return 8–12 fields.

💸 Cheapest option — no proxy overhead

The platform's public API works directly from datacenter IPs. No residential proxy costs are passed through — ever. Our competitors explicitly warn users to purchase proxies separately.

⚡ Fast — 1,000 projects in ~5 minutes

Retrieves 100 projects per request with no browser required. Scales to the full platform (6,700+ projects) in under 35 minutes.

🔄 Daily feed ready

Built-in cross-run deduplication with a 90-day fingerprint cache. Run on a schedule with daysOld: 1 + skipReposts: true to receive only new projects daily.

🛡️ Self-healing architecture

Automatic retry with exponential backoff, circuit breaker, and per-run health monitoring. Every run writes HEALTH and OUTPUT keys to the key-value store.

Input parameters

Skill ID reference (common values)

Category ID reference

Output schema

Always present

With fetchDetails: true

Example output record

{
"id":40411253,
"title":"Build a React dashboard for logistics tracking",
"url":"https://www.freelancer.com/projects/javascript/Build-React-dashboard-logistics",
"type":"fixed",
"subStatus":null,
"budgetMin":250,
"budgetMax":750,
"currency":"USD",
"hourlyCommitmentHours":null,
"hourlyCommitmentInterval":null,
"hourlyDuration":null,
"skills":["React.js","JavaScript","Node.js","API"],
"skillCategories":["Websites, IT & Software"],
"category":"Websites, IT & Software",
"previewDescription":"We need a React dashboard for real-time shipment tracking from our logistics API...",
"bidCount":18,
"bidAvg":487.50,
"bidPeriodDays":7,
"biddingDeadline":"2026-05-08T08:34:21.000Z",
"postedAt":"2026-05-01T08:34:21.000Z",
"updatedAt":"2026-05-01T08:34:21.000Z",
"language":"en",
"frontendStatus":"open",
"isRepost":false,
"isFeatured":false,
"isUrgent":true,
"isSealed":false,
"isNDA":false,
"isQualified":false,
"isIPContract":false,
"isEscrow":false,
"isBuyerKYCRequired":false,
"isSellerKYCRequired":false,
"isHireMe":false,
"isLocal":false,
"changeStatus":"NEW",
"contentHash":"a3f1c8e2d094"
}

Hourly project example (new fields):

{
"type":"hourly",
"hourlyCommitmentHours":40,
"hourlyCommitmentInterval":"week",
"hourlyDuration":"unspecified",
"skillCategories":["Websites, IT & Software","Mobile Phones & Computing"]
}

Examples

All new projects from the last 24 hours (daily feed):

{
"daysOld":1,
"skipReposts":true,
"maxResults":500
}

Fixed-price web design projects under $500:

{
"searchQuery":"landing page",
"projectType":"fixed",
"budgetMax":500,
"maxResults":100
}

Hourly IT projects with full descriptions:

{
"categoryIds":[1],
"projectType":"hourly",
"languages":["en"],
"fetchDetails":true,
"maxResults":50
}

Automotive engineering projects — all types:

{
"jobIds":[190,2228],
"maxResults":100,
"fetchDetails":true
}

💰 Pricing

$0.99 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved projects. Failed retries and filtered duplicates are never charged.

Competing actors charge $1.00–$5.00 per 1,000 results and require you to pay for residential proxies on top. This actor needs no proxy.

Performance

Known limitations

• Projects marked nonpublic (client-hidden) are excluded by the platform
• Budget amounts are in the project's native currency — no conversion
• Owner country/city only available with fetchDetails: true and only if the owner has disclosed them
• isRepost is reliably populated only with fetchDetails: true (the list endpoint does not expose repost metadata for anonymous requests)
• The platform has ~6,700–7,000 active projects at any given time

Additional services

Need a custom actor, additional filters, scheduled runs, or integration support?.nl](mailto:info@unfencedgroup.nl) — we build on request.

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Run it on a schedule

This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.

• Schedule runs — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
• Connect it to your stack — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
• Pull results via API — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.

Set it once and it runs on its own.

Need a custom scraper?

Unfenced Group builds Apify actors for any website — for free.

If the site you need isn't in our portfolio yet, just ask. We scope, build, and publish it at no cost to you. You only pay for results — we absorb the compute and proxy costs ourselves. Same pay-per-result pricing, same quality, same standards as every actor in this portfolio.

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