Freelancer.com Scraper

Freelancer.com Scraper: open projects with budgets, bid counts and client data

Freelancer.com works on bidding. The client names a budget, freelancers bid against it, and the site publishes how many have bid and what they are asking on average. All three land on every row, next to the skills, the client's country and rating, and the full project description.

One thing to get straight before you sort anything: on an hourly project, budgetMin and budgetMax are an hourly rate, not a total. budgetType says which on every row, and mixing the two is the easiest way to produce a nonsense average.

🔍 What Freelancer.com Scraper does

It searches the open projects, applies your filters, and writes one row each. Skills are a real server-side filter, so narrowing by PHP or Logo Design is the cheapest and fastest way to cut a search down. Budget, bid-count and client-country filters are applied afterwards on the rows themselves, and anything dropped by them is not charged.

Budgets come back in the project's own currency and converted to USD, using the exchange rate Freelancer returns with each project. That matters because the site is genuinely multi-currency, and sorting a mixed export on budgetMin without the USD columns gives you a meaningless ranking.

Client details are on by default: country, city, star rating, review count, member-since date and the verification flags. That costs one extra lookup per project, so a big run is slower with them on.

📥 What you give it

None of these fields has a default. The input form arrives pre-filled with a working example, and those values are starting points you can clear.

{
  "searchQuery": "wordpress",
  "skills": ["PHP"],
  "projectType": "fixed",
  "maxBids": 5,
  "minBudgetUsd": 250,
  "maxItems": 200
}

📤 What you get back

A real row, with the description cut short:

{
  "projectId": 40721965,
  "title": "Bilingual Real Estate Cold Caller",
  "description": "I need someone who can cold call using a U.S. line for several hours each weekday, speak confidently with residential homeowners in both English and Spanish, and secure firm Zoom listing appointments for me...",
  "projectUrl": "https://www.freelancer.com/projects/real-estate/Bilingual-Real-Estate-Cold-Caller",
  "projectType": "hourly",
  "budgetType": "hourly_rate",
  "budgetMin": 15,
  "budgetMax": 25,
  "budgetCurrency": "USD",
  "budgetMinUsd": 15,
  "budgetMaxUsd": 25,
  "bidCount": 4,
  "averageBid": 17.5,
  "averageBidUsd": 17.5,
  "hourlyCommitmentHours": 40,
  "hourlyCommitmentInterval": "week",
  "hourlyDuration": "unspecified",
  "skills": ["Sales", "CRM", "Real Estate", "Spanish Translator", "Customer Service", "Lead Generation", "Appointment Setting", "Cold Calling"],
  "skillIds": [64, 147, 443, 521, 671, 1683, 1694, 3415],
  "categories": ["Sales & Marketing", "Translation & Languages", "Data Entry & Admin"],
  "isSealed": false, "isFeatured": false, "isUrgent": false, "isNda": false,
  "isFulltime": false, "isPremium": false, "isRecruiter": false, "isLocal": false,
  "bidsHidden": false,
  "status": "open",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-20T01:27:46.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-20T07:28:23.000Z",
  "bidPeriodDays": 7,
  "bidsCloseAt": "2026-09-27T01:27:46.000Z",
  "language": "en",
  "projectCountry": null,
  "projectCity": null,
  "clientDetailsFetched": true,
  "clientCountry": "United States",
  "clientCountryCode": "US",
  "clientCity": "DORAL",
  "clientRating": 5,
  "clientReviewCount": 4,
  "clientMemberSince": "2022-01-03T01:31:14.000Z",
  "clientPaymentVerified": true,
  "clientEmailVerified": true,
  "clientPhoneVerified": true,
  "clientProfileComplete": true,
  "clientDepositMade": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T07:45:12.637Z"
}

The categories list is cut short; the real row carries five.

🧾 Reading the output

Real project rows carry no charged field at all, so filter on _sample being absent rather than on charged being true.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Freelancer.com Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type a term into Keyword, or clear it to take the newest projects site-wide. 3. Add Skills if you know them. That is the filter that does the most work. 4. Set Maximum projects, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.45 per 1,000 projects. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per project row you receive. Projects dropped by the budget, bid-count or client-country filters are not charged, the sample row is not charged, and diagnostic rows are not charged. Client details do not add a second charge, they just make the run slower.

💡 What people use it for

• Finding fresh work nobody has quoted on: maxBids at 5, sorted newest, on a schedule.
• Reading the real going rate for a skill, by comparing averageBidUsd against budgetMinUsd across

a few hundred projects rather than guessing.

• Filtering for clients who have actually paid before, using clientPaymentVerified and

clientDepositMade instead of a star rating most clients do not have.

• Watching demand for a skill over time, by running the same skill filter weekly and counting rows.
• Building a lead list of clients in one country who post the kind of work you do.

🚧 What it does not do

• Open projects only. No completed or awarded work, and no history.
• No bid lists. You get the count and the average, not who bid or what each of them said.
• No contests and no freelancer profiles. Projects only.
• About 5,000 projects is as deep as one search goes. Use narrower searches rather than a bigger

number.

• Most clients have no rating, so a rating filter of your own would throw away most of the

market. The verification flags are the better signal.

• Budget filters need a USD conversion. A project Freelancer gives no exchange rate for is

dropped by those filters rather than guessed at.

• Listing upgrades are rare. Filtering on featured, sealed, urgent or NDA will return

very little.

• Rows are a snapshot. Bid counts move fast and bidding closes. bidsCloseAt tells you when.

🧭 Which work-listings scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Freelancer account? No. Everything here is public project data.

Why is a $15 to $25 budget showing on a project that will take weeks? Because it is hourly. Check budgetType, which reads hourly_rate on those rows.

Why does the average bid sit above the budget? That happens a lot. The budget is what the client hoped for and averageBid is what the market is asking. That gap is the most useful thing on the row.

Why do so many clients have a zero rating? Because most of them have never been reviewed. clientReviewCount tells you which zeros are new clients rather than bad ones.

What is the fastest way to narrow a search? Skills. Freelancer applies that one itself, so it cuts the work rather than just cutting the output.

Is this legal? These are public project listings. Check Freelancer's terms and your own local rules before using the output commercially. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the keyword or skill and the run ID. If you got a diagnostic row, its errorCode usually names the problem on its own.