# Freelancer Projects, Budgets & Bids Scraper (`scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper`) Actor
Scrape freelance project listings from Freelancer.com worldwide. Extract title, full brief, fixed or hourly budget with currency, bid count, average bid, required skills, status and posting date. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel. No login needed.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapers\_lat/freelancer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Lat](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $6.15 / 1,000 results
This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".
## How to integrate an Actor?
If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.
- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).
For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.
For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).
# README
[](https://console.apify.com/actors/rYhhLGm3yqyRUvrQ2/input)
## Freelancer Projects, Budgets & Bids Scraper
> Extract live freelance project listings from Freelancer.com, the global marketplace with millions of posted jobs across every category and currency, including budgets and average bids normalized to USD for cross-currency comparison, plus NDA, recruiter, full-time and hire-me signals
**📥 [Input](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/input-schema) · 📤 [Output](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/output-schema) · 💰 [Pricing](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/pricing) · ▶️ [Examples](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples)**
29 fields per record
Global coverage
JSON / CSV / Excel output formats
### Who is it for
| Use case | Who benefits |
|---|---|
| Lead generation from clients posting paid work | Agencies and freelancers prospecting new clients |
| Benchmarking budgets and bid counts by skill | Freelancers setting their own rates |
| Tracking demand for a skill over time | Recruiters and market researchers |
| Building a niche job board or aggregator | Product teams and developers |
| Monitoring competition on specific categories | Service businesses and consultants |
### Frequently Asked Questions
**Which countries and categories does this cover?**
Freelancer.com is a global marketplace, so projects come from clients worldwide and span every category from web development and data entry to logo design and writing. You filter by keyword and skill rather than by country, and budgets are returned in each project's own currency.
**How many projects can I collect in one run?**
You can collect as many active projects as match your search, up to the maxItems limit you set. A single keyword like python typically has dozens to a few hundred active projects at any moment, and the scraper pages through them fifty at a time.
**Can I filter by fixed price or hourly, by skill, or by budget?**
Yes. Use projectTypes to keep only fixed price or hourly projects, jobs to pass one or more numeric skill IDs, and minBudget to drop projects whose average budget falls below a threshold. Leave a filter empty to ignore it.
**Why is the employer or client name missing?**
Freelancer.com withholds the project owner identity on public unauthenticated reads, so client name, rating and country are not available through the public listings. The scraper never invents them. Turning on the include employer option leaves that field null by design.
**What happens when a field has no value?**
Missing values are returned as null and never guessed. Hourly fields are null on fixed price projects, and budgetMax can be null when the client did not set an upper bound. Each record carries an error field that is null on success.
### Example use cases
Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:
- [Freelancer Content Writing Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-content-writing-projects): Scrape active content writing projects from Freelancer.com. Collect budgets, bid counts, skills, and dates for freelance article and copywriting jobs.
- [Freelancer Data Entry Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-data-entry-projects): Scrape active data entry projects from Freelancer.com. Get budgets, bids, required skills, and posting dates for freelance data entry jobs in JSON.
- [Freelancer Mobile App Development Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-mobile-app-development-projects): Scrape active mobile app development projects from Freelancer.com. Collect budgets, bid counts, skills, and dates for iOS and Android freelance jobs.
- [Freelancer React Native App Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-react-native-app-projects): Scrape active React Native projects from Freelancer.com. Get budgets, bids, skills, and posting dates for freelance cross-platform app development jobs.
- [Freelancer SEO Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-seo-projects): Scrape active SEO projects from Freelancer.com. Get budgets, bids, required skills, and posting dates for freelance search engine optimization jobs.
- [Freelancer Video Editing Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-video-editing-projects): Scrape active video editing projects from Freelancer.com. Collect budgets, bid counts, skills, and posting dates for freelance video editing gigs.
- [Freelancer WordPress Development Projects Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-wordpress-development-projects): Scrape active WordPress development projects from Freelancer.com. Get budgets, bids, skills, and posting dates for freelance WordPress jobs in JSON.
- [Freelancer Logo Design Projects](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-logo-design-projects): Freelancer Logo Design Projects
- [Freelancer Python Projects](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-python-projects): Freelancer Python Projects
- [Freelancer Web Design Projects](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper/examples/freelancer-web-design-projects): Freelancer Web Design Projects
### Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)
Export the scraped data to **JSON, CSV or Excel**, pull it as a **dataset** through the Apify **API**, or wire it into your app with **no code**. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.
For AI agents: this Actor is available on **x402**, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an **MCP** tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about [x402 agentic payments on Apify](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402).
### Related scrapers
Need data from the same space? Here are other scrapers we build and maintain:
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- [Workable Job Listings Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/workable-scraper): Extract public job listings from any Workable-hosted company careers board by account name or board...
- [Talent.com Job Listings Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/talent-jobs-scraper): Extract public Talent.com job listings by keyword, location and country: title, company, salary...
- [GetOnBrd Tech Jobs & Salary Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/getonbrd-scraper): Extract LATAM tech jobs and salary data from GetOnBrd. Scrape job title, company, category...
- [Dice Tech Job Listings Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/dice-jobs-scraper): Extract public Dice.com tech job postings by keyword and location: title, company, location...
### More scrapers at scrapers.lat
This actor is built and maintained by [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat), where we publish scrapers for Latin American and US public platforms: real estate, jobs, e-commerce, company registries and government data. Browse the full catalog, see live sample output for each one, or ask us for a custom scraper at [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat).
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> This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with Freelancer.com. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the platform. Use it in accordance with Freelancer.com's terms of service.
# Actor input Schema
## `maxProjects` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of Freelancer.com projects to collect. Optional.
## `query` (type: `string`):
Keyword to search active projects (for example python, logo design, wordpress). Leave empty to browse the newest active projects across all categories.
## `projectTypes` (type: `array`):
Limit to fixed-price and/or hourly projects. Leave empty for both.
## `jobs` (type: `array`):
Optional Freelancer.com skill (job) IDs to filter by, for example 13 (Python), 95 (Web Scraping), 3 (PHP). Enter numeric IDs. Leave empty to ignore.
## `minBudget` (type: `integer`):
Only return projects whose average budget is at least this amount (in the project's own currency). Optional.
## `withEmployer` (type: `boolean`):
Attempt to include the project owner (employer) profile when available. Freelancer.com currently withholds employer identity on public unauthenticated reads, so this field is usually null.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"maxProjects": 10,
"query": "python",
"withEmployer": false
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `results` (type: `string`):
No description
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"maxProjects": 10,
"query": "python"
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"maxProjects": 10,
"query": "python",
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"maxProjects": 10,
"query": "python"
}' |
apify call scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapers_lat/freelancer-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rYhhLGm3yqyRUvrQ2/builds/hc32SwM7D55ESpGB9/openapi.json