Freelancer Scraper

Extract project contests, bid ranges, and employer requirements from Freelancer.com marketplace. Built on spider-browser .

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target
freelancer.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

freelancer-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.freelancer.com/jobs/python/");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const projects = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article, a[href*='/projects/'], [class*='JobSearch'] [class*='item']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a, [class*='heading'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const budgetEl = [...el.querySelectorAll("span, div")].find(e => /$[d,]+|USD|AUD/.test(e.textContent || ""));
    const budget = budgetEl?.textContent?.trim();
    const bids = el.querySelector("[class*='bids'], [class*='entry'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const skills = [...el.querySelectorAll("a[href*='/jobs/'], [class*='tag'] a")].map(s => s.textContent?.trim());
    if (title) projects.push({ title, budget, bids, skills });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: projects.length, projects: projects.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for freelancer.com.

Structured JSON from freelancer.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/freelancer.com/

Project titleBudget rangeBids countSkillsEmployerTime left

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/freelancer.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/freelancer.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/freelancer.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Project titleBudget rangeBids countSkillsEmployerTime leftDescriptionProject type

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Job data aggregation

Extract titles, salaries, and requirements from freelancer.com search results.

Stealth

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Start

Start scraping freelancer.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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