Freelancer.com: scrapers and the official API, compared

Freelance projects with budgets, hourly rates, bid counts and skills from Freelancer.com.

Short answer

For most Freelancer.com jobs, start with Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper: it covers 3 of 6 core fields (title, budget, bid) at $0.99 per 1,000 results on Apify's Free plan. The top published score for Freelancer.com goes to Freelancer.com Scraper by dami_studio (80 of 100), a Store tool from another publisher, listed for reference.

From published Store listings, output schemas and the official documentation. Checked 2026-11-03. How the ranking works.

Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper: inputs, code and cost Open in Apify Store

1 catalogue Actor 8 other Store tools Official API: Public API Lowest rate $0.45 per 1K

Route map

Each line is one way to get Freelancer.com data; each stop is a field you probably need. Green lines are catalogue Actors, ranked by the published formula.

1 Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper 6 output fields, pay per event 3 of 6 core fields
$0.99 / 1K
+ 7 other Store tools, combined Reference only 5 of 6 core fields
from $0.45 / 1K
API Freelancer API Public API fields not compared

Stops are fields. A ring means the field is in that route's published output schema; no ring means the line passes without it. Bold labels are the core fields for this website, the rest are fields that differ between routes. A white capsule means every data line stops there. The red line is the official API; its field coverage is not compared. A crossed red line means there is no open official API.

Catalogue Actors for Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper

Pull Freelancer.com projects from direct links, search keywords, category pages or a user's posted-project list, with budget or hourly rate, bid…

3/6 core fields 6 output fields $0.99 per 1K Open in Apify Store

Field matrix: who returns what

Every tool with a published output schema, against the 6 fields most Freelancer.com jobs need. A dot means the field name appears in the schema; rows can still leave it empty.

Which tools return each core Freelancer.com field, from published output schemas
Tool	title	project	budget	hourly	bid	canonical	Fields
Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper	●	–	●	–	●	–	3/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by dami_studio	●	–	●	–	●	–	3/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by solidcode	●	●	●	–	●	–	4/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by parsebird	●	●	●	–	●	–	4/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by unfenced-group	●	–	●	–	●	–	3/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by shahidirfan	●	–	–	–	●	–	2/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by lentic_clockss	●	–	●	●	●	–	4/6
Freelancer.com ScraperReference only, by techforce.global	●	–	●	–	–	–	2/6
Tools returning it	8	2	7	1	7	0

Field dictionary: the exact keys

The same core field has a different key in each Actor's output. Map these before you merge datasets; a dash means the published schema has no matching key. Need a field that is not listed here, such as email? Search every Freelancer.com Actor by field.

Output keys for each core Freelancer.com field in the top catalogue Actors
Core field	Freelancer.com Project Budget…
title	title
project	–
budget	budget
hourly	–
bid	bidCount
canonical	–

All 9 tools, scored

Catalogue Actors link to their detail pages; the score (0 to 100) is the published formula, identical for every tool. Other Store tools follow in their own table, for reference. Price is the published primary-result rate per 1,000 (the Free-plan rate where the price is tiered; higher Apify plans pay less); start events and platform usage are excluded.

Catalogue Actors for Freelancer.com, ranked by the published method
		Sample fields
66	Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper Catalogue Actor, pay per event	title, budget, bidCount	6	$0.99	12 runs, too few to rate	Nov 2026

Other Store tools, for reference

Scored with the same published formula and listed for comparison only; this site does not link or recommend them.

Other Store tools for Freelancer.com, for reference
		Sample fields
80	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by dami_studio	title, budgetMin, bidCount	12	$0.45	100% of 34 runs	Oct 2026
80	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by solidcode	projectName, budgetDisplay, bidCount	30	$1.13	100% of 497 runs	Oct 2026
77	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by parsebird	project_name, budget_range, bid_count	9	$0.99	100% of 30 runs	Sep 2026
74	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by unfenced-group	title, budgetMin, bidCount	10	$0.99	100% of 40 runs	Oct 2026
72	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by shahidirfan	title, bids_count, company	12	$1.00	100% of 886 runs	Aug 2026
70	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by lentic_clockss	title, budget, isHourly	80	$1.50	90% of 29 runs	Nov 2026
60	Freelancer.com Freelancer Scraper Reference only, by fatihtahta	No published schema	–	$1.49	100% of 43 runs	Sep 2026
48	Freelancer.com Scraper Reference only, by techforce.global	title, budget, budgetMin	11	$2.00	3 runs, too few to rate	Sep 2026

Official API route

Freelancer API

The Freelancer API covers projects, bids, contests, users and messaging, with OAuth or personal access tokens from a Freelancer.com account and a sandbox. The active project search endpoint answered without a token on 2026-11-11.

Price. No API price is published.

Limits. Each endpoint has its own rate limit reported in RateLimit headers (the documented example is 50 requests per 60 seconds and 1,000 per hour). Automatic bidders and integrations that replace platform features are prohibited.

Official documentation

Terms and personal data

Freelancer's terms bar robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated access, including to its API, without express written permission. This is general information, not legal advice.

Read Freelancer.com's terms. Keep to public data, do not bypass logins or access controls, and check whether personal data is involved before you collect it. The can-I-scrape checklist walks through it.

How to start

Open Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper and start from its default input; its Actor page has the full example input and code.
Set the Freelancer.com search, profile, listing or URL you need and a result limit; the required input is mode.
Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the Apify API.

Call Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper from code

The example input uses the Actor's published defaults; set your own Freelancer.com query before you run it. You need an Apify API token.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run_input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "python",
    "projectUrls": [],
    "categoryUrls": [],
    "projectType": "any",
    "budgetMin": 0,
    "budgetMax": 0,
    "minBidCount": 0,
    "maxBidCount": 0,
    "skills": [],
    "languages": [],
    "includeClosed": False,
    "includeDetails": False,
    "includeBids": False,
    "maxBidsPerProject": 1,
    "sortBy": "latest",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxItems": 3
}

run = client.actor("nimbryxo-studio/freelancer-com-project-budget-and-bids-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("The Actor run was not found.")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

pip install apify-client

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" });
const input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "python",
    "projectUrls": [],
    "categoryUrls": [],
    "projectType": "any",
    "budgetMin": 0,
    "budgetMax": 0,
    "minBidCount": 0,
    "maxBidCount": 0,
    "skills": [],
    "languages": [],
    "includeClosed": false,
    "includeDetails": false,
    "includeBids": false,
    "maxBidsPerProject": 1,
    "sortBy": "latest",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxItems": 3
};

const run = await client.actor("nimbryxo-studio/freelancer-com-project-budget-and-bids-scraper").call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

npm install apify-client

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/nimbryxo-studio~freelancer-com-project-budget-and-bids-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items"   -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{"mode":"search","query":"python","projectUrls":[],"categoryUrls":[],"projectType":"any","budgetMin":0,"budgetMax":0,"minBidCount":0,"maxBidCount":0,"skills":[],"languages":[],"includeClosed":false,"includeDetails":false,"includeBids":false,"maxBidsPerProject":1,"sortBy":"latest","maxPages":1,"maxItems":3}'

Waits for the run and returns the dataset items (runs over 300 seconds return HTTP 408; start an async run instead).

MCP (AI agents)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=nimbryxo-studio/freelancer-com-project-budget-and-bids-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Adds this Actor as a tool in an MCP client that takes a remote server URL (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code) through Apify's hosted MCP server. OAuth sign-in also works without the header. Clients that only start local servers can wrap the URL with npx mcp-remote.

Questions people ask

What is the cheapest catalogue Actor for Freelancer.com data?

Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper lists $0.99 per 1,000 results (pay per event), with 6 fields in its published output schema. Start events and platform usage are billed separately. Checked 2026-11-03.

Which Freelancer.com scraper returns the most core fields?

Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper covers 3 of the 6 core Freelancer.com fields this page tracks (title, project, budget, hourly, bid, canonical), based on its published output schema.

Does Freelancer.com have an official API?

Public API: The Freelancer API covers projects, bids, contests, users and messaging, with OAuth or personal access tokens from a Freelancer.com account and a sandbox. The active project search endpoint answered without a token on 2026-11-11. No API price is published.

Is it legal to scrape Freelancer.com?

It depends on what you collect and how. Freelancer's terms bar robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated access, including to its API, without express written permission. Read Freelancer.com's terms (https://www.freelancer.com/about/terms) before you collect, and check whether personal data is involved. This is general information, not legal advice.

More on Freelancer.com

Fiverr1 Actor
LinkedIn19 Actors
Indeed2 Actors

Sources

Data checked 2026-11-03

Cite this page

Scraper Finder. "How to get Freelancer.com data." https://scraperfinder.com/sites/freelancer/ (data checked 2026-11-03).

Highest-scoring catalogue Actor

Freelancer.com Project Budget & Bids Scraper: 3 of 6 core fields, $0.99 per 1,000 results, score 66. The highest score overall is 80 (Freelancer.com Scraper, a Store tool from another publisher); both are in the table above.

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