Freelancer Projects, Budgets & Bids Scraper

Freelancer Projects, Budgets & Bids Scraper

The most complete Freelancer.com project scraper available. It returns every field the public Freelancer.com projects feed exposes for each posting, plus derived fields (budgets and average bids normalized to USD for cross-currency comparison) and optional AI enrichment, and gives you filters for keyword, project type, skill ID and budget to target exactly the projects you need.

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns (the description is trimmed here for readability; the actor returns the full brief):

{
  "projectId": 40641387,
  "title": "Part Time Business Development Executive Needed for Performance Marketing Agency",
  "description": "Company Description\n\nVitrix is a data-driven, AI-powered growth company ... [full project brief returned in the actual record] ... Additional earning potential based on performance",
  "type": "Fixed",
  "budgetMin": 37500,
  "budgetMax": 75000,
  "currency": "INR",
  "currencyName": "Indian Rupee",
  "budgetMinUsd": 392.96,
  "budgetMaxUsd": 785.93,
  "avgBidUsd": 599.68,
  "bidCount": 4,
  "avgBid": 57227.27,
  "skills": ["Telemarketing", "Sales", "Telephone Handling", "Digital Agency Sales", "Sales Management", "Business Development", "Cold Calling"],
  "hourlyHours": null,
  "hourlyInterval": null,
  "bidPeriodDays": 7,
  "sealed": false,
  "featured": false,
  "urgent": false,
  "nda": false,
  "fulltime": false,
  "recruiter": false,
  "hireMe": false,
  "status": "open"
}

The example above shows the first 25 of 37 fields.

What it does

The actor queries the public Freelancer.com projects API, applies the filters you pass as input, pages through the matching active projects fifty at a time, and writes one normalized record per project to the run's dataset. Each project's budget and average bid are converted to USD (budgetMinUsd, budgetMaxUsd, avgBidUsd) using the project's own exchange rate so you can compare across currencies, dates are normalized to ISO 8601, and missing source values are returned as null. Optional AI add-ons (summary, skills extraction, categorization) run per project when enabled on a paid plan.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns 3 active projects matching react website, with all three AI add-ons enabled.

{
  "query": "react website",
  "maxProjects": 3,
  "withAiSummary": true,
  "withAiSkills": true,
  "withAiCategorize": true,
  "withEmployer": false
}

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per project record returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• Optional AI add-ons (ai_summary, ai_skills, ai_categorize) are billed separately and only when they produce usable output, and only on paid Apify plans.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run. Upgrade for higher maxProjects.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? No active projects matched the filter combination. Loosen filters (remove minBudget or jobs, or broaden query). Zero-result runs are not charged.

Why is the employer or client name missing? Freelancer.com withholds the project owner identity on public unauthenticated reads. The employer field is returned as null by design; the actor never invents it.

Is this an official Freelancer.com tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Freelancer.com. It reads only data that is publicly available on the platform. Use it in accordance with Freelancer.com's terms of service.