We extract project listings, bid distributions, freelancer profiles, contest entries, and skill taxonomies from Freelancer. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Project Listings objects from freelancer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"project_id": "37482910", "title": "Build a React Native Mobile App", "budget_min": 750, "budget_max": 1500, "currency": "USD", "bid_count": 42, "avg_bid": 1150.5, "status": "Active"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Freelancer Profiles objects from freelancer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"username": "devguru99", "display_name": "Alex Smith", "country": "India", "hourly_rate": 45.0, "rating": 4.9, "reviews_count": 128, "jobs_completed": 145, "on_time_pct": 98
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Complete list of extractable fields for Bids objects from freelancer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"project_id": "37482910", "freelancer_username": "devguru99", "bid_amount": 1200, "delivery_days": 14, "is_sponsored": false, "is_sealed": false, "bid_time": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Employer Profiles objects from freelancer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"employer_id": "839201", "username": "techstartup_inc", "country": "United States", "rating": 4.7, "projects_posted": 24, "hire_rate_pct": 85, "verified_payment": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Contests objects from freelancer.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"contest_id": "1928374", "title": "Design a Corporate Logo", "prize_amount": 300, "currency": "USD", "status": "Active", "entries_count": 156, "guaranteed": true
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Our Freelancer scraper handles every layer of the platform: project listings, bid distributions, freelancer profiles, and employer histories - with CAPTCHA circumvention and session management built in.
Title, description, budget ranges, required skills, and employer metadata - scraped across all job categories.
Capture public bid amounts, delivery timelines, and freelancer usernames to analyse pricing trends.
Extract hourly rates, completion statistics, review scores, and skill portfolios for millions of users.
Track active contests, prize amounts, entry counts, and guaranteed status across design and development categories.
Extract employer hiring rates, total spend, rating history, and payment verification status.
Map required skills to active projects to identify demand trends for specific technologies.
Normalise location data to track geographic shifts in freelance talent and rate arbitrage.
Monitor new projects and bids as they are posted for rapid response or alert systems.
Run continuous pipelines at hourly or daily cadences with change-detection diffing to save compute.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide category URLs, skill sets, or employer IDs. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for freelancer.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and data normalisation before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Freelancer invests heavily in bot mitigation and dynamic content loading. Here is how we stay resilient.
Freelancer uses Cloudflare to block automated traffic. Our infrastructure integrates CapSolver and residential proxies with realistic TLS fingerprints to solve challenges natively and maintain session validity.
Live bids and project updates are pushed via WebSockets. We intercept these connections to capture real-time data without polling the HTTP endpoints aggressively.
Freelancer's frontend relies heavily on undocumented GraphQL endpoints. We reverse-engineer these queries to extract structured JSON directly, bypassing fragile DOM parsing where possible.
To extract millions of profiles without triggering IP bans, we distribute requests across thousands of residential IPs, monitoring response codes and backing off automatically.
For tracking active projects, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing downstream processing load.
Agencies and platforms analyse average bid amounts across skill sets to optimise their own pricing strategies.
Recruiters extract highly-rated profiles in specific niches to build proprietary talent pools.
B2B service providers monitor new projects to identify companies actively investing in specific technologies.
Agencies track competitor bidding behaviour and success rates to refine their own proposal strategies.
Researchers track macro trends in freelance labour supply, demand, and geographic distribution.
AI teams use project descriptions and successful proposals to train automated bidding or skill-matching models.
"Freelancer represents the largest open marketplace of global gig labour and project pricing signals - but extracting it requires navigating aggressive bot mitigation."
Most engineering teams underestimate the friction involved. Reliable Freelancer extraction demands Cloudflare bypasses, WebSocket interception for live bids, and high-quality residential proxies. DataFlirt absorbs that infrastructure complexity so your team can focus on the data.
Everything supported by our freelancer.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About freelancer.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available information from Freelancer is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated project, profile, and bid data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review Freelancer's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use residential ISP proxies and automated solvers like CapSolver to handle JavaScript challenges and CAPTCHAs, maintaining valid session cookies to ensure uninterrupted extraction.
Yes. We can monitor specific active projects and capture new bids as they are submitted, delivering the data via Webhook for near real-time analytics.
Our minimum engagement typically starts with a defined category or skill set (e.g., all active React Native projects) with daily delivery. Contact us for a scoped quote.
Yes. We extract contest details, prize amounts, and metadata for public entries, including ratings and feedback counts.
Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 projects or profiles as part of the pre-engagement scoping process to validate schema fit and data quality.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical dump of project data or a continuous feed of new freelance talent - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
