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Guides
How to get the data our actors return, and how they compare with the rest of the store. Every number here was measured on a dated run or read from our own table on a dated day; the pages say which.
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Upwork freelancer scraper: search talent by rate, JSS, badge and country — with exact earnings and every contract
Search Upwork freelancers the way a client would and get what a profile page hides: exact earnings, hours, contracts with feedback both ways, education, languages. Seconds from a census of 30,000+ profiles. $4 per 1,000 rows, no start fee.
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Best Upwork freelancer scrapers in 2026: eleven Apify actors, one query, one day — what each one actually returned
Every Upwork talent scraper on the Apify Store, run on the same query with the filters it claims on 2026-09-11: rows delivered, price paid, speed, fields. Four of eleven returned rows. Ours is #1, and here is why.
- how-to
How to export Upwork freelancers to CSV or JSON — a filtered list with rates, JSS, earnings and contracts, in one run
Export a list of Upwork freelancers to CSV, JSON or Excel: set the filters, run the actor, download the dataset or pull it over the API. 65 columns per freelancer, $4 per 1,000 rows, no start fee.
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How to find Upwork freelancers by hourly rate, Job Success Score, country and track record — with the numbers you choose, not fixed bands
Search Upwork freelancers by a numeric rate band, a JSS threshold, badge, country, hours billed, earnings, hire-again rate and last-worked date — and export the list. Every filter measured 25 of 25 on our release runs.
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Upwork API for freelancer data: what the official GraphQL API gives you, what it asks for, and the route that needs no approval
The official Upwork API is GraphQL, keyed, reviewed per application, 40,000 requests a day, caching under 24 hours. What it offers for freelancer profiles, and an alternative that answers in seconds with no key to apply for.
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moxlade/upwork-freelancers vs parseforge/upwork-freelancers-scraper: the lane's most used actor, measured against ours
parseforge is the most used Upwork freelancer scraper on Apify. On 2026-09-11 it delivered, honoured its filters, cost $22–24 per 1,000 rows and took 27–67 s per run. Ours: $4, seconds, and the contract history it does not have.
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moxlade/upwork-freelancers vs crw/upwork-talent-scraper: the fastest run-time scraper in the lane, measured against ours
crw is the best of the run-time Upwork talent scrapers: $5 per 1,000, 3–5 s, exact earnings. On 2026-09-11 its numeric rate filter returned nothing and it has no JSS. Ours: $4, JSS and a rate band as filters, contract history.
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moxlade/upwork-freelancers vs bovi/upwork-talent-scraper: the actor that returned nothing in six runs, measured against ours
bovi/upwork-talent-scraper delivered zero rows in six runs on 2026-09-11 and, the last time it delivered, charged 10 events for 5 rows. What it returns when it works, and what ours returns every time.