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How to scrape PeoplePerHour

PeoplePerHour (peopleperhour.com) is a freelance and agencies site. This guide is built from our own checks of its public pages: what the pages contain, whether our requests get through right now, and the request settings that worked.

Intermittent

4 of 21 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (19%).

Last check 2026-10-13 19:34 UTC · last pass 2026-10-13 19:34 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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Extraction recipe

Detail pages carry structured data (JobPosting). You can read those fields straight from the HTML, or select any other field with extract rules (CSS selectors). The recipe below is a set of Scrape API extract rules: we ran it through our API on two real PeoplePerHour pages with the settings on this page and kept only the fields that came back on both. It is checked again every week, and hidden if it stops working.

Search and listing pages

Validated 2026-10-13
FieldTypeExample
projectslist of 3+ items
projects[].titletextKonkani Audio Translation
projects[].urlURLhttps://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation/tr...
projects[].pricetext$67
projects[].postedtexta day ago

Examples from www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation on 2026-10-13, shortened.

Sample output (real, trimmed)

{
    "projects": [
        {
            "title": "Konkani Audio Translation",
            "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation/transcription/konkani-audio-translation-4526200",
            "price": "$67",
            "posted": "a day ago"
        },
        {
            "title": "Native Malaysian Malay audio annotation - paid trial",
            "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation/transcription/native-malaysian-malay-audio-annotation-paid-trial-4526089",
            "price": "$10",
            "posted": "2 days ago"
        },
        {
            "title": "Masonic Toast Writer Required",
            "url": "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation/content-writing/masonic-toast-writer-required-4526017",
            "price": "$23/hr",
            "posted": "3 days ago"
        }
    ]
}
extract_rules (1 rule)
{
    "projects": {
        "selector": "li.list__item⤍List⤚2ytmm",
        "type": "obj",
        "multiple": true,
        "children": {
            "title": {
                "selector": "h6.item__title⤍ListItem⤚2FRMT a.item__url⤍ListItem⤚20ULx",
                "type": "text"
            },
            "url": {
                "selector": "h6.item__title⤍ListItem⤚2FRMT a.item__url⤍ListItem⤚20ULx",
                "type": "link"
            },
            "price": {
                "selector": "div.card__price⤍ListItem⤚3VxJ9 span",
                "type": "text"
            },
            "posted": {
                "selector": "div.card__footer⤍ListItem⤚1KHhv div.nano span:first-child",
                "type": "text"
            }
        }
    }
}

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one sends the settings on this page and the extraction recipe, prints the extracted JSON, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

Search and listing pages

Pages through 3 result pages, one at a time, and stops early when a page has no results.

peopleperhour_listing_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Scrape PeoplePerHour search and listing pages with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Settings and extract rules validated on real pages on 2026-10-13 (Ujeebu site guide).
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 peopleperhour_listing_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time
from urllib.parse import parse_qsl, urlencode, urlsplit, urlunsplit

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
START_URL = "https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation"
PAGES = 3
SETTINGS = {
    "js": True,
    "proxy_type": "advanced",
}
EXTRACT_RULES = {
    "projects": {
        "selector": "li.list__item⤍List⤚2ytmm",
        "type": "obj",
        "multiple": True,
        "children": {
            "title": {
                "selector": "h6.item__title⤍ListItem⤚2FRMT a.item__url⤍ListItem⤚20ULx",
                "type": "text",
            },
            "url": {
                "selector": "h6.item__title⤍ListItem⤚2FRMT a.item__url⤍ListItem⤚20ULx",
                "type": "link",
            },
            "price": {
                "selector": "div.card__price⤍ListItem⤚3VxJ9 span",
                "type": "text",
            },
            "posted": {
                "selector": "div.card__footer⤍ListItem⤚1KHhv div.nano span:first-child",
                "type": "text",
            },
        },
    },
}


def page_url(page):
    if page == 1:
        return START_URL
    parts = urlsplit(START_URL)
    query = dict(parse_qsl(parts.query))
    query["page"] = str(page)
    return urlunsplit(parts._replace(query=urlencode(query)))


def scrape(client, url):
    # with extract_rules, client.scrape sends a JSON POST and the API answers {"result": {...}}
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params={**SETTINGS, "extract_rules": EXTRACT_RULES})
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.json()["result"]


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for page in range(1, PAGES + 1):
    result = scrape(client, page_url(page))
    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))
    if not result.get("projects"):
        break
    time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/peopleperhour.json.

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URL patterns and pagination

What the URLs look like, read from the pages our checks fetched.

Search and listing pages

Pattern
https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/{slug}
Next pages
add page=2, page=3 and so on. Page 2: https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translation?page=2
Validated on
https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/writing-translationhttps://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-jobs/design

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
proxy_typeadvanced
Costup to 10 credits a request (only HTTP 200 and 404 are billed)

Collect detail page URLs from listing pages first, then fetch each detail page. Our checks run with JavaScript rendering on (js=true): keep it on. Start with the advanced proxy, the cheapest one that passed most of its attempts in our checks.

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ProxyAttemptsPassed
Advanced22

The cheapest proxy that passes most of our checks of this site.

Troubleshooting

The failures our own checks of peopleperhour.com ran into over the last 7 days, and what got the page in the same check.

What happenedTimesWhat fixed it
The page did not load in time 1 Nothing we tried in the same check. Retry later, one request at a time.

A failed request is not billed: only HTTP 200 and 404 responses cost credits.

What people build with PeoplePerHour data

  • Demand researchTrack which skills and project types are in demand, and the budgets offered.More on this use case
  • Rate benchmarksCompare the prices offered for similar services.

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • Read PeoplePerHour's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape PeoplePerHour with Ujeebu?

Partly. 4 of 21 checks of public PeoplePerHour pages passed in the last 7 days; most failures were a different page than expected. Retry failed pages later, and use the settings on this page.

Which settings work for PeoplePerHour?

Call /scrape with js=true, proxy_type=advanced. On the advanced proxy, 2 of 2 attempts passed in the last 7 days.

How many credits does a PeoplePerHour request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 10 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Which fields can I extract from PeoplePerHour?

With the extraction recipes on this page, validated on real PeoplePerHour pages through our API: search and listing pages: title, url, price, posted. Pass the recipe as extract_rules in a POST to /scrape and the API returns those fields as JSON.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of peopleperhour.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-10-13 19:34:13 UTC; last pass: 2026-10-13 19:34:13 UTC.