How to Scrape Codeur.com: Freelance Projects and Leads in France (Budget, Category, Offers)

Run it now, no code: codeur-projects-scraper on the Apify Store  |  $5.00 per 1,000 projects  |  no browser, no proxy

Codeur.com is France's leading freelance marketplace: clients post projects and freelancers send offers. This guide shows how to build a freelance projects scraper for Codeur.com and get freelance leads every day, with budget, category, wanted profiles, number of offers and the full brief, using a free Apify Actor from the console or from code.

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What you get from the Codeur.com scraper

• Projects posted publicly by clients, newest first, filtered by keyword and publication date.
• Budget range, category, wanted freelance profiles, status, number of offers and number of views.
• Publication date in Paris time, and optionally the full brief written by the client.

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API. A real sample (five results, personal data removed, long texts truncated) is in sample-output.json.

Output fields

Field	What it is
id, url	Codeur project id and public link
title	Project title
status	For example Ouvert (open)
budget	Budget range as displayed, for example 500 € à 1 000 €
offersCount, viewsCount	Number of offers received and number of views
category	Project category
profilesWanted	Array of freelance profiles the client is looking for
publishedAt	Publication date and time, Paris time
description	Client brief as plain text, only when the full brief is enabled

Use cases

• Never miss a lead. Schedule a daily run with "published within 1 day" and your keywords, and send new projects to Slack, e-mail or your CRM.
• Size the demand. Count which services French businesses ask for, and at which budgets.
• Price your offer. Compare budgets and the number of competing offers per type of project.
• Spot trends. Track the technologies and profiles that clients request more and more.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Words that must all appear in the title, category, wanted profiles or brief. Accents and case are ignored.
publishedWithinDays	Keep only recent projects. Use 1 for a daily alert.
onlyOpen	Skip closed projects.
maxItems	The run stops once this many projects are saved (default 50).
includeDescription	Adds the client's full brief.

Example input:

{
  "keywords": "wordpress",
  "publishedWithinDays": 1,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeDescription": true
}

Three ways to use it

1. Apify console, no code

1. Open the Actor page and click Try for free (a free Apify account is enough).
2. Fill in the input form (keywords, filters and the maximum number of results) and click Start.
3. When the run finishes, open the Output tab, check the table, then Export as CSV, Excel or JSON.
4. For a daily alert, open Schedules, create a daily schedule for the Actor and, optionally, add an integration that sends new results to Slack, e-mail or Google Sheets.

2. Apify API with JavaScript

npm install apify-client
export APIFY_TOKEN="your token from Apify console, Settings, Integrations"
node examples/run.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('bibian/codeur-projects-scraper').call({
    "keywords": "wordpress",
    "publishedWithinDays": 1,
    "onlyOpen": true,
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeDescription": true
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) {
    console.log(`${item.title} | ${item.budget} | ${item.offersCount} offers | ${item.publishedAt}`);
}

The complete file is examples/run.js (ES module, Node 18 or later).

3. Apify API with Python

pip install apify-client
export APIFY_TOKEN="your token from Apify console, Settings, Integrations"
python examples/run.py

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("bibian/codeur-projects-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keywords": "wordpress",
    "publishedWithinDays": 1,
    "onlyOpen": True,
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeDescription": True,
})

for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['title']} | {item.get('budget')} | {item.get('offersCount')} offers | {item.get('publishedAt')}")

The complete file is examples/run.py. Never put your token in the code: read it from the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable as above.

Pricing

Pay per result: $5.00 per 1,000 projects (that is $0.005 per project), plus a tiny start fee of $0.00005 per run. You pay only for the results saved to the dataset. Apify's free plan includes monthly credits, enough to try it on a few hundred results. Prices are those shown on the Store page when this guide was written; the Store page is the reference.

Limits and honest notes

• Only projects that Codeur.com shows publicly are collected; members-only projects are skipped.
• The client's identity is hidden by Codeur.com to visitors and is never collected.
• The budget is a range as displayed by the site, not a number.
• This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with Codeur.com. Check the site terms and the data protection rules that apply to your use. Reaching out to clients is done on Codeur.com itself.

FAQ

How do I get a daily alert?
Schedule the Actor once a day with publishedWithinDays set to 1, then connect the dataset to Slack, e-mail or Google Sheets with an Apify integration.

Does it give me the client's contact details?
No. Codeur.com hides the client identity from visitors and the Actor never collects it.

Can I keep only open projects?
Yes, set onlyOpen to true.

Does it need a browser or a proxy?
No, runs are fast and cheap.

Try it

Open codeur-projects-scraper on the Apify Store

The code in examples/ is released under the MIT license (see LICENSE). The data belongs to its original publishers.