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Алексей Спинов
Алексей Спинов

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The Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping Services: What to Charge and Where to Find Clients

Want to sell web scraping as a service? Here is everything you need to know.

What to Charge

Service Price Range Time
Simple scrape (1 site) $20-50 2-4 hrs
Multi-page with pagination $50-100 4-8 hrs
Dynamic site (JS rendering) $50-150 4-12 hrs
Recurring pipeline $100-500/mo Setup + maintain
Custom API $100-500 1-3 days
Lead generation (1000 contacts) $100-300 1-2 days
Market research report $20-100 2-6 hrs

Where to Find Clients

  1. Upwork — 1,600+ open scraping jobs
  2. Freelancer.com — 100+ active projects
  3. PeoplePerHour — 89 projects
  4. Fiverr — create gigs, clients come to you
  5. Dev.to/HN — publish tutorials, clients find you
  6. Reddit r/forhire — post your services
  7. GitHub — open source scrapers attract clients

My Approach

I published 77 free scrapers on GitHub and 84 articles on Dev.to. People find them through Google, try them, then email me for custom work.

Tools You Need

  • Cheerio (HTML parsing)
  • Playwright (browser automation)
  • Apify (cloud deployment)

That is it. Three tools cover 99% of scraping jobs.

Get Started Today

  1. Build 3 sample scrapers
  2. Write tutorials about them
  3. Create profiles on 2-3 freelance platforms
  4. Bid on 5 projects per day
  5. Deliver fast and over-deliver

Resources


Need a scraper built? $20 flat rate. Any site. 24h delivery. Email: Spinov001@gmail.com | Pricing

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