Freelancer directory search
Search the Freelancer.com directory by keywords, skill, country and hourly rate, sorted by relevance or rating. Each freelancer: id, username, name, headline, country and city, hourly rate, rating, reviews count, jobs completed, completion rate, skills, member-since date, portfolio count, description, verification flags, badges, avatar and profile link. total is the directory count. min_rating keeps the freelancers on the returned page that have at least that rating. Pass next_page back as page; null on the last page.
Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.
Parameters
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
q | string | Keywords, e.g. python developer. Example: python |
skills | string | Skill ids from /freelancer/v1/skills, comma-separated, e.g. 13 (Python). |
country | string | Country name or 2-letter code, e.g. India or in. Example: India |
hourly_min | integer | Minimum hourly rate (USD). |
hourly_max | integer | Maximum hourly rate (USD). |
min_rating | number | Only freelancers on the page with at least this rating (0-5). |
sort | relevance | rating | relevance (default) or rating. |
size | integer | Freelancers per page (1-50, default 20). |
page | integer | Page number. Pass next_page from the previous response. |
Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).
Example
curl "https://api.api.sh/freelancer/v1/users?q=python" \
-H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY" import os, requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.api.sh/freelancer/v1/users",
params={"q": "python"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json() const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/freelancer/v1/users");
url.searchParams.set("q", "python");
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json(); Response
A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).