Automated Daily Freelance Gig Scraper with Bright Data
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Effortlessly discover new freelance opportunities daily with this automated workflow. It scrapes job boards like We Work Remotely using Bright Data, extracts key gig details, and organizes them into a Google Sheet, saving you time and ensuring you never miss a potential client.
About This Workflow
Take the grunt work out of your freelance job search with this powerful n8n workflow. Designed for efficiency, it automatically scans remote job boards every morning, specifically targeting gigs that match your chosen skills. By leveraging Bright Data's advanced web scraping capabilities, this workflow bypasses common bot detection, ensuring a consistent flow of opportunities. The extracted job title, company, and link are then neatly compiled into a Google Sheet, creating a personalized, up-to-date database of potential projects. This eliminates the need for manual searching and copy-pasting, freeing you up to focus on what you do best – delivering great work.
Key Features
- Daily Automated Scraping: Never miss a new freelance gig with daily scheduled job board scans.
- Skill-Based Filtering: Customize your search to find jobs that precisely match your expertise.
- Advanced Web Scraping: Utilizes Bright Data to reliably fetch job postings from various sites.
- Effortless Data Organization: Automatically compiles all found gigs into a user-friendly Google Sheet.
- No-Code Solution: Built visually within n8n, requiring no programming knowledge.
How To Use
- Schedule Your Scrape: Configure the 'Run Scraper Daily' node to set your preferred daily scraping time (default is 9 AM).
- Define Your Skill: Update the 'Set Skill Filter' node with the specific skill you want to search for (e.g., 'Python', 'UI/UX Designer', 'Content Writer').
- Connect Bright Data: In the 'Scrape WWR with Bright Data' node, replace 'API_KEY' with your actual Bright Data API key and ensure the 'zone' is correctly set.
- Refine HTML Extraction: If needed, adjust the CSS selectors in the 'Extract Jobs from HTML' node to precisely target the job title, company, and link elements on the target job board.
- Link Your Google Sheet: Configure the 'Save Gigs to Google Sheets' node with your Google Cloud credentials and the target Sheet ID/name where you want the job data to be appended. Ensure the sheet has columns for Job Title, Company, and Link.
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Workflow JSON
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"name": "Automated Daily Freelance Gig Scraper with Bright Data",
"nodes": 13,
"category": "Personal",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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