make.com Upwork Scraper

A web scraper specifically for Upwork 'find_job' results. It scrapes the relevant information for each job and saves it to a Google Sheet.

Goal of this automation

Have a straightforward way to get all the interesting job postings, go through them quickly, and note the ones worth checking in more detail.

How it works

• Takes as input the link of the results page of a search:

• Parses HTML to text.
• Extracts the JobID of each job.
• Recreates the URL of each job.
• Checks Google Sheet to see if the job URL is already there.
• For the new ones, makes a request to each individual job URL.
• Uses a series of regex patterns to extract all the relevant information.
• Pastes all the information into the Google Sheet.

How to use it:

Download the makeBlueprint_upwork_Webscraper_toSheets.json file and import it as a blueprint in a new scenario in make.com.