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 Upwork — 1,600+ open scraping jobs Freelancer.com — 100+ active projects PeoplePerHour — 89 projects Fiverr — create gigs, clients come to you Dev.to/HN — publish tutorials, clients find you Reddit r/forhire — post your services 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 j