I build custom Python web scrapers and data parsers starting at €60. Pull data from any publicly accessible site on a schedule. Clean JSON, CSV, or direct database output. If you need data collected automatically, contact me with the site and what fields you need — I'll confirm if it's possible and what it costs.
Quick Answer
- Starting price: €60 for a basic single-site scraper
- Full pipeline with database: €100–200
- Delivery: 2–5 days depending on site complexity
- Output formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
- Scheduling: Cron, task scheduler, or on-demand trigger
What I Build
- Product scrapers — extract names, prices, descriptions, images from e-commerce sites
- Price monitoring scripts — track competitor prices, alert on changes
- Data parsers — parse JSON APIs, XML feeds, HTML pages into structured data
- Database inserters — scrape and push directly to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite
- PDF and Excel extractors — pull structured data from documents
- API integration scripts — connect two services, run on schedule or trigger
- Scraper + LLM pipelines — scrape, process with AI, insert clean results
Real Project: ASOS Price Tracker That Monitors 10,000 Products Daily
A client needed to monitor ASOS product pages for price drops across hundreds of items. Manual checking was impossible. The solution was a Python scraper that:
- Accepts product URLs from users via a Telegram bot interface
- Visits each product page on a scheduled interval using requests + BeautifulSoup
- Compares current price to the stored baseline price in a SQLite database
- Sends an instant Telegram notification when a price drops or a discount appears
The scraper handles pagination, retries on failure, and logs all price history. Users get notified the moment a price changes. No manual checking required. The video below shows how it works:
How Web Scraping Works and When You Need It
Web scraping is the automated process of visiting a website and extracting specific data from its pages. Instead of copying data manually, a script does it in seconds and can repeat the process on any schedule.
You need a scraper when:
- You monitor competitor prices: Manual checking takes hours. A scraper checks thousands of pages in minutes.
- You need data from a site with no API: Most sites do not offer an API. A scraper is the only way to get the data programmatically.
- You aggregate data from multiple sources: Pull listings, reviews, or statistics from 10 different sites into one database.
- You need data on a schedule: Fresh data every hour, day, or week without any manual work.
Note on anti-bot protection: Sites with heavy JavaScript rendering require Playwright or Selenium. Sites with aggressive bot detection may need proxy rotation. I assess this before confirming price and timeline.
What You Get
- Full Python source code: Clean, commented code you own completely
- Scheduled execution: Cron job or task scheduler setup on your server
- Error handling and retries: Script recovers from failed requests automatically
- Output in your preferred format: JSON, CSV, Excel, or direct database insert
- Logging: Run history, error log, and extracted record count per run
- 7 days of post-delivery support: Bug fixes and small adjustments after delivery at no extra cost
How It Works
- Contact me — share the site URL, what data you need, and how often you need it updated.
- I assess feasibility — I check the site structure and confirm if scraping is possible and what tools are needed.
- Fixed price agreed — you get a clear quote before any work starts. No surprises.
- I build and test — scraper built, tested on the live site, output verified.
- Delivery — source code, deployment on your server, and 7 days of support included.
Web Scraper Development Pricing
Fixed price per project. Agreed before work starts. No hidden fees.
| Service | What It Includes | Price | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Scraper | Single site, static HTML, CSV or JSON output | from €60 | 1–2 days |
| Price Monitor | Track prices on schedule, alert on changes, log history | from €80 | 2–3 days |
| API Parser | Parse JSON/XML API responses, filter, structure, output | from €80 | 2–3 days |
| Scraper + Database | Scrape and insert directly into PostgreSQL or MySQL | from €120 | 3–5 days |
| JS-Heavy Site Scraper | Playwright or Selenium for dynamic sites, full pipeline | from €150 | 3–5 days |
| Scraper + LLM Pipeline | Scrape, process with AI, insert clean results to DB | from €200 | 5–7 days |
Hourly rate: €15/hour for changes, additions, or new target sites after delivery.
Hire a Scrapy Developer for Large-Scale Crawls
If you need to crawl thousands of pages across a multi-level site, Scrapy is the right tool. It handles concurrency, built-in pipelines, and item processors out of the box. I work as a freelance Scrapy developer for projects that go beyond a simple requests + BeautifulSoup setup.
When to hire a Scrapy programmer instead of a basic scraper:
- Volume: You need to crawl thousands of URLs per run, not dozens.
- Structure: The site has multiple levels — category pages, listing pages, detail pages.
- Pipelines: You need deduplication, validation, or transformation before data hits the database.
- Concurrency: Speed matters. Scrapy runs multiple requests in parallel without extra code.
I deliver a full Scrapy project with spiders, item definitions, pipelines, and settings configured for your target. You get clean, documented code you can run or extend yourself. Contact me if you need to hire a dedicated Scrapy developer for your project.
Why Hire a Freelance Web Scraping Developer Instead of an Agency
When you hire a dedicated web scraping developer directly, you get one person who builds, tests, and supports the scraper. No account managers. No ticket queues. No inflated agency margins.
- Direct communication: You talk to the developer building the scraper, not a project manager relaying messages.
- Faster turnaround: Basic scrapers ship in 1–2 days. Agencies quote 2–3 weeks for the same work.
- Fixed price: You agree the scope and price before work starts. No hourly billing surprises.
- Full code ownership: You get the complete Python source. No lock-in to a platform or subscription.
- Remote availability: I work with clients worldwide. Hiring a remote web scraping developer means no geographic limits.
If you need web scraping developer services and want them done without overhead, send me a message.
When You Need a Dedicated Web Scraping Developer
A one-off scraper is fine for a single data pull. But some projects need ongoing work. Hire a dedicated web scraping developer when:
- The target site changes frequently: Sites update layouts. A dedicated developer maintains and repairs the scraper.
- You scrape multiple sites: Ten different sources means ten different structures. You need a web scraping programmer who handles all of them.
- You need ongoing data feeds: Daily or hourly data updates require monitoring and uptime management.
- You integrate scraped data into a product: Data that feeds a live app needs reliability, not just a one-time script.
For ongoing work, I offer a retainer at €15/hour. Contact me to discuss scope.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much does a web scraper cost?
- A basic single-site scraper starts at €60. A full scraper with scheduling, database insertion, and error handling costs €100–200 depending on site complexity and output requirements. The price is fixed and agreed before work starts.
- Can you scrape any website?
- Most publicly accessible websites can be scraped. Sites with heavy JavaScript rendering require Playwright or Selenium. Sites with aggressive anti-bot protection may need proxy rotation. I confirm feasibility before taking payment.
- What format does scraped data come in?
- JSON, CSV, Excel, or direct database insertion into PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite. The format depends on how you plan to use the data. I deliver whichever format fits your workflow.
- How do I get data from a website automatically?
- A Python scraper runs on a schedule using cron or a task scheduler. It visits the target site, extracts the data you need, and saves it or inserts it into your database automatically. You get fresh data without any manual work.
- Is web scraping legal?
- Scraping publicly available data is generally legal in most countries. I only work on scraping publicly accessible data and do not help circumvent paywalls or scrape data behind authentication.