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Lazar T.

Web Scraping/Crawling/Mining Master - Python/Scrapy - Top 1 percent

✅ Upwork Top 1% Talent ✅ 650+ Jobs ✅ 18.500+ Hours ✅ Native English ✅ 100% Job Success 🏆 Created the most popular & well known scraping course(20k+ students) 🏆 Ranked in the top 1% for scraping on Upwork 🏆 Official reviewer for several leading web scraping books ⌛ 10+ years of experience in scraping I’m a full-time web scraping and automation consultant specializing in building reliable, scalable systems for extracting, processing, and delivering web data. Over the past 10+ years, I've worked with 500+ clients, startups, agencies, and companies, from one-time data extraction projects to long-running scraping systems processing millions of records. I don't just write a script that works once. I build scraping solutions designed around reliability, scalability, data quality, maintainability, and cost efficiency. What I Can Help You With • Custom web scrapers and crawlers • Large-scale data extraction • Scrapy spider development • Selenium, Playwright, and browser automation • API discovery, reverse engineering, and integration • JavaScript-heavy and dynamic websites • Authentication, sessions, cookies, and complex workflows • Proxy infrastructure and request optimization • Anti-bot and scraping reliability challenges • Data cleaning, normalization, deduplication, and validation • CSV, Excel, JSON, NDJSON, Google Sheets, SQL, and API delivery • Scheduled and recurring scraping pipelines • Cloud deployment and scraper monitoring • Existing scraper debugging, optimization, and maintenance • Lead generation and business data collection • AI-assisted data extraction and enrichment Technologies Python | Scrapy | Selenium | Playwright | Requests | BeautifulSoup | lxml | Pandas | REST APIs | JSON | XPath | CSS | SQL | PostgreSQL | MySQL | AWS | EC2 | Zyte | Google Sheets | n8n | Zapier | AI/LLM integrations I have extensive experience extracting data from e-commerce, real estate, travel, automotive, marketplaces, directories, reviews, job boards, social platforms, financial websites, business listings, and other complex data sources. keywords: python, scrapy, selenium, requests, beautifulsoup, lxml, web scraping, web crawling, automation, bots, scrapers, spiders, cloudflare, captcha, puppeteer, playwright, tutoring, real estate, e-commerce, lead gen, zillow, trulia, realtor, redfin, streeteasy, linkedin, airbnb, auction, tripadvisor, craigslist, sales navigator, ebay, amazon, google listings, pandas, discord, google maps, indeed, glassdoor, walmart, bestbuy, target, etsy, facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok, builtwith, watch, incapsula, akamai, travel, yelp, yellowpages, booking, reviews, finance, crypto, reddit, hotel, motel, zyte, leads, cars, automotive, doctor, google search, api, rest api, pcpartpicker, truepeoplesearch, restaurants, insurance, g2, retailer, zapier, google sheets, fashion, behance, serp, excel, ec2, workspace, senior, expert, bot, spreadsheet, chatgpt, data mining, automobiles, overstock, wayfair, flipkart, rakuten, jd, aliexpress, newegg, homedepot, lowes, expedia, orbitz, hotwire, kayak, skyscanner, delta, americanairlines, doordash, apartments, rent, autotrader, edmunds, tesla, ford, mercedesbenz, bmwusa, pinterest, quora, crunchbase, angel, patreon, medium, soundcloud, crawler, shopify, product, membership, directory, clay, n8n, ai, supabase, apollo, airflow, curl, curl_cffi, bs4, openpyxl, web scraper, website scraping, data scraping, scraping, web crawler, spider, data extraction, data collection, data aggregation, web automation, browser automation, scraper bot, graphql, api scraping, api integration, reverse engineering, json, json-ld, xpath, css selectors, regex, csv, database, sql, mysql, postgresql, aws, s3, docker, fastapi, cron, scheduled scraping, etl, data pipeline, data processing, data cleaning, data normalization, deduplication, data enrichment, monitoring, proxy, proxies, residential proxies, rotating proxies, proxy rotation, scraperapi, bright data, oxylabs, smartproxy, webshare, anti-bot, datadome, imperva, javascript, dynamic websites, headless browser, chrome, chromium, undetected chromedriver, seleniumbase, nodriver, authentication, cookies, sessions, pagination, infinite scroll, ajax, scraping consultant, scraping expert, python developer, automation expert, senior developer, scraping tutoring, lead generation, b2b leads, business leads, contact extraction, directory scraping, business directory, product scraping, price scraping, price monitoring, competitor monitoring, competitor analysis, market research, real estate scraping, property data, property listings, ecommerce scraping, product data, marketplace, review scraping, jobs, job scraping, job boards, social media, social media scraping, travel scraping, hotels, restaurant data, car listings, vehicle data, auctions, auction scraping, financial data, healthcare, doctors, serp scraping, local businesses, geolocation data, realto, apartments, rent, loopnet, crexi, vrbo, booking, hotels

🇷🇸Novi Sad, Serbia$50/hr100% JSS4.94 (426)Since Nov 2014
MRR
$6,076
🌍#3,838/363K
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Recent Earnings
$36,457
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Total Earnings
$1.09M
🌍#424/363K
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Avg. Per Project
$1,667
🌍#81.7K/363K
🇷🇸#912/3,570
Recent Projects
20
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Total Projects
653
412f334h
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