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Shahid A.

Web Scraping, Bots & Proxies, | News, Price & Live Data Feeds | Python

Most scraping work gets quoted as a one-off export. The jobs that matter keep running. I build and maintain the data feeds businesses depend on daily: NEWS and media monitoring, competitor pricing, company and industry directories. I keep them working after the source site changes. The real-time website monitoring, browser-based task automation, appointment/availability monitoring, lead and data automation, My longest scraper has run for three years: a NEWS monitoring system for a US lending company, 1,336 hours of continuous work, still live. WHAT I BUILD ▪ NEWS and media monitoring headlines, articles, and publisher feeds tracked continuously across multiple outlets ▪ Price and product tracking competitor and retailer pricing delivered into Google Sheets, Excel, or your database ▪ Company and industry directories locations, headcount and contact data, built by vertical ▪ Booking and reservation bots: automated booking against systems that release inventory on a schedule KEEPING THEM ALIVE Websites change layout, add rate limits, and block automated traffic. I build scrapers that stay up: integrating rotating proxies, fingerprint spoofing, self-healing retry logic, and strict payload assertions so schema changes trigger alerts instead of silent empty records Python with Scrapy, Selenium, Puppeteer, and Playwright. Deployed on AWS, GCP, or Azure with scheduled runs and an admin dashboard, if you need one. DELIVERED WHERE YOU WORK Google Sheets, Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, SQL, or NoSQL — or straight into your application over an API. TAKING OVER EXISTING WORK A good share of what I do is inheriting a scraper someone else built that has stopped working. Send me the repo and the failing output, and I will tell you what broke and what it takes to stabilise it. WHAT CLIENTS SAY "He has become an extension of my company's tech team, and I've pulled him into subsequent projects, all of which were delivered at the high standard I expected." Vernon Beckford, CEO, Diversified Lending Solutions Send me the sources you need tracked and the desired output format. I will tell you whether it can be pulled reliably and what it takes to keep it running.

🇵🇰Rawalpindi, Pakistan$20/hr100% JSS4.76 (36)Since Oct 2015
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$316

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#96,216 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#12,555 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$32

Last 6 months: $1.9k

World#101,482 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#14,359 / 52.9k
Total earnings
$115k

Billed in all: $122k

World#33,348 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#2,527 / 52.9k
Per project
$1.6k

$475 in the last 6 months

World#90,180 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#7,258 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
4

Across 5 contracts

0% fixed100% hourly
World#51,813 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#10,787 / 52.9k
Projects in all
71

Across 86 contracts

43% fixed57% hourly
World#42,159 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#6,459 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$122k+$32 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$121,820$121,840$121,860Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 17% in Beautiful Soup

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