Alex M.
Web Scraping Data Extraction Expert | Python, Scrapy, ETL, PDF
Web scraping is a headache. I can help you forget about it. ✅ 92% Client Return Rate ✅ 500M+ Pages/Day ✅ 13+ Years in scraping ✅ I specialize in data scraping and web scraping - Python systems processing 500M+ pages daily for data extraction, web crawling, ETL pipelines, PDF parsing, lead generation, and AI data collection from government portals, e-commerce platforms, real estate databases, social media, and business directories. When off-the-shelf tools like Octoparse or ParseHub hit their limits - and they will - companies come to me. You need me if: 🔴 You have a large web scraping project that's breaking, slow, or falling behind 🔴 Your existing web scraper stopped working or needs to be maintained and updated 🔴 Your AI startup needs a large, clean dataset now 🔴 You want data your competitor has but you don't What I can help you build: 🛒 E-commerce & price intelligence Amazon, eBay, marketplace scrapers with competitor price monitoring, daily stock updates, and product data pipelines 🏛️ Government & public records permit portals, court records, legislative data, SEDAR, AHPRA, corporate registries, multi-state public data collection 📄 PDF & document data extraction structured data from reports, invoices, and manuals; OCR of scanned files delivered to Excel or SQL; large-scale PDF pipelines 👤 Lead generation web scraping Google Maps, business directories, and contact databases scraped to lists in Excel or your CRM 🏠 Real estate data Zillow-style portal scraping, property listings and rental data with recurring scheduled updates 📱 Social media web scraping Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok data extraction for market research, brand monitoring, and competitor analysis 🤖 AI data collection & pipelines - structured datasets for LLM training, RAG systems, AI agents, and ML workflows Sample projects: • 500M+ pages processed daily - e-commerce price monitoring web scraping across 250+ domains • Government & public records - 300+ portal scrapers across US, UK, Canada, and Australia • PDF data extraction - structured data from 10,000+ documents delivered to Excel and SQL • Real estate monitoring - Zillow-style portal scraping with daily updates across 40,000+ listings • Lead generation web scraping - 50,000+ verified business contacts from Google Maps and directories • AI training dataset - 50M+ structured records for LLM fine-tuning pipelines Technical stack: Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Requests - anti-bot bypass including Cloudflare (IUAM + Turnstile), Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome, PerimeterX, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, TLS/JA3 fingerprint alignment, authenticated scraping behind login, residential proxy rotation. Cloud deployment on AWS Lambda, EC2, DigitalOcean, or your preferred infrastructure. ETL pipelines delivering to PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Excel, Google Sheets, CSV, or your API. I build, deploy, and maintain production web scraping systems - not just scripts. Source code and full documentation included. 🌍 Clients served: 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 🇮🇪 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 and more 92% of clients come back. Let's solve your data challenge and find out if you will too. Keywords: Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Requests, lxml, httpx, Pandas, AWS Lambda, EC2, DigitalOcean, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Celery, RabbitMQ, Apache Airflow, PySpark - Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Zillow, Streeteasy, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Airbnb, Booking, Craigslist, Indeed, Glassdoor, Walmart, Etsy, SEDAR, AHPRA, court portals, government databases, permit portals, legislative data, Companies House, BCAssessment, Illinois SOS, corporate registries - PDF, OCR, invoice extraction, ETL, data pipeline, Excel, Google Sheets, CSV, JSON, SQL, database scraping, structured data extraction, data pipeline orchestration, spiders, web spiders, Scrapy spiders - Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Incapsula, TLS fingerprinting, proxy rotation, anti-bot bypass, authenticated scraping, Apify, Scrapy Cloud, Zyte - n8n, Make, Zapier, OpenAI API, Claude API, LLM, AI agent, RAG, vector database, AI workflow, AI data collection, AI data acquisition, product scraper, price scraper, lead scraper, real estate scraper, directory scraper, review scraper, social media scraper, instagram scraping, facebook scraper, linkedin scraper, twitter scraping, PropTech, FinTech, SaaS data pipeline, bot, scraping bot, web bot, Python bot, EAN codes, RSS feeds, event scraping, scraper maintenance, improve scrapers, nightly automation, scheduled scraping, VM deployment, data extraction, data crawler, web crawler
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $67k
Billed in all: $1,161,249$1.16M
$2.8k in the last 6 months
Across 25 contracts
Across 98 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: #1 in 2 skills of 20
Rarest: top 0.02% in Data Entry, of 53,630. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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