Python FastAPI Camoufox DockerMar 2026

Upwork Job Scraper

Anti-detection Upwork job scraper API with Cloudflare bypass, advanced filtering, and real-time job data extraction.

Overview

The Upwork Job Scraper is a FastAPI-powered scraping service that extracts real-time job listings from Upwork using Camoufox — a stealth Firefox fork with anti-fingerprinting capabilities. The system automatically solves Cloudflare challenges, maintains persistent browser sessions with sticky proxy IPs for consistent identity, and extracts comprehensive job data including client history, activity metrics, and qualification requirements. A powerful post-scrape filtering engine lets users narrow results by proposal count, client activity, skills, budget, and more. Deployed via Docker for production reliability.

Challenge

Upwork's aggressive anti-bot protections — Cloudflare challenges, browser fingerprinting, and rate limiting — make traditional scraping approaches ineffective and result in instant blocking.

Results

99%+ Cloudflare bypass rate, 500+ jobs scraped per session, sub-second per-job extraction with parallel workers.

99%+

Cloudflare bypass

500+

Jobs per session

<1s/job

Extraction speed

25+

Filter parameters

Key Highlights

Automatic Cloudflare challenge solving with Camoufox stealth browser

Sticky proxy sessions with GeoIP spoofing (timezone, locale, WebRTC)

Parallel job detail fetching with 10 concurrent workers

Advanced post-scrape filtering by activity, qualifications & budget

Architecture

Camoufox stealth browser with automatic Cloudflare challenge solver and GeoIP spoofing

Sticky proxy sessions maintaining consistent IP identity across browser and HTTP requests

FastAPI async server with auto-refreshing sessions on 403 or login page detection

Docker deployment with Playwright base image for production-ready containerization

Timeline

Anti-Detection Research

2 weeks

Camoufox setup, Cloudflare analysis, sticky proxy architecture

Scraper Core

3 weeks

Search URL builder, HTML/NUXT parsing, parallel job detail extraction

API & Filtering

2 weeks

FastAPI server, Pydantic models, post-scrape filter engine

Dockerization & Deploy

1 week

Docker containerization, auto-reload dev setup, production config

“Every scraper we tried before got blocked by Cloudflare within minutes. Zak's solution bypasses it with a 99% success rate — we finally get clean, real-time Upwork data without babysitting anything.”

Stefan S.

Client, Data Automation