Install Dependencies

npm install

Set Environment Variables

Create a new file .env and copy the content of .env.sample to it.

Add Upwork Username and Password.

Add URL of freelancers profile e.g. ["https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~010b3bced96bb518ba", "...", "..."]

Start Scrapping

For Local Environment : npm run start

For Production Environment : npm run start-prod

VM Setup

Ubuntu 18.04 - AWS LightSail

• ls
• sudo apt update
• curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh
• nano install_nvm.sh
• bash install_nvm.sh
• source ~/.profile
• nvm ls-remote
• nvm install 12.19.0
• nvm use 12.19.0
• node -v
• nvm alias default 12.19.0
• npm -v
• wget https://github.com/StarkDevelopers/upwork-scrapper/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
• unzip master.zip
• sudo apt-get install unzip
• unzip master.zip
• ls
• cd upwork-scrapper-master/
• ls
• cd functions/
• ls
• npm install
• nano .env
• sudo apt-get install gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget xvfb x11vnc x11-xkb-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic x11-apps
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install -y libgbm-dev
• xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0 1920x1080x24" node index.js