If you do it every week, we can script it.
Data pipelines, API integrations, web scrapers, and scheduled jobs — built to run themselves, log what they do, and recover when something upstream breaks. Everything below is running live on this page; nothing here is a screenshot.
A pipeline that runs — and recovers
A workflow runner with the parts that actually matter on day two: per-step timings and record counts, a conditional quarantine branch, a filterable log, a dry-run mode that writes nothing, and a run history you can click back through. Run it clean, then run it with an upstream failure and watch the retry path.
- Click any step to inspect it
- Conditional quarantine branch
- Info / warn / error log filters
- Dry-run mode
- Re-viewable run history
Simulated pipeline — scripted stages, seeded record counts, and generated log lines; no API is called. Timestamps and durations come from your own clock. Your build runs this same shape against your actual systems.
Six shapes of automation work
Concrete projects we ship for clients — each scoped as a fixed-price milestone on Upwork.
System-to-system sync
Two tools that don't talk, made to — a nightly job that keeps your CRM, store, and books in agreement without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
Fixed-price on UpworkReport that runs itself
The weekly report you build by hand, generated and delivered on a schedule — formatted, filtered, and emailed to the right people.
Fixed-price on UpworkAPI glue & webhooks
Wire a webhook to a CRM, a payment event to an email, a form to a database — the connective tissue between the tools you already pay for.
Fixed-price on UpworkWeb scraping (legit)
Structured data pulled from sources you're allowed to use — respectful crawling, clean CSV/JSON out, rate-limited and documented.
Fixed-price on UpworkScheduled jobs
Cron jobs, queue workers, and background tasks set up to run reliably — with alerts when something needs a human.
Fixed-price on UpworkOne-off chore killer
That recurring manual task that eats an afternoon — turned into a script you run once, or that runs without you.
Fixed-price on UpworkA scraper, working the queue
Four sources move through a fetch → parse → done lifecycle with live throughput and ETA readouts. Open the settings drawer to change rate limits and retry policy, pause or cancel mid-crawl, and watch the deals endpoint hit a 429 and back off before retrying. Sort and filter the results, then export CSV or JSON.
- Rate limit & retry settings
- Pause / resume / cancel
- 429 back-off with countdown
- Sortable, filterable results
- CSV / JSON export & copy
Politeness settings apply to every source. We only ever crawl sources you're allowed to use — these are placeholder .example hosts.
| Source | Rate limit | Retry policy | robots.txt |
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Changes apply on the next run.
Simulated crawl, generated data — no network requests are made and every host is a placeholder .example domain. We only ever scrape sources you're allowed to, at a respectful rate, with the robots rules honoured.
Three steps, preview-first
You see real work before you spend anything.
Describe the chore
What you do by hand, how often, and which tools are involved. A screen recording is worth a thousand words.
See a dry run
We usually reply with the pipeline running against a sample — logs, output, and the failure path — before you commit.
Ship it on Upwork
Funded milestones, scheduled and monitored, with docs so you can run it yourself. You approve before it goes live.
A schedule builder, in plain English
Start from a preset or build it by hand. It writes the human sentence, the cron expression, and the next ten real run times in whichever timezone you pick — plus a ready-to-paste crontab line that respects your overlap policy. Paste a cron string back in and it reads it into the builder.
- Preset library
- Timezone-aware next runs
- Overlap / misfire policy
- Paste-a-cron parser
- Copy cron or crontab line
Real computation — run times are stepped minute by minute in the timezone you select, using your device's clock and the browser's own timezone database. Nothing is scheduled here; this only generates the expression and crontab line your job would use.
How we work on automation projects
Scoped, fixed-price milestones through Upwork — you see a dry run on sample data before you fund anything, and you own the scripts and docs when we're done. No retainers, no lock-in, no surprise line items.
Got a weekly chore worth killing?
Tell us what you do by hand and how often — we'll usually answer with a dry run, not a promise.
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