Web Scraping Specialist Needed – Regional Food Data Extraction

Project Overview: We are looking for an experienced web scraping freelancer or agency to extract public foodstuff and macronutrient data from a specific global platform. We are exclusively interested in the South African (.co.za) regional footprint of this website. The target platform features highly aggressive anti-scraping and bot-detection mechanisms (e.g., Cloudflare/Akamai). You must have proven experience bypassing advanced anti-bot walls using headless browsers, residential proxies, and fingerprint manipulation. Scope of Work (Initial Stage): 1. Review the target site (URL provided to shortlisted candidates). 2. Map out and audit the total number of South African retailers and takeaway/restaurant chains listed. 3. Estimate the average number of products/menu items per brand to determine total data volume. 4. Provide a fixed-price quote and timeline for a complete, one-off data delivery. Deliverables: - A clean, structured dataset (CSV, JSON, or Excel) containing all mapped South African products. - No source code is required; we are paying for the final data deliverable. Requirements: - Proven track record of scraping enterprise-level websites with strict anti-bot protections. - Ability to handle dynamic, user-generated web content. - Please include the phrase "HEALTHY-SA" at the top of your proposal so we know you have read this brief completely. Budget & Scaling Note: The initial placeholder budget for this project is set at $120. We are happy to scale this budget up to $300 based on the final audited size of the dataset and the complexity of the extraction mapped out during your initial review.