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Upwork Jobs API. Pay per record.

Search Upwork jobs with the marketplace's own filters: hourly or fixed price, rate and budget ranges, experience level, client history, project length, hours per week and client country. Every hit comes back with the budget, skills and how many proposals it has.

Price: $0.0027 / job
Billed: Per record
Free to start: $0.10
Endpoint: POST /v1/upwork

Updated 21 October 2026

What people build with the Upwork Jobs API

Find work worth bidding on

Let an agent watch for new expert-level jobs in your skill, from clients who have hired before, and flag the ones with few proposals.

Freelance market research

See which skills clients ask for, at what hourly rates and budgets, and how crowded each job is.

Job feeds and alerts

Build a feed of fresh Upwork jobs for a niche, sorted newest first, for a team or a community.

Quote it, then run it

1. free quote: the exact price, nothing charged

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/upwork \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"search","query":"shopify developer","sort":"newest","experienceLevel":["expert"],"clientLocation":["United States"],"limit":10,"estimateOnly":true}'

2. the same call, run

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/upwork \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"search","query":"shopify developer","sort":"newest","experienceLevel":["expert"],"clientLocation":["United States"],"limit":10}'

Inputs

Everything you can send in one search call. Required inputs first.

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Input	Type	What it does
query *	string	≤300 chars
sort	enum
includeHourly	boolean	Keep hourly-rate jobs. Set both this and includeFixed false and nothing matches.
hourlyMin	integer	USD per hour. 0-
hourlyMax	integer	USD per hour, the upper bound; only hourly jobs are affected. 0-
includeFixed	boolean	Keep fixed-price jobs.
budgetMin	integer	USD, the fixed-price budget. 0-
budgetMax	integer	USD, the fixed-price budget's upper bound; only fixed jobs are affected. 0-
experienceLevel	enum list	The level the client asked for. Any listed level matches; empty = all.
clientHistory	enum list	How many jobs the client has hired for before: none, 1-9, or 10+. Empty = any client.
projectLength	enum list	Expected duration: under a week, under a month, 1-6 months, or ongoing (6+). Empty = any length.
hoursPerWeek	enum list	Weekly commitment: part-time (under 30 h) or full-time (30 h+). Empty = either.
clientLocation	text list	Client countries, as Upwork spells them ("United States"). each ≤60 chars
limit	integer	5-100

What comes back

The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.

Show all 45 rows

Field	Type
jobId	string
jobUrl	string
jobTitle	string
jobDescription	string
posted	string
deadline	string
jobType	string
projectType	string
projectLength	string
weeklyWorkload	string
hourlyRateMin	number
hourlyRateMax	number
fixedBudget	number
hourlyBudgetSource	string
experienceLevel	string
englishLevel	string
skills	any
skillGroups	list of string
category	string
categoryGroup	string
occupation	string
applicants	integer
interviewing	integer
invitesSent	integer
unansweredInvites	integer
hired	integer
positionsToHire	integer
jobStatus	string
jobAccess	string
contractToHire	boolean
featuredJob	boolean
localMarketJob	boolean
locationCheckRequired	boolean
risingTalentOk	boolean
minJobSuccessScore	number
freelancerType	string
requiredCountries	string
requiredRegions	string
requiredTimezones	string
requiredLanguages	string
client	any
clientOtherOpenPostings	any
similarJobs	any
resultRank	integer
details	object

details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.

A sample answer

Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

jobTitle	jobType	fixedBudget	experienceLevel	projectLength	skills
Build a Shopify product feed sync	fixed	800	intermediate	1 to 3 months	["Shopify","Node.js","APIs"]
Shopify theme speed fixes	hourly		expert	Less than 1 month	["Shopify","Liquid","Web performance"]
Migrate store from WooCommerce to Shopify	fixed	1500	expert	1 to 3 months	["Shopify","WooCommerce","Data migration"]

Pricing

Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.

Request	Records	At the list price
One job	1	$0.0027
10 jobs	10	$0.027
A full page	100	$0.27

These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.

Try it without writing code

Open the Upwork Jobs API in the playgroundThe playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.

Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself

No login, no Upwork account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.

Use it from your tools

Questions people ask.

What does the Upwork Jobs API return?

One row per job: title, job type (hourly or fixed), the fixed budget or the hourly rate range, experience level, project length, skills, the proposal count, the posted date, the job id and the job URL.

What do I pass in?

A keyword query is required. Optional filters: sort by relevance or newest, keep hourly or fixed-price jobs, hourly rate and fixed budget ranges in US dollars, experience level (entry, intermediate or expert), client history (no hires, 1 to 9, or 10 or more), project length, hours per week, client countries as Upwork spells them, and a limit of 5 to 100.

How much does it cost?

$0.0027 per job at the list price. A small call can carry a minimum, so quote first with "estimateOnly": true, which is free and is the most the call can cost. You pay for what comes back.

Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.

Try this endpoint in the playground

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Why people pick API for Agents

One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
$0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

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