Upwork Freelancers API
POST
API health
- 24h health
- Normal
- 24h average time
- —
- Last checked
- September 26, 2026 at 18:04 (UTC)
- Healthy / normal
- Available
- Limited
- Mostly down
Health APINormal
Last 24 hours
Last 30 days
How health is measured
- Health = the share of calls that returned data, in percent. Empty results, failures and unknown outcomes do not count as returning data.
- Levels: 90% and above is healthy, 70% and above is available, 40% and above is limited; anything lower is mostly down.
- A period (the last 24 hours, one hour or one day) gets a score only once it has at least 50 calls. Periods with fewer calls show as normal: a few failures among a handful of calls do not mean the API is down.
- Calls include real customer calls and our own daily probe calls. Request errors (wrong parameters, no balance) are excluded.
- Average time counts only calls that completed normally: response time for sync calls, acceptance to completion for async ones.
By period
| Time (UTC) | Status | Health | Average time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 18:00 - 18:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 17:00 - 17:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 16:00 - 16:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 15:00 - 15:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 14:00 - 14:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 13:00 - 13:59 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-26 00:00 - 00:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 23:00 - 23:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 22:00 - 22:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 21:00 - 21:59 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-25 19:00 - 19:59 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-01 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-31 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-08-29 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-28 | Normal | — | — |
Search public freelancer profiles on Upwork. Accepts these parameters: region, keyword, and top_rated. Returns these fields: location, is_top_rated, image_url, and timezone.
Price $1.39 per 1,000 requests ($0.001389 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.
Request parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Authorization | header | string | Yes | - | Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository. |
platform | body | string | Yes | upwork | Platform identifier, fixed value. |
action | body | string | Yes | freelancers | Capability identifier, fixed value. |
keyword | body.params | Not declared | Yes | - | Searches for outsourcing jobs in search and talent in freelancers. The same skill term maps to client demand and freelancer profiles across the two actions. |
region | body.params | enum | No | - | Filters talent by continent: africa, americas, asia, europe, or oceania. It accepts continent names, not country codes such as US.Allowed valuesafricaamericasasiaeuropeoceania |
top_rated | body.params | Not declared | No | - | Boolean value (true or false) that defaults to no filter and controls whether the freelancers action returns only Top Rated talent. Do not pass the string "false", because non-empty strings evaluate to true. |
limit | body.params | integer (1–200) | No | 10 |
Code samples
bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"platform": "upwork",
"action": "freelancers",
"params": {
"keyword": "web scraping"
}
}'[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
Real response
Captured September 26, 2026 at 08:56 (UTC) by calling this API with the parameters in the code sample above. results and count are that call's real response with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2. id, billing and quota differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.
json
{
"id": "req_…",
"platform": "upwork",
"action": "freelancers",
"results": [
{
"id": "https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/scrapingfarhan",
"url": "https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/scrapingfarhan",
"name": "Muhammad F.",
"title": "Data Scraping and Data Extraction through Web Scraping | Web scraper",
"text": "Hey! Are you looking for someone to scrape data to add value to your business through data scraping, data extraction, and web scraping solutions?🚀 Don't worry, you have found what you are looking for!\n\nI'm Muhammad Farhan, your go-to expert for data extraction and web scraping so…",
"location": "Bahawalpur, PB, Pakistan",
"region": "Asia",
"timezone": "UTC+05:00 Islamabad, Karachi",
"hourly_rate": 7,
"currency": "USD",
"job_success_score": 1,
"total_earnings": 44086.55,
"total_jobs": 226,
"total_hours": 1619,
"total_hourly_jobs": 62,
"total_fixed_jobs": 229,
"is_top_rated": "top_rated",
"is_top_rated_plus": "not_eligible",
"is_vetted": false,
"is_available": true,
"skills": [
"data-scraping",
"data-extraction",
"data-cleansing"
],
"image_url": "https://www.upwork.com/profile-portraits/c1r50Q8zD2_omKjj90L-bfxVtHuu0WvEFfO7PWLgI1kMlud6X6_bvml9z5a0PZfmBa",
"platform": "upwork"
},
{
"id": "https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/mansil6",
"url": "https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/mansil6",
"name": "Mansi L.",
"title": "Web scraping Expert",
"text": "I am a Data Engineer specializing in Web Scraping and Lead generation. And capable enough to extract millions of data from any business directory. I am done with 2500+ website scraping with 7+ years of experience.\n\nI can capable enough to handle any project belong to Web Scraping…",
"location": "Jamnagar, GJ, India",
"region": "Asia",
"timezone": "UTC+05:30 Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, New Delhi",
"hourly_rate": 15,
"currency": "USD",
"job_success_score": 1,
"total_earnings": 28245.21,
"total_jobs": 249,
"total_hours": 786,
"total_hourly_jobs": 67,
"total_fixed_jobs": 214,
"is_top_rated": "top_rated",
"is_top_rated_plus": "not_eligible",
"is_vetted": false,
"is_available": true,
"skills": [
"microsoft-excel",
"data-entry",
"lead-generation"
],
"image_url": "https://www.upwork.com/profile-portraits/c1UNIbtR-VvRePkOKXyVqEPQtVaeejFJV_O_5QXN2Lh7zMCm_HbB6tuadhrhQeoCL2",
"platform": "upwork"
}
],
"count": 10,
"billing": { … },
"quota": { … }
}Response fields
Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the source does not provide are never made up.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
id | The record's unique ID on the source platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
url | Link to the record on the source platform. |
name | Name of the object itself, for account, product and business capabilities. |
title | Title. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts). |
text | Body text with HTML removed. Long text may be truncated. |
location | Location description passed through as is; the format varies by platform. |
region | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
timezone | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
hourly_rate | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
currency | Currency code of the price (for example CNY, USD). If price is present but currency is null, do not assume a currency. |
job_success_score | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
total_earnings | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
total_jobs | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
total_hours | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
total_hourly_jobs | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
total_fixed_jobs | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_top_rated | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_top_rated_plus | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_vetted | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
is_available | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
skills | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
image_url | Image link. Capabilities with several images may return an image_urls array. |
platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |
Errors and billing
- 401
- Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
- 422
- Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
- 402
- Insufficient balance. Top up first.
- 429
- Per-minute request limit reached. Wait for Retry-After and try again.
- 503
- Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
- 200 empty
- The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).
Official references
Used only to check objects and terms. They do not imply authorization or endorsement of EveryInfra by the platform.
- Upwork: Job Success Score (JSS) versus talent badges ↗
Upwork defines JSS as a performance metric combining client satisfaction, contract outcomes, and long-term relationships, using it as one condition for certain talent badges. JSS is distinct from star ratings, and the Top Rated designation or `top_rated` parameter does not guarantee project quality.
Checked 2026-09-04