Upwork Search API
API health
- 24h health
- Normal
- 24h average time
- —
- Last checked
- September 26, 2026 at 18:04 (UTC)
- Healthy / normal
- Available
- Limited
- Mostly down
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 | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 12:00 - 12:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 11:00 - 11:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 10:00 - 10:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 09:00 - 09:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 08:00 - 08:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 07:00 - 07:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 06:00 - 06:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 05:00 - 05:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 04:00 - 04:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 03:00 - 03:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 02:00 - 02:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 01:00 - 01:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 20:00 - 20:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 19:00 - 19:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-24 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-23 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-22 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-21 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-20 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-19 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-18 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-17 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-16 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-15 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-14 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-13 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-12 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-11 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-10 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-09 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-08 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-07 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-06 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-05 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-04 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-03 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-02 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-01 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-31 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-30 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-29 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-28 | Normal | — | — |
Search public results on Upwork. Accepts these parameters: until, keyword, exclude_keywords, since, sort, experience_level, and job_type. Returns these fields: payment_verified, posted_at, persons_to_hire, and hourly_rate_max.
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 | search | 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. |
exclude_keywords | body.params | Not declared | No | - | Job keywords to exclude in search, rather than a talent blacklist or minimum skill requirement. |
experience_level | body.params | enum | No | - | Filters jobs by experience level: entry_level, intermediate_level, or expert_level.Allowed valuesentry_levelexpert_levelintermediate_level |
job_type | body.params | enum | No | - | Contract billing type for search: hourly or fixed_price, rather than full-time or part-time.Allowed valuesfixed_pricehourly |
since | body.params | Not declared | No | - | Job posting date start point for search, rather than the employer registration date. Compatibility paths may not apply this filter in the same way. |
sort | body.params | enum | No | - | Job sorting order for search: newest, oldest, or relevance. Certain execution paths do not support oldest, so consistent sorting across paths is not guaranteed.Allowed valuesnewestoldestrelevance |
until | body.params | Not declared | No | - | Job posting date end point for search, used in conjunction with since, rather than the contract end date. |
limit | body.params | integer (1–100) | No | 20 |
Code samples
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": "search",
"params": {
"keyword": "Python automation"
}
}'[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
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.
{
"id": "req_…",
"platform": "upwork",
"action": "search",
"results": [
{
"id": "(已隐去)",
"url": "https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~022103162557197640589",
"title": "Part-Time Automation and Systems Builder",
"text": "# Part-Time Automation & Systems Builder\n\n**The role**\n\nWe’re looking for someone who can turn operational problems into dependable systems our team uses every day. You’ll build automations, internal tools, and reporting workflows that reduce manual work as we grow.\n\nOur technica…",
"budget_currency": "USD",
"hourly_rate_min": 20,
"hourly_rate_max": 30,
"job_type": "HOURLY",
"experience_level": "IntermediateLevel",
"engagement_type": "FULL_TIME",
"duration": "More than 6 months",
"proposals": 173,
"persons_to_hire": 1,
"posted_at": "2026-09-24T16:40:48.454000+00:00",
"tags": [
"Business Process Automation",
"API Integration",
"Google Apps Script"
],
"client_location": "United States",
"client_rating": 4.91,
"client_review_count": 16,
"client_total_spent": 13591.13,
"payment_verified": true,
"platform": "upwork"
},
{
"id": "(已隐去)",
"url": "https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~022103697282534705588",
"title": "Python automation script to batch-generate illustrated storybooks (Claude API + image API)",
"text": "I'm a children's story creator. I need a Python script that runs on its own on my Mac while I'm away.\n\nWhat it should do:\n\nRead a list of story concepts from a file.\nRead one fixed style spec file (format, page count, characters, tone), used in every call.\nCall the Claude API to …",
"budget": 1000,
"budget_currency": "USD",
"hourly_rate_min": 1000,
"hourly_rate_max": 1000,
"job_type": "FIXED",
"experience_level": "IntermediateLevel",
"duration": "1 to 3 months",
"proposals": 45,
"persons_to_hire": 1,
"posted_at": "2026-09-26T07:05:29.443000+00:00",
"tags": [
"Python",
"Automation",
"Scripting"
],
"client_location": "Singapore",
"client_rating": 0,
"client_review_count": 0,
"client_total_spent": 0,
"payment_verified": true,
"platform": "upwork"
}
],
"count": 20,
"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. |
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. |
budget | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
budget_currency | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
hourly_rate_min | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
hourly_rate_max | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
job_type | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
experience_level | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
engagement_type | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
duration | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
proposals | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
persons_to_hire | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
posted_at | Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it. |
tags | Array of tags. An empty array, not null, when there are none. |
client_name | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_location | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_rating | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_review_count | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_total_spent | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_hire_rate | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
client_avg_hourly_rate | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
payment_verified | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
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: Hourly versus fixed-price contracts ↗
Upwork distinguishes hourly billing contracts from fixed-price contracts based on overall project scope or milestones. The job_type parameter in this action categorizes jobs; it does not provide official platform features such as time logging, escrow payments, or milestone management.
Checked 2026-09-04