ProposalLift - How to Connect Upwork API Key

All right.

once you sign up you have to connect your upwork with the proposal lift and for that you have to go to upwork Developers account.

You'll be provided the link and the details that you have to add inside the upward developer account to get the access from upwork you have to go to the upwork developer account and then go to my keys and then you can provide all the details here.

For example the title will be Proposal lift and you have to select the proposal web project.

you will provide the callback URL from the proposal lift which is this.

And after that you have to provide the details you can add the details about Proposal lift upward.

Just need details and explanation on how you are going to use the API.

This is completely safe.

You have to be completely transparent.

How you are going to use like to add the filters to get the jobs and apply on that Jobs effectively we are going to use that for API usage.

You can select any of these from here and this they have provided the details of errors like per hour how many API requests are going to send.

You can.

You are going to send per hour.

So you can select 500 or like 100 to 500 doesn't matter.

Apart from that you can select the rotation period to 12 months.

otherwise it's gonna expire in six months and then you have to create another key.

Apart from that you will be provided the details of permissions that you need like getting the details of jobs a specific company.

You have to check those permissions here and then you agree to the terms and condition.

If you want you can read them here as well.

we have properly read read everything and like designed the proposal if according so it doesn't violate any of the their policies.

once you select all these you can submit and after some time it might take a couple of days as well.

So you will get the access to upwork API key and you have to do.

What you have to do is like you have to add the like URL here URL will be always already be there.

You have to add client ID and secret from upwork.

After that the key will be active and you will be able to see the stats here the stats Usually you don't this see these stats inside the systems.

but upwork has limitation per API key.

So we have added it like this.

Once you hit a 24 hour limit we going to pause the live alerts so it's it it it do not hit like it do not it do not hurt your reputation of your account or like any it it it it's not going to do something like that.

So so it doesn't hurt your account.

So we have like upwork has Official limitation of 40,000 API calls per day but we have limited to 37,000 just to be safe in case so that's pretty much it.

Once you save the credentials you can go ahead and enable your job feed you able to you will be able to turn on the live notifications for browser and if you are not logged into browser you will be getting the in for getting the alerts on your email as well.

And in future we'll be adding more alerts as well for like currently we we have webhooks you can call webhook and connect Slack or something through the automation tool.

So your team will be getting the notifications as soon as the job lands onto the upwork.

Yeah that's pretty much it for this video.