Developios AgencyAug 3, 2026

Upwork Auth vs Upwork API - What are they and how to connect

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Upwork Auth vs Upwork API - What are they and how to connect

Developios Agency

Learn how to connect your Upwork account to enable job fetching and how to set up your API keys to increase refresh frequency from three minutes to one minute for faster job alerts.

Upwork Auth vs Upwork API - What are they and how to connect

Developios Agency

Learn how to connect your Upwork account to enable job fetching and how to set up your API keys to increase refresh frequency from three minutes to one minute for faster job alerts.

Chapters

00:00

Introduction and Authentication

Overview of connecting your Upwork account to enable API access.

00:46

Using Filters and Job Feed

01:50

Setting Up Upwork API Keys

Transcript

00:00

Okay, so I received a couple of queries regarding upwork connection.

00:05

I know there is a confusion.

00:08

So basically there are two things.

00:10

firstly the important thing is you have to connect your upwork account.

00:14

This way upwork will authenticate you as a user and will allow you to call the API to fetch the data.

00:22

Right.

00:23

So that's pretty simple.

00:24

You can just click here.

00:25

If you are signed into upwork, you, you'll be automatically signed in without putting any email or password anywhere.

00:33

So this will detect your upwork login and connect your upwork account.

00:39

That's first thing and that's most important thing as well.

00:41

Once this is connected you should be able to go to filters and get the jobs there.

00:50

So in here you will get the jobs and it will fetch for example next year.

00:56

Let's, let's search for the next year's jobs.

00:59

So it will call the API every three minutes.

01:04

So there's a limitation so we, we cannot call it like more often because it's limited by upwork.

01:11

So but you'll still be able to create filters and save them, full stack.

01:16

And once you save the filter you will get the jobs inside the job feed as well.

01:23

So from here you can like check all the details and go to upwork.

01:26

And if you have extension installed, you can go right proposal as well.

01:31

So that's something that we recently updated.

01:34

Before that this feed was not working because we were like 100% relying on your API that you get from Upwork.

01:41

So the second part is connecting your upwork API key that you have to request.

01:48

from here you go, you have to go to the Upwork, developer, let me check.

01:55

So upper.comkeys/12 so this is URL I'm just writing here.

02:01

you should be able to go from here, but I'll get this updated.

02:05

once you click here you will, you will go here and you have to provide all these details that we have provided here.

02:12

A title, then project type, callback, URL.

02:15

You can copy all of these things and you have to select these permissions from here and then you need to submit it.

02:23

Once you submit they will provide you the API key and secret, but that will not be active.

02:30

So it takes a couple of days.

02:33

So once it's approved and you'll, you'll be able to use your API key as well.

02:39

So that's something important for getting, the job alerts.

02:44

And, you will be able to get job fee, like the jobs in job feed more often.

02:49

Instead of like every three minutes, you'll be able to get the job every one minute.

02:53

And that's, like, pretty, effective.

02:57

and we have tried it, so, yeah, that's pretty much it.

02:59

let me know if you have any questions.

03:02

I'll, I'll let you know if there is any confusion.

Upwork Auth vs Upwork API - What are they and how to connect — Tella