Get Contra Opportunity API
Read one contra.com freelance opportunity by its slug: title, full description, budget range, required roles and tools, application window, and the hiring company with its review count and spend statistics. Reads Contra's public page — no Contra account is required.
How to call it
Send one POST to api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get with your key in the X-Api-Key header and the parameters below as a JSON body. Each call spends 4 weighted units of your monthly quota. The operation times out after 45 seconds. Identical requests are served from cache for 300 seconds, unbilled.
POST https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get
Get Contra Opportunity API reference
Request parameters
- slug
- stringrequired — Opportunity slug from a contra.com/opportunity/<slug> URL, e.g. "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in"
- proxyUrl
- string — User-provided proxy URL. Omit to use the operation's own datacenter pool.
Response fields
- id
- stringrequired
- url
- stringrequired
- slug
- stringrequired
- roles
- arrayrequired
- title
- stringrequired
- tools
- arrayrequired
- budget
- objectrequired
- budget.max
- objectrequired
- budget.min
- objectrequired
- budget.type
- stringrequired
- budget.estimatedHours
- integerrequired
- status
- stringrequired
- createdAt
- stringrequired
- elapsedMs
- integerrequired
- expiresAt
- stringrequired
- fetchedAt
- stringrequired
- description
- stringrequired
- externalUrl
- stringrequired
- organization
- objectrequired
- visitorCanApply
- booleanrequired
- hiringAsIndividual
- booleanrequired
- applicationsClosedAt
- stringrequired
- numberOfOpenPositions
- integerrequired
- allowGuestApplications
- booleanrequired
- numberOfFilledPositions
- integerrequired
Example request and response
The example response is generated from this operation’s published output schema — it shows the shape and field names, not values from a recorded call.
{
"slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in"
}{
"id": "example",
"url": "https://github.com",
"slug": "example",
"roles": [
"example"
],
"title": "Alan Turing",
"tools": [
"example"
],
"budget": {
"max": {
"amount": 100,
"currency": "example"
},
"min": {
"amount": 100,
"currency": "example"
},
"type": "example",
"estimatedHours": 1
},
"status": "example",
"createdAt": "example",
"elapsedMs": 1,
"expiresAt": "example",
"fetchedAt": "example",
"description": "example",
"externalUrl": "example",
"organization": {
"id": "example",
"name": "example",
"slug": "example",
"logoUrl": "example",
"website": "example",
"headline": "example",
"location": "example",
"isVerified": false,
"statistics": {},
"description": "example",
"reviewCount": 1,
"yearFounded": 1,
"profileRoute": "example",
"numberOfEmployees": 1
},
"visitorCanApply": false,
"hiringAsIndividual": false,
"applicationsClosedAt": "example",
"numberOfOpenPositions": 1,
"allowGuestApplications": false,
"numberOfFilledPositions": 1
}Code snippets
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{ "slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in" }'JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.post(
'https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get',
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
json={
"slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in"
},
)
print(response.json())Go
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
payload := []byte(`{ "slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in" }`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get", bytes.NewBuffer(payload))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var result map[string]any
json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
fmt.Println(result)
}PHP
<?php
$payload = json_encode([
'slug' => 'vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
var_dump($data);Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
request.body = { "slug": "vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in" }.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts JSON.parse(response.body)Java
import okhttp3.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.util.Map;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = "{ \"slug\": \"vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in\" }";
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, MediaType.get("application/json"));
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get")
.post(body)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
Map<?, ?> result = mapper.readValue(response.body().string(), Map.class);
System.out.println(result);
}C#
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var payload = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<object>("{ \"slug\": \"vWsXX3YM-paid-ads-graphic-designer-for-meta-and-linked-in\" }");
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("https://api.upapi.io/contra-job-detail.get", payload);
var result = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>();
Console.WriteLine(result);Frequently asked questions
How much does the Get Contra Opportunity API cost per call?
Each call spends 4 weighted units of your plan's monthly quota. Full pricing is at https://upapi.io/pricing.
How do I authenticate to the Get Contra Opportunity API?
Send your key in the X-Api-Key header. A free guest key is available without creating an account.
Are Get Contra Opportunity API responses cached?
Yes — identical requests are served from cache for 300 seconds, and a cache hit is not billed.