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Get Upwork Job Details API
Read one Upwork job posting in full: the complete description, required skills, budget, how many freelancers have applied and been interviewed, and the client's country, rating, hire count and total spend. Accepts the job ciphertext or the job URL. Reads Upwork's public visitor surface — no Upwork account is required.
Part of: Upwork Jobs Scraper API
How to call it
Send one POST to api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get with your key in the X-Api-Key header and the parameters below as a JSON body. Each call spends 10 weighted units of your monthly quota. The operation times out after 45 seconds. Identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, unbilled.
POST https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get
Get Upwork Job Details API reference
Request parameters
- job
- stringrequired — An Upwork job: its ciphertext ("~021234…"), or the job URL that upwork-jobs-search returns.
- proxyUrl
- string — User-provided proxy URL. Omit to use the operation's own pool.
Response fields
- title
- stringrequired
- jobUrl
- stringrequired
- skills
- arrayrequired
- status
- stringrequired
- jobType
- stringrequired
- postedOn
- stringrequired
- elapsedMs
- integerrequired
- fetchedAt
- stringrequired
- buyerScore
- numberrequired
- ciphertext
- stringrequired
- totalHired
- integerrequired
- description
- stringrequired
- publishTime
- stringrequired
- buyerCountry
- stringrequired
- contractorTier
- stringrequired
- buyerTotalSpent
- numberrequired
- hourlyBudgetMax
- numberrequired
- hourlyBudgetMin
- numberrequired
- totalApplicants
- integerrequired
- lastBuyerActivity
- stringrequired
- buyerTotalJobsWithHires
- integerrequired
- totalInvitedToInterview
- 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.
{
"job": "example"
}{
"title": "Alan Turing",
"jobUrl": "example",
"skills": [
"example"
],
"status": "example",
"jobType": "example",
"postedOn": "example",
"elapsedMs": 1,
"fetchedAt": "example",
"buyerScore": 1,
"ciphertext": "example",
"totalHired": 1,
"description": "example",
"publishTime": "example",
"buyerCountry": "example",
"contractorTier": "example",
"buyerTotalSpent": 1,
"hourlyBudgetMax": 1,
"hourlyBudgetMin": 1,
"totalApplicants": 1,
"lastBuyerActivity": "example",
"buyerTotalJobsWithHires": 1,
"totalInvitedToInterview": 1
}Code snippets
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{ "job": "example" }'JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"job": "example"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.post(
'https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get',
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
json={
"job": "example"
},
)
print(response.json())Go
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
payload := []byte(`{ "job": "example" }`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-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([
'job' => 'example',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get');
curl_setopt_array($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/upwork-jobs-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 = { "job": "example" }.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 = "{ \"job\": \"example\" }";
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, MediaType.get("application/json"));
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-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>("{ \"job\": \"example\" }");
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("https://api.upapi.io/upwork-jobs-detail.get", payload);
var result = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>();
Console.WriteLine(result);Frequently asked questions
How much does the Get Upwork Job Details API cost per call?
Each call spends 10 weighted units of your plan's monthly quota. Full pricing is at https://upapi.io/pricing.
How do I authenticate to the Get Upwork Job Details API?
Send your key in the X-Api-Key header. A free guest key is available without creating an account.
Are Get Upwork Job Details API responses cached?
Yes — identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, and a cache hit is not billed.