What are you trying to achieve?
I’m trying to use an Upwork API to help me receive notifications for when a new job is posted, like their RSS feed before they eliminated it. I’ve applied for & been rejected from gaining access to Upwork’s API three times, so I’ll probably have to use one from RapidAPI or Piloterr?
I’m totally new to Make but I have some very basic skills like making batch files & writing Autohotkey scripts. Some of the code in Upwork’s API documentation looks vaguely similar to Autohotkey & I think I could figure out what to do with it but I have no idea where to put the code in order to have it perform its function, like how Autohotkey code needs to be put in a notepad document with the extension changed from TXT to AHK. I can’t figure out the starting point, if that makes sense.
Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Hey @BJC6436 , just a quick suggestion, why not scrape their site since they don’t have an RSS feed? For instance, you can use a tool like apify to scrape the site from time to time.
@Greatness_Workflows I was using a Chrome plugin called Distill.io to check for new jobs every few minutes, got warned once then almost “permanenly suspended” for it. They discontinued their RSS feed maybe a year ago and I’ve been using this method for months without a problem, but I think as of late they’ve been cracking down on it.
Upwork implemented a paid notification system that sounds pretty unreliable. I haven’t tried it, but if it’s anything like their standard jobs search engine it’s limited to only 200 characters, meaning I’d be getting endless notifications for jobs that don’t fit my skill set since I can’t exclude certain words from the search.
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Welcome to the Make community!
I would suggest using a third-party API that others have already built, instead of trying to roll your own. You can find appropriate ones on Rapid API: All Results For “Upwork” (59)
Good luck!
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
@samliew I mentioned RapidAPI in my original post. If you could address the unanswered questions I have in it, I would appreciate it.
Looks like the only question in your original post have been addressed.
You can also suggest for it to be made in the Idea Exchange. However, do search for a similar request (and also upvote), just in case it has already been suggested to avoid duplicates.
If you need assistance in setting up the built-in generic HTTP modules, please provide additional information about what you have tried in relation to the external service’s Developer API Reference — how you are setting the connection up, a link to the endpoint are you trying to connect to, and what errors you are encountering.
You can also complete this brand new course/tutorial in the Make Academy on how to use external APIs — API calls with HTTP modules
- API and Endpoints
- Header and body
- Multipart/form-data
- OAuth 2.0
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
Hay Brian,
May i ask what exactly you are trying to achieve ? (just getting new jobs data)
Hi Omar –
Upwork discontinued its RSS feature maybe a year ago. When used with a program like RSS Guard, I would be notified of a new job posting shortly after it was made available, but also with the option of filtering out jobs that contain keywords that don’t match my skill set. I’d like to replicate this new job notification feature. Upwork discontinued RSS because I guess some people were abusing it somehow. They implemented a new paid notification feature that some people think is adequate and others dislike, but I’m reluctant to try it since their job search option is limited by only 200 characters, meaning I’d probably get lots of notifications for jobs I’m not interested in since I can’t exclude more than 200 characters worth of keywords.
I read that some people are using Upwork’s official or Upwork-related APIs to get job notifications, but I have no idea where to start. I’m not a computer programmer and have never heard of an API up until this point.
I didn’t notice until now that some of the suggested links were actually Make Academy modules – I think I received the previous message early in the morning, glanced at it and thought it contained something too technical for me to understand. I’ll watch them and follow up.
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