STEP 1
Select Upwork in workflow
Pick Upwork app in the workflow builder [4] - just one click to select the app.
Upwork Integration
Freelance marketplace for hiring independent talent worldwide. Automate Upwork hiring, onboarding, and employee updates across your HR stack. When Watch Rooms fires, automatically trigger Get a Company or Get a Company Wide Time Report.
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Supported triggers and actions for Upwork integration
Triggers can detect changes in Upwork and run actions that can create, search or modify data inside Upwork automatically [3] — exactly how you set them.
- Watch RoomsWatches for rooms activity. Returns rooms with new messages.
- Get a CompanyReturns a company public info by id.
- Get a Company Wide Time ReportRetrieves a time report for a company.
- Get a ContractRetrieves details for a contract by id.
- Get a Contract Work DaysRetrieves work days for a specified contract and time range.
- Get a Freelancer ProfileRetrieves a freelancer profile by key (ciphertext).
- Get a Room MessageRetrieves a message from chat room by id.
- Get an Accounting EntityRetrieves an accounting entity for an authorized user.
- Get an OfferRetrieves details for a specified offer.
- Get Current OrganizationRetrieves current authorized organization details.
- Get Organization User DetailsRetrieves details for a specific organization user by id.
- List a Contract Cell ActivitiesRetrieves a contract time cell activites for specified timestamp.
- List CompaniesRetrieves a list of companies that user can select.
- List Contract Time CellsRetrieves a work diary for a specified contract.
- List ContractsReturns a list of contracts (engagements) for an organization.
- List Contracts by IDRetrieves a list of contracts by provided contract IDs.
- List Message RoomsReturns a list of message rooms for tenant.
- List Room MessagesReturns a list of messages in a specified room.
- List TeamsRetrieves all the teams that user has access to.
- List Transaction HistoryRetrieves a transaction history list for a specified date range.
How to integrate Upwork in automation workflow?
3 simple steps to make your Upwork connected with other apps in automation workflows on WEXTL. Up to 10 minutes integration set up.
STEP 2
Connect Upwork
When prompted, authorize access to Upwork in WEXTL once. Upwork credentials are encrypted and never shared with WEXTL. Authorization will be reused in any future API calls [3].
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STEP 3
Build a workflow
Build your workflow with Upwork yourself or with WEXTL® AI Builder. Connect Upwork to any available integrations [5], or use HTTP node to go beyond them.
Upwork
How Upwork connects and integrates with WEXTL
Save and approve your credentials once — WEXTL® stores authorization information encrypted and reuses the authentication whenever Upwork app is called in workflows. That allows your hr automations to run without your attention, per defined schedule [7]. Explore documentation [6] for a detailed list of fields that Upwork supports.
The following table illustrates what fields Upwork integration require during authorization flow inside our workflow builder [4].
Connect Upwork
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Demonstration of Upwork connection step inside WEXTL Workflow Builder [4].
| Field | Type | Help |
|---|---|---|
| Client ID | text | Optional. Your own Upwork OAuth client ID. Leave empty to use the platform app. |
| Client Secret | password | Optional. Your own Upwork OAuth client secret. Leave empty to use the platform app. |
Connect Upwork to popular apps on WEXTL
Enter a name of the other app you want to sync with Upwork below. Click on selected app to explore integration options with Upwork. If the app you search for is not available in WEXTL yet, you can use HTTP node [10] instead to integrate it directly.
Example automation with Upwork integration
Select Watch Rooms trigger from Upwork - this will be a starting point in your automation. Whenever event happens in Upwork, workflow will start [7] from Watch Rooms node.
Search for Get a Room Message, connect it as the next step of integration sequence. You can use filters between Watch Rooms and Get a Room Message, so only important data pass from Watch Rooms to the next step. WEXTL gives you full control over the process of Upwork automation. All parts of workflow are visible on the canvas [4].
Upwork on WEXTL has 33 modules for combining hr automations. Explore Upwork documentation for more.
Video slide demonstrates how Watch Rooms and Get a Room Message [6] nodes are used in Upwork workflow.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about automating Upwork in your workflows.
Upwork has 1 trigger, including "Watch Rooms". Triggers are start points of the workflow, and automations may start from them.
Integration has 32 actions, including "Get a Company", "Get a Company Wide Time Report", and "Get a Contract", and more. Refer to our Upwork Documentation for detailed inputs and outputs.
No. Most automations are built visually on the canvas by picking triggers, actions, and mapping fields. You can add custom JavaScript with Functions when advanced logic is needed — but our customers do that in rare cases [4].
Yes. Connections are authenticated per account, credentials are encrypted at rest, and you can enforce approvals and team-level access controls on any automation.
The Upwork integration on WEXTL runs directly on its vendor public API — every field name, authentication method, and rate limit is controlled by Upwork official API and covered in documentation [3]. WEXTL handles the request signing and pagination for you.
Absolutely. Where Upwork provides native webhooks, you can use instant triggers to eliminate polling delay. For custom webhooks, WEXTL offers Custom Webhook node, so you can start automation whenever Upwork or any other service sends event to webhook URL.
WEXTL is an AI-first visual canvas. The platform allows you to describe automation in plain text — and AI will wire nodes for Upwork inside the workflow builder [4]. You can also use built-in workflow nodes (AI Agent, Human in the Loop, Condition, Aggregate Results) in pair with Upwork modules to craft complex integration flows with branches, filtering, and conditional logic. There are absolutely no limits of what you can build.
References
List of sources used to gather information about the Upwork integration.
- Upwork integration source code, module specs and credentials implementation.
- Internal Upwork integration documentation, structured input and output parameters, scopes, and authentication methods.
- Official Upwork vendor API documentation — used to verify field meanings, authentication flows, and anything our own specs don't fully capture.
- WEXTL® Visual Workflow Builder, anonymized data from our technical support team.
- WEXTL® Apps Library
- WEXTL® Upwork App Documentation
- WEXTL® Workflow Scheduler
- WEXTL® HTTP node documentation