Connect Upwork API to freelancers page

[Tim Bauman]

https://www.upwork.com/services/api/keys

[Lucas Kwiatkowski]

Anything from them yet? Anything I can do to help from within my freelancer account with them?

[Tim Bauman]

pinged them about a week ago, no response yet. I reached out to their support twitter, I've had that work in the past.

In the meantime, how do you think we should update that page? We could have a sign up form for people to submit themselves? And I can add the ones from these links with categories attached:

[Tim Bauman]

@lukekwi apparently the upwork api request was denied 😠 Trying to get more information on why it was denied, I suspect it has something to do with this note in their terms of use:

Which is ridiculous they're all being attributed as upwork freelancers and people are being linked to upwork's site. I'm going to keep pushing and see if I can get in touch with anyone on Upworks team that can help.

In the meantime any thoughts on how we should format this page?

[Lucas Kwiatkowski]

@baumant lame. They might have done this because there are so many people trying to knock them off.

Would they be more likely to grant us access if you tell them what we're doing with the site? I would argue that there are other freelancer sites specifically for Amazon that are taking business from Upwork but we're trying to help them out.

I don't how we could do this if there isn't an API for it. For now I think most of the focus should be on Agencies and Software and we can keep thinking about to structure this.

[Lucas Kwiatkowski]

@baumant I think we have two options here. We could just send people to this link: https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/browse/?q=amazon%20ppc that automatically pulls the best freelancers for a given category every month. We can provide the top 5 most popular searches or something.

Or we could make a page like this: https://amazon.quartile.com/amazon-consultant/?utm_source=Adwords&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=&utm_term=%2Bamazon%20%2Bconsultant&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_s7fBRDrARIsAGEvF8TxFWnL4OhleyE-cqQA1Mhg3l5y86uP2rRTTAT-aPHeT1u9pDzRvyoaAt9uEALw_wcB Where people fill in a few filters like what type of freelancer, US or foreign, price range. And then once they contact us we can provide them with a custom list of freelancers to choose from.