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Send New Upwork Jobs to Slack
Check configured Upwork searches during working hours and post newly observed jobs to Slack.
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Check configured Upwork searches during working hours and post newly observed jobs to Slack.
Setup
Connect Apify, Airtable and Slack. Set the same Airtable base ID and table name in Read saved job records and Save the job record. Create text fields named title, link, paymentType, budget, projectLength, shortBio, skills, publishedDate, normalizedDate, searchUrl and Raw job JSON. In Start the Upwork search, configure the search URLs and proxy country for the actor. Set the destination channel ID in Post the job to Slack. Prevent overlapping runs. In n8n configure the Apify query-auth credential, MongoDB connection and collection, and Slack connection and channel. The n8n Apify credential is sent in the URL query; upstream or proxy logs can record that URL. Enable one format.
Behavior
Every ten minutes from 03:00 through 14:59 UTC, the workflow runs the configured searches and posts each new job with its title, publication date, link, payment type, budget, skills and description. Jobs are considered duplicates when title and budget match. Missing budgets are treated as empty when matching the same title. Open Flow starts on the minute boundary; n8n uses a fixed second in the scheduled minute.
Open Flow waits up to five minutes for the search, reads its dataset and saved records in pages, then saves each new job in Airtable before posting it. The text columns are searchable; Raw job JSON retains the original data types and fields. A failed or uncertain Airtable or Slack write may already have succeeded; inspect both services before retrying. Dataset and record history must fit platform execution limits. n8n stores records in MongoDB. The two formats do not share their histories.
Inspiration & credits
Changes to the source
- Use UTC for the original working-hours filter and replace example credentials and destinations with connections. In n8n, allow an empty MongoDB lookup to continue and select unmatched job inputs so an empty history can produce the first alerts.
- Open Flow uses the Apify run, status and dataset Actions and saves complete job records in Airtable before posting. The source used a synchronous Apify request, MongoDB and separate save/send branches; n8n retains those services and branches.
Adapted from Find new Upwork jobs and post them to Slack in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.
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