# Upwork Enterprise & High-Budget Client Radar (AI Job Sniper) (`automation_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar`) Actor

Real-time Upwork scraper for high-ticket contracts ($2k-$50k+) and enterprise clients. Includes AI proposal pitch angles and instant Slack/Discord alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation\_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar.md
- **Developed by:** [Automation Studio](https://apify.com/automation_studio) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 enterprise high-budget job leads

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## ⚡ Upwork Enterprise & High-Budget Client Radar (AI Job Sniper)

> **Snipe $2,000–$50,000+ contracts and $50–$150+/hr opportunities within minutes of posting. Filter out tire-kickers, target enterprise clients with verified spend, generate instant AI proposal hooks, and receive automated Slack/Discord alerts.**

***

### 🎯 The High-Ticket Sniping Edge

On Upwork, **speed and client quality dictate your win rate**:

- **The First 5-Minute Window**: High-ticket clients ($2k–$50k+) receive 30–60 generic proposals within hours. Clients typically review and interview among the first 3 to 5 submissions.
- **Filter Out Low-Ballers**: Stop wasting connects on unverified clients with $0 spend. Target clients who have demonstrably spent **$10,000 to $500,000+** on Upwork and maintain 4.8+ star ratings.
- **Instant Proposal Angles**: Every detected lead includes **3 AI-crafted proposal pitch hooks** tailored to the client's scope, enabling your team to submit a winning bid in under 60 seconds.

***

### 🚀 Key Features

- 💎 **Enterprise Client Filtering**: Filter by minimum client lifetime spend ($10k+, $50k+, $100k+), star rating ($\ge 4.8$), and verified payment methods.
- 💰 **High-Budget Thresholds**: Target fixed-price jobs above $2,000+ and hourly rates above $50/hr–$150/hr.
- 🌍 **Tier-1 Geographic Filtering**: Restrict alerts to high-purchasing economies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, etc.).
- 💡 **3 AI Proposal Pitch Hooks**:
  1. *Direct Bottleneck Solution*: Identifies the root architectural problem with a quantified outcome.
  2. *Proof of Execution*: Case study angle tailored to their required tech stack.
  3. *Zero-Friction Call-to-Action*: Low-resistance invite (e.g. 1-page architecture teardown) that converts to interviews.
- 🔔 **Instant Team Notifications**: Push live alert cards directly into your agency **Slack** or **Discord** channels with 1-click apply links.
- 🛡️ **Stealth Browser Architecture**: Powered by headless Playwright with stealth evasions and optional session cookie injection for 100% block-free scraping.

***

### 📥 Input Configuration

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `searchQuery` | `string` | `"python"` | **(Required)** Target skill or keywords (e.g. `full stack`, `ai agent`, `python`, `video editor`, `copywriter`). |
| `minBudgetFixed` | `integer` | `2000` | *(Optional)* Minimum fixed-price budget in USD. Filters out lower-tier jobs. |
| `minHourlyRate` | `integer` | `50` | *(Optional)* Minimum hourly rate in USD ($/hr). |
| `minClientSpend` | `integer` | `10000` | *(Optional)* Minimum historical spend on Upwork (e.g. $10,000). |
| `minClientRating` | `number` | `4.8` | *(Optional)* Minimum client rating (1.0 to 5.0 stars). |
| `paymentVerifiedOnly`| `boolean` | `true` | *(Optional)* Require verified payment method on file. |
| `tier1CountriesOnly`| `boolean` | `false` | *(Optional)* Restrict to US, UK, CA, AU, EU, etc. |
| `maxJobs` | `integer` | `20` | *(Optional)* Max high-ticket jobs to extract per run. |
| `upworkCookies` | `string` | `""` | *(Optional)* Session cookies (JSON array or string). Guarantees 100% block-free loading. |
| `slackWebhookUrl` | `string` | `""` | *(Optional)* Incoming Slack webhook for instant alerts. |
| `discordWebhookUrl`| `string` | `""` | *(Optional)* Discord webhook URL for alert cards. |
| `proxyConfiguration`| `object` | `{"useApifyProxy": true}` | *(Optional)* Apify Proxy settings (Residential recommended). |

***

### 📤 Sample Output (Dataset Item)

```json
{
  "title": "Senior AI Engineer / Full-Stack Architect for Autonomous Agent Platform",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01abcde123456789",
  "jobType": "Fixed-price",
  "budgetAmount": "$15,000",
  "budgetNumeric": 15000.0,
  "postedTime": "14 minutes ago",
  "description": "Looking for a top-tier engineer to build scalable multi-agent workflows using LangGraph and FastAPI with PostgreSQL backend...",
  "clientLocation": "United States",
  "clientTotalSpend": "$150k+ spent",
  "clientSpendNumeric": 150000.0,
  "clientRating": 4.97,
  "clientReviewCount": 54,
  "clientPaymentVerified": true,
  "skillsRequired": ["Python", "FastAPI", "PostgreSQL", "LangChain", "Docker"],
  "aiProposalHooks": [
    "🎯 **Direct Bottleneck Solution**: 'Hi there — noticed your project regarding "Senior AI Engineer / Full-Stack Architect". Most agent workflows fail due to unoptimized state persistence and token bottlenecks. I have built similar production agent frameworks handling 100k+ events daily.'",
    "🏆 **Proof of Execution**: 'We recently delivered an enterprise multi-agent platform using FastAPI and PostgreSQL. I can share a 2-minute video walkthrough demonstrating the exact architecture you are describing.'",
    "⚡ **Zero-Friction Next Step**: 'Instead of a long pitch, would you like me to send a 1-page technical audit and architecture blueprint for your review today?'"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-10T02:30:00.000Z"
}
```

***

### 🔔 Setting Up Automated Webhook Alerts

#### Slack Notifications

1. Create an Incoming Webhook in your Slack Workspace ([Slack API Guide](https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks)).
2. Paste the Webhook URL into the `slackWebhookUrl` input field.
3. The Actor will deliver formatted interactive cards featuring the job title, budget badge, client spend stats, and the #1 AI proposal angle.

#### Discord Alerts

1. In your Discord server, go to **Channel Settings** $
   ightarrow$ **Integrations** $
   ightarrow$ **Webhooks**.
2. Click **New Webhook**, copy the Webhook URL, and paste it into `discordWebhookUrl`.
3. High-ticket contracts will appear as emerald-bordered rich embed cards.

***

### ⏱️ Scheduling & Automation

To catch contracts the second they are published:

1. Navigate to the **Schedules** tab on Apify.
2. Schedule this Actor to run every **5 to 15 minutes** (e.g. cron `*/10 * * * *`).
3. Set your webhook URL. Your agency will receive real-time notifications whenever a high-ticket contract goes live!

***

### 🛡️ Cookie Authentication (For 100% Block-Free Scraping)

If Upwork displays Cloudflare challenges for datacenter IP ranges:

1. Open your browser where you are logged into Upwork.
2. Copy your session cookies (using an extension like *Cookie-Editor* or DevTools).
3. Paste the cookies into the `upworkCookies` field.
4. The Actor's stealth Playwright instance will inject the session and load search results instantly without bot interference.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

The target role, skill, or keywords to search for on Upwork (e.g. 'wordpress', 'full stack developer', 'ai agent', 'python', 'video editor', 'b2b copywriter').

## `minBudgetFixed` (type: `integer`):

(Optional) Minimum project budget for fixed-price contracts. Filters out low-budget jobs.

## `minHourlyRate` (type: `integer`):

(Optional) Minimum hourly rate for hourly contracts. Filters out sub-market listings.

## `minClientSpend` (type: `integer`):

(Optional) Minimum historical lifetime spend of the client on Upwork (e.g. $10,000). Ensures you only pitch verified, proven buyers.

## `minClientRating` (type: `number`):

(Optional) Minimum client rating from previous freelancers (1.0 to 5.0 stars). Set to 4.8 to avoid difficult clients.

## `paymentVerifiedOnly` (type: `boolean`):

(Optional) If enabled, only extracts jobs from clients whose payment method has been verified by Upwork.

## `tier1CountriesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

(Optional) If enabled, restricts alerts to clients located in Tier-1 high-purchasing economies (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, etc.).

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

(Optional) Maximum number of matching high-value jobs to extract and push to the dataset per run.

## `upworkCookies` (type: `string`):

(Optional) Upwork session cookies. The Actor automatically bypasses Cloudflare security and scrapes real live data without cookies. You can optionally provide your session cookie for authenticated member access.

## `slackWebhookUrl` (type: `string`):

(Optional) Post instant, high-budget job alert cards directly to your agency Slack channel with 1-click apply links and pitch angles.

## `discordWebhookUrl` (type: `string`):

(Optional) Post instant, rich job notification embeds directly to your agency Discord channel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

(Optional) Use Apify Residential proxies for maximum stealth and bypass success when scraping Upwork.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "wordpress",
  "minBudgetFixed": 2000,
  "minHourlyRate": 50,
  "minClientSpend": 10000,
  "minClientRating": 4.8,
  "paymentVerifiedOnly": true,
  "tier1CountriesOnly": false,
  "maxJobs": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing parsed high-ticket jobs, budgets, client spend, star ratings, and tailored AI proposal hooks.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "wordpress"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automation_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchQuery": "wordpress" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("automation_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "wordpress"
}' |
apify call automation_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automation_studio/upwork-enterprise-radar"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/DlUQzIKIxP3we6iD9/builds/ICMwedfqtxevAGyAC/openapi.json