You have better things to do than refresh a browser tab. Set up an automated monitor and let the jobs come to you.
Yes — you can stop refreshing and let a scheduled monitor bring the jobs to you. Set keywords, client-quality floors and an interval (as fast as every 15 minutes on paid plans), then have matches delivered to your channel. The monitor does the searching; you do the pitching. The catch: it is a paid feature, and it is only as fast as your response to it.
Define the exact skills, titles and niches you want. One good filter beats a hundred manual refreshes.
Minimum hire rate, minimum client rating, and payment-verified required. The monitor then skips low-quality clients for you.
Signal checks as often as every 15 minutes, First Responder as often as every 5. You can also confine a monitor to the hours you work, which stretches the same plan further.
Deliver to Discord, Slack or a webhook. The job reaches you wherever you already work, not inside an app you have to open.
Paste your profile so jobs are scored for fit, not just keyword match.
A 15-minute monitor is only useful if you respond when it fires. Read the match and pitch immediately.
FreelanceFilter monitors and alerts. It does not bid, does not write proposals, and a 15-minute schedule is not a real-time push to the second.
Upwork's native email alerts are batched and often hours late. A 15-minute monitor is roughly an order of magnitude closer to real time — and that gap is the entire first-responder advantage.
Quick Overview: Smart Scheduling
FreelanceFilter's Scheduler checks Upwork for new jobs at intervals you define (e.g. every 15 minutes). It works 24/7 on our servers, filtering results and delivering only the best matches to via webhook or email. It's the ultimate "set it and forget it" tool.
Configure your filter once. We run it forever (or until you tell us to stop).
We check for jobs while you sleep, pushing each match to your webhook as the check finishes.
Choose from 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hr, 2 hr or 4 hr intervals to match your urgency. The fastest one your plan allows is 15 min on Signal, 5 min on First Responder.
No browser extensions to keep open. It runs entirely on our servers.
Wake up, log in to Upwork, spend 2 hours refreshing feeds, filtering through spam, and getting frustrated.
Wake up, check your Discord/Slack for the 3 perfect jobs that arrived while you slept. Apply to them. Start your day.
RSS is a way for a site to publish updates in a machine-readable format. Upwork offered RSS and Atom feeds for saved searches and switched them off on 20 August 2024, calling them outdated. There is nothing left to subscribe to. Scheduled monitoring replaced it: our servers check Upwork's public job listings on the interval you set and push new matches to you.
It depends on your niche. In highly competitive fields like React development or Copywriting, speed is everything—we recommend checking every 15-30 minutes. For niche expert consulting, every 1-4 hours is plenty.
No. All monitoring happens on our cloud servers. You can turn off your computer, go to sleep, or go on vacation, and FreelanceFilter will keep working 24/7.
Yes! That's the best part. When you land a big contract, just hit the 'Pause' button. Your filters are saved, but the notifications stop. When you need work again next month, hit 'Play'.