oDesk Developer Wiki

 

The oDesk API Center is where users can access webservices APIs to build their own oDesk applications. Creative buyers and providers can build apps, incorporate oDesk in their dashboards and integrate oDesk features with their websites or management systems.

 

What can buyers do?

• Build their own team room apps
• Incorporate oDesk into their desktop dashboards
• Integrate oDesk with their website or management systems
• Create custom provider search views and display these views off-site

 

What can providers do?

• Create their own work diary apps to better support their buyers
• Integrate their oDesk profile into their own website or in other places where they'd like to promote their services

 

Technical details (please check the API Center documentation for full details):

• Any oDesk user can access the oDesk webservices APIs
• In order to fully utilize the API developers need to create API keys
• The API is a REST API. It's easy to use and can be used in pretty much any development language

 

 

Support 

 

We will continuously release more APIs, update existing ones, and feature applications developed using the oDesk APIs.

 

If there is something that you would like to see and we do not yet offer, let us know in the feedback forums  or drop us a line at apisupport@odesk.com. 

 

There is also a community IRC channel #odesk running on freenode.net, so drop by and say hi:)

  

My API Keys

Request new keys and view your existing keys here.

 

View the API documentation

oDesk has an open API that allows developers to query information from oDesk. Check out the full documentation and get started.

 

Recent updates

Create custom time reports with the oDesk Time Reports API. Leave us feedback in the API Center community.

 

Examples

See some examples of what others have done with the API on our examples.

 

Featured Apps

Interested in what others are working on using our API?  Would you like to add a new one? Check out whats been done so far here.