Wellfound Viewer

PythonSocial Media

POST api.upapi.io/wellfound-viewer.post

Fetch the signed-in Wellfound viewer: user id, whether the account may still apply to jobs, candidate state and analytics traits. The cheapest way to check that a session is alive and the account is unrestricted. Read-only. Requires an authenticated session blob from wellfound-login.

wellfoundviewerhealth

AuthAPI key

Cost4 units

Timeout30s

CacheNone

Request schema

Field	Type	Description
`session`req	string	Authenticated blob from wellfound-login.
`proxyUrl`		Same exit the session was minted on. Omit to send directly.· default: `null`

Response schema

Field	Type	Description
`traits`	object	Decoded analytics traits, empty when absent or undecodable.
`session`	string	Refreshed blob carrying rotated cookies. Persist THIS one, not the input.· default: `""`
`viewerId`	string	Wellfound user id behind this session.· default: `""`
`canApplyToJobs`	boolean	False when Wellfound has restricted this account.· default: `true`
`candidateState`	string	· default: `""`

Try it

sessionrequired

Authenticated blob from wellfound-login.

proxyUrloptional· default: null

Same exit the session was minted on. Omit to send directly.

Run this endpoint live

Jump in as a guest — no signup — and run wellfound-viewer.post with your own inputs. Create a free account anytime to get your own API key.

Code examples

curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/wellfound-viewer.post \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "session": "example" }'

Developer tools

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