At a glance
- Availability: Experimental (how to enable).
- Auth: API key.
- Connection: The key from
WORKABLE_API_TOKENis sent as theBearerprefixedAuthorizationheader. - Docs: https://workable.readme.io/reference/generate-an-access-token
Credentials
Set these per environment. See Connect an integration.Setup
- Get a Workable account: Sign up at https://www.workable.com - a 15-day free trial account is enough for testing the API against your own data.
- Generate an access token: In Workable, open the top-right dropdown menu → Integrations, then click ‘Generate new token’. Select the scopes you need (r_jobs and r_candidates for reads; w_candidates for comments and stage moves). The token is shown only once - copy it immediately.
- Find your subdomain: Your account subdomain is the {subdomain} part of {subdomain}.workable.com and is shown on your company profile settings page.
- Store the credentials: Add WORKABLE_API_TOKEN=<your token> and WORKABLE_SUBDOMAIN=<your subdomain> to your .env file. Requests go to https://{subdomain}.workable.com/spi/v3 with an Authorization: Bearer header.
- Tokens are scoped at generation time - writes need w_candidates (comments also accept w_comments)
- Revoking a token breaks every script using it; generate a new one and update all consumers
- List endpoints paginate via the paging.next URL and since_id cursors (max 100 per page)
Tools
Example prompts
- List my published jobs in Workable and summarize how many candidates are in each pipeline.
- Show me the candidates currently in the interview stage for a job I specify and summarize their profiles.
- Look up a candidate I specify in Workable and add a comment to their timeline with my feedback.