🎓 Coursera Scraper

🚀 Export Coursera course listings to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. Search by topic, filter by difficulty, and collect ratings, skills, and partner info - no login required.

The Coursera Scraper pulls live course data directly from Coursera's internal search API. Each record contains the course name, partner institution, difficulty level, star rating, review count, estimated duration, covered skills, and a direct URL. Results are available instantly as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The dataset covers Coursera's full catalog - individual courses, specializations, and professional certificates - from partners including Google, IBM, Meta, Stanford, MIT, and hundreds of universities worldwide.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	Why
EdTech researchers	Analyze course offerings, pricing trends, and skill demand
Career coaches	Match learning paths to in-demand skills
HR & talent teams	Benchmark employee upskilling options
Content creators	Discover popular topics and course formats
Data scientists	Build recommendation systems or skill-gap models
Students	Compare courses across providers and institutions

📋 What the Coursera Scraper does

• Searches Coursera's catalog by keyword (e.g. "python", "machine learning", "project management")
• Filters results by difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced, mixed)
• Filters by language (english, spanish, french, etc.)
• Collects up to 1,000,000 courses per run for paid users
• Returns structured records with ratings, skills, duration, partner name, and more
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - no coding required

💡 Why it matters: Coursera hosts thousands of courses from top universities and companies. Manually browsing and comparing them is time-consuming. This scraper automates bulk discovery so you can analyze the full catalog programmatically.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: difficulty, duration, imageUrl, name, partnerName, rating, results, reviewCount, scrapedAt, skills, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 free credit
2. Go to the Coursera Scraper page
3. Click Try for free
4. Enter your search query and optional filters
5. Click Start and wait a few seconds
6. Download results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Coursera. It accesses only publicly available data via Coursera's public search API, the same data visible to any anonymous visitor. Use in accordance with Coursera's Terms of Service and applicable laws.

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