🎨 Skillshare Course Scraper

🚀 Export Skillshare course data to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. No account needed. No API key required.

Skillshare is one of the largest online learning platforms, hosting tens of thousands of creative and professional courses. This Actor searches the Skillshare catalog by keyword using their internal API, and delivers a structured dataset with course titles, teachers, durations, student counts, ratings, and direct URLs - all without needing a Skillshare subscription.

Data is fetched live from Skillshare's API on every run. Results are sorted by popularity and paginated automatically until your maxItems limit is reached.

Coverage: The full Skillshare course catalog across all categories - design, photography, illustration, business, marketing, technology, writing, lifestyle, and more. Each record includes the course thumbnail, teacher name and profile link, duration, project count, student count, rating score, category, and course URL.

🎯 Target Audience / Use Cases

Who uses this	What they do with it
EdTech researchers	Analyze course catalog trends, pricing, and instructor popularity
Content strategists	Research which topics attract the most students on Skillshare
Online educators	Benchmark their courses against the competition
Market analysts	Track the growth of creative education categories
Developers	Build course recommendation engines or educational dashboards
Recruiters	Identify top instructors in a specific creative field

📋 What the Skillshare Scraper does

• Searches the full Skillshare catalog by any keyword
• Returns results sorted by popularity (most students first)
• Paginates through all result pages automatically (24 courses per page)
• Fetches teacher name, profile URL, and all course metadata
• Computes a normalized rating score from positive/total review ratio
• Delivers a clean structured dataset: one record per course

💡 Why it matters: Skillshare has no public search API for external use. Manually collecting course metadata for research or competitive analysis is impractical at scale. This Actor automates the entire process and gives you a download-ready dataset in minutes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: category, courseUrl, duration, imageUrl, results, studentCount, teacherName, title. 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 credit)
2. Open the Skillshare Course Scraper on Apify Store
3. Enter your search keyword
4. Set maxItems (free users get 10 items automatically)
5. Click Save & Run
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Skillshare. Use of this tool must comply with Skillshare's Terms of Use and applicable laws. The data collected is publicly available. ParseForge is not responsible for how collected data is used.

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