🎓 Udemy Course Scraper

Collect detailed course data from Udemy including ratings, enrollment numbers, prices, and curriculum details. Perfect for course marketplace analysis, competitive research, and building education datasets without writing code.

The Udemy Course Scraper extracts comprehensive course intelligence with 24 data fields per course, including prices, ratings, instructor details, and curriculum content.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🖼️ Course Images - Download course thumbnail URLs for visual content libraries
• 💰 Price Data - Track both full and discounted prices for competitive analysis
• 📊 Enrollment & Ratings - Collect subscriber counts and average ratings to gauge course popularity
• 👨‍🏫 Instructor Information - Extract instructor names and details for instructor-level analysis
• 📚 Course Content - Capture number of lectures, content length, and curriculum structure
• 🎯 Course Categories - Identify primary categories and subcategories for segmentation and filtering

🔧 Input

• Course URLs - Paste individual Udemy course URLs, or leave empty and enable Sitemap Discovery Mode to automatically find and scrape courses in bulk
• Max Items - Control how many courses to collect per run
• Sitemap Discovery Mode - Enable to automatically discover courses from Udemy's public sitemap for broad catalog scraping without providing individual URLs
• Max Concurrency - Control the number of parallel requests (default 5). Lower this value if you encounter rate-limiting
• Request Delay - Set milliseconds between requests (default 500ms). Increase if the site rate-limits you

Example input:

{
  "startUrl": [
    "https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/",
    "https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-web-development-bootcamp/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sitemapMode": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "requestDelayMs": 500
}

📊 Output

Each course includes up to 24 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🖼️ Course Image	📝 Course ID	🎓 Course Title
📄 Headline	💰 Price	💵 Discounted Price
✅ Is Paid	👥 Subscribers	⭐ Average Rating
📝 Number of Reviews	📚 Number of Lectures	⏱️ Content Hours
🎯 Instructional Level	🌍 Locale	📂 Primary Category
📂 Primary Subcategory	👨‍🏫 Instructor Names	📋 Published Title
📅 Created Date	📅 Last Updated Date	🎯 Target Audiences
📋 Requirements	🧠 What You Will Learn	📖 Description
🔗 Course URL	🕐 Scraped At	🚨 Error (if any)

💎 Why Choose the Udemy Course Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor
Sitemap discovery mode for bulk course discovery	✔️
Access to all 24 course data fields	✔️
Residential proxy support for protection bypass	✔️
Instructor and curriculum detail collection	✔️
Price and rating tracking per course	✔️
Free tier allows 10 courses, paid tier supports 1M+	✔️
One-click export to JSON, CSV, or Excel	✔️
Built-in rate limiting and request delay controls	✔️
Target audience and learning outcome extraction	✔️
Last updated date tracking for curriculum changes	✔️
No technical knowledge required	✔️
Automatic course slug parsing from URLs	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Udemy Course Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 EdTech Analysts - Monitor competitor course launches and price changes quarterly to stay ahead of market trends.
• 💼 Course Creators - Track similar courses, ratings, instructor profiles, and prices to benchmark your course positioning.
• 📈 Market Researchers - Build historical datasets on course popularity to identify emerging topics and instructor success patterns.

✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Udemy Course Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Udemy Course Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔍 How does this actor work? It establishes a session with Udemy to access course data, working around bot detection to retrieve accurate course information.

📊 How accurate is the data? Data reflects live course information including current prices, subscriber counts, and ratings.

📅 Can I schedule regular scrapes? Yes. You can set up recurring runs using Apify's scheduler to monitor course changes over time.

⚖️ Is scraping Udemy legal? You are collecting publicly available data that Udemy displays to all users. Users are responsible for complying with Udemy's terms and local laws.

🛡️ Will Udemy block me? Residential proxies are recommended to protect your IP address. Use the built-in proxy configuration for best results.

⚡ How long does a run take? Typical runs take 30 seconds to 2 minutes for 10 courses, depending on your concurrency and request delay settings. Bulk runs via sitemap discovery take longer based on the number of courses being scraped.

⚠️ Are there any limits? Free users can collect up to 10 results per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

🔗 Integrate Udemy Course Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

🔌 Integrate with any app

Udemy Course Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 10 courses for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Udemy or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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