🎓 Udemy Course Scraper

🚀 Export Udemy course data in seconds. Search any keyword or topic and instantly download structured course listings - ratings, instructors, learning outcomes, lecture counts, and more - ready for your research, analysis, or competitive intelligence needs.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-21 - 📊 14 fields per record - Up to 10,000+ courses per search - Global coverage across all topics and languages

The Udemy Course Scraper extracts structured course data directly from Udemy's internal GraphQL API. No login required. Search by any keyword, topic, programming language, or skill, and get back clean, ready-to-use data covering course metadata, instructor info, ratings, reviews, and learning outcomes.

Udemy hosts over 250,000 courses across every imaginable topic. This actor taps into their live search index, giving you real-time data on what's being offered, who's teaching it, and how learners rate it.

Coverage: All Udemy courses accessible via public search - including technology, business, creative skills, personal development, and more. Filter by language, level, or free-only to narrow your results.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
EdTech researchers	Course market analysis
Content creators	Competitor course research
Data scientists	Training dataset collection
Career coaches	Skill demand monitoring
E-learning platforms	Pricing and feature benchmarking
HR professionals	Learning path design

📋 What the Udemy Scraper does

• Searches Udemy's full course catalog by any keyword or topic
• Extracts course title, instructor, rating, review count, and lecture count
• Captures course category, subcategory, level, and language
• Detects Bestseller badge status for each course
• Retrieves the full list of learning outcomes / course objectives
• Paginates automatically through all result pages up to your specified limit
• Supports optional filters: language, difficulty level, and free-only courses

💡 Why it matters: Udemy is the world's largest online learning marketplace. Understanding what courses exist, who teaches them, and how they're rated gives educators, marketers, and researchers a competitive edge that manually browsing could never match.

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⚙️ Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	Yes	Keyword or topic to search (e.g. "python", "machine learning")
maxItems	Integer	No	Max courses to return. Free: 10, Paid: up to 1,000,000
language	Select	No	Filter by course language (default: all)
level	Select	No	Filter by difficulty level (default: all)
freeOnly	Boolean	No	Return only free courses

Example 1 - Quick search:

{
  "searchQuery": "python",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2 - Filtered search:

{
  "searchQuery": "machine learning",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "level": "beginner",
  "freeOnly": false
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free accounts are limited to 10 courses per run. Upgrade to a paid plan for up to 1,000,000 courses. Price and discount fields are not available in Udemy's public search API and are omitted from the output.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	String	Course thumbnail image URL (480x270)
📌 title	String	Course title
🔗 url	String	Full Udemy course URL
🔑 id	String	Unique Udemy course ID
👤 instructor	String	Primary instructor name
⭐ rating	Number	Average rating (1 decimal, e.g. 4.7)
💬 reviewCount	Integer	Total number of reviews
📚 lectureCount	Integer	Number of published lectures
📊 level	String	Difficulty level (BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, ALL_LEVELS)
🌍 language	String	Course language code (e.g. en-US)
🏆 isBestseller	Boolean	Whether the course has a Bestseller badge
📁 category	String	Primary course category / topic
📂 subcategory	String	Secondary topic (if available)
💡 shortDescription	String	Course headline / tagline
🎯 learningOutcomes	Array	List of what students will learn
🕒 scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of when the data was collected
❌ error	String	Error message (null when successful)

Sample records (from real run):

{
  "imageUrl": "https://img-c.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/6258083_9a52_4.jpg",
  "title": "Complete Python with AI Skills to Get Your Dream IT Job",
  "url": "https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-with-ai-skills-to-get-your-dream-it-job",
  "id": "6258083",
  "instructor": "Imran Afzal",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 820,
  "lectureCount": 380,
  "level": "ALL_LEVELS",
  "language": "en-US",
  "isBestseller": false,
  "category": "Python",
  "subcategory": "Python GUI",
  "shortDescription": "Master Python for Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, Web Development, Game Development, Cybersecurity, and GUI!",
  "learningOutcomes": [
    "You will acquire the fundamental Python skills required for roles in data science, web development, AI, and cybersecurity.",
    "You will gain a solid understanding of object-oriented programming..."
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T01:03:45.770Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://img-c.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/6197521_c636.jpg",
  "title": "Full stack generative and Agentic AI with python",
  "url": "https://www.udemy.com/course/full-stack-ai-with-python",
  "id": "6197521",
  "instructor": "Hitesh Choudhary",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 7285,
  "lectureCount": 256,
  "level": "ALL_LEVELS",
  "language": "en-US",
  "isBestseller": true,
  "category": "Generative AI (GenAI)",
  "subcategory": null,
  "shortDescription": "Hands-on guide to modern AI: Tokenization, Agents, RAG, Vector DBs, and deploying scalable AI apps. Complete AI course",
  "learningOutcomes": [
    "Write Python programs from scratch, using Git for version control and Docker for deployment.",
    "Understand how Large Language Models (LLMs) work: tokenization, embeddings, attention, and transformers."
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T01:03:45.770Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://img-c.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/919038_3ae1_18.jpg",
  "title": "Python Masterclass 2026: Build 24 Real World Python Projects",
  "url": "https://www.udemy.com/course/python-masterclass-course",
  "id": "919038",
  "instructor": "Ashutosh Pawar",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 8631,
  "lectureCount": 776,
  "level": "ALL_LEVELS",
  "language": "en-US",
  "isBestseller": false,
  "category": "Python",
  "subcategory": null,
  "shortDescription": "Learn Python Build 24 real-world Python projects - Django, Flask, Data Analysis, OpenCV, automation and more",
  "learningOutcomes": [
    "Get Noticed By Top Companies By Building A Portfolio of 24 Real World Python Projects",
    "Learn Python & Entire Frameworks Right From the Basics, No Prior Coding Knowledge Required."
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T01:03:45.770Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Benefit
🔐 No authentication required	Works out of the box - no Udemy account needed
⚡ GraphQL-powered	Directly queries Udemy's internal API for fast, clean results
🌍 All languages supported	Filter by English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and more
🏆 Bestseller detection	Instantly identify top-performing courses
🎯 Learning outcomes extraction	Full list of what students will learn, not just a headline
📦 Clean structured output	JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML ready for immediate use
🔄 Pagination support	Retrieve thousands of results, not just the first page

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual browsing	Other scrapers
Search by keyword	Yes	Yes	Varies
Learning outcomes	Yes	Yes (tedious)	Rarely
Bestseller badge	Yes	Yes	Sometimes
Bulk export (1000+ courses)	Yes	No	Sometimes
Real-time data	Yes	Yes	Yes
No login required	Yes	Yes	Sometimes
Filters (level, language)	Yes	Yes	Rarely

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open the Udemy Course Scraper actor page
3. Enter your search query (e.g. "data science", "React.js", "guitar lessons")
4. Optionally set maxItems, language filter, or level filter
5. Click Start and download your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

📚 E-learning Platform Development

Compare what Udemy offers in your niche before building your own courses. Identify gaps in the market, validate course ideas, and benchmark your curriculum against top-rated competitors. With learning outcomes data, you can see exactly what the best courses promise to teach.

📊 Market Research and Competitive Intelligence

Track which skills and topics are gaining traction on the platform. Monitor how many courses exist for a given skill, what ratings they achieve, and which instructors dominate. Use this data to inform content strategy, hiring decisions, and product roadmaps.

🤖 AI Training Data Collection

Build datasets of course titles, descriptions, and learning outcomes for training NLP models, recommendation systems, or educational AI. The structured learning outcomes are particularly valuable for skill ontology projects and job-skill matching systems.

🎓 Corporate Learning and Development

Research available Udemy courses before purchasing a Udemy Business license. Map courses to your company's skill gaps, compare coverage across topics, and build a catalogue of recommended courses for different roles and teams.

🔌 Automating Udemy Scraper

Combine the Udemy Scraper with automation platforms to power workflows:

• Make (Integromat) - Trigger on a schedule, push course data to Google Sheets or Airtable for ongoing market tracking
• Zapier - Automatically add new scraped courses to a CRM or Notion database when a run completes
• Slack - Get a Slack notification with a summary of new top-rated courses in your niche every week
• Airbyte - Stream Udemy course data into your data warehouse for BI analysis
• GitHub Actions - Schedule weekly scrapes and commit the data as JSON files to a repository
• Google Drive - Export results directly to Drive as CSV for team sharing

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🔬 Research

Academics studying online education, skill demand, or EdTech trends can use this scraper to build large datasets for analysis. Track how course creation and ratings evolve over time across different subject areas.

🎨 Personal Development

Build your own personal learning tracker. Find all available courses on a topic you want to master, compare their ratings and learning outcomes, and make informed choices about where to invest your time.

🌱 Non-profit and Education Access

Organizations working to democratize education can use this scraper to catalog free Udemy courses available globally, helping guide learners in underserved communities toward quality free content.

🧪 Experimentation

Test hypotheses about online learning trends - are certain programming languages gaining or losing course popularity? Are newer courses rated differently from established ones? Build your own analysis with fresh live data.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Want to know more? Ask an AI assistant:

• ChatGPT - "What can I do with Udemy course data from Apify?"
• Claude - "How do I analyze Udemy course ratings and learning outcomes?"
• Perplexity - "How to scrape Udemy course data and use it for market research?"
• Microsoft Copilot - "Help me analyze a dataset of Udemy courses by category and rating"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔒 Do I need a Udemy account to use this scraper? No. The actor accesses Udemy's public search without any login.

📊 How many courses can I scrape? Free users can collect 10 courses per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000. A single search for "python" returns 500+ pages of results.

💰 Why are price and discount fields missing? Udemy's public GraphQL search API does not expose pricing data. Prices vary by user location and promotions, making them difficult to scrape reliably via the public API.

🌍 Can I search in different languages? Yes. Use the language filter to restrict results to a specific language. Udemy supports courses in 20+ languages.

⚡ How fast is the scraper? Each page returns 20 courses. The actor processes approximately 20-40 courses per minute depending on network latency and proxy response times.

🔄 Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the scraper daily, weekly, or monthly and always get fresh data.

🏆 How is the Bestseller badge detected? The scraper reads the badges field from Udemy's API response, which includes a name field indicating "Bestseller" status.

📁 What categories are available? The scraper returns the primary topic and subcategory from Udemy's own taxonomy. These match what you see on the Udemy website (e.g., "Python", "Data Science", "Web Development").

🎯 Can I get courses from a specific category only? Currently, the scraper searches by keyword. To get courses from a specific category, use the category name as your search query (e.g., "data science courses").

📝 What are learning outcomes? Learning outcomes are the bullet points instructors write to explain "What you'll learn" in their course. The scraper extracts the full list for each course.

🔁 What happens if there are no results? The actor stops gracefully and logs a warning. No error records are pushed.

🛡️ Is this compliant with Udemy's terms? This actor accesses publicly available search results, the same data any visitor can see in their browser. It does not bypass authentication, access private data, or interact with paid course content.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Export your Udemy course data to any platform using Apify's built-in integrations:

Storage and databases: Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, MongoDB

Spreadsheets: Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Airtable, Notion

Automation: Zapier, Make (Integromat), n8n, Pipedream, Activepieces

Business intelligence: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Metabase

Data formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, JSONL

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Udemy Inc. Only publicly available course data accessible to any website visitor is collected. Use responsibly and in accordance with Udemy's terms of service.