📚 Udemy Course Reviews Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape course reviews from Udemy.com by providing a course URL. It automatically opens the reviews modal, handles pagination, and extracts comprehensive review information including ratings, reviewer details, and review content.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract reviews by providing a complete Udemy course URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically loads more reviews until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Review Data: Extract detailed information about each review including:
  • Reviewer name and initials
  • Star ratings (1-5)
  • Review text content (both plain text and HTML)
  • Time since review was posted
  • Report availability status
• Smart Deduplication: Automatically removes duplicate reviews based on reviewer names

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
courseUrl	string	Yes	Complete Udemy course URL to scrape reviews from
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of reviews to fetch (default: unlimited)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings for the actor

How to Get Course URL

1. Go to Udemy.com
2. Navigate to any course page
3. Copy the complete URL from your browser's address bar
4. Paste it into the courseUrl field

Example course URL:

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ai-engineer-course-complete-ai-engineer-bootcamp/

Output

The output is a dataset of review objects, each containing:

• courseUrl: The original course URL used
• reviewer: Name of the reviewer
• reviewerInitials: Initials of the reviewer (for avatar display)
• rating: Star rating (1.0 to 5.0)
• timeAgo: Time since review was posted (e.g., "a week ago")
• reviewText: Plain text content of the review
• reviewHtml: HTML content of the review
• canReport: Whether the review can be reported
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the review was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "courseUrl": "https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ai-engineer-course-complete-ai-engineer-bootcamp/?couponCode=MT251110G1",
    "reviewer": "Stanley A. M. O.",
    "reviewerInitials": "SO",
    "rating": 5,
    "timeAgo": "a week ago",
    "reviewText": "This is an excellent and insightful course on AI. It really broadened my understanding of the subject and gave me practical skills I can apply right away.",
    "reviewHtml": "<div tabindex=\"-1\"><p>This is an excellent and insightful course on AI. It really broadened my understanding of the subject and gave me practical skills I can apply right away.</p></div>",
    "canReport": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2025-11-12T03:18:58.518Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Course quality analysis and sentiment analysis
• Instructor feedback collection
• Market research for course creators
• Competitive analysis of course reviews
• Review monitoring and tracking
• Customer satisfaction research
• Content improvement insights

Notes

• The actor automatically opens the reviews modal on the course page
• Results are saved incrementally as they are found
• All timestamps are in ISO 8601 format
• The actor handles network delays and timeouts gracefully
• Reviews are deduplicated based on reviewer names
• HTML content preserves formatting for rich text reviews

Limitations

• Requires a valid Udemy course URL
• Cannot scrape reviews from private or restricted courses
• Rate limiting may apply if scraping very large datasets
• Some reviews may require login to view (not handled by this actor)

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