🎓 Udemy Search Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape courses from Udemy.com by providing a search URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive course information including prices, ratings, instructors, and course details.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract courses by providing a complete Udemy search URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically navigates through pages and loads more courses until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Course Data: Extract detailed information about each course including:
  • Course title and description
  • Instructor information
  • Ratings and review counts
  • Course duration and lecture counts
  • Difficulty level
  • Current and original prices
  • Course badges (Bestseller, etc.)
  • Course cover images
  • Direct links to course detail pages

Input Parameters

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

How to Get Search URL

1. Go to Udemy.com
2. Use the search bar to find courses by keywords, topics, or categories
3. Apply any filters you want (price, rating, duration, etc.)
4. Copy the complete URL from your browser's address bar
5. Paste it into the searchUrl field

Example search URLs:

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=ai
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=python
https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=javascript&price=price-free

Output

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

• searchUrl: The original search URL used
• id: Course ID/slug
• detailPageUrl: Direct link to the course detail page
• title: Full course title
• subtitle: Course description/subtitle
• img: URL of the course cover image
• instructor: Instructor name(s)
• ribbon: Course badge (e.g., "Bestseller")
• rating: Average rating (numeric, e.g., 4.6)
• ratingCount: Number of ratings/reviews
• totalHours: Total course duration (e.g., "29.5 total hours")
• lecturesCount: Number of lectures/lessons
• level: Difficulty level (e.g., "All Levels", "Beginner", "Intermediate", "Expert")
• priceCurrent: Current price
• priceOriginal: Original price (if on sale)
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the course was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=ai",
    "id": "the-ai-engineer-course-complete-ai-engineer-bootcamp",
    "detailPageUrl": "https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ai-engineer-course-complete-ai-engineer-bootcamp/",
    "title": "The AI Engineer Course 2025: Complete AI Engineer Bootcamp",
    "subtitle": "Complete AI Engineer Training: Python, NLP, Transformers, LLMs, LangChain, Hugging Face, APIs",
    "img": "https://img-c.udemycdn.com/course/240x135/6112535_7103.jpg",
    "instructor": "365 Careers",
    "ribbon": "Bestseller",
    "rating": 4.6,
    "ratingCount": 11320,
    "totalHours": "29.5 total hours",
    "lecturesCount": 436,
    "level": "All Levels",
    "priceCurrent": "$10.99",
    "priceOriginal": "$49.99",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-11-12T03:03:00.909Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Course catalog building and market research
• Price monitoring and comparison
• Instructor performance analysis
• Course popularity tracking
• Educational content discovery
• Competitive analysis for online learning platforms
• Course recommendation systems
• Trend analysis in online education

Notes

• Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
• All courses are deduplicated based on their detail page URLs
• Results are saved incrementally as they are found
• All timestamps are in ISO 8601 format
• Price information reflects current pricing at the time of scraping

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