LinkedIn Learning Course Scraper (No Login Required)

Pull structured LinkedIn Learning course data by instructor, by topic, or from a known URL list. No cookies. No login. No subscription seat. Each row ships the title, full description, instructors, skills covered, level, duration, release date, rating, learner count, language, and the full chapter and lesson curriculum. Pay per course.

Built for L&D teams, course competitors, instructional designers, and analysts who need clean structured access to the LinkedIn Learning catalog for skills-gap analysis, competitive benchmarking, and content planning.

Keywords this actor ranks for: linkedin learning scraper, linkedin learning api, linkedin course data, linkedin learning catalog export, course curriculum scraper, skills taxonomy scraper, linkedin learning to json, online course benchmarking, l&d competitive intelligence, course catalog monitoring, instructor course tracker, elearning content intel.

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Why this actor

Other course scrapers	This actor
Need your session cookie	Zero cookies, zero login
Risk your seat on every run	Touches only public catalog pages with residential proxy
Single text blob per course	Title, description, instructors, skills, level, curriculum all parsed into discrete fields
Only accept direct URLs	Discover by instructor, by keyword, or paste URLs
Drop the curriculum	Full chapter and lesson breakdown on every row

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How it works

flowchart LR
    A1[Course URLs] --> C[Public course page<br/>residential proxy]
    A2[Instructor names] --> B[Search engine<br/>discovery layer]
    A3[Keywords] --> B
    B --> C
    C --> D[Parse schema.org Course<br/>JSON-LD plus meta tags]
    D --> E[Normalize into discrete fields]
    E --> F[Push one row per course]
    F --> G[(JSON CSV Excel API)]

Discovery happens through search engines that already index public LinkedIn Learning course URLs. Each course is then fetched with a real Chrome browser fingerprint behind a residential proxy. The actor parses the schema.org Course JSON-LD first, then falls back to Open Graph meta tags and DOM extraction. Instructor discovery is verified against the instructors listed on each course page, so an instructor query never returns courses they did not teach.

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What you get per row

flowchart LR
    R[Course row] --> R1[Identity<br/>key url title]
    R --> R2[Instructors<br/>name profileUrl headline]
    R --> R3[Content<br/>description skills curriculum]
    R --> R4[Stats<br/>rating learnersCount durationMinutes]
    R --> R5[Taxonomy<br/>level topics language]
    R --> R6[Timing<br/>releasedAt updatedAt]

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Quick start

Track every course from one instructor or studio

{
  "instructorNames": ["Madecraft"],
  "maxCourses": 50
}

Topic discovery (find courses on a skill)

{
  "keywords": ["prompt engineering", "python data analysis"],
  "maxCourses": 25
}

Enrich a known course list

{
  "courseUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python"
  ]
}

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Sample output

{
  "key": "learning-python",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python",
  "discoveredVia": { "kind": "keyword", "value": "keyword:python data analysis" },
  "title": "Learning Python",
  "description": "Get started with Python, the popular and highly readable object-oriented language...",
  "instructors": [
    {
      "name": "Joe Marini",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/joe-marini",
      "headline": "Product and engineering leader"
    }
  ],
  "skills": ["Python", "Object-Oriented Programming"],
  "topics": ["Software Development"],
  "level": "Beginner",
  "durationSeconds": 8520,
  "durationMinutes": 142,
  "releasedAt": "2026-02-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": null,
  "rating": { "value": 4.7, "count": 18432 },
  "learnersCount": 1240000,
  "language": "en",
  "thumbnail": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
  "curriculum": [
    {
      "section": "1. Python Basics",
      "lessons": [
        { "title": "Building your first Python program", "durationText": "4m 12s" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relatedCourses": ["python-quick-start", "advanced-python"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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Who uses this

Role	Use case
L&D lead	Map a skills taxonomy across a topic to plan internal training
Course competitor	Track what a rival instructor or studio is publishing and how it rates
Instructional designer	Study curriculum structure across top rated courses before authoring
Talent analyst	Benchmark which skills the market is teaching and at what depth
Content strategist	Topic monitoring across a keyword list to spot emerging skill demand
Researcher	Build a structured course dataset without paying a catalog vendor

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Input reference

Field	Type	What it does
courseUrls	string[]	Direct LinkedIn Learning course URLs.
instructorNames	string[]	Instructors to discover courses by. Verified on each course page.
keywords	string[]	Topics to discover courses for via public search.
maxCourses	integer	Cap per instructor or keyword. 0 means everything we can discover.
includeCurriculum	boolean	Keep the chapter and lesson breakdown on each row. Default true.
concurrency	integer	Pages processed in parallel. Six is the safe default.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy. Residential is required at any meaningful volume.

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API call

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USER~linkedin-learning-course-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "keywords": ["prompt engineering"],
    "maxCourses": 25
  }'

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Pricing

The first 3 courses per run are free so you can validate output before paying. After that, each course row is charged. No surprise add on charges.

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FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn Learning account or cookie?

No. The actor only touches the public LinkedIn Learning course pages from a residential proxy with a real Chrome fingerprint. Your account is never touched.

How does discovery work without my cookie?

A search engine site query finds public LinkedIn Learning course URLs from the target instructor or topic. These pages are designed to be indexed which is why courses show up in Google. The actor pulls each course from its public page after that.

Why do I need residential proxy?

LinkedIn aggressively blocks datacenter IPs. Residential proxy is the only configuration that consistently returns the course data to anonymous viewers. Apify residential proxy is preconfigured by default.

How fresh is the data?

Each run hits the live course page so rating, learner count, and updated dates reflect what LinkedIn renders at scrape time.

Is scraping LinkedIn allowed?

This actor reads HTML any anonymous web visitor can see. Respect LinkedIn's terms and rate limit sensibly. Do not redistribute instructor identities you have no lawful basis to process.

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