Udemy Courses Scraper

Extract course data from Udemy including titles, ratings, prices, instructors, student counts, learning objectives, and content details from topic pages.

✨ Why use this scraper?

• 🔓 No login required: Scrape public course data without authentication
• 📚 Rich course data: Ratings, reviews, students, lectures, content hours, objectives, captions, and more
• 🏷️ Badges and categories: Identify bestsellers, highly rated, and new courses with their categories
• 🔍 Flexible input: Search by keywords or provide topic page URLs directly
• ⚡ High reliability: Automatic retry on failures

🎯 Use cases

Industry	Application
Education	Analyze course offerings and trends across programming topics
Market Research	Track course pricing, ratings, and student enrollment patterns
Competitive Analysis	Monitor instructor performance and course positioning
Content Strategy	Identify gaps in course coverage and trending subjects
HR & Training	Find top-rated courses for employee upskilling programs

📥 Input parameters

URL Scraping

Parameter	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Udemy topic page URLs (e.g., /topic/python/) or individual course URLs

Search

Parameter	Type	Description
searches	array	Keywords to search (converted to topic pages, e.g., "python" → /topic/python/)

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum total number of courses to scrape
maxPages	integer	10	Maximum pages per topic (12 courses per page)

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeDetails	boolean	false	Visit each course detail page for additional data (description, syllabus)

Proxy

Parameter	Type	Description
proxy	object	Proxy configuration. Residential proxies recommended for best results

Advanced

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
requestTimeout	integer	30	HTTP request timeout in seconds
debugMode	boolean	false	Enable detailed logging

📊 Output data

Course example

{
    "id": 2776760,
    "title": "100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp",
    "url": "https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/",
    "headline": "Master Python by building 100 projects in 100 days. Learn data science, automation, build websites, games and apps!",
    "isPaid": true,
    "avgRating": 4.69,
    "numReviews": 415028,
    "numSubscribers": 1748154,
    "numPublishedLectures": 600,
    "contentInfo": "56.5 total hours",
    "contentInfoShort": "56.5 hours",
    "instructionalLevel": "All Levels",
    "instructorName": "Dr. Angela Yu, Developer and Lead Instructor",
    "instructorUrl": "https://www.udemy.com/user/4b4368a3-b5c8-4529-aa65-2056ec31f37e/",
    "imageUrl": "https://img-c.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/2776760_f176_10.jpg",
    "publishedTime": "2020-10-30T17:18:33Z",
    "lastUpdateDate": "2026-02-28",
    "created": "2020-01-24T10:47:21Z",
    "category": "Development",
    "isBestseller": true,
    "isHighlyRated": false,
    "isNew": false,
    "objectivesSummary": [
        "You will master the Python programming language by building 100 unique projects over 100 days.",
        "You will learn automation, game, app and web development, data science and machine learning all using Python.",
        "You will be able to program in Python professionally"
    ],
    "captionLanguages": ["English", "French [Auto]", "Spanish [Auto]", "..."],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-05T10:49:02Z",
    "dataType": "course"
}

🗂️ Data fields

Category	Fields
Basic	id, title, url, headline, isPaid, price
Ratings	avgRating, numReviews, numSubscribers
Content	numPublishedLectures, contentInfo, contentInfoShort, instructionalLevel
Instructor	instructorName, instructorUrl
Media	imageUrl
Dates	publishedTime, lastUpdateDate, created, scrapedAt
Classification	category, subcategory, locale
Badges	isBestseller, isHighlyRated, isNew
Learning	objectivesSummary, captionLanguages
Detail page	description, author, educationalLevel, courseWorkload, syllabusSections, inLanguage, datePublished, availableLanguages

🚀 Examples

Search for Python courses

{
    "searches": ["python"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Scrape a specific topic

{
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.udemy.com/topic/data-science/"}],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxPages": 10
}

Multiple topics with detail enrichment

{
    "searches": ["machine learning", "web development", "javascript"],
    "maxItems": 30,
    "includeDetails": true
}

💻 Integrations

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/udemy-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searches": ["python"],
    "maxItems": 50,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['title']} - Rating: {item['avgRating']:.1f} ({item['numSubscribers']} students)")

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_USERNAME/udemy-scraper').call({
    searches: ['python'],
    maxItems: 50,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach(item => {
    console.log(`${item.title} - Rating: ${item.avgRating.toFixed(1)} (${item.numSubscribers} students)`);
});

📈 Performance & limits

Metric	Value
Courses per page	12
Speed (listing only)	~12 courses/second
Speed (with details)	~1 course every 2-3 seconds
Supported URL types	Topic pages (/topic/...)

💡 Tips for best results

1. Use topic pages: Topic pages (e.g., /topic/python/) provide the richest listing data including ratings, reviews, student counts, and learning objectives
2. Start without detail enrichment: Listing data is already comprehensive — enable includeDetails only if you need full descriptions and syllabus
3. Keywords become topics: Search queries are converted to topic URLs (e.g., "web development" → /topic/web-development/)
4. Combine multiple searches: Pass multiple keywords in searches to collect courses across different topics in one run

❓ FAQ

Q: What data is available without visiting detail pages? A: Listing pages provide title, headline, ratings, reviews, student count, lecture count, content hours, instructor, category, badges, objectives, and caption languages.

Q: Why don't category page URLs work? A: Category pages (/courses/development/) load course data dynamically. Use topic pages (/topic/python/) instead, which include pre-rendered course data.

Q: How many courses can I scrape? A: Each topic page shows 12 courses. With maxPages: 100, you can get up to 1,200 courses per topic.

Q: What happens if a page fails? A: The scraper automatically retries. If all attempts fail, it continues with the next page or search query.

📬 Support

We're building this scraper for you, your feedback makes it better for everyone!

• 🐛 Found a bug? Open an issue directly on this actor's page, we'll fix it fast
• 💡 Need a feature? Tell us what's missing and we'll prioritize it
• ⚙️ Custom solutions: Contact us for enterprise integrations or high-volume needs

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