Coursera Course Catalog Scraper

What does Coursera Course Catalog Scraper do?

This Actor searches Coursera's course catalog by keyword and returns clean, structured records for each course: title, instructor, partner institution, rating, enrollment count, difficulty level, skills taught, pricing model, description and more. Filter by keyword, difficulty level and language to keep runs focused on the courses you actually care about. Pricing is per result: you only pay for the courses returned.

Data source

The Actor reads Coursera's public course search pages and course detail pages, both fully rendered server side into a JSON payload embedded in the HTML, so no login or browser rendering is needed. Data is as fresh as Coursera's own site.

Why use it?

• Market research: see which partners and instructors dominate a topic, and how courses are rated.
• Content gap analysis: pull skills and difficulty levels across a topic to spot what's covered and what's missing.
• Lead generation for edtech and training vendors: find high enrollment courses and their partner institutions.
• Competitive monitoring: track a competitor's course catalog, ratings and enrollment over time with a Schedule.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set a search keyword, and optionally a difficulty level or language filter.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new records automatically.

Input

Field	Description
query	Search keyword, the same as typing into Coursera's course search box. Default: python.
difficultyLevel	Only return courses at this level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Mixed. Leave empty for no filter.
language	Only keep courses available in this language, for example English or Spanish. Leave empty for no filter.
maxResults	Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

Example input:

{
    "query": "python",
    "difficultyLevel": "",
    "language": "",
    "maxResults": 40
}

Output

Every record has the same shape:

{
    "id": "python-crash-course",
    "title": "Crash Course on Python",
    "instructors": ["Google Career Certificates"],
    "partner": "Google",
    "rating": 4.771676229407274,
    "ratingCount": 40609,
    "enrollmentCount": 1452151,
    "difficultyLevel": "BEGINNER",
    "pricingModel": "Included with Coursera Plus",
    "skills": ["Data Structures", "Programming Principles", "Computational Thinking", "Python Programming"],
    "domain": "Information Technology",
    "subdomain": "Support and Operations",
    "estimatedWorkload": null,
    "languages": ["English", "French", "German", "Spanish", "Arabic", "Japanese"],
    "certificates": ["SPECIALIZATION", "VERIFIED_CERTIFICATE"],
    "description": "This course is designed to teach you the foundations in order to write simple programs in Python using the most common structures...",
    "launchedAt": "2020-01-14T13:52:34.573Z",
    "url": "https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-crash-course",
    "imageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/coursera-course-photos/4d/a0200500ab41a7a1d00c96d470475c/GCC-Coursera-thumbnail-ITwithPython-crash-course-python-christine.png",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T09:05:24.865Z"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Stable key (the course's URL slug), safe for deduplication between runs
title	Course name
instructors	Instructor full names
partner	University or company offering the course
rating	Average rating out of 5
ratingCount	Number of ratings behind the average
enrollmentCount	Total learners enrolled
difficultyLevel	Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Mixed
pricingModel	Free to audit, Included with Coursera Plus, or Paid with a certificate fee. Coursera does not publish a fixed dollar price per course
skills	Skills taught, as tagged by Coursera
domain / subdomain	Coursera's topic categories for the course
estimatedWorkload	Time commitment as published by Coursera, when available
languages	Languages the course content is available in
certificates	Certificate types offered (for example verified certificate, specialization)
description	Full course description
launchedAt	When the course was first published, ISO date
url	Canonical course page URL
imageUrl	Course thumbnail
scrapedAt	When this record was collected, ISO date

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set maxResults to cap any run.

Limitations

• Covers Coursera only, not other catalogs.
• Coursera does not publish a fixed per-course dollar price on these pages, so pricingModel describes access (free, Coursera Plus, or paid) instead of a number.
• Specializations, Professional Certificates and Degrees are not included, only standalone courses.
• Very high maxResults values take proportionally longer since each course needs its own detail page fetch.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads course listings Coursera publishes for any visitor without a login and stores only course information published for that purpose. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab; response time is usually under a day.