Khan Academy Topic Scraper
Pricing
from $10.00 / 1,000 results
Khan Academy Topic Scraper
What it does
Khan Academy Topic Scraper searches and extracts educational course listings from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), one of the world's largest free educational resources. It returns course titles, URLs, subjects, and descriptions for any search query.
Why use it
MIT OpenCourseWare offers thousands of free courses from MIT across all departments. This actor helps educators, students, and researchers discover relevant MIT courses programmatically, saving hours of manual browsing. Ideal for building educational resource databases or finding supplementary learning materials.
How it works
- The actor takes a search query and optional maximum items count.
- It sends a request to MIT OCW's search endpoint using CheerioCrawler.
- Course listings are extracted from the HTML response.
- Results are pushed to the Apify dataset in a structured format.
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | "mathematics" | Search query to find topics |
maxItems | integer | 20 | Maximum number of results (1-200) |
Output fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
title | string | Course title |
url | string | Link to the course page |
subject | string | Subject area |
description | string | Course description |
Cost estimate
Pay-per-event pricing is $0.00075 per result. Fetching 50 topics costs approximately $0.0375. Memory usage is minimal at 1024 MB default.
Tips
- MIT OCW courses cover a wide range of subjects from engineering to humanities.
- Use specific terms like "linear algebra" or "quantum mechanics" for precise results.
