Coursera Scraper - Online Course Catalog Data

Scrape the entire Coursera catalog of 20,000+ online courses, specializations, partners, and instructors. Uses Coursera's public REST API for fast, reliable data extraction with no login required.

Features

• Courses (20,000+): names, descriptions, slugs, partner IDs, instructor IDs, languages, certificate types, workload, photos
• Specializations: names, taglines, descriptions, course IDs, partner IDs, languages
• Partners (universities/companies): names, descriptions, logos, locations, links
• Instructors: full names, titles, departments, photos, bios
• Keyword search filtering
• Language filtering (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Chinese)
• Configurable result limits

Output Fields (Courses)

Field	Description
id	Coursera course ID
name	Course title
slug	URL slug
description	Full course description
photoUrl	Course thumbnail image URL
partnerIds	Array of partner (university/company) IDs
instructorIds	Array of instructor IDs
domainTypes	Subject domain classifications
primaryLanguages	Primary teaching languages
subtitleLanguages	Available subtitle languages
certificateType	Certificate type (e.g. VERIFIED_CERT)
workload	Estimated workload (e.g. "4-6 hours/week")
url	Direct link to course page
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of when the data was collected

Input Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
dataType	select	courses	Data type: courses, specializations, partners, or instructors
searchQuery	text	(empty)	Keyword filter on name/description
language	text	(empty)	Language code filter (e.g. "en", "es", "fr")
maxResults	integer	500	Max results to return (0 = unlimited, max 25000)
proxyConfiguration	proxy	(none)	Optional proxy settings

Example Output

{
  "id": "v8I3D",
  "name": "Machine Learning",
  "slug": "machine-learning",
  "description": "This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning...",
  "photoUrl": "https://coursera-course-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/...",
  "partnerIds": ["stanford"],
  "instructorIds": ["AndrewNg"],
  "primaryLanguages": ["en"],
  "subtitleLanguages": ["en", "es", "fr", "zh"],
  "certificateType": "VERIFIED_CERT",
  "workload": "5-7 hours/week",
  "domainTypes": [{"domainId": "computer-science", "subdomainId": "machine-learning"}],
  "url": "https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

• Market research: Analyze the online education landscape and course offerings
• Competitive analysis: Track what universities and companies are publishing
• Data science: Build datasets for education market analysis
• Course discovery: Find courses by topic, language, or certificate type
• Academic research: Study trends in online learning content
• Content aggregation: Build course comparison tools or directories

How It Works

This scraper uses Coursera's public REST API (/api/courses.v1, /api/onDemandSpecializations.v1, /api/partners.v1, /api/instructors.v1) to extract structured data. No authentication or login is required. The API is paginated at 100 results per page with a polite 500ms delay between requests.

Notes

• The API returns raw IDs for partners and instructors. To resolve names, run separate scrapes with dataType set to partners or instructors.
• Language filter uses ISO 639-1 codes (e.g. "en" for English, "es" for Spanish).
• For the full catalog (~20,000 courses), set maxResults to 0 and expect the run to take a few minutes.

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