Coursera Course Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes Coursera for courses based on a search query. You provide a topic or keyword, and it returns a list of matching courses with details like title, rating, difficulty, and skills. It's designed for automation, data collection, and analysis.

Key Features

• Unlimited Results: No hard limit on the number of courses returned; depends on your query and Coursera's results.
• Customizable Search: Filter by keyword and set a maximum number of items to return.
• Sorting Options: Order results by criteria like "Best match."
• Detailed Output: Extracts course name, average rating, number of ratings, difficulty level, duration, pricing info, partner institutions, taught skills, and direct links.
• Multiple Export Formats: Download results as JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, or HTML.

How to Use

1. Set the actor's input parameters via the JSON configuration.
2. Run the actor. It will navigate Coursera, execute the search, and extract the data.
3. Once finished, download the dataset from the Apify platform in your preferred format.

Input

Configure the scraper using a JSON object. Here are the main parameters:

{
  "keyword": "Artificial Intelligence",
  "maxitems": 100,
  "sort_by": "Best match"
}

• keyword (string, required): Your search term (e.g., "data science").
• maxitems (number): The maximum number of courses to return.
• sort_by (string): Sorting method, such as "Best match".

Output

The actor stores results in a dataset. Each item represents a course. Below is an example of the JSON structure for a single course.

{
  "id": "course~daG-a-O1EeijKBISCWxf6g",
  "name": "AI For Everyone",
  "avg_rating": 4.79,
  "num_ratings": 46106,
  "difficulty_level": "BEGINNER",
  "duration": "ONE_TO_FOUR_WEEKS",
  "is_free": "Paid",
  "partners": ["DeepLearning.AI"],
  "skills": ["Data Ethics", "Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning"],
  "image_url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/coursera-course-photos/...",
  "course_url": "https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone"
}

Pricing

This actor is available via a monthly subscription for $9.99.