# Coursera Scraper API — $0.001 per result

> Coursera Scraper API: Search Coursera by keyword — partner, rating, review count, level. $0.001 per delivered result, nothing delivered means nothing charged.

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# Coursera Scraper API

A Coursera scraper API that searches the catalog for a keyword and returns one flat row per result: title, the partner or university offering it, rating, the exact review count, difficulty level, duration, product type — course, specialization, professional certificate, degree — the skills it teaches, a paid-placement flag, URL and image. Filter by level and product type.

By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData · Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026

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$0.001 per delivered result · $2 free every month · Failed runs never billed

POST /v1/scraper/collectors/coursera_courses/run

```
$ curl $QD/coursera_courses/run \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"query": "python", "max_results": 12}'
{ "status": "done", "count": 12,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "…",
      "title": "…",
      "partner": "…",
      "partners": […] } ],
  "cost": 0.012 }
# 12 results × $0.001 · nothing delivered, nothing charged
```

You send query and level; the run goes out through a residential exit and comes back as results with rank, id and title — 17 fields on every row — and you are billed $0.001 for each result actually delivered, nothing for a run that delivers none.

**$0.001 / result**2,000 results on the free $2 every month

**Semantic input**query, level, product_type — no URL lists

**Up to 60**results per run, pagination handled for you

**No browser**read over HTTP/TLS — cheaper and faster than rendering

On this page: [Try it](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#try) [What it is](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#what) [Limits](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#caps) [Output fields](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#output) [Inputs](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#input) [Pricing](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#pricing) [Integration](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#integration) [Use cases](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#use-cases) [Versus the alternatives](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#compare) [FAQ](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#faq)

Try it

## Coursera course search, running now

Change the input and run it against the live collector — nothing to install, no sign-up.

Run it from your own code, on your own inputs

Same collector, same rows — $2 of free API credit every month, no card.

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## What a Coursera scraper API does

Coursera server-renders its search page with the Apollo cache inline, and the search response sits in that cache with every field this collector reports — name, partners, the average rating, the exact number of ratings, level, duration, product type, skills and the sponsored flag — plus the real result total. That is what is read, on a plain fetch, with no browser anywhere.

The DOM is not used, for two reasons, and the second is the dangerous one. The card packs rating, level and duration into one run-on string with segments simply missing when a product has no rating, and it rounds review counts to “44K” where the cache states 43,784. Worse, a search that matches nothing still renders a dozen product cards, because the zero-result page falls back to recommendation carousels — a DOM collector would report twelve unrelated products as results for a query that has none. The cache states the truth: an empty list. Coursera’s own search API is a GraphQL POST, which this tier does not make; the embedded cache is the same payload.

Input is meaning, not a URL *query* *level* *product_type* *country* *max_results*

## Limits, in plain numbers

Everything that bounds one run of this collector. No hidden throttles.

Max per run

60 results

Price

$0.001 / result

Per 1,000

$1.00

Failed runs

Free zero rows, zero charge

Free every month

$2 no card

Rate limit

60 req/min on the free tier

## What one result looks like

Every delivered result carries these fields. Nullable means the source did not publish it — the field stays empty instead of being guessed.

| Field | Type | What it holds |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `rank` | integer | 1-based position in the delivered set, in Coursera's own result order. |
| `id` | string · nullable | Coursera's typed product id, e.g. "course~ejOz7RDUEei99hK0xs-tsg" or "s12n~F-h1g0w7EeWeOApO_l5R1w" — the stable de-duplication key. |
| `title` | string · nullable | Course, specialization or degree title. |
| `partner` | string · nullable | First listed partner — the university or company offering it. |
| `partners` | string[] | Every listed partner, in Coursera's order (co-branded programmes carry more than one). |
| `rating` | number · nullable | Average rating out of 5, to 2 decimals. Null on products Coursera has never rated, such as degrees. |
| `reviews` | integer · nullable | Exact number of ratings the average is based on — the site's cards round this to "44K". |
| `level` | string · nullable | Difficulty as the card states it: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Mixed. Null on degrees, which state none. |
| `duration` | string · nullable | Time commitment as the card states it, e.g. "1 - 3 Months", "Less Than 2 Hours", "1 - 4 Years". |
| `product_type` | string · nullable | What kind of product this is: Course, Specialization, Professional Certificate, Guided Project, Project or Degree. |
| `url` | string · nullable | Absolute URL of the product page. |
| `image` | string · nullable | Course artwork URL. |
| `skills` | string[] | Skills Coursera lists for this product. |
| `sponsored` | boolean | True when Coursera marks the row as a paid placement. These are mixed into the ranked list, so a sponsored row's rank is a bought slot, not a relevance position. |
| `is_free` | boolean | True when Coursera marks the course itself as free. |
| `in_coursera_plus` | boolean | True when the product is included in a Coursera Plus subscription. |
| `is_new` | boolean | True when Coursera flags the product as new content. |

## Inputs

The whole request. Anything you leave out falls back to the default shown in the catalog.

| Input | Type | Required | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | yes | What to search Coursera for — a topic, technology or skill. |
| `level` | string | no | Restrict to one difficulty level. Coursera's own filter values. One of: `Beginner`, `Intermediate`, `Advanced`, `Mixed`. |
| `product_type` | string | no | Restrict to one kind of product. Coursera's own filter values — use "Courses" to exclude degrees and certificates. One of: `Courses`, `Specializations`, `Guided Projects`, `Professional Certificates`, `Projects`, `Degrees`. |
| `country` | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the proxy exit (default us). |
| `max_results` | integer | no | How many results to deliver at most (1–60). You pay only for delivered results. |

Pricing

## Coursera Scraper API pricing

$0.001 per delivered result. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing: blocked pages, challenges and retries are on us, and the $2 monthly allowance covers about 2,000 results before you spend anything.

**$0.001**per delivered result*$1 per 1,000 delivered results*

**2,000 results**on the free allowance*$2 every month, no card*

**Zero rows**zero charge*blocks, captchas and retries are on us*

**−30%**on volume tiers*the catalog returns your key's price*

### Pay as you go

$0/mo

- $2 free credit / month

- 60 requests / min

- List unit prices

### Starter

$19/mo

- $15 free credit / month

- 300 requests / min

- 10% off unit prices

Most popular

### Growth

$79/mo

- $50 free credit / month

- 600 requests / min

- 20% off unit prices

### Scale

$299/mo

- $250 free credit / month

- 1,200 requests / min

- 30% off unit prices

Same wallet, same key and same $2 monthly allowance as every other [Data API](https://quanticdata.io/web-data-api-for-ai/). Prices are launch pricing read live from the billing config — `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

Integration

## One POST, typed rows

Base URL `https://api.quanticdata.io/v1`, Bearer auth, the same key as every other Data API. Endpoint: `POST /v1/scraper/collectors/coursera_courses/run`.

```
curl -X POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/coursera_courses/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"python","max_results":12}'
```

```
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/coursera_courses/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {QD_API_KEY}"},
    json={
        "query": "python",
        "max_results": 12
    },
    timeout=120,
)
for row in r.json()["payload"]["results"]:
    print(row)
```

```
const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/coursera_courses/run",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QD_API_KEY}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({"query":"python","max_results":12}),
  },
);
const { payload } = await res.json();
console.table(payload.results);
```

```
claude mcp add quanticdata \
  -e QUANTICDATA_API_KEY=qd_live_your_key_here \
  -- npx -y quanticdata-mcp

# then, in the chat:
> run the coursera_courses collector with query="python" and max_results=12
```

## What people build with the Coursera scraper API

Three shapes of work this endpoint was designed around.

### Course-market research

What a keyword returns across partners, with level, duration and product type, to size an audience or spot a gap.

### Partner benchmarking

Ratings and exact review counts by university or company across a topic.

### Catalog monitoring

Re-run a keyword and diff by `id`: new courses, new certificates, changed ratings.

## Coursera Scraper API versus rolling your own

The differences that actually cost time when you build this in-house.

|  | DIY scraper | This collector |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Review counts | “44K” from the card | 43,784 from the cache |
| Empty searches | Twelve recommendation cards delivered as results | An empty list, as the cache states |
| Fields | One run-on string per card | Typed fields: level, duration, type, skills |
| Placements | Unmarked | `sponsored` per row |

## What people search for

Live autocomplete demand around Coursera course search, pulled with our own Keyword ideas collector.

Searches: [coursera scraper github](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#try) [coursera web scraper](/collectors/coursera-scraper-api/#try)

The same call you would paste into a terminal: a Bearer key, query, level and product_type in the body, and back the envelope every QuanticData endpoint returns — type, message, payload — where count is how many results arrived and usage.cost_usd is $0.012, which is 12 × $0.001. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing. The key is good for 60 req/min on the free tier.

## Sources and standards

The platform documentation and standards this collector is built against — check any claim on this page against the primary source:

- [Coursera: terms of use](https://www.coursera.org/about/terms)

- [Schema.org: the Course type](https://schema.org/Course)

- [IETF: RFC 9309, Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html)

## FAQ

Questions we get about the Coursera scraper API.

[Something else? Ask us →](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### Does Coursera have a public catalog API?

Coursera exposes catalog APIs to partners under agreement. This collector reads the public search page and its embedded cache, which is the same search response, with no key.

### Can I filter by level or type?

Yes: `level` (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Mixed) and `product_type` (Courses, Specializations, Guided Projects, Professional Certificates, Projects, Degrees) are passed to Coursera’s own search.

### Why does a very specific query return zero rows?

Because it matched nothing. The page would show recommendation cards in that case; the collector reports the empty result rather than delivering unrelated products.

### Are prices included?

Coursera’s search does not state prices; the row carries `is_free` and `in_coursera_plus`, which the cache does state.

### Is there a free Coursera scraper API?

Every account gets $2 of credit every month with no card, which is about 2,000 delivered results on this endpoint at $0.001 each. It renews monthly, and a run that delivers nothing is never billed — so a failed or blocked attempt does not eat the allowance.

### How much does one run cost?

Multiply the rows you actually receive by $0.001. A run capped at 60 results — the maximum for this collector — costs $0.06 if every row comes back, and less when the source has fewer. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

## Run the Coursera scraper API now

$2 of free credit every month, no card. Your key returns its own prices from `GET /v1/scraper/collectors`.

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