Udemy: scrapers and the official API, compared

Course listings, instructors, ratings, enrollment counts, prices and course length from Udemy.

Short answer

For most Udemy jobs, start with Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder: it covers 4 of 7 core fields (title, price, level, url) at $0.99 per 1,000 results on Apify's Free plan. The top published score for Udemy goes to Udemy Courses Scraper by natanielsantos (86 of 100), a Store tool from another publisher, listed for reference.

From published Store listings, output schemas and the official documentation. Checked 2026-11-01. How the ranking works.

Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder: inputs, code and cost Open in Apify Store

1 catalogue Actor 8 other Store tools Official API: Retired Lowest rate $0.05 per 1K

Route map

Each line is one way to get Udemy data; each stop is a field you probably need. Green lines are catalogue Actors, ranked by the published formula.

1 Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder 10 output fields, pay per event 4 of 7 core fields
$0.99 / 1K
+ 5 other Store tools, combined Reference only 5 of 7 core fields
from $0.05 / 1K
API Udemy Affiliate API v2.0 Retired fields not compared

Stops are fields. A ring means the field is in that route's published output schema; no ring means the line passes without it. Bold labels are the core fields for this website, the rest are fields that differ between routes. A white capsule means every data line stops there. The red line is the official API; its field coverage is not compared. A crossed red line means there is no open official API.

Catalogue Actors for Udemy

Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder

Search Udemy courses by keyword, category, or instructor, with rating, subscriber count, price, curriculum size, and level filters.

4/7 core fields 10 output fields $0.99 per 1K Open in Apify Store

Field matrix: who returns what

Every tool with a published output schema, against the 7 fields most Udemy jobs need. A dot means the field name appears in the schema; rows can still leave it empty.

Which tools return each core Udemy field, from published output schemas
Tool	title	primary	avg	price	discount	level	url	Fields
Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder	●	–	–	●	–	●	●	4/7
Udemy Courses ScraperReference only, by natanielsantos	●	–	–	●	●	●	●	5/7
Udemy Course ScraperReference only, by silentflow	●	–	–	●	–	–	●	3/7
Udemy Courses ScraperReference only, by delectable_incubator	●	–	–	–	–	●	–	2/7
Udemy Course ScraperReference only, by scrapestorm	●	–	–	–	–	●	–	2/7
Udemy ScraperReference only, by parseforge	●	–	–	●	–	●	●	4/7
Tools returning it	6	0	0	4	1	5	4

Field dictionary: the exact keys

The same core field has a different key in each Actor's output. Map these before you merge datasets; a dash means the published schema has no matching key. Need a field that is not listed here, such as email? Search every Udemy Actor by field.

Output keys for each core Udemy field in the top catalogue Actors
Core field	Udemy Course Catalog & Rating…
title	title
primary	–
avg	–
price	price, discountPrice
discount	–
level	level
url	url

All 9 tools, scored

Catalogue Actors link to their detail pages; the score (0 to 100) is the published formula, identical for every tool. Other Store tools follow in their own table, for reference. Price is the published primary-result rate per 1,000 (the Free-plan rate where the price is tiered; higher Apify plans pay less); start events and platform usage are excluded.

Catalogue Actors for Udemy, ranked by the published method
		Sample fields
74	Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder Catalogue Actor, pay per event	title, price, level	10	$0.99	11 runs, too few to rate	Nov 2026

Other Store tools, for reference

Scored with the same published formula and listed for comparison only; this site does not link or recommend them.

Other Store tools for Udemy, for reference
		Sample fields
86	Udemy Courses Scraper Reference only, by natanielsantos	title, price_detail, discount	31	$5.00	99% of 412 runs	Oct 2026
79	Udemy Course Scraper Reference only, by silentflow	title, price, url	8	$2.50	96% of 334 runs	Nov 2026
73	Udemy Courses Scraper Reference only, by delectable_incubator	title, level, id	20	$0.05	98% of 40 runs	Sep 2026
73	Udemy Course Scraper Reference only, by scrapestorm	title, level, id	20	$0.05	94% of 33 runs	Jul 2026
72	Udemy Scraper Reference only, by fatihtahta	No published schema	–	$1.99	96% of 510 runs	Sep 2026
70	Udemy Course Scraper Reference only, by easyapi	No published schema	–	$2.99	91% of 174 runs	May 2026
66	Udemy Search Scraper Reference only, by powerai	No published schema	–	$4.99	100% of 29 runs	Nov 2025
56	Udemy Scraper Reference only, by parseforge	title, price, instructionalLevel	27	$21	17 runs, too few to rate	Oct 2026

Official API route

Udemy Affiliate API v2.0

Udemy's Affiliate API offered course lists, course details, public curricula and reviews; its documentation page states that access was discontinued from 2025-01-01 and points to the Udemy Affiliate Program instead. The Instructor API covers an instructor's own courses, and Udemy Business has a catalog API for its organization customers.

Price. No public self-serve API is offered since the Affiliate API was discontinued.

Limits. Affiliate API access ended on 2025-01-01. Udemy pages returned 403 to our automated check on 2026-11-11, so the notice was confirmed from the indexed official page text.

Official documentation

Terms and personal data

Udemy's Terms of Use prohibit scraping, spidering, robots or other automated access outside its official API terms. This is general information, not legal advice.

Read Udemy's terms. Keep to public data, do not bypass logins or access controls, and check whether personal data is involved before you collect it. The can-I-scrape checklist walks through it.

How to start

Open Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder and start from its default input; its Actor page has the full example input and code.
Set the Udemy search, profile, listing or URL you need and a result limit; the required input is mode.
Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the Apify API.

Call Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder from code

The example input uses the Actor's published defaults; set your own Udemy query before you run it. You need an Apify API token.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run_input = {
    "mode": "byCourseUrls",
    "searchQueries": [
        "python"
    ],
    "category": "any",
    "subcategory": "any",
    "topics": [],
    "browseUrls": [],
    "courseUrls": [
        "complete-python-bootcamp"
    ],
    "instructorIds": [],
    "level": "any",
    "price": "any",
    "language": "any",
    "videoLength": "any",
    "mustHaveQuiz": False,
    "mustHavePracticeTest": False,
    "mustHaveCodingExercise": False,
    "mustHaveRoleplay": False,
    "isCertificationPrep": False,
    "closedCaptionLanguages": [],
    "sortBy": "RELEVANCE",
    "maxItems": 1,
    "includeDetails": True,
    "includeCurriculum": False,
    "includeInstructorProfile": False
}

run = client.actor("xyrelith-data/udemy-course-catalog-and-rating-finder").call(run_input=run_input)
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("The Actor run was not found.")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

pip install apify-client

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" });
const input = {
    "mode": "byCourseUrls",
    "searchQueries": [
        "python"
    ],
    "category": "any",
    "subcategory": "any",
    "topics": [],
    "browseUrls": [],
    "courseUrls": [
        "complete-python-bootcamp"
    ],
    "instructorIds": [],
    "level": "any",
    "price": "any",
    "language": "any",
    "videoLength": "any",
    "mustHaveQuiz": false,
    "mustHavePracticeTest": false,
    "mustHaveCodingExercise": false,
    "mustHaveRoleplay": false,
    "isCertificationPrep": false,
    "closedCaptionLanguages": [],
    "sortBy": "RELEVANCE",
    "maxItems": 1,
    "includeDetails": true,
    "includeCurriculum": false,
    "includeInstructorProfile": false
};

const run = await client.actor("xyrelith-data/udemy-course-catalog-and-rating-finder").call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

npm install apify-client

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xyrelith-data~udemy-course-catalog-and-rating-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items"   -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{"mode":"byCourseUrls","searchQueries":["python"],"category":"any","subcategory":"any","topics":[],"browseUrls":[],"courseUrls":["complete-python-bootcamp"],"instructorIds":[],"level":"any","price":"any","language":"any","videoLength":"any","mustHaveQuiz":false,"mustHavePracticeTest":false,"mustHaveCodingExercise":false,"mustHaveRoleplay":false,"isCertificationPrep":false,"closedCaptionLanguages":[],"sortBy":"RELEVANCE","maxItems":1,"includeDetails":true,"includeCurriculum":false,"includeInstructorProfile":false}'

Waits for the run and returns the dataset items (runs over 300 seconds return HTTP 408; start an async run instead).

MCP (AI agents)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=xyrelith-data/udemy-course-catalog-and-rating-finder",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Adds this Actor as a tool in an MCP client that takes a remote server URL (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code) through Apify's hosted MCP server. OAuth sign-in also works without the header. Clients that only start local servers can wrap the URL with npx mcp-remote.

Questions people ask

What is the cheapest catalogue Actor for Udemy data?

Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder lists $0.99 per 1,000 results (pay per event), with 10 fields in its published output schema. Start events and platform usage are billed separately. Checked 2026-11-01.

Which Udemy scraper returns the most core fields?

Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder covers 4 of the 7 core Udemy fields this page tracks (title, primary, avg, price, discount, level, url), based on its published output schema.

Does Udemy have an official API?

Retired: Udemy's Affiliate API offered course lists, course details, public curricula and reviews; its documentation page states that access was discontinued from 2025-01-01 and points to the Udemy Affiliate Program instead. The Instructor API covers an instructor's own courses, and Udemy Business has a catalog API for its organization customers. No public self-serve API is offered since the Affiliate API was discontinued.

Is it legal to scrape Udemy?

It depends on what you collect and how. Udemy's Terms of Use prohibit scraping, spidering, robots or other automated access outside its official API terms. Read Udemy's terms (https://www.udemy.com/terms/) before you collect, and check whether personal data is involved. This is general information, not legal advice.

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Sources

Data checked 2026-11-01

Cite this page

Scraper Finder. "How to get Udemy data." https://scraperfinder.com/sites/udemy/ (data checked 2026-11-01).

Highest-scoring catalogue Actor

Udemy Course Catalog & Rating Finder: 4 of 7 core fields, $0.99 per 1,000 results, score 74. The highest score overall is 86 (Udemy Courses Scraper, a Store tool from another publisher); both are in the table above.

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