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Coursera API scraper

base /coursera/v15 endpoints

post/coursera/v1/search1 credit

Search Coursera by keyword (any topic, skill, tool or title). Returns a paginated list of result cards — name, url, type (course / specialization / professional certificate / guided project), partner, rating, review count, difficulty, duration, skills and free status — most-relevant first. Optional filters: level, type, language, sort. Feed a result's slug/url into the detail action. Page with `page`; meta.has_more / meta.total_count tell you how many.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
query	required	—	What to search Coursera for — a topic, skill, tool or course/program title ('machine learning', 'python', 'excel', 'project management', 'aws'). Returns courses, specializations, professional certificates and guided projects, most-relevant first.
level	optional	—	Filter by difficulty. One of: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Mixed.
type	optional	—	Filter by product type. One of: Courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, Degrees.
language	optional	—	Filter by course language (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Arabic).
sort	optional	—	Result order: Relevance (default) or Newest.
page = 1	optional	1–80	Result page (12 per page). Page until meta.has_more is false; meta.total_count / meta.total_pages tell you how many.
subject	optional	—	Optional subject/topic slug to bias the search (e.g. data-science, business, computer-science).

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post/coursera/v1/detail1 credit

Full detail for one Coursera course OR program (specialization / professional certificate) by slug or URL. For a course: description, difficulty, estimated workload, rating (average, count, by-star), total enrollments, languages, certificates, what-you'll-learn, recommended background, skills, instructors and partners. For a program: the same plus the list of courses inside it. Pass a search result's url, or a slug with type='specialization' to force the program path.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
slug	optional	—	The course/program slug (the last path segment of a Coursera URL, e.g. 'machine-learning' from /learn/machine-learning, or 'machine-learning-introduction' from /specializations/…). From a search result's slug.
url	optional	—	Alternatively a full Coursera course/specialization URL (a search result's `url`). The path selects course vs program automatically.
type	optional	—	Optional, only when passing a bare slug: 'course' (default) or 'specialization' / 'professional certificate' to force the program path.

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post/coursera/v1/reviews1 credit

Top public student reviews for a Coursera course or program by slug/url: star rating, review text, author and date. Returns the most-helpful reviews Coursera surfaces on the page (top reviews — Coursera does not expose deep review pagination without login). Use meta.review_count for the total number of ratings.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
slug	optional	—	The course/program slug to pull top reviews for (from a search result's slug).
url	optional	—	Alternatively a full Coursera course/program URL.
type	optional	—	Optional, only with a bare slug: 'course' (default) or 'specialization'.

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post/coursera/v1/partnersfree

Browse the universities and companies that partner with Coursera (Stanford, University of Michigan, Google, IBM, …). Returns partner id, name and logo. Use it to map who publishes on Coursera.

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post/coursera/v1/subjectsfree

Browse Coursera's subject catalogue — the top-level domains (Data Science, Business, Computer Science, Arts & Humanities, …) with their slug and description. Use a subject slug as the search `subject` filter.

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Example request · search

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/coursera/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"machine learning"}'

Response shape

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": { /* the result */ },
  "meta": {
    "latency_ms": 240,
    "record_count": 12,
    "completeness_pct": 100
  },
  "error": null
}