Brilliant Scraper

Extract interactive math and science courses, problem sets, daily challenges, and learning sequences from Brilliant. Built on spider-browser .

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target
brilliant.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

brilliant-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://brilliant.org/courses/");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const courses = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".course-card").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".course-card-title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const subject = el.querySelector(".course-card-subject")?.textContent?.trim();
    const description = el.querySelector(".course-card-description")?.textContent?.trim();
    const lessons = el.querySelector(".lesson-count")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) courses.push({ title, subject, description, lessons });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: courses.length, courses: courses.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for brilliant.org.

Structured JSON from brilliant.org with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/brilliant.org/

Course titleSubjectDifficultyLesson countConcept tagsPrerequisites

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/brilliant.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/brilliant.org/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/brilliant.org/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Course titleSubjectDifficultyLesson countConcept tagsPrerequisitesCompletion time

Listings

Course catalog data

Extract courses, instructors, ratings, and pricing from brilliant.org.

Rendering

Dynamic catalogs

Handle filtered search results, pagination, and lazy-loaded course cards.

Scale

Platform coverage

Scrape entire course catalogs across categories and skill levels.

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Start

Start scraping brilliant.org.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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