Class Central Scraper

Extract MOOC aggregator listings, course reviews, provider rankings, and subject catalogs from Class Central. Built on spider-browser .

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target
classcentral.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

class-central-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://www.classcentral.com/subject/cs");

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const courses = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".course-list-course").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".course-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    const provider = el.querySelector(".course-provider")?.textContent?.trim();
    const institution = el.querySelector(".course-institution")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector(".rating-value")?.textContent?.trim();
    const reviews = el.querySelector(".review-count")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) courses.push({ title, provider, institution, rating, reviews });
  });
  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 classcentral.com.

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

POST /fetch/classcentral.com/

Course titleProviderInstitutionRatingReview countSubject

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/classcentral.com/ \
  -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/classcentral.com/",
    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/classcentral.com/", {
  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