DataCamp Scraper

Extract data science course libraries, technology tracks, instructor details, and skill assessments from DataCamp. Built on spider-browser .

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

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

datacamp-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.datacamp.com/courses/tech:python");

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const courses = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='course-card'], article a[href*='/courses/']").forEach(el => {
    const card = el.closest("article") || el;
    const title = (card.querySelector("h3") || card.querySelector("h4"))?.textContent?.trim();
    const instructor = card.querySelector("[data-testid='instructor']")?.textContent?.trim()
      || [...card.querySelectorAll("span, small")].find(s => /^by /i.test(s.textContent?.trim() ?? ""))?.textContent?.replace(/^by /i, "").trim();
    const spans = [...card.querySelectorAll("span, small")].map(s => s.textContent?.trim() ?? "");
    const duration = spans.find(s => /hours?|min/i.test(s));
    const level = spans.find(s => /beginner|intermediate|advanced/i.test(s));
    const xp = spans.find(s => /\dXP/i.test(s));
    if (title) courses.push({ title, instructor, duration, level, xp });
  });
  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 datacamp.com.

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

POST /fetch/datacamp.com/

Course titleTechnologyInstructorDurationXP pointsLevel

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/datacamp.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/datacamp.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/datacamp.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