Coursera

Coursera is a global online learning platform offering courses, specializations, professional certificates, and degrees. The Catalog API provides public, read-only access to courses, instructors, partners, and categories; the Affiliate API supports partner programs.

Coursera publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include EdTech, E-Learning, Catalog, and MOOC.

The Coursera catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Coursera’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 10 more developer resources.

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16.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 43/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

EdTech E-Learning Catalog MOOC

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Curriculum & Programme Management

BC-4700

Catalog

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 16.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 30.8 — up to +17.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Education and Edtech	builds-on	51.1	-	-
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom)	builds-on	51.1	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Coursera Catalog API

Public REST API for browsing Coursera's catalog of courses, specializations, instructors, partners, and categories. Verified live at api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1 with 21,000+...

Coursera Affiliate API

API for affiliate marketing partners to retrieve catalog data and tracking links.

Coursera Catalog API

Public catalog browsing

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Coursera Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coursera Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coursera API pricing

Not yet checked against Coursera's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Catalog API (Public) free	—
Coursera for Business / Campus enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Default Catalog API: not publicly documented requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Coursera's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Coursera Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Coursera Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Coursera

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Coursera Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Coursera API Rules

43 rules · 41 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Coursera Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Coursera Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Developer

Developer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: coursera
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coursera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Coursera
kind: company
description: Coursera is a global online learning platform offering courses, specializations, professional certificates, and
  degrees. The Catalog API provides public, read-only access to courses, instructors, partners, and categories; the Affiliate
  API supports partner programs.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Requires approval
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/coursera.png
tags:
- EdTech
- E-Learning
- Catalog
- MOOC
tags_raw:
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Catalog
- MOOC
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: coursera:catalog-api
  name: Coursera Catalog API
  description: Public REST API for browsing Coursera's catalog of courses, specializations, instructors, partners, and categories.
    Verified live at api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1 with 21,000+ courses.
  humanURL: https://building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.coursera.org
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - Read Only
  - REST
  tags_raw:
  - Catalog
  - Read-only
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/
  - type: Endpoint
    url: https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1
- aid: coursera:affiliate-api
  name: Coursera Affiliate API
  description: API for affiliate marketing partners to retrieve catalog data and tracking links.
  humanURL: https://building.coursera.org/
  tags:
  - Affiliates
  - Marketing
  tags_raw:
  - Affiliate
  - Marketing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://building.coursera.org/
- aid: coursera:coursera-catalog-api
  name: Coursera Catalog API
  description: Public catalog browsing
  humanURL: https://building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.coursera.org
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coursera-catalog-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/coursera-capability-edges.yml
  name: Coursera Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/coursera-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/coursera-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/coursera
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coursera
- type: Website
  url: https://www.coursera.org/
- type: Developer
  url: https://building.coursera.org/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/coursera-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/coursera-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/coursera-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.coursera.org/partners
- url: https://blog.coursera.org/feed/
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: 28DIGITAL Belgium
- name: 4EU+ Alliance
- name: AAPACE United States
- name: AAPC United States
- name: Accenture United States
- name: Adamson University
- name: Adobe United States
- name: Advancing Women in Tech United States
- name: Akamai Technologies, Inc. United States
- name: Alex Genadinik United States
- name: Alfaisal University | KLD Saudi Arabia
- name: Alibaba Cloud Academy China
- name: Alignor
- name: Amazon United States
- name: Amazon Ads United States
- name: Amazon Web Services United States
- name: American Council on Exercise United States
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Coursera API — frequently asked questions

Does Coursera have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Coursera, including Coursera Catalog API, Coursera Affiliate API and Coursera Catalog API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Coursera API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Coursera, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Coursera API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Coursera, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Coursera API ready for AI agents?

Coursera has a Kin Score of 16.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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