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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 1 API on the APIs.io network: Catalog API. Tagged areas include EdTech, Online Learning, Catalog, and MOOC.

Coursera’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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21.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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3 APIs
EdTechOnline LearningCatalogMOOC

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 21.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 11.7 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17
Access Clarity 2.2 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.7 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4
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.
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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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 3

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Coursera Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Coursera Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Coursera GraphQL Schema

Coursera is a global online learning platform offering courses, specializations, professional certificates, and degrees from top universities and companies. The platform serves ...

GRAPHQL

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

FinOps 1

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

Coursera Finops

FINOPS

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
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Developer
Developer

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/coursera.png
tags:
- 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
  - url: graphql/coursera-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- 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: 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