# Coursera

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/coursera/  
**Website:** https://www.coursera.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 21.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 54.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Paid · Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Coursera Agentic Access** — 4 operations

## Security (1)

- **Coursera Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Coursera Plans Pricing**

## Tags

EdTech, Online Learning, Catalog, MOOC

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/coursera/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.