# Coursera API: Get course details > Looks up a Coursera course, specialization or professional certificate by name or link and returns its providers, instructors, rating, enrollment, modules, skills, languages and publicly shown price. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Coursera. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/coursera.org/get-course - Method: `coursera.org/get_course`, version 1 - Website: coursera.org - Returns: title, type, providers, instructors, rating, enrollment, level, duration, modules, skills, languages, cost - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `course` | string | yes | `"Google Data Analytics"` | Course, specialization, or certificate name or Coursera link, for example Google Data Analytics. | | `provider` | string | no | `"Google"` | Optional university or company to distinguish similarly named courses, for example Google. Default "". | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json { "course": "Google Data Analytics", "provider": "Google" } ``` Its output: ```json { "cost": "$49/month after 7-day free trial", "link": "https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-data-analytics", "type": "Professional Certificate", "level": "Beginner", "price": 49, "title": "Google Data Analytics", "rating": 4.76, "skills": [ "Data Visualization", "File Management", "R (Software)" ], "currency": "USD", "duration": "6 months at 10 hours a week", "languages": [ "English", "Arabic", "French" ], "providers": [ "Google" ], "instructors": [ "Google Career Certificates" ], "number_enrolled": 3890461, "number_of_reviews": 182726, "modules_or_courses": [ { "title": "Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere", "short_description": "This is the first course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. Organizations of all kinds need data analysts to help them improve their processes, identify opportunities and trends, launch new products, and make thoughtful decisions. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the world of data…" }, { "title": "Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions", "short_description": "This is the second course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. You’ll build on your understanding of the topics that were introduced in the first course of this certificate program. The material will help you learn how to ask effective questions, make data-driven decisions, and meet…" }, { "title": "Prepare Data for Exploration", "short_description": "This is the third course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. As you continue to build on your understanding of the topics from the first two courses, you’ll be introduced to new topics that will help you gain practical data analytics skills. You’ll learn how to use tools like spreadsheets…" } ], "certificate_offered": true } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"coursera.org/get_course","input":{"course":"Google Data Analytics","provider":"Google"}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - What are the modules, instructors, and price of the Google Data Analytics professional certificate? - Can you pull up the rating, enrollment count, and skills covered by the Machine Learning course from Stanford? - I'm looking at the Python for Everybody specialization on Coursera, what level is it and how long does it take to finish? - Show me which languages the Deep Learning Specialization from DeepLearning.AI is offered in and what it costs. - Find the providers and instructors behind the IBM Data Science professional certificate, plus its overall rating. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "course" ], "properties": { "course": { "type": "string", "description": "Course, specialization, or certificate name or Coursera link, for example Google Data Analytics." }, "provider": { "type": "string", "default": "", "description": "Optional university or company to distinguish similarly named courses, for example Google." } } } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "title", "type", "providers", "instructors", "rating", "number_of_reviews", "number_enrolled", "level", "duration", "modules_or_courses", "skills", "languages", "certificate_offered", "cost", "price", "currency", "link" ], "properties": { "cost": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "link": { "type": "string" }, "type": { "type": "string" }, "level": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "price": { "type": [ "number", "null" ] }, "title": { "type": "string" }, "rating": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Rating out of 5." }, "skills": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "currency": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "duration": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "languages": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "providers": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "instructors": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "number_enrolled": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "number_of_reviews": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "modules_or_courses": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "title", "short_description" ], "properties": { "title": { "type": "string" }, "short_description": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] } }, "additionalProperties": false } }, "certificate_offered": { "type": "boolean" } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## See more - [Coursera API: Search courses](https://fous.com/methods/coursera.org/search-courses.md): Finds Coursera courses, specializations, professional certificates, degrees and guided projects on a topic, in Coursera's search order. - [Udemy API: Search courses by topic](https://fous.com/methods/udemy.com/search-courses.md): Searches Udemy courses on a topic and returns US visitor prices in USD, ratings, lecture counts and course details. - [MIT API: Search courses](https://fous.com/methods/ocw.mit.edu/search-courses.md): Finds free MIT OpenCourseWare courses matching a topic, in relevance order, optionally limited to a course level or courses with lecture videos. - [topuniversities.com API: Get QS university profile](https://fous.com/methods/topuniversities.com/get-university.md): Finds a university's QS profile by name and returns its latest QS World University Ranking and overall score, location, student figures, faculty ratio, public tuition ranges and up to five listed subject ranks. - [Times Higher Education API: Get university profile](https://fous.com/methods/timeshighereducation.com/get-university.md): Looks up a university on Times Higher Education and returns its latest displayed world ranking, overall and pillar scores, student statistics and subject rankings. - [PlayStation API: Get PlayStation Store game](https://fous.com/methods/store.playstation.com/get-game.md): Looks up a PlayStation Store game by name or product link in a country. 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