OpenSesame Courses Scraper

OpenSesame Courses Scraper

Scrape OpenSesame courses by keyword, up to a million per run. Each course comes with its title, provider, duration, and catalog metadata. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

OpenSesame's marketplace lists thousands of corporate training courses, but browsing the catalog manually or through limited integrations slows down content curation. This scraper reads the public course listings directly, letting you pull exactly the courses that match a keyword. You get a clean dataset of course titles, providers, and metadata, ready for analysis or import into your LMS.

Who uses it	What they scrape OpenSesame for
L&D managers	Building a shortlist of compliance or leadership courses for their organization.
Content curators	Comparing course providers and durations across a topic.
Sales enablement teams	Finding sales methodology or product training courses to license.
Market analysts	Tracking which soft skills and safety topics have the most course offerings.

What it does

This Actor collects OpenSesame course listings by keyword search and returns each course as a flat row.

• 🔍 Keyword search: enter any term like 'safety', 'harassment', or 'leadership' to pull matching courses.
• 📊 Flat row output: every course is returned with a consistent schema for easy filtering and analysis.
• ⚙️ Max items control: set a hard limit from 1 to 1,000,000 courses per run to control your costs.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with OpenSesame data

📋 Curate a compliance training catalog.

An L&D manager searches for 'harassment prevention' and exports the full list of matching courses to compare providers and durations before purchasing.

📈 Audit course availability by topic.

A market analyst runs monthly searches for 'leadership', 'DEI', and 'safety' to track how many courses each topic returns over time.

🔄 Feed an LMS content migration.

A content curator scrapes all courses for a set of keywords and maps the titles and providers into a new learning management system.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No API key needed	Scrapes the public catalog without registration or rate-limit headaches.
Fixed schema	Every course row has the same fields, so you can append runs and compare across searches.
Scalable collection	Pull up to a million courses in one run for large content audits.

How it compares

No other Store actor targets OpenSesame the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	OpenSesame Courses Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When OpenSesame changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor with a single keyword search query, and set a maximum number of courses to collect so your dataset stays on budget. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "maxItems": 10
}

A larger pull:

{
  "maxItems": 200
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.021 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$2.10
1,000 results	$21.00
10,000 results	$210.00

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the OpenSesame Courses Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to OpenSesame through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/opensesame-courses-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results?

Check that your searchQuery keyword is spelled correctly and matches terms used in OpenSesame course titles. Try a broader term like 'safety' instead of a very specific phrase.

The run stopped before reaching my maxItems limit.

The search results page may have fewer courses than your limit. Try a different or broader keyword to return more courses.

Some courses are missing fields in the output.

OpenSesame course listings do not always show every metadata field. If a field is empty on the website, it will be empty in your dataset.

The Actor is running slowly.

The scraper respects the website by pacing its requests. If you need faster collection, you can increase the Actor's memory allocation in the run settings, but the primary constraint is the site's response time.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need an OpenSesame account or API key?	No. This scraper reads the publicly accessible course catalog pages. You do not need to register an application or provide any credentials.
What data does each course row include?	Each row returns the course title, provider name, duration, and other catalog metadata that OpenSesame displays on the public listing pages.
Can I scrape all courses on OpenSesame?	You can scrape all courses that match your keyword search, up to the maxItems limit you set. There is no built-in way to pull every course in the entire marketplace without a keyword, but you can run the Actor multiple times with different search terms.
How do I export the results?	The Actor outputs a dataset you can download in CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML formats directly from your Apify run.
What happens if my search returns more courses than my maxItems limit?	The Actor stops collecting once it reaches the number you set in maxItems. The courses are collected in the order they appear in the search results.
Can I filter by course duration or provider?	The input currently supports a single keyword search. You can filter by provider or other fields after the run by loading your dataset into a spreadsheet or database.
Is this an official OpenSesame integration?	No. This is an independent scraper that reads publicly available web pages. It is not built or endorsed by OpenSesame, Inc.
How often can I run this Actor?	You can schedule it to run as often as you like through Apify's scheduler. For large keyword lists, space out your runs to be respectful to the website.

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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenSesame, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.