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Maven Course Scraper

Extract cohort-based courses from Maven.com — title, instructor, cohort dates, price, student enrollment, ratings, description, format, and topic tags.

How it works

Maven is a Next.js SSR application. Every listing and detail page embeds a __NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob that contains the full course data — no JavaScript rendering required.

Phase 1 — Listing: The actor fetches the provided start URLs (e.g. https://maven.com/courses?sort=trending). Each listing page returns up to 99 courses server-side. The actor expands a plain /courses URL into all three sort variants (trending, new, best-selling) to maximise coverage. Course slugs are deduplicated across all listing pages.

Phase 2 — Detail: Each unique course detail page (/school-slug/course-slug) is fetched concurrently. Detail pages contain richer data: full pricing, cohort schedules, ratings, and instructor social links.

Input

Accepted start URL formats:

• https://maven.com/courses — expands to all 3 sort variants
• https://maven.com/courses?sort=trending
• https://maven.com/courses?sort=new
• https://maven.com/courses?sort=best-selling
• https://maven.com/courses/ai — category leaderboard (top 9)
• https://maven.com/courses/product

Output schema (per course)

{
"url":"https://maven.com/shreyas-doshi/product-sense",
"course_id":9991,
"course_slug":"product-sense",
"school_slug":"shreyas-doshi",
"school_name":"Shreyas Doshi",
"school_verified":true,
"title":"World-class Product Sense in Practice",
"description":"...",
"format":"full_course",
"price_usd":3000.0,
"currency":"USD",
"num_ratings":0,
"avg_rating":null,
"enrolled_last_week":"28",
"social_image_url":"https://...",
"tags":["Product","Strategy","For Product Managers"],
"instructors":[
{
"name":"Shreyas Doshi",
"headline":"Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Yahoo",
"linkedin_url":null,
"twitter_handle":"",
"custom_social_link":null,
"image_url":"https://...",
"previous_employers":["Stripe","Twitter"]
}
],
"next_cohorts":[
{
"cohort_id":24597,
"name":"May 2026",
"start_date":"2026-05-02T16:00:00Z",
"end_date":"2026-05-09T23:00:00Z",
"max_size":null
}
],
"next_cohort_start":"2026-05-02T16:00:00Z",
"next_cohort_end":"2026-05-09T23:00:00Z"
}

Courses that fail to scrape are still pushed with an "error" field so the overall run always produces a complete dataset.

Notes

• Maven returns up to 99 courses per listing page server-side. The "Show more courses" button on the UI loads additional courses via JavaScript — the scraper does not execute JS, so it picks up the first page of each sort variant (~99 × 3 = ~297 unique courses before dedup).
• Category pages (e.g. /courses/ai) only return the top 9 leaderboard courses server-side.
• avg_rating is derived from sum_ratings / num_ratings / 10 to convert Maven's internal 100-point scale to a 10-point scale. Many courses have num_ratings = 0 if they use an external review platform (e.g. testimonial.to).
• No authentication is required. All data is publicly accessible.