Every MIT OpenCourseWare course publishes its syllabus, lecture notes, assignments and exams under a course number. Our MIT OpenCourseWare scraper delivers them keyed to the course.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the departments, subjects or the full archive; we enumerate from the published sitemaps, type materials by kind, record the licence per course, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Because the archive is historical rather than live, most briefs here are one-time collections rather than monitored feeds, and we will say so rather than quoting a subscription for something that is not changing.
We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on MIT OpenCourseWare - and we collect it legally, with requests paced. Materials are typed and the licence recorded per item, exactly as each course page states it.
The course record covers the course number, title, department, level, the term and year it was taught, instructors as credited, topics and the course description.
Material records are keyed to the course: type such as lecture notes, assignment, exam or reading list, title, format and the address it sits at. That typing is what makes the archive usable - a client wanting problem sets does not want a list of every file.
The licence is recorded per course rather than assumed for the collection, taken from the course page itself, so every item carries the licence its course states.
Term and year are kept as fields because the same course number appears across many years with different materials, and a course record without its year is ambiguous in exactly the cases somebody cares about.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and the sitemap it was discovered through.
Curriculum change over time is the most distinctive analysis this source supports, because the same course numbers recur across years with their materials attached. What appeared, what disappeared, and when, is answerable retrospectively here rather than only going forward - a rarity in this whole category.
Reading list extraction produces a citation graph between courses and the works they teach, which for academic publishers and libraries is a direct read on what is actually assigned rather than what is bought.
Material type inventories answer practical questions for anyone building learning products: how many courses publish exams, how many include video, how completeness varies by department.
The licence is recorded per course and, where a material states its own, per material, so a selection by department, year, material type or licence comes straight out of the export.
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes teaching materials from MIT courses: syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets, exams, reading lists and in many cases video lectures. It has been running for over two decades and covers a large share of the institution's curriculum.
It differs from every commercial source in this section in one important way: the materials themselves are published openly, not just described, and each course states its licence on the page.
Technically it has one characteristic that decides how collection works. The search interface renders in the browser and returns almost nothing to a plain request, while individual course pages are ordinary static documents that respond fully. Crawling the search is therefore pointless and crawling the courses is straightforward.
What makes that workable is that the site publishes a sitemap, and each course carries its own sitemap listing its materials. Enumeration comes from there rather than from trying to make the search cooperate.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsA collector pointed at the search on this site comes back nearly empty and the usual conclusion is that the source is protected. It is not; it is simply built so that discovery happens through published sitemaps rather than through crawlable listing pages.
Reading the sitemap first turns a difficult crawl into a simple one, and the per-course sitemaps do more than list addresses - they describe what each course contains, which is exactly the material inventory a client wants and would otherwise have to assemble by walking pages.
The second reason this source is unusual is that the materials themselves are published - notes, problem sets, exams and reading lists, not just descriptions of them. That makes it one of the few sources where a client can build something on the content itself rather than only on statistics about it, and it makes material typing and the per-course licence field a functional requirement rather than an afterthought.
The third is curriculum research. Two decades of syllabi from one institution, with terms and years attached, is a record of how a curriculum changed - what was added, what stopped being taught, how a subject's reading list drifted. That question is hard to answer anywhere else with this consistency.
The fourth is scope. This is one university, and a strong one, which makes it excellent for depth and unrepresentative for anything claiming to describe higher education generally.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, follows the sitemaps as courses are added and re-published, and repairs the collector when material templates change.
You see a sample first, in your format, over the departments you actually care about, with materials typed and licences recorded so you can judge both the structure and the licence fields on real courses.
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Because it renders in the browser and returns almost nothing to a plain request. That is not protection, just how the site is built - individual course pages respond fully, and discovery is meant to come from the published sitemaps instead.
Yes. Course records, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, exams, reading lists and the licence each course states are all shown to any visitor without logging in. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on MIT OpenCourseWare - and we collect it legally.
Yes, and here that works retrospectively - rare in this field. The same course numbers recur across years with their materials attached, so what was added and what stopped being taught is answerable from the archive rather than only from the day collection starts.
Yes, as their own records, which produces a graph between courses and the works they assign. For academic publishers and libraries that is a direct read on what is taught rather than what is purchased.
No. It is one university, in depth, over two decades. That makes it excellent for curriculum research and unsuitable for any claim about higher education generally, and we scope briefs on that basis.
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