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Access UCAS course listings, apprenticeships, university profiles, scholarships, and content via a structured JSON API. 7 endpoints covering UK higher education data.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/26ad71cd-9914-4a1e-8d6e-ca0122a45400/search_courses?year=2026&limit=3&query=engineering' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Search for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on UCAS. Results are filtered by academic year and paginated.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number (0-indexed). |
| year | string | Academic year to filter by. Only years with published course data return results (currently '2025' and '2026'). |
| limit | integer | Number of results per page. |
| query | string | Search keyword for courses (e.g. 'engineering', 'medicine'). |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"hits": "array of course objects containing courseId, courseTitle, university, providerId, options, subjects, and more",
"page": "integer current page number",
"nbHits": "integer total number of matching courses",
"nbPages": "integer total number of pages"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"hits": [
{
"options": [
{
"duration": "4 Years",
"studyMode": "Full-time",
"Qualification": "BEng (Hon)",
"courseOptionId": "e94a467c-e5fc-4a54-a4d2-163318eda956"
}
],
"courseId": "f9631483-60d5-dbea-4593-4fb95ead77d5",
"providerId": "3a023828-8d77-ecfa-dc21-2708f721b788",
"university": "University of Aberdeen",
"courseTitle": "Engineering",
"academicYear": "2026",
"providerLocation": "Aberdeen"
}
],
"page": 0,
"nbHits": 1500,
"nbPages": 75
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the ucas.com API
The UCAS API exposes 7 endpoints covering UK undergraduate and postgraduate courses, apprenticeships, university and college profiles, editorial content, and scholarships from ucas.com. The search_courses endpoint returns paginated course objects including courseId, courseTitle, provider, subjects, and entry options, filterable by academic year (2025 or 2026). Companion endpoints deliver detailed fee and grade history per course, employer and salary data for apprenticeships, and structured scholarship details including deadline and eligibility.
Course and Provider Data
search_courses accepts a query keyword, a year parameter (currently '2025' or '2026'), and standard page/limit pagination controls. Each hit in the hits array includes courseId, courseTitle, university, providerId, options, and subjects. To drill into a specific course, pass the course_id UUID to get_course_details, which returns the full course object — including provider contacts, fees, and course options — alongside a historicGrades object containing grade distribution history (or null when unavailable). Provider-level data follows the same pattern: search_providers searches by name or address, and get_provider_details returns courseCount, options, open day event arrays, and provider profile objects for a given provider_id.
Apprenticeships and Scholarships
search_apprenticeships returns paginated listings with fields including Title, EmployerName, Location, Salary, and Duration — useful for building apprenticeship finders or salary-range comparisons. get_scholarship_details accepts a scholarship_id UUID and returns structured data via the scholarship_parsed field, covering scholarship name, value, deadline, nationality, study_level, and application details. The raw scholarship field also carries the full JSON-encoded payload for cases where additional unparsed attributes are needed.
Content Search
search_content queries UCAS articles and guides. Results can be narrowed to 'structure_content' or 'article' via the type parameter, and each hit exposes title, url, summary, type, and author. This is suitable for surfacing UCAS guidance content — finance guides, application tips, scholarship explainers — alongside course or provider results in a single interface.
- Build a UK course comparison tool using courseTitle, subjects, fees, and historicGrades from get_course_details.
- Populate an apprenticeship board with employer name, location, salary, and duration from search_apprenticeships.
- Create a university discovery feature filtering providers by region and surfacing open day dates from get_provider_details.
- Aggregate scholarship opportunities by study level, nationality, and deadline using get_scholarship_details.
- Display contextual UCAS guidance articles alongside course listings by querying search_content with a matching keyword.
- Track year-on-year course availability by comparing search_courses results across the 2025 and 2026 academic year parameters.
- Build an autocomplete provider search using search_providers full-text matching on university and college names.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
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