This article outlines how admins can find the course ID for a course in Udemy Business. While there are a variety of ways to find the course ID, below are a few simple methods to do this.
Method 1: Download the Course List
One method to find course IDs is to download your Udemy Business Course Catalog which will include the course ID in the full catalog export. Note that you must be a Udemy Business admin to do this method.
The course ID will be available in the first column titled “id” next to the title. If you are looking for a particular course ID and know the title, you can search for the title of the course and find the corresponding course ID next to it.
- Learn how to export courses from your own Udemy Business catalog.
Please note:
- You can find the course ID in other downloaded reports as well such as User Course Activity. However, the course IDs will only populate for courses where there is associated learning data. Thus, the full course list export ensures you’ll get all the course IDs for all courses regardless of whether there is learning data for those courses.
Method 2: Find it in the HTML
You can also find the course ID by inspecting the HTML from the course landing page:
1. From the course landing page that you wish to find the course ID for navigate into your browser tools. In Chrome you can do this by right clicking on the page and then clicking Inspect.
2. Towards the very top of the HTML elements in the body section you will find the course_id:
Method 3: Find the course ID in API responses
If you have the Udemy Business API enabled and have a tool like Postman to make sample requests to the Udemy Business API you will see the course ID returned in various Udemy Business API endpoint responses.
Please note:
- In your browser URL bar you can paste the course ID immediately after https://www.{{your_subdomain}}.udemy.com/ in the address bar for your Udemy Business account, and you will be taken directly to that course landing page. You can also navigate to the course at Udemy.com by adding the course ID to the end of the following URL: https://www.udemy.com/.
For example, pasting the following into your URL address bar:
Takes you directly to that course landing page: