specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Coursera
providerId: coursera
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Catalog
- MOOC
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Specific Catalog API rate limits are not publicly documented. Standard HTTP 429 throttling
  applies.
notes: Implement caching and exponential backoff when polling the catalog.
sources:
- https://building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default Catalog API
  scope: ip
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Cache results; respect 429.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com