italki Teacher & Tutor Directory Scraper

Scrape the complete italki language-teacher marketplace — extract teacher profiles including pricing, ratings, lesson history, teaching languages, and spoken languages across 150+ languages.

What it does

italki is the world's largest online language-tutor marketplace. This actor fetches teacher directory pages at https://www.italki.com/en/teachers/<language>, extracts the full server-side rendered profile data embedded in each page's __NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob, and saves structured records to a dataset.

No JavaScript rendering required — italki embeds complete teacher data in the HTML response, so every fetch is a lightweight HTTP request.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
teacher_id	integer	Unique italki user ID
nickname	string	Teacher display name
native_language	string	Teacher's native language (e.g. english, chinese)
country	string	Origin country ISO code (e.g. AU, US, CN)
teaching_languages	string	Comma-separated languages taught
languages_spoken	string	Comma-separated additional spoken languages
session_price_usd	number	Per-session price in USD
trial_price_usd	number	Trial lesson price in USD (null if no trial)
avg_rating	number	Overall rating (0.0–5.0)
lesson_count	integer	Total lessons completed
student_count	integer	Total students
profile_url	string	Direct URL to the teacher's italki profile
intro_video_url	string	YouTube embed URL for the teacher's introduction video
tags	string	Comma-separated specialty tags

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
language	string	english	Language to scrape teachers for (e.g. english, spanish, japanese). Leave empty to scrape all 341 available languages.
maxItems	integer	—	Maximum number of teacher records to return.

Example: scrape English teachers

{
  "language": "english",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example: scrape all languages

Leave language empty to discover all 341 available languages from the italki directory and paginate through each one. The actor deduplicates teachers who teach multiple languages.

{
  "maxItems": 10000
}

Use cases

• Lead generation — build outreach lists of qualified language tutors
• Competitive pricing analysis — track session and trial prices across languages and countries
• Market research — analyze teacher supply by language, country, and rating tier
• Content aggregation — monitor teaching language availability and tutor profiles

Notes

• Prices are shown in USD (italki stores them in cents internally; this actor converts automatically)
• Teachers who teach multiple languages appear once per language page; the actor deduplicates by teacher_id within a single run
• The italki directory is server-side rendered — no browser or JavaScript execution required
• Datacenter proxies are sufficient; no Cloudflare or bot protection detected on directory pages