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EdTech data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract question corpuses, video solution links, concept tags, and exam mappings from Doubtnut. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Questions extracted
1.2M /day
Video links mapped
850K /24h
Subject tags
4.1M /run
Active pipelines
31
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from doubtnut.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Questions & Solutions objects from doubtnut.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

question_idocr_textsubjectclass_levelvideo_urlthumbnail_urllanguageis_answeredscraped_at
questions_& solutions
● 200 OK
"question_id": "DN_847192",
"ocr_text": "Find the derivative of sin(x^2) with respect to x.",
"subject": "Mathematics",
"class_level": "Class 12",
"video_url": "https://cdn.doubtnut.com/videos/847192.mp4",
"language": "English",
"is_answered": true
# question_idocr_textsubjectclass_levelvideo_urlthumbnail_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Exam Categorisation objects from doubtnut.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

question_idexam_nameexam_yeardifficulty_leveltopicsub_topicchapterweightageboard
exam_categorisation
● 200 OK
"question_id": "DN_847192",
"exam_name": "JEE Mains",
"exam_year": 2021,
"difficulty_level": "Medium",
"topic": "Calculus",
"chapter": "Differentiation",
"board": "CBSE"
# question_idexam_nameexam_yeardifficulty_leveltopicsub_topic
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Complete list of extractable fields for Textbook Solutions objects from doubtnut.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

book_nameauthorpublisherisbnchapter_nameexercise_namequestion_numberpage_numbersolution_textvideo_link
textbook_solutions
● 200 OK
"book_name": "Mathematics for Class 12",
"author": "R.D. Sharma",
"publisher": "Dhanpat Rai Publications",
"chapter_name": "Differentiation",
"exercise_name": "Exercise 11.1",
"question_number": "Q4",
"video_link": "https://cdn.doubtnut.com/videos/rd_11_1_4.mp4"
# book_nameauthorpublisherisbnchapter_nameexercise_name
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Complete list of extractable fields for Concept Videos objects from doubtnut.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

video_idtitledescriptionduration_secondsinstructor_namesubjecttagsviewsupload_date
concept_videos
● 200 OK
"video_id": "VID_9381",
"title": "Introduction to Chain Rule",
"duration_seconds": 420,
"subject": "Mathematics",
"tags": "['Calculus', 'Derivatives', 'Chain Rule']",
"views": 15420,
"upload_date": "2023-04-12T10:00:00Z"
# video_idtitledescriptionduration_secondsinstructor_namesubject
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Complete list of extractable fields for Subject Taxonomies objects from doubtnut.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

subject_idsubject_nameclass_levelboardtotal_chapterstotal_questionssyllabus_versionlanguageactive
subject_taxonomies
● 200 OK
"subject_id": "SUB_PHY_11",
"subject_name": "Physics",
"class_level": "Class 11",
"board": "ICSE",
"total_chapters": 15,
"total_questions": 8450,
"language": "English",
"active": true
# subject_idsubject_nameclass_levelboardtotal_chapterstotal_questions
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Doubtnut — nothing you don't

Our Doubtnut scraper handles the entire educational taxonomy: OCR question text, video solution links, exam mappings, and textbook categorisations — with API reverse engineering and CDN token management built in.

Question Text & OCR

Extract raw question text, mathematical formulas, and OCR representations from image-based doubt submissions.

Video Solution Mapping

Capture direct CDN links to video solutions, including duration, language, and instructor metadata.

Textbook Solution Extraction

Map questions to specific textbooks like NCERT or RD Sharma, including chapter, exercise, and page numbers.

Exam-Specific Tags

Extract categorisations for competitive exams such as JEE, NEET, and state board archives with historical year tags.

Subject & Concept Taxonomies

Reconstruct the full syllabus hierarchy from subject level down to specific micro-concepts and sub-topics.

Regional Language Content

Parse and store Hindi, English, and other regional language question variants with correct UTF-8 encoding.

API Reverse Engineering

Bypass web frontends and tap directly into Doubtnut's mobile APIs for structured, high-throughput extraction.

CDN Link Resolution

Resolve dynamic, tokenised video URLs into static, accessible links before delivery to your warehouse.

Scheduled Updates

Run continuous pipelines to capture newly uploaded questions, solutions, and concept videos at daily cadences.

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From syllabus to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide classes, subjects, textbooks, or exam categories. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure API interceptors, proxy rotation, and CDN token resolution for doubtnut.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and video link accessibility verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Doubtnut pipeline handles the hard parts

Doubtnut relies heavily on mobile APIs and dynamic media delivery. Here is how we maintain stable extraction.

pipeline-monitor · doubtnut.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
API interception
Mobile API reverse engineering

Doubtnut is a mobile-first platform. We bypass the web DOM entirely, reverse-engineering their mobile API endpoints to extract structured JSON payloads directly, reducing bandwidth and increasing pipeline stability.

Media handling
Dynamic Video CDN Resolution

Video solution URLs often use temporary CDN tokens. Our pipeline resolves these dynamic links and normalises them, ensuring the URLs delivered to your database remain accessible for your downstream applications.

Data normalisation
OCR Text Normalisation

Questions submitted via images contain raw OCR text with formatting artifacts. We clean and normalise mathematical symbols and regional language characters into standard UTF-8 strings.

Pagination
Infinite scroll handling

Subject and textbook pages use infinite scroll pagination. Our crawlers simulate the exact API cursor requests required to traverse entire categories without missing records or hitting rate limits.

Monitoring
Schema Drift Detection

EdTech platforms frequently update their API response structures. We monitor payload schemas in real time, alerting our engineers to structural changes before they corrupt your data warehouse.

Applications

Who uses Doubtnut data — and how

Teams across industries use doubtnut.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
LLM Training & Fine-Tuning

AI companies extract vast corpuses of question-answer pairs to fine-tune educational models and reasoning engines.

02
Competitive EdTech Intelligence

Rival platforms monitor syllabus coverage, question difficulty distributions, and video production velocity to benchmark their own offerings.

03
Content Gap Analysis

Curriculum designers analyse question banks to identify missing topics or under-represented concepts in their own study materials.

04
Question Bank Generation

Test-prep publishers aggregate categorised questions by exam type (JEE, NEET) to generate mock tests and practice papers.

05
Search Engine Indexing

Educational aggregators ingest structured question metadata to build vertical search engines for students.

06
Academic Research

Researchers analyse doubt-submission patterns to understand common student misconceptions across different boards and regions.

Why DataFlirt

"Doubtnut holds one of the largest vernacular question banks in India — but extracting structured video solutions requires reverse-engineering mobile-first APIs."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Doubtnut scraping demands mobile API interception, CDN token resolution, regional language encoding support, and daily schema maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis — not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Doubtnut scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our doubtnut.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Mobile API interception
Direct extraction from mobile backend endpoints for structured JSON data
Supported
Video CDN token resolution
Translates temporary media tokens into stable URLs
Supported
OCR text parsing
Captures raw OCR text from image-based question submissions
Supported
Regional language encoding
Full UTF-8 support for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and other regional texts
Supported
Exam taxonomy mapping
Maintains relationships between questions and specific exams (JEE, NEET)
Supported
Infinite scroll handling
Traverses deep pagination cursors for complete category extraction
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch for immediate downstream ingestion
Supported
Paid premium courses
Extraction of video content locked behind paid Doubtnut subscriptions
Partial
User doubt history
Access to a specific user's private doubt submission history
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Doubtnut pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
API-First Extraction

We prioritise direct API interception over DOM parsing. Scrapy handles the orchestration, request signing, and cursor pagination required to interface with Doubtnut's mobile backend.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across Indian regions. Rotation happens per-request to bypass rate limits and geographic content restrictions.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Legacy spreadsheet format for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
Queryable REST endpoints for on-demand data retrieval
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About doubtnut.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Doubtnut legal?

Scraping publicly available educational content is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated question banks, textbook mappings, and free video solutions. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls for paid courses. Clients should review Doubtnut's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

Can you extract the actual video files?

We extract the direct CDN URLs for the video solutions, along with metadata like duration and instructor. You can use these URLs to stream or download the video files in your own infrastructure. We do not host or deliver the raw MP4 files.

Do you support regional languages?

Yes. Our pipelines extract and store Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and other regional language strings with proper UTF-8 encoding, ensuring no character corruption in the final dataset.

How do you handle mathematical formulas?

Formulas are extracted exactly as Doubtnut represents them in their API payloads—typically as LaTeX strings or MathML. We pass these structures directly to your warehouse without altering the mathematical syntax.

Can I get all questions for a specific textbook like NCERT?

Yes. We can target specific textbook IDs or categories, extracting every chapter, exercise, and question mapped to that specific resource.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined subject or textbook list (typically 10,000-50,000 questions). For larger corpuses or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 1,000 questions or a specific textbook chapter as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=doubtnut.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a specific textbook's solutions or a continuous feed of JEE/NEET question banks — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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