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RUN · 42 active pipelines · idp.com live

Global education data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract university rankings, course requirements, tuition fees, and IELTS schedules from IDP. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Courses extracted
842,194 /run
Universities tracked
5,214 /day
IELTS schedules
12,403 /24h
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.96%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from idp.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Course Catalogues objects from idp.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

course_idcourse_nameinstitution_namedegree_levelduration_monthstuition_feecurrencyintake_monthsstudy_modeielts_requirementcampus_locationurl
course_catalogues
● 200 OK
"course_id": "CRS-89214",
"course_name": "Master of Data Science",
"institution_name": "University of Melbourne",
"degree_level": "Postgraduate",
"duration_months": 24,
"tuition_fee": 45000.0,
"currency": "AUD",
"ielts_requirement": 6.5
# course_idcourse_nameinstitution_namedegree_levelduration_monthstuition_fee
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Complete list of extractable fields for University Profiles objects from idp.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

institution_idinstitution_nameglobal_rankcountrytotal_studentsinternational_studentsacceptance_ratecampus_facilitieswebsite_urldescriptionscraped_at
university_profiles
● 200 OK
"institution_id": "UNI-1042",
"institution_name": "University of Melbourne",
"global_rank": 33,
"country": "Australia",
"total_students": 52000,
"international_students": 21000,
"acceptance_rate": 70.0,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# institution_idinstitution_nameglobal_rankcountrytotal_studentsinternational_students
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Complete list of extractable fields for Scholarships objects from idp.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

scholarship_idscholarship_nameinstitution_namecoverage_amountcurrencyeligibility_criteriaapplication_deadlinedegree_leveltarget_demographicapplication_link
scholarships
● 200 OK
"scholarship_id": "SCH-4921",
"scholarship_name": "Global Excellence Scholarship",
"institution_name": "University of Western Australia",
"coverage_amount": 12000.0,
"currency": "AUD",
"application_deadline": "2026-10-31",
"degree_level": "Undergraduate",
"target_demographic": "International"
# scholarship_idscholarship_nameinstitution_namecoverage_amountcurrencyeligibility_criteria
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Complete list of extractable fields for IELTS Test Centres objects from idp.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

centre_idcentre_namecitycountryaddresstest_typeavailable_datestest_feecurrencybooking_statuscontact_number
ielts_test centres
● 200 OK
"centre_id": "IELTS-BLR-01",
"centre_name": "IDP IELTS Test Centre Bengaluru",
"city": "Bengaluru",
"country": "India",
"test_type": "Academic",
"test_fee": 16250.0,
"currency": "INR",
"booking_status": "Available"
# centre_idcentre_namecitycountryaddresstest_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Intake Deadlines objects from idp.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

intake_idinstitution_namecourse_nametermapplication_deadlinedocument_deadlineorientation_datestart_dateseat_availabilitylast_updated
intake_deadlines
● 200 OK
"intake_id": "INT-2026-S1",
"institution_name": "University of Sydney",
"course_name": "Bachelor of Commerce",
"term": "Semester 1",
"application_deadline": "2026-01-15",
"start_date": "2026-02-24",
"seat_availability": "Limited",
"last_updated": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# intake_idinstitution_namecourse_nametermapplication_deadlinedocument_deadline
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Capabilities

Everything you need from IDP - nothing you do not

Our IDP scraper handles every layer of the platform: university directories, dynamic course searches, scholarship databases, and IELTS schedules - with JavaScript rendering, session management, and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Course Catalogue Extraction

Degree level, duration, tuition fees, study mode, and entry requirements - scraped at the course level with institution mapping.

Multi-Currency Standardisation

Extract localized tuition fees and standardise them into your preferred base currency using real-time exchange rates.

IELTS Schedule Tracking

Monitor test centre availability, exam dates, and booking statuses across global IDP testing locations.

Scholarship & Grant Mining

Capture scholarship names, coverage amounts, eligibility criteria, and deadlines across all listed universities.

Ranking Aggregation

Extract global and subject-specific university rankings as displayed on IDP institution profiles.

Intake & Deadline Monitoring

Track application deadlines, semester start dates, and seat availability for upcoming academic terms.

Regional Geo-Targeting

Spoof IP addresses to access region-specific IDP portals and extract localised course offerings and fee structures.

Event & Webinar Scraping

Monitor IDP physical events, virtual fairs, and university delegate schedules.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or real-time cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From IDP search parameters to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target countries, study levels, or institution lists. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for idp.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, fee-outlier detection, and sample courses 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 IDP pipeline handles the hard parts

IDP uses dynamic rendering and geo-blocking to serve localised content. Here is how we stay resilient - and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · idp.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
Geo-blocking
Residential proxy rotation for localised data

IDP serves different courses, fees, and requirements based on the user's geographic location. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies to spoof regional IPs, ensuring you extract the exact data presented to students in specific source markets.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic search

IDP course searches and IELTS booking interfaces rely heavily on client-side rendering. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute JavaScript, handle pagination, and interact with dynamic filters that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Data standardisation
Currency and metric normalisation

Tuition fees and living costs are displayed in various local currencies. Our pipeline extracts the raw values and applies standardisation logic, delivering clean, comparable numerical data to your warehouse.

Change detection
Only re-scrape changed intakes

For large course catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs - reducing compute cost, storage bloat, and downstream processing load. You get a clean changelog rather than full re-dumps.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, fee outliers, schema drift, and coverage drops - and respond before you notice. SLA uptime is contractual, not aspirational.

Applications

Who uses IDP data - and how

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

01
Competitor Benchmarking

Universities track peer institution fees, entry requirements, and new course launches to maintain competitive positioning.

02
EdTech Aggregation

Education portals syndicate course catalogues and scholarship data to enrich their own student-facing search engines.

03
Student Finance & Loans

Financial institutions assess tuition fee structures and living costs to design targeted student loan products.

04
Market Expansion Analysis

Higher education strategy teams identify trending study destinations and popular course categories to plan new campus locations.

05
Test Prep Services

Language academies track IELTS test centre availability and demand spikes to optimise their coaching schedules.

06
Policy & Visa Research

Immigration agencies monitor international student intake volumes and course durations to forecast visa application trends.

Why DataFlirt

"IDP aggregates the largest global database of international study options - but extracting standardised fee and intake data requires a dedicated pipeline."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of scraping global education portals: reliable IDP extraction requires handling heavy geo-localisation, dynamic search APIs, multi-currency normalisation, and constant DOM shifts. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis - not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

IDP scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions - required for dynamic search filters and IELTS schedules
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs for accurate geo-targeted scraping
Supported
Multi-currency standardisation
Extraction of local currencies with optional base currency mapping
Supported
IELTS schedule tracking
Real-time extraction of test centre dates and availability
Supported
Course intake diffing
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed deadlines since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch - useful for real-time alerting
Supported
Pagination handling
Automated traversal of deep search results and course lists
Supported
Student application status
Gated data requires authenticated user credentials
Partial
Personalised counselling notes
Private session data restricted to authenticated accounts
Partial
IELTS test scores
Individual candidate results behind authentication walls
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the IDP pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusFastAPITerraform
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

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
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets
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
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping IDP legal?

Scraping publicly available information from IDP is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated course, university, and IELTS schedule data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review IDP's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle regional variations in IDP data?

We use residential ISP proxies to route requests through specific countries. This ensures we capture the exact tuition fees, entry requirements, and course availability presented to students in your target demographic.

Can you extract data for specific study levels or disciplines?

Yes. We configure pipelines to target specific search parameters, such as postgraduate engineering courses in the UK, or undergraduate business degrees in Australia.

How fresh is the IELTS schedule data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for IELTS test centre availability and booking status updates.

Do you standardise tuition fees across different currencies?

Yes. Our extraction schema captures the raw local currency value and can map it to a standard base currency using historical or real-time exchange rates, depending on your requirements.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined institution list (typically 100-500 universities) with weekly delivery. For global catalogue refreshes, 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 50 university profiles or 500 course listings as part of the pre-engagement scoping process - so you can validate schema fit, field completeness, and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=idp.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 one-off university directory dump or a continuous course-monitoring feed across 800K listings - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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