🚀 I Built a Chrome Extension That Automates Entire Coursera Courses
If you have ever taken a course on Coursera, you know the routine.
Play a video. Wait. Click next. Open a reading. Mark it complete. Start a quiz. Repeat
After a while, it doesn’t feel like learning — it feels like doing the same actions again and again.
So I decided to build something for it.
💡 The Idea
I didn’t want a small automation script.
I needed a tool that could manage a whole course from beginning to end. I wanted it to work without needing me to intervene all the time.
Something that could:
- 1. Navigate through lessons without manual input.
- 2. Handle videos, readings, and quizzes
- 3. And continue running without breaking
A one-click autopilot specifically designed for managing courses.
⚙️ What It Does?
Once you start it, the extension takes over.
- 🎬 Plays videos with automatic playback and speed control.
- ⏭ Moves to the next lesson when done
- 📖 Marks readings as complete
- 🧠 Solves quizzes using AI
- 🔁 Keeps progressing until the course is finished
You don’t need to keep clicking anything.
🧠 AI Quiz Solving
This was the most interesting part to build.
The extension:
- Extracts questions directly from the page
- Sends them to AI (Claude or ChatGPT)
- Parses the response
- Fills answers automatically
You can also use it more safely:
- Fill in answers only
- Review them yourself before submitting
🧩 The Real Challenge
Automation sounds simple, but real websites are messy.
Things break easily
- Videos pause randomly
- Buttons change behavior
- Quizzes have different formats
- Pages don’t always load the same way
The goal wasn’t just automation — it was making it stable.
So a lot of effort went into:
- Detecting what is happening on the page
- Handling edge cases
- Preventing loops and failures
- Keeping everything running smoothly
🔄 How I Approached It?
Instead of treating everything differently, I simplified the logic.
Every step in a course is just one of these:
- Video
- Reading
- Quiz
So the system keeps checking:
> “What type of page is this, and what should I do next?”
That made the whole flow predictable and easier to control.
⚡ Why I Built This?
Mainly to remove friction
When something is repetitive, it kills momentum.
This tool doesn’t skip learning. Instead, it cuts out pointless manual tasks.
## 💭 Final Thoughts
This project ended up being more than I expected.
It wasn’t just about automation, but about:
- Building something that runs continuously
- Handling real-world unpredictability
- Integrating AI in a practical way
And the primary goal is to create something genuinely useful.
## 🔗 Project Link
If you want to check it out or try it
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