🚀I Built a Chrome Extension That Runs Entire Coursera Courses on Autopilot

🚀 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

👉 Coursera Automation Tool