📚 Skool Scraper Pro

Extract structured data from any Skool community course lessons, videos, resources, the community post feed, comment threads, and even discover new communities by category or keyword all from one actor, organized and ready to use.

Perfect for educators, community owners, researchers, and growth/marketing teams who need to archive course content, monitor community activity, analyze engagement, or find new communities to join or study.

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🧩 Four Independent Sections

The actor is organized into four sections. Fill in only the one(s) relevant to what you want this run to do you don't need to touch the others.

Section	What it does
📚 Courses & Classroom	Extract a community's courses, lessons, videos, and resources or its full post feed
💬 Comments	Pull a specific post's full content plus its comment thread
🔍 Discover Communities	Browse or search skool.com/discovery to find communities by category, keyword, or filtered URL
🔐 Authentication	Optional browser cookies, shared by every section above that needs it

A typical workflow spans separate runs: use 🔍 Discover Communities to find a community → 📚 Courses & Classroom to extract its content → copy a post's URL from the results → 💬 Comments to pull that post's comment thread.

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🚀 Key Benefits & Use Cases

📚 For Educators & Community Owners

• Archive your full course library lessons, descriptions, videos, and resources
• Download every video hosted on Skool as an MP4 file, always at the best quality available
• Back up post content, attachments, and PDF handouts before they disappear
• Extract your community's entire post feed (the "wall"), not just classroom content

💼 For Researchers & Analysts

• Pull a post's full comment thread, including nested replies, upvotes, and pinned comments
• Extract poll results and engagement data (upvotes, comment counts) from posts
• Build structured databases from classroom content or community activity

📈 For Growth & Marketing Teams

• Discover new Skool communities by category, keyword, or price/language filters
• Monitor a competitor's or partner's community feed for new posts and activity
• Research community size, pricing, and engagement before reaching out or joining

🎯 For Content Teams

• Bulk-export lesson descriptions and resource links for repurposing
• Download all post attachments (images, PDFs) in one automated run
• Get direct download links for every video click to save the MP4 instantly

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⚙️ Section 1 📚 Courses & Classroom

Input: communityUrls

Accepts a bare community URL or its /classroom page, plus anything nested under classroom. What gets extracted is detected automatically from the URL shape:

URL Format	What it does
skool.com/community (bare)	Full classroom or the feed instead, if extractCommunityFeed is on
skool.com/community/classroom	Full classroom (all accessible courses)
skool.com/community/classroom/courseId	One specific course
skool.com/community/classroom/courseId?md=lessonId	One specific lesson

You can mix multiple URLs of different types (and different communities) in a single run.

{
  "communityUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/classroom" },
    { "url": "https://www.skool.com/my-community" }
  ],
  "extractCommunityFeed": true
}

🧵 Feed mode

A bare community URL with extractCommunityFeed on pulls the community's post feed (the "wall") instead of courses/lessons. Feed mode respects the exact sort/filter/page you paste in the URL itself e.g. ?c=&s=newest&fl=unr&p=5 starts from page 5, sorted newest, filtered to unread. A plain bare URL with no query string pulls Skool's default feed order.

maxItemsPerSection (Integer, default 10)

One field, two meanings depending on mode:

• Course/Classroom mode: maximum lessons to pull from each course every course gets its own budget, so a classroom with several courses returns this number times the course count, not this number in total.
• Feed mode: maximum total posts to pull from the community wall a plain bare URL with no sort override can mean tens of thousands of posts, so this is what keeps a quick preview run from turning into an hours-long pull.

Set high (up to 100000) to extract everything either way.

skipLockedCourses (Boolean, default true)

Skip courses that require a membership level or VIP access you don't have. Turn off only if your credentials already unlock that content.

Download options

Field	Default	What it does
downloadResources	false	Downloads images/documents from each lesson's resources panel (links like YouTube are skipped only actual files)
downloadVideos	false	Downloads every hosted-on-Skool video as an MP4, always at the best quality available
downloadAttachments*	false	Downloads images/documents attached to posts

* downloadAttachments is a shared toggle it's configured once (in the Comments section below) and applies to lesson posts here too.

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⚙️ Section 2 💬 Comments

Input: postUrls

Direct post URLs only either shape Skool itself uses:

• skool.com/community/postName
• skool.com/community/post/postName

Often copied straight from a Courses & Classroom run's results.

{
  "postUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/weekly-wins-recap" }
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 200
}

maxCommentsPerPost (Integer, default 100)

Cap on comments plus replies extracted per post, combined.

• Set to 0 to skip comments entirely you get just the post itself, no comment field.
• Set high (or to the post's total comment count) to get everything.

Output shape

• No comments fetched (cap is 0, or the post has none): one row, the post's own fields, type: "post".
• Comments fetched: one row per comment each row carries the post's full fields (repeated) plus that single comment nested under comment, type: "comment". This means a post with 500 comments produces 500 rows, each self-contained and independently usable, rather than one giant combined row.

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⚙️ Section 3 🔍 Discover Communities

Three independent ways to search use any combination in the same run:

Input	What it does
discoveryUrls	Paste a full skool.com/discovery?... URL copied from your browser after applying filters
categorySearches	Browse a category (Hobbies, Music, Money, Tech, Health, Sports, Self-improvement, Relationships, etc.) with Price/Visibility/Language/Sort filters
keywordSearches	Search by keyword, like typing into the Discovery search bar

{
  "keywordSearches": [
    { "keyword": "automation", "price": "free" }
  ],
  "discoveryMaxResults": 30
}

discoveryMaxResults (Integer, default 30)

Maximum communities returned per search (per Discovery URL, per category search, per keyword search not a combined total). Set to 0 for unlimited use with caution, as some categories return thousands of results.

Output

Each discovered community includes its slug, URL, display name, description, member count, membership/pricing info, and logo ready to feed into Courses & Classroom on a later run.

ℹ️ This section works without providing any credentials below Discovery normally challenges anonymous requests, but the actor handles that automatically.

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⚙️ Section 4 🔐 Authentication

Needed for private/level-gated content, or if you want Comments/Courses requests to run under your own account rather than anonymously.

Method	How to use	Gets you
Browser Cookies	Paste your exported cookies	Everything your account can see
None	Leave blank	Public content only

🔄 Direct sign-in is temporarily paused. Skool changed how its sign-in endpoint works, so this actor authenticates with a browser cookie for now. It takes about a minute to set up (steps below) and one cookie lasts roughly a year. We're working on restoring one-step sign-in and will bring it back once it's reliable.

🔓 What you get without authentication

Public lessons still return their title, course, section, position and dates — but Skool serves the body of a lesson only to members. Without a cookie you will see empty resources, no lessonVideo, and no description images. If files and videos are why you're here, supply a cookie.

🔒 Credential Security

cookies is marked as a secret input on the Apify platform encrypted at rest the moment you save it, decrypted only inside the actor's own execution environment, and never written to logs or shown in the Console. If accessed directly from storage, only ciphertext is visible. Nothing here is specific to this actor it's the same protection Apify applies to every secret input field, isolated per user and per actor.

🍪 How to get your cookie

1. Install the Cookie-Editor extension (Chrome) or equivalent for Firefox
2. Log in to skool.com and open your community
3. Open the extension → click Export
4. Copy the JSON and paste it into the cookies field

Only the auth_token cookie actually matters — exporting everything is simply easier than hunting for it.

🔁 Skool issues that cookie with about a one-year lifetime, so in practice you paste it once and forget about it. If extraction starts failing on content that used to work, export a fresh one and re-run.

🔒 What happens with locked/private content

If a post or community genuinely requires membership you don't have, the actor returns a clear, immediate error explaining that authentication or membership is required rather than hanging, retrying forever, or silently returning nothing.

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♻️ Reliability

• Resumable runs: if a run is interrupted a platform restart, a timeout, or you stopping it yourself starting it again picks up close to where it left off instead of starting over from scratch. This applies across every section: classroom/lesson progress, feed pagination, and comment-thread pagination are all checkpointed as the run goes.
• Automatic handling of temporary blocks: occasional anonymous-request blocks are retried automatically before any error is surfaced to you.

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💵 Pricing

You pay per result, not per minute — nothing is charged for the actor thinking, waiting, or retrying. Every charge is tied to something delivered, and anything that fails or returns nothing is not charged at all.

You get	You pay (Free plan)	Per 1,000
A lesson	$0.0100	$10.00
A community feed post	$0.0050	$5.00
A comment	$0.0012	$1.20
A discovered community	$0.0060	$6.00
A downloaded file (PDF, template, image)	$0.0025	$2.50
A Skool-hosted video passed to the downloader	$0.0080	—
Starting the actor	$0.0080	—

Prices drop by roughly 3.5× on paid Apify plans — a lesson costs $0.0028 and a comment $0.00034 at the top tier.

What a real run costs

Run	Free plan	Top tier
One lesson with 8 attached templates	$0.038	$0.011
A 25-lesson course with files and videos	$0.53	$0.15
1,000 comments from one post	$1.21	$0.34
500 community feed posts	$2.51	$0.70
100 discovered communities	$0.61	$0.17

Nothing is charged as a bundle

A lesson with no attachments costs one lesson charge. A lesson with fourteen PDFs costs one lesson charge plus fourteen file charges — you pay for what actually arrives. Files that fail to download, external links that aren't files, and videos embedded from YouTube or Loom are never charged.

Videos

Skool-hosted videos are fetched by a separate download service, which bills you for the download itself. The charge above covers only stream resolution and quality selection on this side. All in, an 85 MB 1080p lesson video works out to roughly 1.7¢ on the Free plan. Videos embedded from YouTube, Loom or Vimeo are returned as metadata and cost nothing extra.

Setting a limit

Use Maximum cost per run to cap any run. The limit is applied before extraction starts: the actor works out how much your budget covers and scales the run down to fit, rather than starting work it cannot finish. If the cap is too small for even one result, the run ends cleanly and tells you — it doesn't fail or charge you.

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📊 Sample Output

All rows share one dataset, distinguished by a type field. Use the Output tab's view switcher to see each kind on its own.

Lesson (Courses & Classroom)

{
  "type": "lesson",
  "extractedAt": "2026-07-05T04:25:30.228Z",
  "community": "my-community",
  "communityUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community",
  "course": "✅ Start Here",
  "courseShortId": "7ddee36d",
  "section": "",
  "lesson": "Who am I? 🤔",
  "lessonId": "614723a946d645b6bef3145d391ecf24",
  "lessonUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/classroom/7ddee36d?md=614723a9...",
  "position": 1,
  "descriptionText": "",
  "hostedVideo": {
    "source": "mux",
    "playbackUrl": "https://stream.mux.com/PLAYBACK_ID.m3u8?token=JWT",
    "durationMs": 286668,
    "aspectRatio": "3:2",
    "status": "ready",
    "fileSizeHuman": "81.2 MB",
    "downloadUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/video-lesson-614723a9.mp4?signature=...",
    "direct_download": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/video-lesson-614723a9.mp4?signature=...&attachment=true"
  },
  "resources": [],
  "post": {
    "postId": "5b00705d9cf54ae7ae9273a64cffb9b7",
    "title": "Who am I?",
    "author": { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe", "fullName": "John Doe" },
    "content": "...",
    "attachments": [],
    "upvotes": 15,
    "commentsCount": 7
  }
}

Feed post (Courses & Classroom → Feed mode)

{
  "type": "feedPost",
  "postId": "87a8f93ae3ef4cbc985a8c7d9ed03760",
  "postUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/post/weekly-wins-recap",
  "title": "🏆 Weekly Wins Recap",
  "author": { "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Smith", "fullName": "Jane Smith" },
  "content": "...",
  "attachments": [],
  "upvotes": 106,
  "commentsCount": 123,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-03T20:40:01.291033Z"
}

Post with a comment thread (Comments)

{
  "type": "comment",
  "postId": "139cd2fa361e409e81b767a0fed3b9ec",
  "postUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/post/please-read-rules",
  "title": "Please Read | Rules and Guidelines",
  "author": { "firstName": "Nate", "lastName": "Herk", "fullName": "Nate Herk" },
  "content": "...",
  "upvotes": 4926,
  "commentsCount": 2806,
  "comment": [
    {
      "commentId": "5141d15868d14cb6b438f83c213b0975",
      "depth": 0,
      "content": "Thank you!",
      "upvotes": 54,
      "pinned": false,
      "author": { "firstName": "Abdelhakim", "lastName": "Abdessemed", "fullName": "Abdelhakim Abdessemed" },
      "createdAt": "2024-10-23T17:22:13.113714Z"
    }
  ]
}

Discovered community (Discover Communities)

{
  "type": "community",
  "source": "keywordSearch",
  "communitySlug": "makerschool",
  "communityUrl": "https://www.skool.com/makerschool",
  "displayName": "Maker School: AI Automation",
  "description": "Get your first client for an AI automation business in 90 days...",
  "totalMembers": 2074,
  "membershipModel": 2,
  "displayPrice": { "currency": "usd", "amount": 5700, "recurringInterval": "month" },
  "logoUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/..."
}

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💾 Key-Value Store

When download options are enabled, files are saved to the actor's Key-Value Store organized by type:

Key prefix	Contents	Trigger
image-{id}.{ext}	JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, BMP, TIFF	downloadAttachments or downloadResources
doc-{id}.{ext}	PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, TXT, JSON, XML	downloadAttachments or downloadResources
video-lesson-{id}.mp4 / video-post-{id}.mp4	Hosted video files	downloadVideos

Each downloaded file is referenced by a kvKey (or downloadUrl/direct_download for videos) on its parent row in the dataset, so you can always trace a file back to its source.

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