Skool Community Finder

Search Skool and get back the communities, as rows.

Type a keyword, or pick a category and a price, and this returns one row per community: the URL, the name, how many members it has, what it costs, what it says about itself, whether it is private or public, and when it was created. No links needed. That is the point of it.

The awkward part first

Skool stops handing out results at 1,000 per search. Page 34 is the last one with anything on it. That is Skool's ceiling, not a setting here, and no amount of paging gets past it. If you want more than a thousand communities you need more than one search: several keywords, or a sweep across the nine categories, which is why the search box takes a list rather than a single word.

Sorting does nothing while you are searching. Set a keyword and an order together and Skool returns the same rows in the same order either way. The run drops the order and tells you it did, rather than leaving a control on screen that quietly does nothing. Order works when you browse a category without a keyword.

Private and public are two separate lists. Skool's discovery page shows private communities by default, and the public ones sit in a list it never mixes in. Neither list is a subset of the other: they share nothing. If you only ever browse the default view you have been looking at half of Skool.

How it relates to the other Skool Actor

This publisher ships a second Skool Actor, Skool Community Scraper (skool-group-scraper), and the two do opposite jobs:

	Skool Community Finder (this one)	Skool Community Scraper
What you give it	a keyword, or a category and a price	a list of community links
What it does	searches Skool for communities you have no link for	reads communities you already know about
What comes back	the listing record: url, name, members, price, description	the full about page: owner, rating, review count, admin/post/course counts

The natural order is this one first, then feed its communityUrl column into the other. This Actor deliberately stops at what the search listing carries. It does not open every community it finds, because opening 1,000 about pages to enrich a list you are still filtering is a bill nobody asked for.

What you put in

{
  "searchTerms": ["ai automation", "n8n", "make.com"],
  "price": "paid",
  "maxItems": 300
}

Or browse instead of searching:

{
  "category": "money",
  "price": "free",
  "communityType": "public",
  "sortBy": "top",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Up to 20 keywords, one per line. Each is searched separately and the results merged, so a community that matches three of them is returned once.
category	One of Skool's nine: hobbies, music, money, spirituality, tech, health, sports, self-improvement, relationships.
price	free, paid, or free-trial.
communityType	private or public. See above: they are different lists.
language	One of the 48 languages Skool tags communities with.
sortBy	trending or top. Browsing only.
maxItems	How many communities to return in total. This is your cost ceiling.

Leave everything empty and you get a single free sample row showing the output shape, and nothing is charged beyond the start fee.

A value Skool does not recognise stops the run before it makes a single request. That is deliberate and it is worth knowing why: a misspelled category is not rejected by Skool, it is answered with an empty page. Passing it through would show you "no communities found" for a category that is actually full. So the run refuses it up front and names the nine that exist.

What comes back

{
  "communityUrl": "https://www.skool.com/makerschool",
  "slug": "makerschool",
  "name": "Maker School",
  "description": "Learn to build software products with AI. Weekly live builds.",
  "memberCount": 12400,
  "isPaid": true,
  "priceLabel": "$97/month",
  "priceAmount": 97,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "monthlyPriceAmount": 97,
  "annualPriceAmount": null,
  "oneTimePriceAmount": null,
  "isPublic": false,
  "category": "tech",
  "language": null,
  "matchedTerm": "ai automation",
  "discoveryRank": 3,
  "discoveryPage": 1,
  "logoUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/…/logo.jpg",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/…/cover-md.jpg",
  "brandColor": "#1B5EF5",
  "groupId": "c6c02cc8a1264ebebe527f744c50ebe9",
  "createdAt": "2023-04-11T09:12:03.410000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-20T16:43:04.888821Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T19:44:02.118Z"
}

How often each field is actually there, counted over 540 communities pulled across six different searches:

Field	Present
name, description, memberCount, brandColor	540 of 540
coverImageUrl	538 of 540
logoUrl	536 of 540
a price of some kind, on paid communities	331 of 540. The rest are free, and carry no price at all

priceInterval is month, year or one_time. A community with no price is isPaid: false and priceLabel: "Free", read off the record rather than guessed from the filter you used.

category and language are filled in only when you filtered by them. The listing row itself carries neither, so writing anything there on an unfiltered search would be inventing it.

Does the filtering actually filter?

Worth asking, because plenty of search APIs accept a filter, ignore it, and hand back everything. These were each checked by running the same search with and without the filter and comparing the communities that came back:

• Category is a clean split. All nine compared against each other, 36 pairs, and not one community appeared in two categories. Still true at page 1, page 10 and page 34.
• Price holds. 180 communities pulled under "free", and every one had no price. 180 under "paid", every one had a price.
• Private and public share nothing. 30 each, zero overlap.
• Language moves the list. Spanish shares 3 of 30 with the default; German shares none.
• Keywords match the text. The word appeared in the name, slug or description of 89 of the 90 communities checked.

Two of those (price and private/public) leave a mark on the row itself, so every row is checked against them before you are billed. Anything that comes back not matching is dropped and not charged. Category, language and free-trial leave nothing on the row to check against, so those are Skool's answer passed through. The table above is the evidence for them, not a promise that a second check happens.

What this does not do

• It does not go past 1,000 results for one search. Skool's limit.
• It does not open the communities it finds. No owner name, no email, no rating, no review count, no post or course counts. Those live on the about page, which the companion Actor reads.
• It does not collect people. No member lists, no reviews, no profiles, no emails. The search listing carries none of that and nothing here goes looking for it.
• It does not log in. Everything here is what a signed-out visitor sees, so anything Skool hides from the public is hidden from this too.
• It cannot tell you which category an unfiltered result belongs to. Skool does not put the category on the row. Filter by one and the answer is known; otherwise the field is empty.
• It does not verify the free-trial filter. Skool has no trial marker on the row to check.
• It does not sort search results. Skool ignores order while searching. Browse instead.

What it costs you

$2.80 per 1,000 communities, plus a $0.00015 start fee per run. Flat on every plan, with no volume tiers, no minimum, no subscription. You are billed once per community returned, and nothing else bills:

• the sample row an empty run gives you: free
• a search Skool has nothing for: free, and it costs one request to find out
• a refused filter value: free, and zero requests
• a community dropped for not matching your filters: free
• any run that fails, times out or gets refused: free

So a search that finds nothing costs you $0.00015 and nothing more. A 45-community run is about 13 cents; a full 1,000-community sweep of one category is $2.80.

Speed

A 45-community run takes 2 requests and about 3 seconds. Skool serves 30 communities per page, so the request count is roughly maxItems / 30 plus one. A full 1,000-community sweep of one category is 34 requests.

FAQ

Can I search Skool without an account? Yes. This reads Skool's public discovery listing. No login, no cookie, no API key.

How do I find every community in a category? Set category, leave searchTerms empty, and set maxItems to 1000. That is the whole category as far as Skool will hand it over.

How do I find free Skool communities? Set price to free. Add a category or a keyword to narrow it.

Why do I get different communities than I see on skool.com? Most likely you are looking at the default view, which is private communities. Set communityType to public to see the other list.

Can I get the owner's email or the community's rating? Not from this one. The search listing does not carry them. Run the companion Skool Community Scraper over the communityUrl column for that.

Why did my run return nothing? Either Skool genuinely has nothing for that search, in which case the dataset holds a row saying so, or a filter value was not one Skool recognises, in which case the row names the values that are. Both are free.

Is the member count live? It is what Skool's listing said at the moment of the run, and scrapedAt records when that was.

How many communities can I get in one run? Up to 5,000, but no single search goes past 1,000, so reaching the higher numbers means several search terms or several categories.