Skool Community Stats Scraper

Skool Community Stats Scraper extracts the public statistics a Skool community publishes on its own page and returns one flat, typed row per community — members, members online now, posts, admins, rules, courses, modules, membership price and interval, plan, affiliate percentage, review count and average rating. You name the communities; you get back a spreadsheet.

The source is skool.com/<community>, the community's own public page. It needs no login, no API key and no membership. This Actor reads that page and normalises the community record embedded in it.

Key features

Feature	Detail
Input	community slugs or full URLs — calligraphy or https://www.skool.com/calligraphy
Size and activity	members, online now, admins, posts, rules
Content depth	courses and modules published inside the community
Money	membership price amount, currency and billing interval, plus the community's Skool plan
Social proof	review count and average rating
Incremental runs	onlyChangedSinceLastRun is on by default — a repeat run bills only for communities that moved
Pre-charge filters	minimum-members and paid-only filters run before billing, so filtering lowers your cost
No personal data	owner and review-author records are deliberately not read and not returned
Output	one row per community, flat and typed — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

Skool community stats scraper: how it works

1. Normalise the community. A slug, a skool.com/... URL, or a URL with a trailing path all resolve to the same community. Reserved paths such as discovery are refused rather than treated as communities.
2. Read the public page. One request per community. The community record is embedded in the page itself, so nothing is inferred and no membership is required.
3. Build the record, and leave the people out. The page also carries an owner object and review-author user records, and those carry personal fields including e-mail addresses. None of them is read. owner and createdBy are dropped for the same reason — a community-statistics product has no need of an individual's identity.
4. Filter, then charge, then deliver. Filters run first so you are never billed for rows a filter discards. Charges are applied before records are handed over and delivery is truncated to whatever your budget allowed.

Tutorial

1. Open the Actor and list your communities in Skool communities. The prefilled example reads calligraphy and new-society.
2. Leave Only communities whose numbers changed since your last run switched on. It is on by default and it is what makes a scheduled run cheap.
3. Optionally set Only communities with at least this many members, or switch on Only paid communities to skip free ones before you are charged for them.
4. Click Start. A handful of communities finishes in seconds.
5. Open the Storage tab and export to CSV or Excel, or read the same rows from the dataset API.
6. To track growth, open Schedules and run it daily. Each run returns the communities whose members, posts, courses, reviews, rating or price actually moved.

Input

The minimum input is a list of communities. Everything else has a working default.

{
  "communities": ["calligraphy", "new-society"],
  "onlyChangedSinceLastRun": true,
  "minMembers": 0,
  "paidOnly": false,
  "includeDescription": true
}

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
communities	array of string	—	Community slugs or full Skool URLs. Required.
onlyChangedSinceLastRun	boolean	true	Return only communities whose numbers moved since your last run. On by default.
minMembers	integer	0	Skip communities smaller than this. Filters before charging.
paidOnly	boolean	false	Keep only communities that publish a price. Filters before charging.
includeDescription	boolean	true	Attach the community description. Does not change what you are charged.

Output

One row per community. The block below is a row this Actor actually wrote, copied byte for byte out of the dataset of run 6f0X95Ohw6wKICYFo (2026-09-04), whose input was {"communities":["calligraphy"],"onlyChangedSinceLastRun":false,"minMembers":0,"paidOnly":false,"includeDescription":false}. Nothing in it is edited, elided or illustrative.

{
  "communitySlug": "calligraphy",
  "communityId": "37a997125c1a4a7aa2ecbf73c79e8468",
  "displayName": "Calligraphy Skool",
  "url": "https://www.skool.com/calligraphy",
  "priceAmount": 9,
  "priceAmountMinor": 900,
  "priceCurrency": "usd",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "recurringInterval": "year",
  "membershipModel": 2,
  "privacyCode": 1,
  "plan": "pro",
  "affiliatePercent": 0,
  "totalMembers": 941,
  "totalOnlineMembers": 7,
  "totalAdmins": 3,
  "totalPosts": 1809,
  "totalRules": 5,
  "numCourses": 7,
  "numModules": 103,
  "reviewCount": 2,
  "reviewAverageRating": 5,
  "logoUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/37a997125c1a4a7aa2ecbf73c79e8468/b472bb9078e64370bb1451b52c27627df3951b7d3b944308baf6acbbb3234d50",
  "coverUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/37a997125c1a4a7aa2ecbf73c79e8468/da3feaa7c324405cb3480442e0d1fe8001365fd0492349bc8d000d5b94a91a67-md.jpg",
  "colorHex": "#EE2085",
  "createdAt": "2024-08-15T01:33:13.866416Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-02T07:17:02.344724Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-04T02:42:20.805Z"
}

That run had includeDescription switched off. With it on — which is the default — the row carries one more field, exactly as run PuxuTlJ4wfXlVMgNv (2026-09-03) wrote it:

{
  "description": "Learn modern calligraphy the fun, easy way! ✍️ With sisters Jordan & Jillian"
}

Three notes on fields, because each of them is a place a careless reader would assert something the source did not say:

• priceAmount is derived from Skool's own minor units — Skool publishes 900, this Actor returns both 900 and 9. A community with no readable price gets null, never 0, because a free community and an unreadable price are different facts.
• recurringInterval and priceInterval can disagree. They are two separate fields that Skool publishes separately, and both are returned as published rather than reconciled into one number this Actor cannot verify.
• membershipModel and privacyCode are Skool's own integer codes. They are returned raw and unlabelled, because a mapping this Actor cannot derive from the source would be a guess dressed as a field.

Pricing

This Actor is priced per event, so you pay for what it delivers rather than for how long it runs.

Event	Price	Charged when
community-returned	$0.004	Once per community record written to the dataset

There is no per-run start fee and no monthly minimum. A run that returns nothing costs nothing at all.

What a repeat run actually costs, worked through

This is why onlyChangedSinceLastRun defaults to on. Take a watchlist of 200 communities, polled daily for a month, where roughly 60 of them show a change on a given day:

Setting	Communities billed per day	Monthly cost
onlyChangedSinceLastRun: true (the default)	200 on day one, ~60 a day after	$0.80 + $6.96 = $7.76
onlyChangedSinceLastRun: false	200 every day	$24.00

A 3x difference, and the whole of it would have been spent re-buying records you already had. The gap widens the more stable your watchlist is: a list of quiet communities polled daily is nearly free with the default on and full price with it off. Turn it off only when you deliberately want every record again.

The two filters work the same way. minMembers: 1000 bills only for communities above that size, and paidOnly: true bills only for communities that charge. Both filter before charging, so narrowing your question always lowers your bill. includeDescription is not a cost lever and this README will not pretend it is one — billing is one event per community either way.

Frequently asked questions

Does this need a Skool account or membership? No. It reads the community's own public page, which Skool serves to anyone. It holds no credentials and joins nothing.

Can it find communities for me? No, and this is the honest limit of the product. Skool's own discovery index is served behind a bot challenge and is not readable by an ordinary request, so this Actor does not enumerate communities. You supply the list; it reads what you supply. Any listing that claims to browse Skool's directory is doing something this one does not.

What happens if I name a community that does not exist? You get unavailable with the reason, and no charge. An unresolvable input must never bill.

Does it return member names, e-mail addresses or posts? No. It returns community-level statistics only. The page does carry owner and review-author records with personal fields, and this Actor deliberately does not read them. There is no setting to turn that off.

Does it return post content or course content? No. It returns the counts — posts, courses, modules — not the material inside them.

Are the numbers live? They are what the community's page published at the moment of the run, and scrapedAt records that moment. totalOnlineMembers in particular is a snapshot and will differ minute to minute.

Can I use it to track a community's growth? That is the main use. Schedule it daily with the incremental default on and every row you receive is a community whose numbers moved.

What if my budget cap is reached mid-run? Delivery is truncated to the number of records actually charged and the run says so in the log. You are never billed for rows you did not receive.

Limits and troubleshooting

• No discovery. As above: you name the communities. This is a limitation of the source, not a feature waiting to be added.
• Private communities. A community whose page Skool does not serve publicly is reported as unavailable with the reason, and is not charged. It is never reported as a community with zero members.
• A challenged path. Skool answers some paths with a challenge page and HTTP 202. The Actor treats that as unavailable and names it, rather than reading the challenge page as an empty community.
• A nonexistent community. Reported as unavailable on a 404 — distinct from a community that exists and publishes nothing.
• Quiet watchlists return nothing. With the incremental default on, a day when nothing moved returns no rows and costs nothing. That is the setting working.

Integrations and API

The Actor is callable from anywhere the Apify API reaches.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/praise-most-high~skool-community-stats-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"communities":["calligraphy"],"onlyChangedSinceLastRun":true}'

• Scheduling — run it daily from the Apify scheduler; with the incremental default on, each run is a change feed.
• Webhooks — fire on ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED to push new rows into your own store.
• Python and JavaScript SDKs — both call it the same way; see the Apify client docs.
• MCP — reachable as a tool from any MCP-speaking agent through Apify's own MCP server.

Related Actors

Other Actors on this account that pair with this one:

• TikTok Video Scraper - Bulk Data by URL - the acquisition channel feeding the communities this Actor measures
• YouTube Channel Upload Monitor - the other main funnel into a paid community
• X (Twitter) Tweet Scraper - Bulk by URL - creator audience signal
• Shopify Store Product Scraper - creator commerce sits next to creator community
• Overture POI Search - Austin Places - both map the operators in a market with size attributes

Legal and data handling

Unofficial. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Skool.com or any community whose page you point it at. "Skool" is a trademark of its owner and is used here only to identify the platform being read.

This Actor reads a public, unauthenticated community page and returns community-level statistics: size, activity, content counts, membership price, plan and review aggregates. It returns no personal data. The page's owner record and its review-author user records carry personal fields including e-mail addresses, and this Actor reads none of them — that is enforced in the code and asserted in its test suite rather than left as an intention.

Community names, descriptions and branding belong to the people who published them. This Actor retrieves the published statistics; it does not license anything to you. Whether your intended use of that output is permitted is a question about your jurisdiction, your purpose and Skool's own terms, and it is yours to answer — this Actor makes no representation about it.

Support and feedback

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Bug reports that include the run ID and the input that produced the problem are answered fastest. Feature requests are read and are the main source of what gets built next.