# Skool Community Stats Scraper (`praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper`) Actor Skool Community Stats Scraper reads a Skool community's own public page and returns one row per community: members, online now, posts, admins, courses, modules, price, plan, review count and rating. No login. onlyChangedSinceLastRun defaults ON, so a repeat run bills only movers. - **URL**: https://apify.com/praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [angel nguyen](https://apify.com/praise-most-high) (community) - **Categories:** Social media, Business, Marketing - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $4.00 / 1,000 community record returneds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README 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. Skool Community Stats Scraper The source is `skool.com/`, 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. ```json { "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. ```json { "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: ```json { "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. ```bash 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](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/). - **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](https://apify.com/praise-most-high/tiktok-bulk-video-data) - the acquisition channel feeding the communities this Actor measures - [YouTube Channel Upload Monitor](https://apify.com/praise-most-high/youtube-channel-upload-monitor) - the other main funnel into a paid community - [X (Twitter) Tweet Scraper - Bulk by URL](https://apify.com/praise-most-high/x-twitter-bulk-tweet-extractor) - creator audience signal - [Shopify Store Product Scraper](https://apify.com/praise-most-high/shopify-store-product-catalog) - creator commerce sits next to creator community - [Overture POI Search - Austin Places](https://apify.com/praise-most-high/local-poi-open) - 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. # Actor input Schema ## `communities` (type: `array`): The communities to read, as a slug (calligraphy) or a full URL (https://www.skool.com/calligraphy). A name with no Skool community behind it is reported as unavailable with the reason, and is never charged. This Actor does not enumerate communities — skool.com's own discovery index is challenged and is not readable, so you name what you want read. ## `onlyChangedSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`): ON BY DEFAULT, and leaving it on is what keeps a scheduled run cheap. A community is returned only when its members, posts, courses, modules, reviews, rating or price have moved since you last received it. Turn it off only when you deliberately want every record again — that costs the full per-community price for records you already have. ## `minMembers` (type: `integer`): Skip communities smaller than this. Leave empty to keep every community. The filter runs BEFORE charging, so a skipped community costs you nothing at all. ## `paidOnly` (type: `boolean`): Keep only communities that publish a membership price. Free communities are skipped before charging, so turning this on lowers your bill rather than raising it. ## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`): Attach the community's own description text to each row. This does NOT change what you are charged: billing is one event per community either way. Turn it off only if you want narrower rows. ## Actor input object example ```json { "communities": [ "calligraphy", "new-society" ], "onlyChangedSinceLastRun": true, "paidOnly": false, "includeDescription": true } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `communities` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "communities": [ "calligraphy", "new-society" ], "onlyChangedSinceLastRun": true, "minMembers": 0, "paidOnly": false, "includeDescription": true }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "communities": [ "calligraphy", "new-society", ], "onlyChangedSinceLastRun": True, "minMembers": 0, "paidOnly": False, "includeDescription": True, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "communities": [ "calligraphy", "new-society" ], "onlyChangedSinceLastRun": true, "minMembers": 0, "paidOnly": false, "includeDescription": true }' | apify call praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,praise-most-high/skool-community-stats-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/24afPNjiy2hnlG1GY/builds/p0o1PQOabxdqQsagq/openapi.json