🔎 Skool Discovery Scraper — Find Communities by Niche & Price

Mine Skool's public discovery directory like a database. Search by keyword, filter by category, price (free vs paid) and member count, and this actor returns every matching community with its name, URL, member count, price, an MRR estimate, and — optionally — the owner's name, bio and socials (Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, website). Run it on a schedule to get alerted the moment a new community lists in your niche. From $0.002 per community.

No login required. Skool's skool.com/discovery directory is fully public and server-rendered — no Cloudflare, no DataDome, no JS challenge — so runs are fast and reliable. (Bring your own Skool login only if you want member-only data on private communities you belong to.)

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Why this one

Most "Skool scrapers" dump a single community's posts or members. This one works the other direction — it's a market-research and lead-gen radar over the whole Skool ecosystem:

• ✅ Search the entire directory by keyword, category, and free/paid price
• ✅ Member counts + price + an MRR estimate for every community (size the market, spot the winners)
• ✅ Owner + socials (IG / YouTube / LinkedIn / X / Facebook / website) via optional enrichment — instant creator lead list
• ✅ Skool's own MRR tier badge (owner_mrr_status, e.g. diamond) surfaced verbatim
• ✅ A new-community monitor — get alerted when a fresh community appears in your niche
• ✅ Public, no anti-bot — datacenter proxies are plenty

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What you get (per community)

name · handle · url · description · members · price_display · price_amount_cents · price_interval · mrr_estimate · logoUrl · coverUrl · createdAt · updatedAt

With enrichOwners on, also: owner_name · owner_bio · owner_instagram · owner_youtube · owner_linkedin · owner_twitter · owner_facebook · owner_website · owner_mrr_status · community_links · totalPosts · totalAdmins · numCourses · numModules · privacy

Plus is_new (monitor mode) · scraped_at. Export to CSV/JSON/Excel or pull via the Apify API into your CRM, Clay, n8n, or Make.

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How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter a search keyword (e.g. ai), and optionally a category and price filter.
3. (Optional) Turn on Enrich with owner + socials for the creator's contacts.
4. Click Start, then open the Dataset tab.
5. For a live feed: turn on Monitor mode + a Schedule to be alerted when a new community lists.

Quick start

{ "query": "ai", "price": "all", "maxResults": 100 }

Paid communities in a niche, with owner socials

{ "query": "ecommerce", "price": "paid", "minMembers": 500, "enrichOwners": true }

Daily new-community monitor

{ "query": "ai automation", "monitorMode": true, "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…" }

Categories: hobbies · music · money · spirituality · tech · health · sports · self-improvement · relationships (or a raw Skool category id).

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Who it's for

• 🎯 Course/community creators sizing a niche before they launch (how many communities, how big, free vs paid?)
• 📣 Agencies & lead-gen building creator lists with owner socials for outreach/partnerships
• 💼 Tools & SaaS selling to Skool community owners (email tools, course tools, payments)
• 📊 Analysts & investors tracking the creator-economy market and its fastest-growing communities

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How we compare

Generic competitor labels only — judge them on the live store.

	This actor	Typical Skool scraper	Leading Skool suite	Budget clone
Searches the whole discovery directory	✅ keyword + category + price	❌ one community at a time	⚠️ partial	❌
Member count + price + MRR estimate	✅	⚠️ members only	✅	❌
Owner + socials enrichment	✅ IG/YT/LinkedIn/X/FB/site	❌	⚠️ owner name only	❌
New-community monitor + alerts	✅ Slack/email/webhook	❌	❌	❌
Pricing	from $0.002/community	per-result	monthly subscription	cheap but thin
Login required	❌ (public)	varies	⚠️ often	❌

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Related Skool actors (our suite)

Actor	What it does
Skool Discovery Scraper (this)	Find communities across the whole directory by niche & price
Skool Community Scraper	Full export of a single community's public data
Skool Members Scraper	Member lists for a community
Skool Posts Scraper	Posts / feed of a community
Skool Events Scraper	A community's events calendar
Skool Profile Scraper	A single member/creator profile

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Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	What it covers	Suggested price
lot-scraped	each community returned	~$0.002 / community ($2 / 1,000)
lot-detail-enriched	each community page fetched for owner + socials	~$0.003 / community
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly-listed community	~$0.02
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook alert	~$0.005

You're only charged for results — never for starting the actor.

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Notes & limits

• Public directory data. Community names, member counts, prices, descriptions and the owner's public profile/socials are all public on Skool's discovery directory. You are responsible for compliant use of any contact data — follow CAN-SPAM / GDPR / CASL for outreach.
• mrr_estimate is a rough estimate — members × monthly price. It ignores churn, free trials, annual plans and free members in paid communities, so treat it as a ceiling/indicator, not a real revenue figure. owner_mrr_status is Skool's own badge tier, surfaced as-is.
• skoolCookie is optional and only needed for member-only data on private communities you already belong to. It's read from input, sent only to Skool, and never logged. Public discovery needs none of it.
• No double-counting — monitor mode remembers what it's seen (in a named, persistent store) and emits each community once.

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FAQ

Do I need a Skool account? No. The discovery directory and every public community page return full data logged out.

Can it find free communities only? Paid only? Yes — set price to free or paid (or leave it for both).

How do I get the owner's email/socials? Turn on enrichOwners. It fetches each community page and pulls the owner's public bio, socials (Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook) and website. Email isn't published by Skool, but the socials + website let you reach the creator.

How many communities can it pull? Set maxResults: 0 for unlimited — it walks every page of the directory for your filter (30 per page). A typical keyword matches up to ~1,000.

What's the MRR estimate? members × monthly price. A quick way to rank communities by likely revenue. It's an estimate (see notes).

Can it watch for new communities? Yes — turn on monitorMode and attach a Schedule. Each run outputs/alerts only communities that weren't there last time.

Does it work without a proxy? Skool's discovery is public, but Apify datacenter proxy rotation (the default) keeps large pulls smooth.

What about a community's classroom videos/lessons? Those live inside an enrolled (member-walled) classroom and aren't part of the public directory — out of scope for this actor.

Will it break on a Skool deploy? No. It parses the page's embedded __NEXT_DATA__, which is stable across deploys (it does not depend on a transient build id).

Is this affiliated with Skool? No. It's an independent tool that reads Skool's public directory.