Skool Communities Scraper: Discovery Directory, Members, Pricing and Courses

Skool Communities Scraper turns the public Skool discovery directory into a clean spreadsheet of communities: name, URL, description, member count, monthly price, courses, rating, review count and the owner's public display name. It is built for market research on Skool, for creators checking a niche before they launch, and for agencies that track paid communities. No login, no cookies, no emails, no member lists.

What you can do with it

• Market research on Skool communities: list the top 1,000 communities for "fitness", "real estate" or "ai automation" with member counts and prices, then sort by size or price in a spreadsheet.
• Creators validating a niche and a price point: see how many paid communities exist in your topic, what they charge per month, how many courses they ship and how members rate them, before you set your own price.
• Agencies and consultants: build a watch list of paid Skool communities in a vertical (sales, e-commerce, coaching), schedule a weekly run and compare member growth and price changes over time.

What makes it different

Some Skool scrapers sell the community owner's email address, full contact details or the member list. This Actor does not, by design:

• Only public community data. Everything comes from the public discovery directory and the public about page that Skool shows to any visitor who is not logged in.
• Owner: display name and public profile link only. No email, no phone, no location, no time zone, no personal bio and no personal social links.
• No members, posts, comments, lessons or classroom content. That content sits behind a Skool login and stays there.
• Free text is cleaned. If a community description contains an email address or a phone number, it is replaced with [email removed] or [phone removed] before it is saved.
• Contact options from other Skool scrapers are ignored. Inputs like includeOwnerDetails, enrichOwners or email do not unlock anything; the run log says they were ignored.

If you need personal contact data for cold outreach, this is not the right tool. If you need a reliable, compliant picture of the Skool market, it is.

Input example

Search the directory for one or more keywords with filters:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["marketing"],
  "price": "paid",
  "language": "english",
  "minMembers": 200,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Read the about page of specific communities (URLs or slugs):

{
  "mode": "communities",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.skool.com/makerschool/about",
    "aivideobootcamp"
  ]
}

Browse a whole category, most popular first, free communities only:

{
  "category": "tech",
  "price": "free",
  "sortBy": "top",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Input fields

Field	What it does
mode	search (discovery directory) or communities (about pages). Sending only URLs switches to communities automatically.
searchQueries	Keywords searched on skool.com/discovery. Empty lists the whole directory with your filters.
startUrls	Community URLs, about URLs or slugs. A skool.com/discovery?... URL runs as a search with its filters.
category	hobbies, music, money, spirituality, tech, health, sports, self_improvement, relationships. categories (list) also works by API.
language	Skool language name (english, spanish, portuguese, german, french...) or a two-letter code (EN, ES, PT).
price	all, free, paid or free-trial, the same filter Skool shows.
communityType	all, public or private.
sortBy	trending or top. Skool uses relevance when a keyword is searched.
minMembers	Skip communities below this member count.
minPriceUsd / maxPriceUsd	Monthly price range in USD (annual prices divided by 12; free counts as 0).
includeDetails	Adds courses, modules, rating, reviews, online members, posts, about text and owner display name. On by default, same price.
maxItems	Communities per keyword or category slice, up to 1,000 (Skool's own limit per search). Default 30.
proxyConfiguration	Apify datacenter proxy by default.

Field names from other Skool scrapers also work by API: searchTerms, queries, query, searchQuery, keywords, communityUrls, communityUrl, urls, communities, maxCommunities, maxResults, maxPages, membership, paidOnly, enrichDetails, categories, and the modes discover, discovery, community and scrape. You can switch from another Actor without rewriting your integration.

Empty input runs an example search for "marketing" with 30 communities, so a quick test always returns data.

Output example

Real rows from a run on 15/09/2026 with {"searchQueries": ["marketing"]} (selected fields):

{"rank": 1, "name": "⭕️ Círculo de Crecimiento", "slug": "circulodecrecimiento", "url": "https://www.skool.com/circulodecrecimiento", "members": 3121, "priceType": "paid", "price": 40, "priceInterval": "month", "courses": 49, "modules": 855, "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 193, "ownerName": "Adri Kastel", "createdAt": "2025-10-06T13:01:01.421141Z"}
{"rank": 2, "name": "AION Growth Lab", "slug": "aiongrowthlab", "url": "https://www.skool.com/aiongrowthlab", "members": 576, "priceType": "paid", "price": 27, "priceInterval": "month", "courses": 22, "modules": 222, "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 36, "ownerName": "Ricardo La Rocca", "createdAt": "2026-02-18T22:37:22.557409Z"}
{"rank": 3, "name": "School of Content Marketing", "slug": "school-of-content-marketing-5537", "url": "https://www.skool.com/school-of-content-marketing-5537", "members": 261, "priceType": "freemium", "price": 148, "priceInterval": "month", "courses": 21, "modules": 368, "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 2, "ownerName": "Master Coach Aprille", "createdAt": "2025-06-10T20:41:42.708389Z"}
{"rank": 4, "name": "MM Elite", "slug": "merchant-mastery-elite", "url": "https://www.skool.com/merchant-mastery-elite", "members": 320, "priceType": "paid", "price": 1450, "priceInterval": "month", "courses": 20, "modules": 381, "rating": null, "reviewCount": null, "ownerName": "Kurian Tharakan", "createdAt": "2023-03-26T21:36:13.085765Z"}
{"rank": 5, "name": "Novel Gains", "slug": "novel-gains-1247", "url": "https://www.skool.com/novel-gains-1247", "members": 138, "priceType": "paid", "price": 35, "priceInterval": "month", "courses": 9, "modules": 36, "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 4, "ownerName": "Adam Beswick", "createdAt": "2026-06-27T09:21:22.986171Z"}

One full row, as it lands in the dataset:

{
  "type": "community",
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "⭕️ Círculo de Crecimiento",
  "slug": "circulodecrecimiento",
  "url": "https://www.skool.com/circulodecrecimiento",
  "aboutUrl": "https://www.skool.com/circulodecrecimiento/about",
  "communityId": "ded63668f96941fe85d336bcc2419dec",
  "description": "Mi sistema para generar 3K con Marketing Digital + Inteligencia Artificial...",
  "members": 3121,
  "onlineMembers": 39,
  "admins": 9,
  "posts": 81401,
  "priceType": "paid",
  "isPaid": true,
  "price": 40,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "priceText": "40 USD/month",
  "monthlyPrice": 40,
  "monthlyPriceEquivalent": 40,
  "courses": 49,
  "modules": 855,
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 193,
  "affiliateCommissionPercent": 40,
  "isPrivate": true,
  "hasClassroom": true,
  "hasCalendar": true,
  "ownerName": "Adri Kastel",
  "ownerProfileUrl": "https://www.skool.com/@adrikastel",
  "createdAt": "2025-10-06T13:01:01.421141Z",
  "searchQuery": "marketing",
  "detailsIncluded": true,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.skool.com/discovery?q=marketing&lang=all",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T20:28:58.841166+00:00"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
rank	Position in the Skool discovery results for that search (1 is first).
name, slug, url, aboutUrl	Community display name, Skool slug and links.
communityId	Skool's internal community id.
description	Short public description. aboutDescription has the full about page text.
category, language	The category and language filter used for the search (Skool does not publish them per community).
members, onlineMembers, admins, posts	Public counters from the about page.
priceType	free, paid or freemium (free entry with paid tiers above).
price, priceCurrency, priceInterval, priceText	Main price as Skool shows it.
monthlyPrice, annualPrice, oneTimePrice, monthlyPriceEquivalent	All price options, and a monthly figure for easy sorting.
freeTierBenefits	What the free tier includes, when the owner lists it.
courses, modules	Number of classroom courses and modules (counts only, never content).
rating, reviewCount	Average star rating and number of reviews (no individual reviews or reviewer names).
affiliateCommissionPercent	Affiliate commission the community advertises.
isPrivate, hasClassroom, hasCalendar, hasMap	Community settings visible on the about page.
ownerName, ownerProfileUrl	Owner's public display name and Skool profile link. Nothing else about the owner.
logoUrl, coverUrl	Community images.
createdAt, updatedAt	Community creation and last update dates.
searchQuery, input, sourceUrl, scrapedAt	Where the row came from and when.
error, errorCode	Present only on rows that were not charged (see below).

The dataset has four views in the Console: Communities, Pricing and size, About and content and Errors (not charged). Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Pricing

US$ 3 per 1,000 communities, no monthly fee. You pay US$ 0.003 for each community delivered. The about page details are included at the same price.

Not charged: communities that do not exist, invalid URLs, invalid categories or languages, searches with no results and blocked requests. Those come back as rows with an errorCode (COMMUNITY_NOT_FOUND, INVALID_COMMUNITY, INVALID_CATEGORY, INVALID_LANGUAGE, NO_RESULTS, BLOCKED) so your pipeline knows what happened, and they cost nothing.

How it compares with the Skool community scrapers on the Apify Store in September 2026: the most used one charges about US$ 3.70 per 1,000 and includes owner emails; others charge US$ 4 to US$ 50 per 1,000, often plus a start fee per run. A search for 1,000 communities here costs US$ 3.

How to use it

From the Console

Type a keyword, pick filters, press Start. Results appear in the dataset tab while the run goes.

Via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapewise~skool-communities/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries": ["real estate"], "price": "paid", "maxItems": 50}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("scrapewise/skool-communities").call(
    run_input={"searchQueries": ["fitness"], "minMembers": 500, "maxItems": 100}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["name"], row["members"], row["priceText"])

With AI agents (MCP)

The Actor works through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or any MCP client can call it: "list the 50 biggest paid Skool communities about sales and their monthly prices". The input is simple JSON and the output is flat, which keeps tool calls short.

Scheduling and integrations

Create a Task with your search, add a weekly schedule and connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Make, n8n, Zapier or a webhook. Comparing two weekly runs by slug shows member growth and price changes.

Limits and honest notes

• 1,000 communities per search. Skool itself stops the discovery list at 1,000 results (34 pages). To go wider, split by category, language or price, or use several keywords; duplicates are removed inside a run.
• Category and language are the filters you used. Skool does not publish a category or language field per community, so those columns are filled only when you filter by them.
• Ranking is Skool's. trending and top follow Skool's own order, which is not strictly by members; sort by members in your spreadsheet if you need that.
• Owner name is the public display name, exactly as Skool shows it. Some owners use a brand name.
• Prices are the public list price. Tier prices of freemium communities are not always public; then price is 0 and priceType is freemium.
• Posts, members, lessons and chat are out of scope. They require a Skool account.
• Skool uses AWS protection; the Actor rotates proxy sessions and retries. In tests, 30 of 404 requests were retried and every one recovered.

If something breaks, open an issue on the Actor page. Issues are answered within 12 hours.

FAQ

Does this Skool scraper need a Skool account or cookies? No. It reads the public discovery directory and public about pages only.

Does it return the owner's email or phone number? No, never. Only the owner's public display name and profile link. Emails and phones found inside descriptions are removed.

Can I get the member list of a community? No. Member lists sit behind a login and are personal data. This Actor gives the member count only.

How many Skool communities can I get? Up to 1,000 per search, which is Skool's own limit. Splitting by the 9 categories, by language or by free and paid gives several thousand distinct communities.

How fresh is the data? Live. Every run reads Skool at that moment; scrapedAt shows the time.

What is the difference between search and communities mode? search lists communities from the discovery directory with filters. communities reads the about page of the communities you already know.

How is monthlyPriceEquivalent calculated? The monthly price when there is one, otherwise the annual price divided by 12, and 0 for free communities. Use it to sort or filter by price.

Why do some rows have rating: null? The community has no reviews yet, or the owner has not enabled them.

Can I use field names from another Skool scraper? Yes. searchTerms, maxCommunities, query, maxResults, urls, membership and others are accepted, so you can switch without rewriting your code.

Is scraping Skool legal? This Actor collects only data Skool shows publicly to any visitor, with no login and no personal contact data. You are responsible for how you use the data; follow the laws that apply to you, including privacy laws.

How much does a typical run cost? A search for 30 communities costs US$ 0.09. A run of 1,000 communities costs US$ 3.

Changelog

• 0.1 (September 2026): first release. Search mode with keyword, category, language, price, type, sort, minimum members and price range; communities mode by URL or slug; about page details included; owner limited to display name and profile link; email and phone removal in free text; field names from other Skool scrapers accepted; errors returned as free rows.

Em português

Skool Communities Scraper coleta o diretório público de comunidades do Skool: nome, link, descrição, membros, preço mensal, cursos, avaliação e nome público do dono, sem login e sem e-mail. Serve para pesquisa de mercado de comunidades, para criadores avaliando nicho e preço antes de lançar, e para agências que acompanham comunidades pagas. Preço: US$ 3 por 1.000 comunidades, sem mensalidade.

This Actor collects only public data and respects the site's terms.

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