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

Skool Communities Scraper turns the public Skool discovery directory into a 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 and a price point before they launch, and for agencies tracking paid communities over time. No login, no cookies, no emails, no member lists.

What it fixes

• Sizing a niche by hand. One run lists up to 1,000 communities per keyword or category with members, price, courses and rating, ready to sort.
• Prices in mixed formats. monthlyPriceEquivalent turns monthly, annual and free into one monthly number in USD.
• Seeing who is growing. With compareWithPreviousRun, every row says how many members the community gained or lost and whether the price changed since your last run.
• Contact data you should not hold. The Actor never returns owner emails, phones or member lists, and removes emails and phone numbers found inside descriptions.

What people use it for

• Market research: the top communities for "fitness", "real estate" or "ai automation" with member counts and prices, sorted by size or price in a spreadsheet.
• Pricing a new community: how many paid communities exist in a topic, what they charge per month, how many courses they ship and how members rate them.
• Watch lists for agencies: a weekly run over a vertical (sales, e-commerce, coaching) that shows which communities grow fastest and which changed their price.

At a glance

• Price: US$ 3 per 1,000 communities, about page details included, no start fee
• Per search: up to 1,000 communities (Skool's own limit); split by category, language or price for more
• Filters: keyword, category, language, free or paid, public or private, minimum members, monthly price range
• Scheduled runs: growth tracking and only-new mode, no extra charge
• Error rows: free, with an errorCode

Switching from another Skool actor? Your existing input works

Their field	Read here as
searchTerms, queries, query, searchQuery, keywords	searchQueries
communityUrls, communityUrl, urls, communities	startUrls
maxCommunities, maxResults, maxPages	maxItems
membership, paidOnly: true	price
enrichDetails / categories (list)	includeDetails / one slice per category
modes discover, discovery, scrape / community	search / communities

Contact options such as includeOwnerDetails, enrichOwners or email are ignored, and the run log says so.

Input examples

Paid English communities about marketing with at least 200 members:

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

About pages of communities you already know:

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

Weekly growth tracking for a niche (save as a Task with a Schedule):

{ "searchQueries": ["ai automation"], "price": "paid", "maxItems": 200, "compareWithPreviousRun": true }

Output example

A real row from a run of 2026-09-15 with {"searchQueries": ["marketing"]}, trimmed:

{
  "type": "community",
  "rank": 2,
  "name": "AION Growth Lab",
  "slug": "aiongrowthlab",
  "url": "https://www.skool.com/aiongrowthlab",
  "members": 576,
  "priceType": "paid",
  "price": 27,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "monthlyPriceEquivalent": 27,
  "courses": 22,
  "modules": 222,
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 36,
  "isPrivate": true,
  "ownerName": "Ricardo La Rocca",
  "createdAt": "2026-02-18T22:37:22.557409Z",
  "searchQuery": "marketing",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T20:28:58.841166+00:00"
}

With compareWithPreviousRun, the row also carries previousMembers, membersChange, membersChangePercent, previousMonthlyPrice, priceChanged, firstSeenAt and isNewCommunity.

Main output fields

Field	Description
rank	Position in the discovery results for that search
name, slug, url, aboutUrl, communityId	Community identity and links
description, aboutDescription	Short description and full about text (emails and phones removed)
members, onlineMembers, admins, posts	Public counters from the about page
priceType	free, paid or freemium
price, priceCurrency, priceInterval, priceText	Main price as Skool shows it
monthlyPrice, annualPrice, oneTimePrice, monthlyPriceEquivalent	Every price option, and one monthly figure for sorting
courses, modules	Classroom counts only, never content
rating, reviewCount	Average rating and number of reviews; null when there are none
affiliateCommissionPercent	Affiliate commission the community advertises
isPrivate, hasClassroom, hasCalendar, hasMap	Settings visible on the about page
ownerName, ownerProfileUrl	Owner's public display name and profile link, nothing else
category, language	The filters you used (Skool does not publish them per community)
createdAt, updatedAt, scrapedAt, sourceUrl	Dates and where the row came from
errorCode, error	Only on free error rows

The dataset has four views: Communities, Pricing and size, About and content, and Errors (not charged).

Pricing

US$ 3 per 1,000 communities (US$ 0.003 each), with about page details at the same price. A search for 30 communities costs US$ 0.09; 1,000 communities cost US$ 3. Communities that do not exist, invalid URLs, categories or languages, empty searches and blocked requests return free rows with an errorCode. Communities skipped by onlyNew are not charged.

Limitations

• 1,000 communities per search, Skool's own limit (34 pages). Split by category, language, price or keyword to go wider; duplicates inside a run are removed.
• Ranking is Skool's. trending and top are not strictly by members; sort by members yourself.
• Owner name is the public display name as Skool shows it; some owners use a brand name.
• Freemium tier prices 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.
• onlyNew means new to you, which includes communities that just climbed into the list, since Skool does not sort by creation date.

Error codes (never charged)

errorCode	Meaning
COMMUNITY_NOT_FOUND	No community at that URL or slug
INVALID_COMMUNITY	The line is not a Skool community URL or slug
INVALID_CATEGORY, INVALID_LANGUAGE	Not a Skool discovery category or language
NO_RESULTS	The search returned nothing with these filters
BLOCKED	Skool refused the request after retries

FAQ

Does it 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? No, never. Only the public display name and profile link.

Can I get the member list of a community? No. Member lists are behind a login and are personal data; you get the member count.

How is monthlyPriceEquivalent calculated? The monthly price when there is one, otherwise the annual price divided by 12, and 0 for free.

Where does the growth history live? In the key-value store skool-communities-history in your own Apify account, one record per community. Delete it to start over.

Can an AI agent use it? Yes, through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com): "list the 50 biggest paid Skool communities about sales and their monthly prices".

Is it legal? It collects only what Skool shows any visitor without logging in, and no personal contact data. You are responsible for how you use the data under the laws that apply to you.

Changelog

• 2026-10-04: compareWithPreviousRun (member growth and price change) and onlyNew for scheduled runs.
• 2026-09-15: first release: search with filters, about pages by URL or slug, owner limited to display name, email and phone removal, free error rows.