# Skool Communities Scraper | Rankings, Pricing & Member Counts (`tactful_anvil/skool-communities-scraper`) Actor

The entire Skool Discovery directory as ranked data: member counts, prices, billing and revenue potential for the top 1,000 communities per category, plus a monitor mode that catches NEW communities the moment they appear. HTTP-only, pay per result, MCP-ready.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tactful\_anvil/skool-communities-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mr Zack](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.96 / 1,000 community rows

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 Communities Scraper | Rankings, Pricing & Member Counts

**The entire Skool Discovery directory as clean, ranked data.** One run turns Skool's top-1,000 communities (global or per category) into structured rows: rank, member count, price, billing interval, revenue potential, description and direct link. Plus a **monitor mode** that catches brand-new communities the moment they enter Discovery — before anyone else notices them.

HTTP-only, no login, no cookies, no proxies.

### Who is this for?

- **Community builders** — pick your niche with data: what do the top Skool communities in *money* / *health* / *tech* charge, how many members do they have, and where is the gap for you?
- **Course creators & coaches** — benchmark your pricing against every ranked competitor in your category in one table.
- **Lead-gen agencies & B2B sellers** — every ranked community is a business with a proven audience; sort by members × price to find the owners worth pitching.
- **Trend scouts & investors** — schedule monitor mode and get a feed of *new* communities entering the rankings: the earliest possible signal a niche is heating up.

### What you get (per row)

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `rank` | Position in Skool Discovery (per category or global) |
| `category` | `all` (global) or category slug (money, tech, health…) |
| `name`, `slug`, `url` | Community name + direct link to its about page |
| `members` | Total member count |
| `isPaid`, `priceUsd`, `priceCurrency`, `billingInterval` | Free vs paid, price, monthly / one-time |
| `monthlyRevenuePotentialUsd` | members × monthly price — upper-bound niche size signal |
| `description` | The community's own pitch |
| `groupId`, `logoUrl`, `coverUrl`, `createdAt`, `updatedAt` | Identity + assets + age |
| `scrapedAt` | Snapshot timestamp |

### Pricing — pay only for rows you keep

Pay-per-event: **$0.00296 per community row** ($2.96 per 1,000) + $0.001 per run start. Communities filtered out by `minMembers` / `paidOnly`, monitor-mode duplicates and failed pages are **never charged**. The full global top-1,000 costs about **$3**; a daily new-communities monitor typically costs a few cents.

### Example inputs

Niche pricing research: `{ "categories": ["money"], "maxPages": 10, "paidOnly": true }`
New-community radar: `{ "categories": ["all"], "maxPages": 34, "onlyNew": true }` on a daily schedule.

### Schedule it (recommended)

Rankings and member counts move daily. Click **Schedule** in Apify Console (`@daily` works great), combine with `onlyNew` for a fresh-communities alert feed, and wire results to Slack/email/Sheets via Integrations. Export JSON/CSV/Excel anytime.

### Use with AI agents & MCP

Works out of the box with the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com) — let your AI agent answer *"what do top fitness communities on Skool charge?"* or *"which new communities entered the money category this week?"*. Stable schema, agent-friendly. API: `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tactful_anvil~skool-communities-scraper/runs`.

### Related Actors

- [Whop New Launches Monitor](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/whop-new-launches-monitor) — the same first-mover radar for the Whop marketplace.
- [Whop Affiliate Offers Scraper](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/whop-affiliate-offers-scraper) — find Whop products that pay you commissions.
- [Gumroad Best Sellers Scraper](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper) — niche & pricing intel for digital products.

### Legal & fair use

Reads only the public Skool Discovery directory — the same data any visitor sees without logging in. No member data, no private communities, polite request pacing. Member counts and prices belong to the respective communities; use for research and analysis.

### Changelog

- 0.0.1 (1 Sep 2026) — Launch: Skool Discovery rankings per category (top 1,000), pricing, member counts, `onlyNew` monitor mode.

### Found this useful? Bookmark & review

A quick ⭐ review or bookmark on [this Actor](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/skool-communities-scraper) helps other people find it and tells us which fields to add next. Have a question, a missing field or a source that changed? Open an issue in the **Issues** tab — we answer within 24 hours.

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Which Skool Discovery categories to scrape: 'all' (global top ranking) and/or slugs like money, tech, health, hobbies, music, spirituality, sports, self\_improvement, relationships.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

30 communities per page, up to 34 pages (top 1,000) per category.

## `maxCommunities` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many rows across all categories (max 2000).

## `minMembers` (type: `integer`):

Skip communities smaller than this. Skipped rows are never charged.

## `paidOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only output communities with a paid membership. Free ones are skipped and never charged.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember seen communities between runs and only output (and charge) NEW entries — catch new communities the moment they enter Discovery. Perfect for schedules.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "all"
  ],
  "maxPages": 5,
  "maxCommunities": 200,
  "minMembers": 0,
  "paidOnly": false,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tactful_anvil/skool-communities-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tactful_anvil/skool-communities-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 '{}' |
apify call tactful_anvil/skool-communities-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tactful_anvil/skool-communities-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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/wfteDLiACYZHPSLWh/builds/U3OqnQX2n0hj4nSHp/openapi.json