Skool Community Finder

Skool Community Finder: search Skool for communities by keyword, category or price

Give it a keyword, or pick a category, price, language or private/public, and it returns the Skool communities that match, one row each: the link, name, member count, price, description, whether it's public and when it was created. No links needed, which is the whole point of it. Skool hands out at most 1,000 results for any one search, and no setting gets past that, so a bigger sweep needs several keywords or a pass through the categories.

Two traps before the first run. Skool's default listing shows only private communities, and the public ones are a separate list it never mixes in, so set Private or public to Public to see them. And sorting does nothing while you're searching: the run drops the order and writes a free SORT_IGNORED row saying so, which the form's own starting values trigger.

🔍 What Skool Community Finder does

It runs your search against Skool's own discovery listing, the page anyone can browse, and turns each community on it into a row. It never opens the communities themselves. For the owner, rating and content counts, feed the communityUrl column into Skool Community Scraper.

Each keyword is searched on its own with the same filters and the results are merged, so a community two keywords both find comes back once and is billed once. With no keyword the run browses the filters by themselves. Matching is close to plain text on the name, link and description, so "ai automation" and "automation" give quite different lists.

Two filters leave a mark on every row: free or paid, and private or public. Rows are checked against both, and any that don't match are dropped without charge. Category, language and free trial leave nothing on the row to check, so for those you get Skool's answer as it comes.

A value Skool doesn't offer, such as a misspelled category sent through the API, stops the run before a single request. Skool answers a bad category with an empty page, which would otherwise look exactly like "nothing here".

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["ai automation"],
  "maxItems": 5
}

A high minMembers can return fewer communities than maxItems. With a minimum set, a run reads at most ten times maxItems communities, never fewer than 1,000 and never more than 5,000, then stops with what passed and says so in a free READ_LIMIT row.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run:

{
  "communityUrl": "https://www.skool.com/makerschool",
  "slug": "makerschool",
  "name": "Maker School: AI Automation",
  "description": "Get your first client for an AI automation business in 90 days or your money back. Daily AI coaching, AI templates, +$30K saved in tools. $184/mo.",
  "memberCount": 2560,
  "isPaid": true,
  "priceLabel": "$184/month",
  "priceAmount": 184,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "monthlyPriceAmount": 184,
  "annualPriceAmount": 1546,
  "oneTimePriceAmount": null,
  "isPublic": false,
  "category": null,
  "language": null,
  "matchedTerm": "ai automation",
  "discoveryRank": null,
  "discoveryPage": 1,
  "logoUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b/7a0881d755cd45d69679b78d418b803a475d563a4bc4476ea3dfc1ad682b0551.jpg",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b/56cb44fa92ce4a2a950a286352392ff96e45d3d056e740e4a30c12dbb52faad4-md.jpg",
  "brandColor": "#0F0F0F",
  "groupId": "e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b",
  "createdAt": "2024-09-05T20:09:16.650875Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-30T00:56:33.888243Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:32:48.263Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

The sample row only appears when the input has no keyword and no filter at all. sortBy counts as a filter here, so a run with nothing but an order set browses Skool's default listing and bills what it finds. On a diagnostic row, read details: the short error line is generic on some codes.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Skool Community Finder and click Try for free. 2. Type keywords into Search terms, or clear them and pick a Category to browse. 3. Narrow it with Price, Private or public and Language if you want. 4. Set Maximum communities. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$2.80 per 1,000 communities, flat on every Apify plan.

You pay per community row. Sample and diagnostic rows are never charged, a community two keywords both find is billed once, and anything dropped for not matching your price or private/public filter, or for falling below minMembers, isn't charged at all.

💡 What people use it for

• Listing the communities in a niche before deciding which to join, or which to compete with.
• Mapping a whole category: browse it with no keyword and maxItems at 1,000.
• Finding free communities to join, or paid ones to study, with price set.
• Feeding the links into Skool Community Scraper to get owners, ratings and content counts.

🚧 What it does not do

• Go past 1,000 results for one search. That's Skool's ceiling.
• Open the communities. No owner, rating, reviews, or post and course counts. Skool Community Scraper reads those.
• Collect people. No members, reviews, profiles or emails.
• Tell you the category of an unfiltered result. The listing doesn't carry one.
• Check the free-trial, category or language filters. They leave no mark on the row, so you get Skool's answer as it comes.
• Sort search results. Skool ignores the order while searching. Browse instead.
• See what only members see. It reads the public listing and nothing behind a login.

🧭 Which community scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Can I search Skool without an account? Yes. This reads the discovery listing Skool shows everyone. No login, no cookie, no key.

How do I get every community in a category? Pick the category, leave Search terms empty and set maxItems to 1,000. That's the whole category, as far as Skool will hand it over.

Why do I see different communities than on skool.com? Most likely you're comparing against the default view, which is the private list. Set communityType to public for the other one.

Can I get the owner or the rating? Not from this one. Run Skool Community Scraper over the communityUrl column.

Why did my run return nothing? Either Skool has nothing for that search, or nothing it found cleared your minMembers, and a free NO_RESULTS row says which. Or a value wasn't one Skool offers, and the row lists the ones that are.

Is this legal? It's a public listing, but a community's description can name real people, so keep what you need and take care republishing it. Apify's article on whether web scraping is legal is worth reading first.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the input you used and the run ID. The diagnostic rows in the dataset usually name the reason already.