Skool Community Scraper

Skool Community Scraper: members, price, owner and rating for the Skool links you paste

Paste Skool community links and you get one row per community: the name and pitch, how many members it has and how many are online, what joining costs, who runs it, the rating, and how many posts, courses and modules sit inside. The part to know before buying: it doesn't search Skool, so you bring the links. If you don't have them yet, Skool Community Finder is the one that finds them.

No member names or profiles are collected, only counts. And the form arrives with two real communities in it, so pressing Start without editing reads those two and bills two rows.

🔍 What Skool Community Scraper does

Each link becomes a row built from the community's public page, the one Skool shows to someone deciding whether to join.

The price is the one the join button quotes. Skool keeps more than one price on a community and they don't always agree, so the row takes the current billing price, and a community only counts as free when Skool has no price for it at all. A community running a trial says START FREE TRIAL on its button instead. Those rows carry hasFreeTrial: true and the price you pay once the trial ends.

Every reply is checked against the community you asked for. A link that forwards somewhere else, or a Skool address that answers with a different community, comes back as a free row saying so, never as a charged row for the wrong one.

Duplicate links are folded together before anything is read. And if 25 links in a row fail before a single community has come back, the run stops and tells you the list looks wrong. Once one community has come back, that check switches off, so a good list that happens to start with dead links still gets read in full.

📥 What you give it

{
  "groupUrls": [
    "https://www.skool.com/makerschool",
    "https://www.skool.com/adcreatorslab"
  ],
  "maxItems": 5
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the long aboutText cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "community",
  "groupUrl": "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": 2562,
  "isPaid": true,
  "priceLabel": "$184.00 per month",
  "priceAmount": 184,
  "priceCurrency": "usd",
  "priceInterval": "month",
  "annualPriceAmount": 1546,
  "hasFreeTrial": false,
  "ownerHandle": "nick-saraev",
  "ownerName": "Nick Saraev",
  "ownerUrl": "https://www.skool.com/@nick-saraev",
  "reviewCount": 101,
  "reviewAverage": 5,
  "adminCount": 2,
  "onlineMemberCount": 99,
  "postCount": 48118,
  "courseCount": 13,
  "moduleCount": 751,
  "ruleCount": 3,
  "aboutText": "Maker School is the fastest & most affordable way to get client #1 for AI automation with tools like Claude Code, Codex, n8n and more.\n\nGet your first paying AI client in 90d or your money back.\n\n...",
  "logoUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b/7a0881d755cd45d69679b78d418b803a475d563a4bc4476ea3dfc1ad682b0551.jpg",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/f/e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b/56cb44fa92ce4a2a950a286352392ff96e45d3d056e740e4a30c12dbb52faad4.jpg",
  "groupId": "e256cd9ef1ac4dbe9197634db46e9e3b",
  "createdAt": "2024-09-05T20:09:16.650875Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-30T02:30:26.616869Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:33:40.900Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in the dataset.

The sample row only appears when the input has no links. It also says recordType: "community", so filter on charged rather than on recordType to keep just the real rows.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Skool Community Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Paste your links into Skool community links, one per line. 3. Set Maximum rows as a spending cap, or clear it to read every link. 4. Click Start. 5. 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. Nothing that comes back as a diagnostic is charged: dead links, redirects, profiles, site pages and anything past your cap. Neither is the sample row. A community pasted twice is read and charged once.

💡 What people use it for

• Sizing up a shortlist before joining any of them. Members, price and rating side by side beats forty open tabs.
• Running the same list weekly and comparing memberCount and priceAmount, to see who is growing and who just raised their price.
• Keeping a directory or a newsletter about a niche up to date, when you already keep the links.
• Holding your own community up against the ones you see as peers, on the numbers rather than impressions.

🚧 What it does not do

• Find communities. No search and no browsing. You bring the links, or use Skool Community Finder to get them.
• Return members. No member lists, names or profiles. Counts only.
• Go inside. Posts, comments, chat and classroom lessons are out. You get how many courses and modules exist, not what's in them.
• A category. Skool's record for a community doesn't carry one, and none is guessed from the description.
• Anything behind the join wall. It reads what a visitor who isn't signed in can see.
• More than 500 communities per run. Split a longer list across runs.

🧭 Which community scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Can it find communities for me by topic? No. It reads links you already have. Skool Community Finder searches Skool's own discovery listing.

What happens with a dead or renamed link? You get a free row saying which, and the run carries on with the rest. If the link now forwards to another community, the row names that one so you can run it.

Does it return the members? No. Not their names, not their profiles, not a list. The member count, online count and rating are numbers about the community.

How much can I trust the price? It's the figure the community's own join button quotes, and on a trial it's what you pay after the trial. hasFreeTrial tells you which case you're looking at.

Can I run it every week? Yes. Nothing is kept between runs, so the same input is safe to repeat. Join on slug to line this week up against last week.

Is this legal? These are public pages, but an owner's name and handle are personal data in many places, 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 links you used and the run ID. The diagnostic rows in the dataset usually name the reason already.