📚 Skool Scraper Pro

Extract structured data from any Skool community classroom lessons, descriptions, videos, attachments, posts, and polls organized and ready to use.

Perfect for educators, community owners, and researchers who need to archive, analyze, or repurpose their Skool course content without manual effort.

🚀 Key Benefits & Use Cases

📚 For Educators & Community Owners

Archive your full course library with descriptions, videos, and lesson resources
Back up post content, attachments, and PDF handouts before they disappear
Generate a searchable index of every lesson across all your courses

💼 For Researchers & Analysts

Extract poll results and engagement data (upvotes, comment counts) from course posts
Build structured databases from community classroom content
Analyze content distribution across courses and sections

🎯 For Content Teams

Bulk-export lesson descriptions and resource links for repurposing
Download all post attachments (images, PDFs) in one automated run
Map full course structures with sections, positions, and metadata

🔍 What Gets Extracted

📖 Lesson Data

Title, position, section, course
Full description (plain text + raw ProseMirror format)
Created and updated timestamps
Direct lesson URL

🎬 Video Data

Hosted Mux videos: playback URL, duration, thumbnail, aspect ratio
Signed JWT playback token (ready to use with ffmpeg or a video player)

🔗 Resources Panel

All links from the lesson resources panel with platform detection (YouTube, Google Drive, etc.)
Downloadable files (PDFs, images) identified with fileType field
Optional download to Key-Value Store with kvKey reference

📝 Post Data (linked to each lesson)

Full post content, author, contributors
All extracted URLs with platform detection
Poll results (option text + vote counts)
Upvotes and comment count

📎 Post Attachments

Images and documents (PNG, JPEG, PDF, Word, Excel, etc.)
File name, size, content type, download URL
Optional download to Key-Value Store with kvKey reference

🎥 Post Videos

Mux-hosted videos uploaded directly to posts
Full playback URL, duration, thumbnail

⚙️ Input Options

🔗 URL Modes Four ways to scope your extraction

The actor detects what to extract automatically from the URL format:

URL Format	What it does
`skool.com/group/classroom`	Extract all accessible courses
`skool.com/group/classroom/38fd1c1d`	Extract one specific course
`skool.com/group/classroom/38fd1c1d?md=lessonId`	Extract one specific lesson
`skool.com/group/postName`	Extract one specific post (post data only)

You can mix multiple URLs of different types in a single run.

{
  "communityUrl": [
    "https://www.skool.com/my-community/classroom",
    "https://www.skool.com/my-community/01"
  ]
}

🔐 Authentication

The actor tries authentication in priority order stopping as soon as one method succeeds:

Priority	Method	When to use
1	Email + Password	Easiest just enter your Skool credentials
2	Browser Cookies	Fallback if login fails, or if you prefer cookie-based auth
3	None	Public communities only

Method 1 Email + Password (recommended)

Set email and password in the actor input. The actor logs into Skool automatically, obtains a fresh session, and proceeds. Your password is stored as a secret and is never logged.

{
  "email": "you@example.com",
  "password": "your-password"
}

If login fails (wrong credentials, account issue), the actor automatically falls back to browser cookies if you also provided them.

Method 2 Browser Cookies (fallback)

If you prefer not to share your password, or if automatic login fails, you can export your browser session cookies and paste them in.

How to get your cookies:

Install the Cookie-Editor extension
- Chrome
- Firefox
Log in to Skool, then navigate to your community
Open Cookie-Editor → click Export → copy the JSON
Paste into the cookies field in actor input:

{
  "cookies": [
    { "name": "auth_token", "value": "your-token-value", "domain": ".skool.com" }
  ]
}

⚠️ Cookies expire. If extraction fails with 403 errors, export fresh cookies and re-run.

⬇️ Download Options

`downloadAttachments` (Boolean)

Default: false
Downloads images and document files (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) attached to lesson posts
Saved to Key-Value Store with keys like image-{id}.png / doc-{id}.pdf
Each attachment in the dataset gets a kvKey field pointing to its stored file
⚠️ Increases run time large communities may have many attachments

`downloadResources` (Boolean)

Default: false
Downloads image and document files from the lesson resources panel
Web links (YouTube, Chrome extensions, etc.) are automatically skipped only actual files are downloaded
Each resource gets a kvKey field when downloaded
⚠️ Only useful if the community shares PDF guides or image files in lesson resources

📊 Sample Output

Full lesson row (`mode: all`, `mode: course`, `mode: lesson`)

{
  "extractedAt": "2026-02-22T15:30:38.866Z",
  "community": "my-community",
  "communityUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community",
  "course": "Course Title",
  "courseShortId": "38fd1c1d",
  "section": "Section Name",
  "lesson": "Lesson 01",
  "lessonId": "2a25cd8ad2664da78894b8290dd25b43",
  "lessonUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/classroom/38fd1c1d?md=2a25cd8...",
  "position": 12,
  "descriptionText": "Lesson 01 - Introduction\nThis lesson covers...",
  "hostedVideo": {
    "source": "mux",
    "playbackUrl": "https://stream.mux.com/PLAYBACK_ID.m3u8?token=JWT",
    "durationMs": 5143300,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/...",
    "aspectRatio": "16:9"
  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Lesson on YouTube",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...",
      "platform": "youtube",
      "fileType": null,
      "kvKey": null
    },
    {
      "title": "PDF Guide",
      "url": "https://assets.skool.com/.../guide.pdf",
      "platform": "other",
      "fileType": "doc",
      "kvKey": "doc-2a25cd8ad266-r1.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "post": {
    "postId": "5b00705d9cf54ae7ae9273a64cffb9b7",
    "postName": "01",
    "postUrl": "https://www.skool.com/my-community/post/01",
    "title": "Lesson 01 - Introduction",
    "author": { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe", "fullName": "John Doe" },
    "contributors": [],
    "content": "Watch the lesson here:\n[https://youtube.com/...](https://youtube.com/...)",
    "links": [{ "url": "https://youtube.com/...", "platform": "youtube" }],
    "attachments": [
      {
        "id": "6fe0d721...",
        "fileName": "handout.png",
        "contentType": "image/png",
        "url": "https://assets.skool.com/...",
        "fileSizeBytes": 6033806,
        "fileType": "image",
        "kvKey": "image-6fe0d721....png"
      }
    ],
    "videos": [
      {
        "source": "mux",
        "playbackUrl": "https://stream.mux.com/....m3u8?token=JWT",
        "durationMs": 1220880,
        "thumbnailUrl": "https://assets.skool.com/..."
      }
    ],
    "poll": {
      "entries": [
        { "text": "Yes, very clear", "count": 10 },
        { "text": "Somewhat clear", "count": 1 }
      ]
    },
    "upvotes": 15,
    "commentsCount": 7
  }
}

Post-only output (`mode: post`)

Returns just the post object above no lesson or course wrapper.

💾 Key-Value Store

When downloadAttachments or downloadResources is enabled, downloaded files are saved to the actor's Key-Value Store organized by file type:

Key prefix	Contents
`image-{id}.{ext}`	JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, BMP, TIFF
`doc-{id}.{ext}`	PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, TXT, JSON, XML

Each downloaded file is referenced by kvKey on its parent attachment or resource object in the dataset, so you can always trace a file back to its lesson.

Note: Apify Key-Value Store keys are limited to 63 characters. All keys generated by this actor stay well within this limit.

🎬 Downloading Videos (Manual / Future Feature)

The actor extracts hostedVideo.playbackUrl and post.videos[].playbackUrl for every lesson.

🔮 Automatic video download within the actor is planned for a future release.

🛠️ Troubleshooting

No data extracted / empty dataset

Community may require login provide your email + password or browser cookies
URL format may be wrong check the URL Modes table
Community slug is case-sensitive: my-community not My-Community

`descriptionText` is empty

Some lessons genuinely have no description this is normal
If you expect a description, verify it's visible on the Skool lesson page when logged in

Downloads fail with 403

Assets hosted on external CDNs (e.g. giphy.com) may block direct downloads these are skipped automatically
Skool assets (assets.skool.com) should always work; if they fail, try providing credentials or refreshing your cookies

Locked courses skipped

Provide email + password, or browser cookies from an account with access to those courses
If using cookies, make sure they haven't expired export fresh ones and re-run
Only courses where hasAccess: 1 are extracted

Login fails with correct credentials

Double-check there are no extra spaces in the email or password fields
Try the browser cookies method as a fallback

Rate limiting / Cloudflare blocks

The actor uses a built-in request delay between API calls to avoid triggering rate limits
If you still see blocks, try providing fresh browser cookies or re-running after a few minutes

🤝 Support & Resources

🌐 Website: flowextractapi.com
📧 Email: flowextractapi@outlook.com
🙋 Apify Profile: dz_omar
💬 GitHub: FlowExtractAPI

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