Kisa 56c7b53254 Initial release — Skool community lesson scraper

Downloads lessons from any Skool classroom to local Markdown files.
Cross-platform (Mac/Windows/Linux), membership-gated, safe to re-run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-04 20:28:20 -04:00

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skool-lesson-scrape

Download lessons from any Skool community classroom to local Markdown files.

Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Skips lessons already saved — safe to re-run when new content is added
Saves one .md file per lesson: Course Name -- Lesson Title.md
Respects your membership tier — only downloads content your account can access
Works great with Obsidian, Notion, or any Markdown-based knowledge system

Requirements

Python 3.8 or later
A paid Skool account with access to the community you want to scrape

Setup

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt
playwright install chromium

2. Configure the script

Open scrape.py and edit the two lines at the top of the CONFIG section:

COMMUNITY  = "navaigate"          # slug from your Skool community URL
OUTPUT_DIR = Path.home() / "skool-lessons"   # where .md files are saved

COMMUNITY: find it in your Skool URL — skool.com/your-community-slug
OUTPUT_DIR: any folder on your machine; created automatically if it doesn't exist

Obsidian users — point OUTPUT_DIR at a folder inside your vault:

OUTPUT_DIR = Path.home() / "Documents" / "MyVault" / "Lessons"

Windows users — use a raw string for backslash paths:

OUTPUT_DIR = Path(r"C:\Users\YourName\Documents\skool-lessons")

Usage

Full scrape — downloads all lessons you have access to:

python scrape.py

A browser window will open. Log in to Skool normally (email/password or Google). The script takes over automatically once you land on the community.

Re-run anytime — already-saved lessons are skipped automatically.

Debug mode — inspect page structure without saving anything:

python scrape.py --discover

How it works

Skool embeds course and lesson structure as JSON in the page source (__NEXT_DATA__). The script reads that directly to get course and lesson IDs, then navigates to each lesson and extracts the body text from Skool's TipTap editor (.ProseMirror selector). No fragile DOM scraping — the JSON structure is stable.

Notes

Content is gated by your own Skool membership — you can only download lessons your account has access to
This tool is for personal offline backup, not redistribution of community content
Re-running after new lessons are posted will only download what's new

Troubleshooting

"No courses found" — a diagnostic HTML file is saved to your system temp folder. The page structure may have changed; open an issue with the HTML attached.

Browser closes immediately — make sure you completed the Playwright browser install: playwright install chromium

Lessons saving as navigation boilerplate — run --discover and open an issue with the output.

Built by Kisa Fenn — STTIL Solutions

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