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

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Requirements

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

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Setup

pip install -r requirements.txt
playwright install chromium

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Usage

python scrape.py <community>

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.

With a custom output folder:

python scrape.py <community> --output ~/Documents/my-lessons

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

Debug mode — inspect page structure without saving anything:

python scrape.py <community> --discover

Finding your community slug

Your community slug is the part of the URL after skool.com/:

https://www.skool.com/my-community  ->  my-community

Examples

python scrape.py navaigate
python scrape.py my-community --output ~/Documents/Lessons
python scrape.py my-community --discover

Default output folder

If you omit --output, lessons are saved to ~/skool-lessons.

Obsidian users — point --output at a folder inside your vault:

python scrape.py my-community --output ~/Documents/MyVault/Lessons

Windows users — use quotes around paths with spaces:

python scrape.py my-community --output "C:/Users/YourName/Documents/skool-lessons"

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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.

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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

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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.

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Built by Kisa Fenn — STTIL Solutions