How to Download Skool Videos (Without Opening Every Lesson)

By Vlad Polyanskiy

Posted 8 min read

I wanted to figure out how to download Skool videos from a course I could already access. The obvious method worked, but it was painfully slow:

  1. Open a lesson.
  2. Wait for the video player to load.
  3. Use a Chrome or Firefox video-downloader extension.
  4. Save and rename the file.
  5. Open the next lesson and do it again.

That is manageable for three videos. It is miserable for a Skool community with several courses and hundreds of lessons.

So I vibe coded a Tampermonkey userscript called Skool Loom Collector. It does not download a single video file. What it does is visit the lessons, find their Loom or YouTube links, preserve the course structure, and give me something clean that I can copy or export.

All you need is Chrome or Firefox and the Tampermonkey extension — that’s it.

If you searched for how to download videos from Skool, this script handles the tedious first half of the job: finding every video and matching it to the correct lesson.

Table of Contents

Why Downloading Videos From Skool Takes So Long

Searches such as download video from Skool make the task sound like one click. In practice, Skool does not present a course as a neat folder of downloadable files.

Each lesson has to be opened. The player may be Loom, YouTube, or something else. Course sections may be collapsed. Some lessons contain only text. Browser extensions generally work on the lesson that is open right now, so you still have to move through the course one page at a time.

That was my real problem. I did not want to sit there opening and checking every lesson before I could even decide what to do with the videos.

What I Built Instead

The collector runs inside the authenticated Skool page through Tampermonkey. It reads the course sidebar, expands the sections, and visits lessons in their visible order.

For each lesson, it records:

  • The course title
  • The section title and position
  • The lesson title and position
  • The Skool lesson URL
  • Any Loom share URLs
  • Any YouTube watch URLs
  • Whether the lesson had no detectable video or failed to load

The result can be copied as a readable list or exported as TXT, CSV, or JSON.

This is useful whether you want one link or need to organize videos across an entire Skool course catalog. It is not a magic download button. It is an indexer that removes most of the repetitive clicking.

What the Script Actually Does

Skool behaves like a single-page app. When the script selects a new lesson, the whole page does not necessarily reload. Old lesson data can remain in memory, and content for other lessons may already be preloaded.

A basic scraper that searches the whole document can therefore find dozens of video URLs immediately and attach the wrong video to the wrong lesson.

The collector takes a stricter approach:

  • It builds the lesson queue from the visible sidebar order.
  • It verifies that the intended lesson became active.
  • It looks only inside the active lesson area.
  • It waits for the video source to settle before saving it.
  • It ignores delayed results from the previous route.
  • It stores one canonical video while preserving every related lesson.

That makes the exported list much more useful than a random pile of URLs.

How to Download Videos From a Skool Community

If your goal is to learn how to download videos from a Skool community, the practical workflow looks like this:

  1. Install Tampermonkey.
  2. Install the Skool Loom Collector userscript.
  3. Open the Skool classroom while logged in.
  4. Start one course or the entire visible catalog.
  5. Let the collector build the course, section, lesson, and video map.
  6. Use Copy URLs only or one of the structured exports.
  7. Decide what to do next based on the course owner’s permission and the rules that apply to the content.

The script itself will not download videos from the Skool platform. It gives you stable Loom and YouTube links and leaves the next step to you. The code is public, so people can inspect it and adjust it for their own legitimate workflow.

Can You Download Videos From Skool?

Technically, a browser has to receive video data in order to play it, and browser extensions may be able to save some of that data. That does not automatically mean you have permission to make a permanent copy.

The actual answer to “can you download videos from Skool?” depends on the course owner’s rules, copyright, the video host, and Skool’s terms. Paying for access normally gives you access to view the material. It does not automatically transfer ownership of the material.

If the creator provides a download button or gives you explicit permission, the situation is straightforward. If they do not, ask before downloading a whole course.

This Is Not a Skool Course Free Download Tool

If you arrived looking for a Skool course free download, this project is not that.

It does not unlock paid communities, bypass authentication, defeat DRM, guess private URLs, or access lessons your account cannot normally open. It also does not package or redistribute anybody’s course.

It works only inside a Skool session you already have access to, and it collects links rather than video files.

Skool Terms of Service: Scraping and Downloading Content

This part matters.

Skool’s current Terms and Conditions say users must not use automated processes to scrape, copy, or monitor the service or its content. The terms also restrict copying and distributing displayed content, although they allow personal, non-commercial compilations in a separate clause.

Skool’s Transaction Terms are narrower for paid course content: they describe a limited right to access and view content through a normal browser, with temporary copying only where it is part of normal technical caching.

So the honest conclusion is that automated collection or downloading may violate Skool’s terms even when you paid for the course. It may also violate the creator’s copyright or community rules. This is not legal advice, but it is not something to ignore either.

My rule would be simple: get permission, keep any authorized copy personal, do not redistribute it, do not share private video URLs, and do not use the tool to avoid paying a creator. Bulk-copying somebody’s work without permission is unethical, regardless of whether a browser extension makes it technically possible.

Problems I Hit Along the Way

Skool Loads Old Lesson Data

Skool can preload course data and keep the previous lesson in the page. Searching scripts, network history, or the entire document created false matches. The collector now accepts a video only when it belongs to the verified active lesson.

Course Menus Are Inconsistent

Some courses have levels, weeks, and expandable sections. Others have one flat lesson list. The script reads structural groups and falls back to a flat Lessons section when needed.

Loom and YouTube Behave Differently

Loom may expose an embed URL, a share URL, and a sid parameter. YouTube may use watch, short, or embed URLs.

One Skool lesson did not create a YouTube iframe until Play was pressed. It showed only a ytimg.com poster. The collector can read the video ID from that visible active-lesson thumbnail without starting playback.

What Every Button Does

Collection Buttons

  • Start all courses attempts every course from the visible classroom catalog, in catalog order.
  • Start current course collects only the course currently open. This is the safer fallback when catalog navigation is unreliable.
  • Pause saves the current position and pauses the run.
  • Resume continues a paused or browser-interrupted run from the saved progress.
  • Stop ends the current run without deleting collected data.
  • Rescan sidebar reads the open course menu again after sections or lessons change.
  • Retry failed revisits lessons saved as an error or No Video. It recognizes lessons by their stable Skool route even if the sidebar grouping changed.

Cleanup Buttons

  • Clear failed/no-video removes saved Error and No Video rows from the preview, counts, copies, and exports. It keeps every found Loom and YouTube link. Click it once and then click Confirm clear within ten seconds.
  • Reset collection deletes all saved collection data and starts from zero. It preserves the timeout setting but removes found videos too. Click it once and then click Confirm reset within ten seconds.

Use Clear failed/no-video to clean up experiments. Use Reset collection only when you want to erase everything.

Copy and Export Buttons

  • Copy structured copies a readable course → section → lesson → URL list.
  • Copy URLs only copies one verified Loom or YouTube URL per line.
  • Export TXT downloads the readable hierarchy.
  • Export CSV downloads ordered spreadsheet-friendly rows.
  • Export JSON downloads the complete hierarchy, relationships, metadata, settings, and run state.

The small – button collapses the panel. It changes to +, which opens the panel again.

The Lesson timeout field controls how long the script waits for a video to appear. Ten seconds is a reasonable default. Increase it when Skool or your connection is slow.

Background Tabs Can Stop

The collector runs inside the Skool page. Brave and other Chromium browsers can throttle or freeze a tab when it is hidden, minimized, or left in the background. When that happens, the script’s timers stop and the next Loom or YouTube frame may not load. A Tampermonkey script cannot force a frozen browser tab to keep running.

For the most reliable run:

  1. Leave the Skool tab selected in a non-minimized Brave window.
  2. Open Brave Settings → System → Performance.
  3. Under Always keep these sites active, add skool.com.
  4. If the run pauses after you work in another window, return to Skool and click Resume.

You do not need to watch every lesson or press Play. The tab just needs to remain active enough for Skool and its embedded video frame to load.

The Short Version

I wanted to know how to download a video from Skool without repeating the same manual process hundreds of times. The usual Chrome or Firefox extension still required opening every lesson and downloading every video one by one.

So I vibe coded a Tampermonkey script that walks the course for me and copies the useful part: the video URLs and the hierarchy around them.

It will not download a video from Skool. It will not bypass access controls. But it will produce a clean, structured list of the videos your account can already view, which is a much better starting point than hundreds of manual clicks.

Get the script here: Skool Loom Collector on GitHub.