Can I download an entire Skool course at once?

There's no single-click option for the whole course, but you can run up to 3 downloads simultaneously. Pre-loading tabs with each lesson's video playing before scanning keeps the queue moving with minimal dead time between batches.

How many Skool videos can I download per week for free?

5 downloads per week, forever, no signup or credit card. For large courses, Pro removes the weekly cap if you want to finish a full backup in one sitting.

Does it matter if lessons use different video platforms (Skool native, Loom, YouTube)?

No — the extension detects the platform automatically per lesson. The workflow is identical regardless of which service is behind a given lesson's embed.

What happens if my Skool access expires before I finish downloading?

You can only download content you can currently play in your browser. Once access ends and Skool locks the community, the extension can no longer see those streams. Start downloading before access expires, not after.

How to Download an Entire Skool Course for Offline Viewing

Downloading one Skool lesson is quick. Downloading a whole course — 20, 40, or more lessons, possibly spread across Skool's native player, a few Loom recordings, and a couple of YouTube embeds — takes a bit of planning. This guide covers the batch workflow, how far the free tier goes, and how to keep a large archive organized.

Why back up an entire course

Community access isn't permanent. Skool communities shut down, creators move platforms, or memberships lapse. A local copy is the only guarantee you'll still have the material.
Offline study. Flights, commutes, spotty Wi-Fi — a downloaded course works anywhere.
Mixed-platform courses are fragile. A course built from Skool native videos plus Loom and YouTube embeds depends on all three services staying up and staying accessible. Downloading collapses that into one thing you actually control.
Data caps. Re-streaming 1080p video for review burns through mobile data fast. A local file doesn't.

The batch download workflow

There's no single "download the whole course" button, but you can run multiple downloads in parallel, which cuts total time significantly.

Open a few lesson tabs at once

The extension supports up to 3 simultaneous downloads. Open three tabs, each on a different lesson in the course.

Press play in each tab before opening the extension

This is the step that trips people up in batch mode. No matter which platform a lesson uses — Skool native, Loom, Vimeo, YouTube, or Wistia — the stream data only loads once playback starts. Press play in each tab, let it run a couple of seconds, then move to the next.

Scan and queue each one

Open the extension in each tab, confirm the detected quality, and start the download. With three running, load three more tabs in the background and press play on those next — by the time the first batch finishes, the next batch is already primed to scan.

Files land pre-organized

Downloads are automatically named after the lesson title, so a well-named course ("Module 4 – Client Onboarding," "Week 2 – Ad Copy Review") turns your downloads folder into a self-organizing archive without any manual renaming.

Install the Free Skool Video DownloaderFree to start — 5 downloads/week forever, no signup, no credit card.

Planning around the free tier

The free tier gives you 5 downloads per week, forever, no signup or credit card. For a 30-lesson course:

5/week = 6 weeks to get through the whole course on free
Running 3 at once doesn't change the weekly total — it just gets you through those 5 faster each week

If the weekly cap is the bottleneck, Pro removes it entirely and lets you finish a large backup in a single sitting.

Storage planning

Actual file size depends on resolution, length, and which platform sourced the video, but rough estimates:

Resolution	Typical storage per hour
360p	~225 MB
720p	~1.1 GB
1080p	~2.25 GB

A 20-lesson course at 45 minutes each, mostly 720p: 20 × 45min × 1.1 GB/hr ≈ 16 GB. A 40-lesson course at 1080p, 30 minutes each: 40 × 0.5hr × 2.25 GB/hr ≈ 45 GB. Anything past 20 GB, plan for an external drive rather than a laptop SSD.

Choosing quality for a whole-course backup

Talking-head lessons and voice-over slides: 720p is fine — the visual difference from 1080p is negligible for a presenter talking over static slides, and you save roughly half the storage.
Screen shares, code walkthroughs, design reviews: 1080p, so on-screen text stays readable.
Mixed-platform courses: the extension's quality selector shows what each specific lesson actually offers, whether it's Skool native or an embedded Loom/Vimeo/YouTube/Wistia video — pick per lesson rather than assuming a blanket setting.

Downloading before access expires

If your Skool membership is time-limited, don't wait until the last week. Start the batch workflow as soon as you know access is ending, and prioritize lessons you haven't already watched — you can always rewatch a finished download later, but you can't recover a lesson you didn't save before access closes.

If a course mixes Skool native videos with third-party embeds, check the ones hosted elsewhere (Loom, Vimeo, YouTube, Wistia) first — those links can go dead independently of your Skool access if the creator later removes or unlists them.

Keeping a large archive organized

One folder per course, not per creator — courses sometimes move between communities. ~/Skool Courses/[Course Name]/ works well.
Prefix files with a lesson number if titles don't already include one, so they sort correctly in any file browser.
Keep a small text file with the course URL and your access status in the folder — useful if you ever need to revisit it.
External SSD over cloud sync for video — syncing 30–40 GB to iCloud or Google Drive costs time and often money. A 1TB external SSD is faster and has no monthly fee.